STRI NEWSLETTER 
No. 46 November 27th ! 987 
SEMINARS - ANCON CONEERENCE BQQH 
The noon seminar on Tuesday. 
DECEMBER 1. will be given by 
DOUGLAS BRUST from Cornell Univer-
Sity. His subject: 
Maternal Brood Care by 
Dendrobates pumilia: a Frog that 
Feeds its Young. 
ABSTRACT: Female strawberry dart 
poison frogs transport tadpoles 
from terrestrial nest sites and 
deposit them in water-filled leaf 
axils. Periodically they fed the 
tadpoles unfertilized eggs; 
offspring deprived of maternal 
care died. 
That afternoon at 4:30 p.m.. Dr. 
EGBERT LEIGH will be giving the 
first of a series of talks on 
coevolution between male secondary 
sexual characters and female 
choice. The talk will analyze 
Kirpatrick's Two-Locus Model. 
Further scheduling can be 
discussed then. 
NEXT WEEK 
Tuesday. December 8. is a STRI 
holiday so the noon seminar has 
been moved to WEDNESDAY. December 
9th. DAGMAR WERNER and LINDIE 
NELSON (Cornell University) will 
speak on: 
Different Models 
Management and 
Impl ications. 
ARRIVALS ~ DEEARTUBES 
of Iguana 
Economic 
Arrived last week. FERNANDO 
CORNEJO. from the Universidad 
Nacional Agraria La Molina in 
Peru. to work with Joseph Wright 
on data analysis for three months. 
November 28 - Arriving. GUSTAVO 
FARJI and CLAUDINE SIERRA. from 
the Universidad de Buenos Aires. 
Argentina. to work with David 
Roubik. They will be at Ancon for 
three months. 
November 28 - Departing. MARCOS 
GUERRA from the Photo Department. 
for training at the SI Office of 
Printing and Photographic Ser-
vices. Returning December 12. 
November 28 - Departing. JOHN 
CUBIT to New Orleans to attend the 
1987 Information Transfer Meetings 
for the U. S. Mineral Management 
Serv ices. 
November 29 - Arriving. ANDREW 
HENDERSON. from the New York Bo-
tanical Garden. to work at the El 
Llano-Carti Road studying the 
reproductive biology of an under-
story palm. 
November 29 - Departing. CARL 
HANSEN from the Photo Department. 
WILLIAM EBERHARD. HARIS LESSIOS. 
HECTOR GUZMAN and ARCADIO 
RODANICHE on a trip aboard the RV 
Benjamin to visit Isla del Coco. 
Costa Rica. They will be back 
December 10th. 
November 29 - Departing. JEREMY 
JACKSON to St. John. Virgin 
Islands. to attend the Coral Reef 
Rehabilitation Workshop. 
December - Departing. JAMES 
KARR. on official business to 
Washington. D.C. 
December 4 - Arriving. AMANDA 
VARELA. STRI Short-term Fellow 
from the Universidad de los Andes. 
Colombia. to do a microbiology 
study of the litterfall. She will 
be on BCI for three months. 
INAUGUBAIIQN CEREMQNY 
The inauguration ceremony for the 
new BCI launch will be held on 
Monday. November 30th. The new 
launch · will be in operation soon; 
the new boat schedule will be 
published next week. 
DELEGAIIQN QE AUTHQRITY 
ALAN SMITH will be acting director 
December 1-10. 
liIDlS .E.IiQ.M I.li.E B A BR 0 CQLORADO 
NAIUBJ;; MONUMENT 
In cooperation with the Policia 
Forestal. Alejandro Hernandez cap-
tured three poachers selling deer 
(75t per lb.) and peccary ($1.25 
per lb.) inside the PCC Dredging 
Division. Three shotguns were 
confiscated. 
GRANTS AHU EELLQWSHIES 
The Garden Club of America is 
offering two $5000 awards for 
predoctoral students to assist 
with field work in the area of 
tropical botany. Applications due 
by Dec. 31. Any student enrolled 
in a U.S. university is eligible. 
Send CV. transcripts. evidence of 
foreigh language capability. a 2-
page outline of proposed research. 
a description of future plans. and 
a letter of recommendation from 
advisor to J. C. MacKnight. Garden 
Club of America Scholarships in 
Tropical Botany. . W. W. F.. 1250 
Twenty-fourth Street. NW. 
Washington. DC 20037. 
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EXTINCT AND VANISHING BIRDS OF THE WORLD( J.C. GreenwaY,Jr, 1967) 
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INSECT DORMANCY: AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTlVE(H.V.Danks, 1987)QL495.D18 STRI 
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