Identifier: smithsonianmisce691921smit (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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34 Savanna area and semi-forested savanna borders 36 Upper Tropical Zone 38 Temperate Zone 41 List of the mammals 42 General account of the mammals 44 Bibliography 23$ Index 267 ILLUSTRATIONSPLATES PLATE PAGE i. Map of Panama showing life zones Frontispiece 2. Fig. 1.—Camp on Cerro Azul. Fig. 2.—Field party resting on slope of Cerro Azul 4 3. Fig. 1.—Rio Indio, a small tidal tributary of the Rio Chagres near Gatun, Canal Zone. Fig. 2.—Tidal forest along lower course ofRio Chagres 5 4. Fig. 1.—Forest along lower course of Rio Chagres, Canal Zone. Fig. 2.—Forest, extensively invaded by tide, along lower course ofRio Tuyra 6 5. Fig. 1.—Tidal forest, largely mangroves, near Porto Bello. Fig. 2.— Tidal forest interior near Porto Bello 7 6. Fig. 1.—Old line of Panama Railroad, abandoned and nearly sub- merged by rising waters of Gatun Lake. Fig. 2.—Gatun Lake withwater rising 8 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 69, No. 5 1 V1ITHS0NIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS
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BALTIMORE PH0 2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 69 PLATE PAGE 7. Fig. I.—Destruction of forest by rising waters of G3tun Lake. Fig. 2.—Destruction of forest by rising waters of Gatun Lake 9 8. Fig. 1.—Rio Tuyra at Boca de Cupe. Fig. 2.—Rio Cascajal near Porto Bello 10 9. Fig. 1.—Cuipo tree (Cavanillesia platanifolia). Fig. 2.—Base of Cuipo tree showing characteristic buttresses 11 10. Fig. I.—Cana, eastern Panama, showing adjacent forested slopes. Fig. 2.—Cana, eastern Panama. Looking east across Cana Valley.. 14 11. Fig. 1.—Humid Lower Tropical Zone near Cana. Fig. 2.—Humid Lower Tropical Zone forest interior at 300 feet altitude on northernbasal slope of Mount Pirre 15 12. Fig. 1.—Arid Lower Tropical Zone near southern base of Cerro Azul. Fig. 2.—Humid Lower Tropical Zone near summit of Cerro Azul. 26 13. Fig. 1.—Humid Lower Tropical Zone. An aquatic environment in the lower Chagres Valley near Bohio. Fig. 2.—Humid Lower TropicalZone. Typical s

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