Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Administrative offices of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon Building, Panama City, This tropical laboratory, called the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1946, photo taken December 1965, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="302" caption="Fausto Bocanegra, assistant to director Martin H. Moynihan, on Barro Colorado Island, the research station for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, is standing in front of the dining hall, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, IHD Photos, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="A project participant uses calipers to measure a tree on Barro Colorado Island during Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) census, similar to the one in Malaysia, on the biological diversity of tropical rainforests, 1985?, by Carl Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Francisco "Chi Chi" Vitola, chief of labor force on for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), feeds a deer on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, The CZBA was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1924 and in 1946 was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, c.1940, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="A group of scientists leaves Barro Colorado Island in a small boat, during 1923, Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro