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Identifier: expeditionsorgan191013191516smit (find matches)
Title: Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian Institution..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Fig. 24.—Chiriqui Volcano. Southernmost peak. Photograph by Pittier. the Pacific entrance of the Canal, and in the Chorrera River, some15 miles westward of the town of Panama. NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 23 The entomologists, Messrs. Schwarz and Busck, made their head-quarters at Paraiso, where the fauna and flora had been but littledisturbed hx the wDrk (in the canal, and besides collectins alone the
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Fig. 25.—Cavanillesia-tree, a striking feature of the Canal Zone forest.Photograph by Pittier. Trinidad River, where they found a rich insect fauna, and in otherareas in the Gatun Lake region, they made excursions to Porto Belloand to Nombre de Dios in the Republic of Panama, the latter place 24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 about 35 miles east of Colon. Afterwards they made a trip up theChagres River, and also to the Island of Taboga in the Bay of Panama,and finally to Cabima, a place on the Pacific side of the ChagresRiver region. At the inception of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of thePanama Canal Zone, the botanical part of the investigation wasentrusted to Prof. Henry Pittier, of the U. S. Department of Agricul-

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