S T Rl NEW S LET T E R 
('10. 9 February 28th, 1986 
SEMINAR CALENDAR FOR MARCH 
The luncheon seminar on Tuesday, March 4 
will be given by NORMAN MYERS . Dr . 
Myers will speak on: 
The Role of Remote Sensing in 
Monitoring Tropic,al Deforestation 
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES 
ROBERT FLEISHER, ' University of Hawaii, 
arrived this past week , for one month, to 
study giant cowbirds and icterid hosts in 
the Panama City area. 
March 1ST: 
Arriving, IAN HODKINSON, Liverpool 
Polytechnic, to do studies on host plant 
relationships of psylllids of lowland tropical 
rain forest. Dr. Hodkinson will be at BCI 
for 3 weeks. 
Arriving, ROBERT GORDON, postdoctoral 
fellow from Liverpool Polytechnic, to work 
on Dr . Hodkinson's project at B CI for 1 
year . 
Arriving , KATIE SIEVING, Univ . of 
Illinois, to assist Dr. J . Karr with his 
Earthwatch project and to continup. studies 
of territoriality and abundnace of forest 
understory birds . She will be working in 
the Sobernaia National Park and 
surrounding areas for 6 weeks. 
Arriving, ALAN HERRE, SI predoctoral 
fellow from the Univ . of Iowa, to work on 
the biology of figs on Barro Colorado 
Island. He will be here until August. 
March 2nd Arriving, STEPHEN 
REDHEAD, SUNY, to continue studies on 
the positional behavior, prehensile tail-Use 
and ecology in primates on Barro Colorado 
Island . He will be at STRI until May 31. 
March 3rd Arriving, DIA NE 
YOGT-O'CONNOR, SI Archives, for 
meetings with staff in relation to the 
Smithsonian Photographic Survey Project. 
She will be here for one week. 
March 4th - Arriving, EDWARD RIVINUS, 
Senior Science Editor, Smithsonian Press 
for four days to meet with staff . 
LOST 
A soft black cover for a small hand 
calculator, with small conversion table 
inside, at the staff meeting of Feb. 25 in 
the Ancon Conference Room. If found , 
please return to OLGA F . LINARES . 
ON LEAVE 
MIGUEL ESTRIBI : March 3 April 1. 
NICHOLAS SMYTHE: March 6 - 14. 
MARCH 1986 
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March 1 - 14: LEONOR MOTT A will be in 
the U. S . on official business and vacation . 
March 7 22: JIM KARR will be 
conducting research in Soberania National 
Park. 
March 11 Monthly scientific staff 
meeting. 
March 13 - 17 : Visit to STRI by STEPHEN 
J. GOULD, Harvard University . 
March 13-15: III Seminar of the Canal 
Watershed Working Group. 
March 17 - April 4: IRA RU BINOF F will be 
in the U • S. on official business and 
vacation. 
March 17-23: ROBERT DRESSLER will be 
in Panama . 
March 20 Opening of SITES exhibit: 
"Born from the Sea," at 6 p.m . at the 
Museo Antropol6gico Reina Torres de Arauz 
(forme r Museo del Hombre). All are 
invited. 
REMINDER 
Staff members are reminded to send to the 
Director's Office, as soon as possible, 
representative photographs of r e search 
activities to be used at the Congressional 
hearings. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH 
March lath is the deadline for preparation 
of the 1985 STRI Contributions to 
Research, the compendium that include s all 
publications by staff, research associates, 
fellows and students. Reprints and/or 
titles to be included should be sent to 
M.L . Jimenez, at Ancon . 
REPORT OF STRI PROJECTS 
Each year the Office of the Director 
prepares a report for Panama's Ministry of 
Health on all STRI sponsored projects. 
The "Research Project" forms completed by 
all staff, associates , fellows and visiting 
scientists are for this report. Visiting 
scientists and fellows are asked to fill 
these out at the beginning of their 
affiliation to ST RI. Staff and associates 
must fill these out each year for new 
projects and/or indicate tha t continuing 
projects are unchanged. Completed forms 
should be returned by March 10 to Roxana 
Duran . Please type the form and provide 
project title in both Spanish and English if 
possible . 
(Mor" on th " k ) 
 NEW SI PRESS SERIES 
The Smithsonian Institution Press is 
prepared to inaugurate a new sp.ries of 
scholarly books and monographs . from any 
or all disciplines appropriate to the 
Institution's interests. These are to be 
funded from trust funds. will · bear the 
Smithsonian imprimatur and will be 
produced in a series format. The books 
will be produced and marke ted by the 
Press as unive rsity press books. 
Manuscripts for this series may be 
submitted to the SI Press by any author 
who is or has been direct! y associated · with 
a SI bureau in the capacity of pre or 
post-doctoral fellow, Regents fellow. 
research associate or who has otherwise 
participated substantially In a Smithsonian 
Institution research project. 
Any manuscript submitted to the Press 
!T\ust be sponsored by an appropriate SI 
bureau. It must undergo s ·ubtantive peer 
review and be accompanied by a writte n 
memorandum of the appropriat"l department 
chairman recommending the manuscript for 
publication unde r the SI imprimatur . For 
more details. please request information 
from Director's Office. 
LiBRARY NEWS 
New hooks 
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 
I have recently learned, from Ted Bullock, 
that some or all rays of the family 
Mobulidae have evolved relatively very 
large brains. (I have actually seen a 
pickled brain of a Myliobates. It is both 
astonishingly large and highly convoluted . 
Generall y comprable to the brain of a 
macaque.) A gain .presumably, these rays 
must need to do some complicated thing(s). 
Yet I cannot discover what. The 
published literature that I have found is 
not helpful in this respect. 
Thus. I should like to ask any STRI 
scientists, students, visitors, etc. , who 
work (or even swim for recreation) in salt 
water to keep an eye out for both Mobulids 
and Myliobatids. I would like to know 
where the y are r elatively common --- and 
whether they can be seen to do anything. 
M. Moynihan 
ALGAL SYMBIOSIS: A CXJm'INUUM OF :rnTERACl'IOO S'I'RATEl3IES ( Lynda J. Goff editor , 
1983) QK565 A38 STRI 
AMAZING ARMIIDILW : GOCGRAPHY OF A FOLK CRITIER ( Larry L. Smith and Robin 
W. Doughty, 1984 ) QL 737 E23 S64 STRI 
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOBIOLOGY , ETHOLOGY, AND EVOLUrlOO ( David M:::Farland, 1985 
QL 751 M393 STRI 
ANNOl'ATED BIBLI03RAPHY OF SOUl'H AFRICAN INDIGENOUS EVERGREEN FOREsr EXXlLOGY 
( C. J. Ge1denhuys , 1985 ) qZ5354 F75 G315 STRI 
ARID AND SEMIARID LANDS: SUSTAINABLE USE AND MI\NAGE11ENI' rn DEVELOprnG 
COUNTRIES ( R. Dennis ·Child et aI, editors, 1984 ) QH 541.5 R3 A69 STRI 
~UEIDUX;IA DEL TERRITORIO CHIBCHA 11, HALIAZGJS AISLIIDOS Y MJNUMENI'()S DE 
PIEDRA ( Sylvia Broadbent, 1969) F2270.2 C4 B78a STRI 
ATLAS DE ANATOMIA ANIMAL ( V. Muedra, 1978 ) QL806 M94 1978 15a ed. 
ATLAS OF DIsrRIBtJrlOO OF THE FRESHWATER FISH FAMILIES OF THE WJRLD ( Tim M. 
Berra, 1981) QL 619 B4i STRI 
BASIC NEUroLOGY : AN INIroDUCl'ION TO THE STRlJCI'URE AND FUNCTlOO OF THE NERVOUS 
SYSTEM ( J . P. Schade and Donald H. Ford , 1965 ) QP 361 S25 1965 STRI 
BIG T1UCKEl' : A CHALLENGE FOR CXJNSERVATlOO ( Pete Gunter, 1971 ) F392 S37 G8 STRI 
BIOliXiY: THE BEHAVIORAL VIEW ( Roderick A. Suthers, editor, 1973 ) 
QH 308.2 B578 STRI 
BIOMATHEMATICS: AN INIroDUCl'ICN ( David Machin, 1976 ) QH 323.5 M3 STRI 
BLOOD ( Leo Vroman, 1967) QP 91 V98 STRI 
ECOK OF BEETLES ( Josef Rudolf Winkler, 1964 ) QL 575 W77 STRI 
IDrANY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF PANAMA ( William G. D'Arcy and Mireya D. Correa 
editors, 1985 ) QK 22lB68 STRI 
CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES ( Adrian Friday and David S . Ingram, 
general editors, 1985) QH 307.2 C36 STRIREF 
CHEMICAL CXM1UNlCATICN ( John Ebling and Kenneth C. Highnam, 1969 ) QP187 E16 STF 
CXlLLEX:TING AND TESTING TROPICAL FORAGE PLIINl'S ( R. J. Clerrents and D. G. CaI!'eron, 
1980 ) SB193 C69 STRI 
CXJNTROL OF GRCWl'H AND FORM: A sruDY OF THE EPIDERMAL CELL rn AN rnSa::T ( V.B. 
Wigglesworth , 1959) QH 511 W5 STRI 
CULTURA TRADICICNAL DEL AREA DEL PARANA MEDIO ( Ministerio de Educacion y 
Justicia et al, editors, 1984 ) GN 564 A7C96 STRI 
DARWIN READER ( Marston Bates and Philip S. Humphrey editors, 1956 ) QH302D33 STR 
D~RY OF SOUI'HERN AFRICAN CXJNSERVATICN AREAS ( T. Grey1ing and B.J. auntley , 
editors, 1984 ) qQH 75 A1 D59 STRI