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• SEMINARS - ANCON CONFERENCE ROOM LIBRARY NEWS L NOTICIAS DE LA 
BIBLIOTECA 
Tuesday, January 17, noon seminar 
speaker will be DENNIS STEVENSON, 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Neotropical cycads 
Abstract: The systematics of the 
neotropical cycads will be 
presented and pollination biology 
will be discussed. Data on the 
coevolution of snout weevils and 
Zamia species will be presented 
along with morphological and 
cytological perspectives within 
this cycad genus. 
NEXT WEEK 
Tuesday, January 24, noon seminar 
speaker will be JAIME CAVELIER, 
cambridge University. 
Effects of Fertilization and 
Irrigation on Fine Root 
Biomass and Production in Two 
Tropical Rainforests. 
ARRIVING 
January 15 - April 15, YOLANDA 
GAMARRA, Universidad Industrial 
de Santander, Colombia, to work 
with David Zeh on the evolution 
of sexual dimorphism in 
neotropical pseudoscorpions. 
January 15 April 15, ¥~RIO 
SOUSA, Universidad Nacional 
Autonoma de Mexico, to work with 
Neal Smith studying Urania moths 
and their larval food plant. 
January 16 - March 15, ROBERT 
SRYGLEY, University of Texas, to 
continue his study on the 
association of flight behavior, 
thermal biology and palatability 
in neotropical butterflies on BCI. 
January 17, NORMAN C. DUKE, 
Australian Institute of Marine 
science, with his wife Margaret 
and two children. He will be 
taking over the position of 
mangrove ecologist for the oil 
Spill project. 
January 17 - 24, PETER FRUMHOF, 
Harvard University, to visit STRI 
facilities and consult with STRI 
staff. 
January 19 - mid February, STEVE 
GARRITY, to attend the meeting of 
the scientific review board of the 
oil Spill Project and to conduct 
field work. 
DEPARTING 
January 15 - 22, ALAN SMITH for 
Washington, D.C. on official 
business. 
STRI HOLIDAY 
Monday, January 16, is Martin 
Luther King Day, a STRI holiday. 
Due to the continuing problem of 
missing books, the STRI Library 
will require that all hand-carried 
material going out of the library 
be checked by a security guard. 
security checks will begin on 
Tuesday, January 17. 
Debido al continuo problema de 
libros perdidos, la Biblioteca de 
STRI requerira que todo material 
de mano que se lleve al salir de 
la biblioteca sea registrado por 
un guardia de seguridad. Este 
registro de sequridad empezara el 
martes, 17 de enero. 
BCI SEMINAR 
Informal seminar on BCI next 
Thursday, November 19, at 7: 30 
p. m. by PETER FRUMHOF, Harvard 
University. 
The Sociogenetic 
Structure of Insect 
Colonies. 
There will be a special boat 
departing from BCI at 9 p.m. If 
assisting, please inform Maritza 
at BCI by 10 a.m. that Thursday. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS BY STRI STAFF, 
FELLOWS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 
Schupp, Eugene W. 1988. Factors 
affecting post-dispersal seed 
survival in a tropical forest. 
Oecologia 76: 525-530. 
Wheeler, G.C. and J. Wheeler. 
1987. Young larvae of Veromessor 
pergandei (Hymenoptera: 
Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Psyche 
94 (3-4). 
Wheeler, G. C. and J. Wheeler. The 
larva of Notostigma (Hymenoptera: 
Formicidae: Formicinae). J. New 
York Entomol. Soc. 96(3): 355-358. 
Williams-Linera, G. 1989. 
Development of tropical forest 
edge vegetation. Ph.D. 
dissertation, University of 
Florida. 113 pgs. 
FROM PROCUREMENT 
The STRI Procurement Office has 
an unclaimed package from st. 
Angelo Manufacturing Co. (San 
Antonio, Texas) containing an 
aluminum camping box. Please call 
Mr. Calderon if it is yours. 
ORBITUARY 
NIKOLAAS TINBERGEN, a Dutch-born 
British zoologist who won the 
Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1973, 
died in Oxford, England, on 
December 23 from a heart stroke. 
 ENGLISH AND SPANISH CLASSES TO BE OFFERED AT STRI FOR STRI EMPLOYEES 
We are planning to offer English and possibly Spanish classes at STRI. These 
would be offered on STRI facilities (Ancon), subsidized by STRI but would 
involve a minimum cost to the employees . They would be scheduled immediately 
after work hours on the employee's own time. We have the possibility of 
beginning the first English class at the basic or intermediate level, 
starting in early February which would meet two or three times per week and 
run for eight weeks. Anyone interested in such a course or other language 
courses, please contact Maria Morello at Tivoli, 62-3053, as soon as 
possible. Depending on the numbers of interested persons, we can plan other 
courses. We recognize that it may be very difficult to accommodate 
everyone's work schedules according to their work sites, but we will try to 
arrange other classes if a sufficient number of employees are interested in 
a language program. 
SE DICTARAN CLASES DE ESPANOL E INGLES EN STRI PARA LOS EMPLEADOS 
Estamos planeando ofrecer clases de ingles, y posiblemente de espanol, en el 
STRI para los empleados del Instituto. Estas se dictarian en nuestras 
instalaciones en Ancon , subsidiadas por el STRI pero con un pequeno costo al 
empleado. Las clases se programarian despues de horas de oficina en el 
tiempo libre del empleado. Tenemos la posibilidad de comenzar el curso de 
ingles en el nivel basico 0 intermedio, empezando al principio de febrero, 
reuniendose dos a tres veces por semana, por ocho semanas. Aquellas personas 
interesadas en este curso 0 en cualquier otro curso de idiomas, pueden 
contactar a Maria Morello en Tivoli, al telefono 62-3053 10 antes posible. 
Dependiendo del mimero de personas interesadas, se pudiera planear otros 
cursos de idiomas. Estamos concientes de que sera dificil acomodar el 
horario segun el sitio de trabajo de todos las personas interesadas, pero 
trataremos de programar otras clases dependiendo del interes y el numero de 
empleados que respondan. 
LIBRARY NEWS 
New Book List: 
AFRICAN PVGMJES(Luigi luea Cavalli-Sforza, editor, 1986). 
DT16.P8A37 STRI 
ANCESTRY OF THE VERTEBRATES(Richard Peter Spencer Jefferies, 
1986) . 
QL6D7.5.J47 STRI 
ANIMALS AS MONITORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLlUTANTS(Symposium on 
pathobiology of environmental pollutants ... , 1977). 
QP82.2.P6S95 STRI 
ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECONOHY:THEDRETICAL AND ASIAN 
PERSPECTIVES (J.R. Clammer,1985). 
GN448.C63 STRI 
APHID ECOLOGY(A.F.G . Dixon,198S) . 
QL527.A64D619 STRI 
AUTOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF PALICOUREA RIPARIA 
BENTHAM(RUBIACEAE): AN ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT SPECIES IN 
THE RECOVERY OF A DISTURBED TROPICAL RAIN FOREST IN PUERTO 
RICO (Maria Luz lebron,1977). thesis(Ph.D.) 
QK495.R85L45 STRI 
CELL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF HIGHER PLANTS. vol. I. Plant 
cells and tissues. CA. Rashid, 1988). library has vol.2 
Plant cytogenetics 
QK725.R33 STRI 
CRUSTACEAN STOMATOGASTRIC SYSTEM : A MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF 
THE CENTRAL NERVruS SYSTEMS (Allen I. Selverston and Maurice 
Moul ins, editors, 1987). 
QP370.C77 STRI 
DESIGN OF LIFE (Renato Dulbecco, 1987). 
QH309.085 STRI 
ENVIRONMENT, SUBSISTENCE, AND SYSTEM: THE ECOLOGY OF SMAll-
SCALE SOCIAL FORMATIONS (R.F. Ellen, 1982). 
GN345.E44 STRI 
ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RURAL AFRICA (Robert H. 
Bates,1983). 
HC800.B38 STRI 
EVALUATION OF LANDSAT DATA AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR 
MAPPING TROPICAL FOREST AREAS. (Kuo-Shih HSu, 1978). thesis 
Ph.D. 
SD387.M3H87 STRI 
FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY Of MARINE SCIENCE (Barbara Charton, 
edi tor. 1988) 
GC9.F28 STRI REF 
FIVE KINGDOMS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE PHYLA OF LIFE ON 
EARTH. (lynn Margul;s and Karlene V. Schwartz, 1988 ) 2nd 
edition. 
QH83.M36 STRI 
FOUR BILLION YEARS : AN ESSAY ON THE EVOLUTION OF GENES AND 
ORGANISMS(Uilliam F. loomis, 1988). 
QH371. L65 STRI 
FROM MINERALOGY TO GEOLOGY: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A SCIENCE, 
1650-1830.(Rachel Leudin,1987). 
QE11.L35 STRI 
HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. VOL . 4. (Ralph Simon 
Palmer,1962--) vol. 4. Diurnal raptors. library has volumes 
1-3. 
QL681.P35 STRI 
HEART~ AND TREE EXUDATES(~.E. Hillis, 1987). 
QK647.H55 STRI 
HISTORY OF SHELL COLLECTING (Peter S. Dance,1986) rev. ed. 
QL406.5.D17 STRI 
HORMONAL CONTROL OF TREE GR~TH : PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
PHYSIOLOGY ~RKING GROUP ... (Susan V. Kossuth and Steve D. 
Ross, editors, 1987). 
5D396.H668 STRI 
INDEX KE~NSIS PLANT ARUM PHANEROGAMARUM : SUPPLEMENTUM 16 . 
qQKll.138 STRI REF 
INFORMATION SOURCES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES 3rd edition (H.V. 
\/yatt, 1987) 
QH303.6.154 STRI REF 
INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL BIOCHEMISTRY 3rd edition.(J.B. 
Harborne,1988). 
OH541. H255 STR I 
I NTRODUCT1 ON TO MARINE ECOLOGY 2nd edition. (R.S.K. 
Barnes, 1988). 
QH541.5.S3B34 STRI 
INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY. 5TH edition. (Robert D. Barnes, 1987). 
QL362.B27 STRI