Results for "Canal Zone"
Album 2 Panama, 1950 : includes photographs of Wetmore, Watson M. Perrygo, and Ratibor Hartmann; Also includes photographs of the Canal Zone Biological Area
- Date: 1950 1950 1950
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend the Act of July 2, 1940, as amended, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Canal Zone Biological Area
- Date: 1981 10/19/1979
- Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 1, 1979
- Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 1, 1979
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To implement item 1 of a Memorandum of Understanding attached to the treaty of January 25, 1955, entered into by the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Panama with respect to wage and employment practices of the Government of the United States of America in the Canal Zone
- Date: 1959 07/25/1958
- Creator: 85th Congress, Sess. 2, 1958
- Creator: 85th Congress, Sess. 2, 1958
- Field Book
Panama, 1946 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, inspect the San Jose Project of 1944, and collect bird specimens in Darien. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo, Correspondence, photographs and photographic notes, expense records, travel notes, reference materials, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf and Louise M. Pearson
- Date: 1944-1946 1944 1946
- Field Book
Panama, 1952 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens along the Rio Indio and on Taboga Island. Correspondence, expense records, news clippings, reference materials, travel notes, film notes, itinerary, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Eugene Eisenmann, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, and James Zetek
- Date: 1952 19520102 19521217
- Field Book
Panama, 1954 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens in Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore; The Netherlands Antilles and Venezuela were also visited; Correspondence, newsclippings, reference materials, permits, itinerary, film notes, travel notes, expense records, field report, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Watson M. Perrygo, James Zetek, and Adela Gomez
- Date: 1953-1954 19531115 19540805
- Field Book
Panama, 1950 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Chiman and along Rio Maje in Darien; Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, reference materials, expense records, travel notes, film notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Herbert C. Clark, Karl P. Curtis, Charles Lewis Gazin, and Ratibor Hartmann
- Date: 1950 1950 1950
- Field Book
Panama, 1948 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Herrera and Los Santos; Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo; correspondence, news clippings, expense records, film notes, travel notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, and James Zetek; of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to Willis H. Hale (6 May 1948) which contains a report on the expedition
- Date: 1948 1948 1948
- Field Book
Panama, 1953 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and the Museo Nacional and collect bird specimens in Sona, Veraguas. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo; Correspondence, permits, photographs and photographic notes, expense records, itinerary, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, Margaret Wetmore Harlan, James Zetek, Eugene Eisenmann, and Karl P. Curtis
- Date: 1953 19530116 19530619
- Field Book
Panama, 1947 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, inspect the San Jose Project of 1944, and collect bird specimens in Darien. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo. Correspondence, expense records, travel notes, newsclippings, and film notes; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to H. R. Harmon (12 June 1947) which contains a report on the expedition
- Date: 1944-1947 1944 1947
- Field Book
Panama, 1957 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area, the Museo Nacional, and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory; and to collect bird specimens in the Tonosi Valley, Los Santos, San Blas Islands, and the Azuero Peninsula. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore; Correspondence, newsclippings, reference materials, travel notes, film notes, expense records, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Herbert Friedmann, Herbert Girton Deignan, Henry Allen Moe, and Margaret Harlan Wetmore
- Date: 1956-1957 19560620 19570726
- Historic Pictures
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama was founded in 1923 as the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory to study tropical biology. In 1946, it was placed under Smithsonian aegis as the Canal Zone Biological Area. Although still based in Panama, today its researchers study biodiversity and human culture throughout the tropics. History of the Smithsonian Tropical