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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Water front of Panama City where the boats come in to market, in the early morning soon after day break, loaded with fruit and vegetables from the neighboring islands NEW FAUNAL CONDITIONS IN THE CANAL ZONE By H. E. Anthony With flash-light photographs taken by Mr. George Shiras and many photographs by the Author DURING the months of February and March of this year it was the good fortune of the author to accompany, as an American Museum representative, Mr. George Shiras, 3d, on a trip to the Canal Zone. Mr. Shiras desired to obtain photographs by flash light of the animal life of that region, a method of which he is one of the foremost exponents to-day and Editorial Note: The expedition worked under authority from the Canal Commission. It is of -note that Colonel Goethals, as the first civil governor of the Canal Zone, continues adherence to the policy he maintained during the engineering work in the region — namely, that the isthmus shall be a game preserve. Exception to the observance of the laws against shooting game ■outside a short open season will be made only in ^■avor of such occasional zoological expeditions which has yielded him some remarkable results in temperate regions. It was through his generosity that the Museum was able to send a collector to Panama with him. It was expected that faunal conditions in the Canal Zone would be undergoing abrupt changes because of the damming of Gatun Lake and the consequent ex- tensive high water. From a basin with no lake worthy the name, with standing water confined largely to marshy areas except during the height of the rainy season, the Gatun region has been trans- formed by the huge dam at the locks into a lake of one hundred and sixty-four square miles in extent and a depth of seventy to eighty feet in many places. 239

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