. Ve hy Ay Sane hte wes hay eee) Ni wy 1 Whos 1 AS h wrk 5 Mer daly NS teh y nie woe Nien Paks ne " WayuArt . EAS } ; Onin ’ te ati! 4 Net ie PON be ltayi alg he ‘ a I ‘ Raaratt Makes ‘ ae oe “ Se wor ay ve a adh rly? AA bs wes Drs psda iste: Fy, nt . bs! AD O74 A gre The Nat =e, SWVH- Grr ts cola ee Museum of Comparative Zoology NUMBER 11 FROM THE DIRECTOR The Annual Report for. 1967-68 Is due to be out any day now and In it | discuss varlous matters of major concern to the Museum. In this Newsletter | will merely wish the staff and all of our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CONCORD FIELD STATION Things are moving forward slowly but surely. Robert Jenkins, who plans to complete hfs doctoral thesis this year, Is now the care- taker, and he and his family are settied In the living quarters. Exact boundaries of the Field Station have not yet been deter- mined, but hopefully the envyire area will be surveyed and mapped this winter. Waiter Lyford, Soll Scientist at the Harvard Forest, will be using the woods for his course on the process of soil cevelopment, and several other courses are utilizing both the Concord and Bedford areas for field trips. At the Bedford station, Dr. Evans has been trapping wasps, John Alcock Is using part of the Laboratory area for his study on feeding behavior In birds, and Vincent Mag!fo has taken over a section of the vast main room for his work on the osteology of ele- phants. But there Is still ample space, both Inside and outside, for other Investigators. LIRA JUN 4 4 197: Y RMIARVAFD UNIVERSITY a oe DE 1983 EMBER, IN THE FIELD Dr. Simpson reports that he and his wife, Ann, have just spent three profitable and pieasant weeks In Victoria, Austraifa. "In Methourne | have been at the Museun and ai! three universities, have seen most of the Victortan fossI|l mammals, have observed living Notomys and Antechi- nomys, and have taken measurements of skeletons for a study of adaptive types. | have also located unce- scribed specimens of at least threa, probably four genera of Miocene penguins (from Bedauman's) and am arranging for their study." Or. Simpson lectured at the University of Melbourne and spent ten days In the field looking at numerous fossil] localities before proceeding first to Adelaide and Perth, and then to New Zealand. Early In November Or. Paynter and his wife joined Mr. and Mrs. William Cottrell (he ?s an Associate In Ornithofogy) on a three-weeks excursion to Peru to study birds, particutarly various buntings (fmbert- zines). This Is the Paynters' first return to active field work In South America since their near-disaster In Ecuador three years ago. However, as we know, danger may loom [n any place, and if has been runiored that the Cottrel!ls chose November for thelr trip in order to escape the hunters of New Hampshire. ‘ea we 3. icaiap agenda qulinipmtg tints Se i ia benetitieae wierd - =e ee — 7 ¥ ’ P i ‘ ¥ ra font erode ane : . : a reu YO! r 1 & ew are Hrs P ed i. om vf aAjdattiowt 2 rw : ah test ba 1 Y 3 ints iMuevtawk .eltoraly at }) ad aved | ta. neoe even raving oeitt vert ,alnceom IMlerot natrotol¥ eft te «ist atak, tne tow pnivil bavieede x yweeam malet eved bes aymor FAST sastdieng V6 ar , ie peal ae! Los eo ft" Gc uh tty 7 a 2 bat. DY BY ey botaco: & ever 2oQuT oot fanei Te foeq2 bodiyoe SroroIh to & “int yidédorg ra bas (e*ossmebea im esl spreg G "ewe + if 267 anipesi6s vtl anevt su off betpTool f nie iv] 2¥n% Ti s! i SALON vt i He lato 287 tCmN 5 stl Tt } hieat® ez rit i? Gn kheaaooto 4 ed fo't) lesol et nod? bas . five by eh! bA oF tone aS wet agtaved 1.70 vecdarowoK nt 1 bre... W4 “fot >). bag ‘ : A S pi end) bienhi sili HH ott 6 A rn , at eG f ' ! "% 3 3) @ubra Tet Tey 4 Dh ye ’ maywed c of eri s ; }. are bOTt sa ;. ory 4 sh) Phim Set fi? ciate a fh 7 © ©}.ODh © eer) soled a isi HW ormot ve “Qait b ,wor i ow eG Pe + ¢ my. | oct re t Lag ,foala ied 1 % 1" ' : a! Ver trad ort etre ait ogncee-ot wi af qin eridearsh wo to M3TT IS 2 id 4 si bi a ‘Nae uefa “pi WO iad ya ee sete | wo at tne WON Bota e =p" enttns ie wae begqqke tive _ iter omit ter ores ial ett or « pilth a vob soa wa | ae iy! bE peice a vite ent to oe Dr. Kummel feft Cambridge at the beginning of June to visit museums In London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Vienna. He then went on to Kashmir and northwestern Iran, near the Russlan border, where he and Dr. Curt Telchert of the University of Kansas continued their fleld studies of Permo-Triassic border problems. On his return flight, Or. Kummel sat next to a young man who Informed him that the worst subject he had ever taken In college was geology, that he had barely passed with a low D, and that he couldn't understand how anybody could find geology interesting. When Bernie asked where he had gone to college, the crushing answer was (you guessed It) Harvard. It was the young man's turn to blush: after an introduction and closer examination of the face of his fellow traveller, he recognized the professor whose course he had (admittedly Infrequently) attended last winter. Barbara Lawrence has been In Turkey since late September as a member of the Joint University of Istanbul -- University of Chicago Prehistoric Project at Gayonu, where she Is busy working out techniques for bone identification In the field. Her primary concern on this expdedi- tion ts to determine the osteological! differences between wild and domestic forms of certain spectes of bovids, but she Is also continuing her work - on the antiquity of the domestic dog. She writes, "Things go well, I'm pleased with the confirmations I'm getting on the diagnostic characters !'ve worked out, and It's interesting to tackle the big bovids." Early in December Miss Lawrence will leave Turkey for South America and join Mr. Schevill who fs doing research on the La Plata River dolphin. She is expected back in Cambridge in mid-January. After a Herp-style pre-Hal loween send-off, Dr. E. E. Willfams was alrborne, headed for two and a half months In Latin America with stops at Panama City, Caracas, Bogota, and Lima. He has set up a rigorous scheduje of collecting and coi la- borating with fellow herpetologists. Despite promises to "bring back many anoles," In his eagerness to reach sunny southlands the essential collecting nooses were forgotten. They await him In Sao Paulo with Dr. Paulo Vanzolini, his Brazif!tan host. Dr. John Lawrence went to Florida tn June, ostensibly to collect fungus (Cildae), but It has been reported that he was seen with Ed Wilson fishing for sharks [In the waters of the Keys. Needing a vacation after this strenuous activity, he proceeded to California where high In the Slerras he found a Guru who Instructed him in the Indian philosophy of IIfe. We all hope to benefit from whatever know- ledge John has brought back to the East. Dr. Gould and hts wife, Debbie, spent June and July In Bermuda, the Bahamas, Curaceo, and.on the north coast of Puerto Rico looking for Plelstocene land snalls and studying the relation between shell form and environment In modern snails. Dr. Clench and his colleague, Dr. David Stansbury, of the Natural History Museum, Columbus, Ohlo, collected fresh-water mollusks exten- sively In the upper reaches of the Tennessee River. Their expedition Included sampling the previously unknown parts of the New-Kanawha River of the Ohio drainage. neewol lél-erg etyte-qreh 6 TeTTA sow emaliliW .2 1.2.40 , tto-bnee iat e base owt 404 bebeod .etriodtis soote Atiw solxeaA nitold ni edtnom stoped. , 2826160 .ytid emanet te eumoelt s qu tee .2ef of . amid bas “51 boo base pnitoellos to el uberive etélsoloteqriedt wolle?t dtiw gnitsved nem ined pala” of easlmoing ‘otlgeed dsear ot evannepso elf ol“ eetone lsitreees ent ebrslittuce ynnve thopnet egw eezoon gniteel lod A+iw olve o82 of mtd tidus yerT nelitise Ss 2d Yad . 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These are tiny red mangrove islands which have been fumigated to remove all arthropods without harming the plant life. Within tess than a year as many species of arthropods had returned to the Islands as had been there before the fumigation. GRADUATE STUDENTS The modern student In systematic biology spends as much time in the fleld (preferably more!) as in the Museum. This is well documented by recent activities of our graduate students. Bob Jenkins has returned from Costa Rica where he spent almost a year studying the ecology of two frult-eating grosbeaks (Saltators). He lived with his wife and child in a trailer and moved around after the birds. Some locations were more primitive than others.... Both Bob and Diane enjoyed this wild and fascinating country strewn with pre- Columbian artifacts. They returned to Cambridge in time for the birth of their second child, Robert, Jr. It seems appropriate that Bob -- with Allan Greer -- and under the auspices of Dr. Mayr, Is now giving a Fresh- . man Seminar on "the population problem." Stewart Peck spent three months In the field in the eastern U. S. gathering beetles for his thesis. But Instead of sitting on mangroves and acquiring a suntan, he did most of his collecting in forests and caves, which explains his rather pale appearance this fall. Bil! and Mary Jane West Eberhard (with thelr new baby, Jessica) spent the summer as research fellows at the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve In Rensselaerville, New York, studyling the natural history of fungus gnats. Jon and Julia Reiskind and the Ellis McLeod family were among thelr visitors. (Jon,one of Dr. Levi's former students, Is an assistant professor at the University of Florida at Gainesville; Ellis, who got his degree here with Professor Carpenter, Is now at the University of IIIInols.) Jim Sprinkle spent his time In the West collecting Cambrian echI- notds. He thinks that this collection Is probably the largest anywhere and, having discovered a new class of echinoids, Is now working on It with a colleague from the University of Utah. Craig Wood, Kay Behrensmeyer, and Lance Eriksen went back to Paleocene deposits In the Twin Butte area of Wyoming. They were almost too successful! Craig and our preparation team will probably be busy for years preparing teeth and jaws of primitive mammals from the several tons of concentrated matrix the expedition brought back. Kay has already moved on to other fields-- she and Vince Magllo are now looking for early Plelstocene foss!II| remains of elephants, pigs, rhinos, etc... in the Lothagam HiI!s of northwestern Kenya, just west of Lake Rudolph, where MCZ expeditions have been working since 1967. Roger Wood has returned from six months in Kenya and Uganda on an expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Soclety. He brought back with him several hundred recent turtles. 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(erotet le2) itos8 vs, 19st nett vt | , youl | dtaid edt sot enlt fi 1 ooby vv Sie er 726) ebsqeea ent nt ere , jt lesrot4 = . tent ot ensibat mor bos pl iet . a erie oy Hetryricibey or ee. “onimee 5 @ . pore t \ i it , pi . : , Pa i (it pie ges. academic year 1961-62 at the MCZ and still speaks of It as one of the most In early September Dr. Lyman spoke at a symposlum on dormancy exciting and rewarding years of his life.) The Romers then went on to Mexico City for the meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and to Caracas, Venezuela, for a Latin American Zoological Congress." Professor Patterson did not wield the spade last summer, but he didn't stay home elther. He was looking at African collections In museums from London to Johannesburg via Nalrobi and Pretoria. The summer activities of Dr. Mead were so numerous they must be reported In shorthand: Attended meeting on Peruvian Upwel ling phenomena in Seattle In June. Proceeded to Scripps Institute of Oceanography to contribute a paper to a symposium on the sclen- tific exploration of the South Pacific sponsored by SCOR, UNESCO's Scientific Committee on Oceano- graphic Research. Repaired to Napa, Callfornia, to awalt arrival of daughter, Gale Graf Mead, on July 12. Was invited by the gov- ernment of Chile, through our NSF, to serve as an advisor on the for- mulation of a Chilean national program for marine research and development -- hence, with Mrs. Mead, spent three weeks In August In Chile studying many Institutions now Involved with the marine sciences. Returned to Harvard In September to begin the fish course. Late in the summer Dr. Boss left for Europe In spite of a broken arm, the reward of playing with youngsters on Fernald Drive. He gave a paper at the Malacolo- gical Congress In Vienna, and studied type-specimens and less august mollusks at museums In Amsterdam, Lelden, and London. and survival which was organized by the British Society of Experi- mental Blology and held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, -- where the architecture Is modern, the teaching advanced, and the dormitories co-ed. (ED NOTE: Perhaps the next symposium will be entitled "Dormancy and survival in a co-ed dormitory.") RESEARCH NOTES Not all the exciting events of last summer occurred In the field. Some staff members found It conven- jent and rewarding to stay In or close to Cambridge and to enjoy the balmy summer air of New England. While dotng this, Herb Levi made an interesting discovery. After trying for about six months to locate a certain type-specimen of a spider, he finally heard that it could be found fn a Dublin Museum. He wrote to Ireland, and was promptly informed that the type was out on loan and that he should check with Peckham. This seemed an Impossible task since Peckham died In 1914. But Herb Levi was undaunted -- he just walked over to the cases where the Peckham materfal was stored at the MCZ, and sure enough found the valuable specimen. Prompted initially by the Freshman Seminar Program (and embarked upon with considerable skepticism), Dr. Barry Fell decided In 1965 to give freshmen a chance to participate in research. The first year's experlence surprised at least one skeptic, so in subsequent years a more ambitious offering has been made. 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This includes extensive Antarctic mappIng projects sponsored by the NSF and the American Geographical Society and covering such groups as brittle- stars and starfishes. Other under- graduate papers soon to be published deal with sea urchins and starfishes of Easter Island. The associates in marine biology collaborated fruitfully this year with each other and with students. For instance, the study of sea-floor photographs obtained by Dr. Sanders and Dr. Hessfer on the Alvin, together with some specimens collected on one dive, resolved the puzzling reports and sketches of an animal with a cluster of finger-like organs on a spherical body. The animal turned out to be a well known, deep-water species of sea urchin which, however, discards Its venom sacs when it Is disturbed. Because of this unusual habit all specimens previously taken had lost these organs, and even their existence was unsuspected. So the "well known" specles was In fact considerably less well known than had been thought. Thanks to Jim Clark and Louls Sevilitti, skipper of the Salvatore, the program of In-shore trawling and dredging got off to an early start this term. A power block and a water- sampler have been added to the equipment. Members of the Freshman Seminar on | marine biology have also particlpated. Since the University does not offer Insurance for class activities at sea, the boat program is operated on the lines of a club, and Its management Is In the hands of the students. After four years of this experlence, it seems that here Is a good example of the contribution an Informal student body can make towards enriching the content of academic studies. During August, Dr. Ruth Turner arranged and moved some 5,400 drawers of specimens of gastropods. In the time left over from this giant housekeeping chore, she dived for mollusks trying to discover their relationship with an Intro- duced seaweed, Codium. This plant first turned up In the late 40's and appeared at Cape Cod four years ago. By now it has spread to such an extent that it does much damage to mollusk fisherles, especially the scallop Industry. Her assistant was Bob Dean, a senlor honors student, who Is studying the population dynamics of Buccinum updatum, a northern whelk of the New England coast. Dr. Darlington writes: "At the Museum something unexpected always turns up. Most exciting recently was the receipt of an enormous new carabld from Puerto Rico. It is not only much larger than any of the 300-odd species of Carabidae previously known from the West Indies, but It is a member of a well characterized group of these’ beetles that has radiated remarkably on Puerto Rico, or possibly on this island plus the northern part of Hispaniola. Also, the structure of the new species suggests that its behaviour is modified, and that the group to which it belongs has radiated behaviorally as well as © taxonomically. By a remarkable coincidence, | recelved this specl- men the same day that Dr. Mayr Invited me to participate ina symposfum In Puerto Rico next June. 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Pav yeolold eainem al eetetveseg! sseoy ehdt ybbotriat bet -etnebutea Ath tae y j00!%-see to ybute eit, .@oml atebns? .10 yd benlatdors sedteget yalvia eth agciet eno no 201 loo .emipmt ~ sy re - etrvagen pntisseq ent _ os fitiw lemion no F 6 no aenegio ait + bent taming gat. Ht retew-qee® nwo 4 lew @ ovewot .dotiw vidaw éea te: 21 ti medw esse money eth lsvevew eldt % eaves | nets’ yleuolverq qe tb bed nett nwond | few: ree : i eluot bnew sinetd .rotsvis? eft Ao) ee wre phe onli wert evortawh to amray ete yiose ne of tees 6 —retew s bas A:0hd ~veweg Ai! aa no Terimed nentteeyt @ ‘a 2 “aet0 ton eeob yt leavin ae coe +¢ 2altivi tas easly! 10% eo 1, Oa ¢. 4 vin WE ew joa tnebute lemotal ne nolteeirinap om om ne nig essey ots inh oat * oneal Liewers’ | (~ be e i Lhe q : . ° a ow Ni ca 45, pe HONORS AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS Since the last Newsletter Dr. Simpson has recelved two degrees of Doctor of Science honoris causa, one from Kenyon College and the other from the University of Colorado. Dr. Mayr received an honorary doctor's degree from the University of Munich. (At the ceremony IT was especially mentioned that he was the Director of "the world's leading natural history museum.") In October, Dr. Mead was appointed Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences. A "profile" of Howard Evans appeared In a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, and on October 14, Dr. Evans himself was on the Today Show, TV's great morning program, where his new book, Life on a Little-known Planet was the topic of discussion. PUBLICATIONS The scholarly writings of the Museum's staff and assoclates are numerous, and have been listed in the annual report. However, three books, all recently published, should be mentioned here because of their appeal to a wider public: The Procession of Life by A. S. Romer (a volume of the "World Natura! History" series); Life on a- Little-known Planet by Howard E. Evans (E. P. Dutton & Co.); and The Spiders and Their Kin by Herbert Levi (A Golden Nature Gulde). GOODBYES Nelda Wright retired In June as editor of the MCZ Bulletin and Breviora after more than thirty years of dedi- cated service. The staff gave her a farewell luncheon at the Faculty Club on May 24. It was a festive occasion and also a happy one since Nelda fs not leaving us altogether -- she Is planning to continue as Dr. Romer's research assIstant. Mrs. Elizabeth Pfohl, who was Nelda's assistant for many years, has taken over the job as editor. Vojislav Jovanovic, a post- doctoral fellow in Ornithology, plans to return to Yugoslavia after Christmas. His special interest while he was here was the development of Improved methods for the study of avian chromosomes. Robert Henderson, who has been a postdoctoral fellow in Marine In- vertebrates these past two years, plans to take up his teaching career again soon; this time at the Univer- sity of Townsville In northern Queensland. He will continue his researches on Tertiary sea urchins of the southwest Pacific. THANKS TO MARY ALICE EVANS After two years of editing the Newsletter, Mrs. Evans resigned In order to finish her biography of Wiittam Morton Wheeler. Her News- letters were so Interesting, not only to the MCZ staff and students (and their wives), but also to many ex-students and Friends that the mailing list has grown steadily. Everyone Is grateful for her con- tribution to the Museum, but the two who will miss her most are her replacements who already find the standard she set very hard to approach. --Grete| Mayr --Barbara B. Palne evifeo? 6 eow t! .8S yeM no ees yqqe! 6 cele bas nolesasco tic au pnivest ton ef ebieK itnes ot pninnsiq el eda «- , . tnetelaes lorseee, 2! remo .10 pow ore . 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