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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
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hotograph by Goldman. Pittier of-.the Bureau of Plant Industry, of the same department; ongrasses, by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, of the same bureau ; and on ferns,by Mr. W. R. Tvlaxon of the U. S. National )\luseum. Mr. Goldman left Washington late in December, 1910, and arrivedin the Canal Zone on the 28th of that month. He spent the followingsix months mainly in the Zone, giving special attention to the GatunLake area, where a luxuriant tropical forest will be replaced by a largelake. He reported that great changes, due to flooding, were alreadyobservable and that still greater ones were impending. The killing NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 19 effect of the water on the standing- tiniber was ah-eady very noticeable,most of the trees rotting and falHng in a remarkably short time. InMarch he made a trip to Chepo, some 40 miles to the east of the CanalZone, and then proceeded overland to the region near the head-waters of the Chagres River where the mountains are about 3000 feet
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Fig. 19.—Part of tropical forest being flooded in the (latun Lake area. Thiswill be entirely snbmerged when the lake is filled. Photograph by Goldman,1911. in height and present conditions not found in the Zone. The summitsand northern slopes of the mountains are covered with a rich growthof orchids and plants of the order Bromeliace?e, which grow both onthe ground and on the branches of the trees. The south side of themountains is covered with a dry forest. In May and June. Mr.Goldman visited Porto Bello on the Caribbean coast of Panama, 20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59

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  • booksubject:Scientific_expeditions
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