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STRI Offers Rare Research Opportunities by Edward H STRI Offers Rare Research Opportunities by Edward H. Kobn STRI also operates a mainland laboratory in The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is Ancon, near Panama City, which includes seminar a research organization devoted to the study and halls, research labs and one of the world's finest tropi­ support of tropical biology, education and conser­ cal biology libraries. vation. Its research focuses broadly on the evolu­ Plans are being developed to construct a bio­ tion of patterns of behavior and ecological adapta­ communications laboratory to house a growing tions. The Tropics offer the richest natural laboratory number of projects studying the role of all forms of for these purposes and Panama further offers its communication-audio, ultrasonic, visual, olfactory unique zoogeographic characteristics-a bridge to -in the relationships between environment and be­ terrestrial life forms of two continents and a bar­ havior. rier to marine life of two oceans. Twenty students under the Organization of Within the span of a few hours, field studies in Tropical Studies will study at the marine labora­ Panama can be conducted on the biota of an extra­ tories for six weeks this Summer. The Tropical Re­ ordinary array of differing habitats-rain forest, search Institute's staff, fellows and interns also montane cloud forest, savannah, mixed grassland conduct re.search in other parts of Central and South and second growth, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans America, the Pacific, Asia and Africa where com­ and the great fresh water body of Gatun Lake, a parative studies are clarifying the distinctive bio­ multitude of living coral reefs, sandy bottoms, Cryptic insects photographed by STRI entomologist logical role of the Tropics. rocky shores, great untouched stands of mangrove Michael Robinson. The professional staff, directed by Dr. Martin H. swamp, estuaries, the offshore islands of San BIas Moynihan, includes Dr. Robert L. Dressler, Dr. and Las Perlas, and still further habitats. Galeta Island and Fort Amador respectively. The Peter Glynn, Dr. A. Stanley Rand, Dr. Michael H. The Institute operates Barro Colorado Island, laboratories provide unique opportunities for Robinson, Dr. Ira Rubinoff, Roberta Rubinoff, and which w,as set aside for science in 1923 as a 55 simultaneous research in two oceans separated by Dr. Neal G. Smith. Executive Director is Edward square mile tropical forest research preserve in approximately 5,000,000 years and only 50 miles. H . Kohn. In th·e past year STRI has received re­ Gatun Lake at the center of the Panama Canal The Galeta Laboratory, sitting on a living coral search visitors, some remaining many months, from Zone. The island, with a very rich fauna including reef, pl ayed an unwilling host in December to an fifty un iversities around the world. at least 465 species of land vertebrates, provides oil tanker which sank several miles offshore, dis­ The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute pro­ laboratory ,and living quarters for use by scientists gorging one million gallons of oil. Quick action vides a growing base of operations and an intel­ and students. saved the laboratory from more major damage. The lectual center for exploring the frontiers of biology STRI is also making increasing contributions in lab, with several years of studies of the area's biota, across the varied land and sea scapes of the Tropical the study of marine environments. Two marine is in position to conduct research on the biological world. biology laboratories have been developed on the effects of this increasingly prevalent insult to the Caribbean and Pacific sides of the isthmus at environment. (See picture story on page 3.) NC-4 Log Presented to 51, o THE SMITHSONIAN Chronicles Historic Flight Fifty years ,after a small, matter-of­ Too rough to attempt getaw.ay .... May fact New Englander displayed both bril­ 23 Too rough again. Weather not very liance as a navigator and more than his good." TORCH share of courage in commanding the first The log, photos, souvenirs and tapes Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. No.5, May, 1969 plane ever to cross the Atlantic, his of voices of the past were stored in thumb-marked, carefully written log of Steirman's files. the flight has come unexpectedly to light. "Read told me that I'd know the The small historic volume-the log proper moment to give the log to the i"'!"...-..----........,'CT"-n. :-:=e:--XT7~-~-::::.was presen e 0 t e Gha-DJ ian to Chair Ma 14-16 Smlt soman an IS IS It ,~ ' he Smithsonian during commemorative cer­ said. emonies on the Mall on May 8. Steirman decided to write Triumph by Symposium on Man, Beast Ten years ago Rear Admiral A. C. chance. He had gone to the library to Read, USN (ret) , took the log from his look up "The Lost Battalion" and in so Dr. Alex Kwapong, vice-chancellor of and has served as vlsltmg professor of desk drawer and gave it to Hy Steirman, doing came upon the front page of The the University of Ghana and a leading classics at Princeton University. a young free lance writer researching a New York Times of May 28, 191 1 9 African intellectual with close links to book on the NC-4 and its pioneering headlining the first successful flight Born in 1927 at Akrapong in the academic and scientific communities transatlantic journey in 1919-a feat across the Atlantic. Akwapim region of Ghana, Dr. Kwa­ throughout the world, will chair the comparable in its way and its day to a He considered himself a flying buff, pong was educated at a local Presby­ having served as flight lieutenant in the three-day symposium, "M,an and Beast: terian school, later majoring in Greek flight to the moon in the present era. Comparative Social Behavior," May 14- "Keep it," Read said, "and give it to Royal Canadian Air Force in World and Latin at Achimota College near War II, but he had never heard of the 16 in the Departmental Auditorium. Accra. the Smithsonian some day. You'll be Dr. Kwapong has been a frequent able to judge the proper moment." NC-4. He found three paragraphs in the At King's College, Cambridge Uni­ World Almanac and a few lines on visitor to the United States in recent versity, pe won a prize as best scholar The words were prophetic. And the years. He participated in the 1967 time is now. Commander Read in Who's Who. That in classics, and was awarded the Doctor was all and that was when his research Williamsburg Conference-held to con­ of Philosophy Degree in 1953. The log turned up in a search for sider ways to carry out the ideas of the objects for the New York window gal­ began. Ten years later, after serving as Dean With the book finally completed, the global education act recommended by leries of the East River Savings Bank President Johnson at the Smithsonian's of Faculties and Professor of Classics in Rockefeller Plaza for an NC-4 dis­ (Continued on page 4) first international symposium in 1965- at the University of Ghana, he was play prepared by the Smithsonian and appointed pro vice-chancellor. And, in the U.S. Navy commemor,ating the an­ 1966, he succeeded Dr. Conor Cruise niversary. The Office of Public Affairs Man Center Members Gathering O'Brien as vice-chancellor. sought out Mr. Steirman, who had Despite his numerous administrative Members of the Center for the Study Dr. John Napier, SI Department of written his book on the plane some years duties, Dr. Kwapong has managed to of Man will gather for their first official ago. The principal tool in the search was Vertebrate Zoology. keep alive his scholarly interests in his­ meeting May 11, 12, and 13 , immedli­ Dr. Douglas W. Schwartz, School of the Manhattan telephone directory. A torical studies about the interplay be­ ately preceeding the Symposium. American Research, Santa Fe, New call identified him, yes, as the author tween Greek and early African civiliza­ of Triumph: The Incredible Saga of the The international group will be estalb­ Mexico. tions, particularly those in Mediter­ Dr. Surajit C. Sinha, Anthropological First Transatlantic Flight. lishing directions and organizing pro­ ranean North Africa. grams for the Center, which was set up Survey of India, Calcutta. Steirman spent six years researching under the Secretary's office last year. Dr. M. N. Srinivas, Department of In his capacity as chairman of the the book and believes he interviewed Sociology, University of Delhi. Smithsonian symposium, Dr. Kwapong every person alive at the time who had Acting director of the Center is Dr. Dr. T. Dale Stewart, SI Department will direct the forum assessments of the been connected with the flight. In 1959 Sol Tax of the University of Chicago. relationship of animal behavior to of Anthropology. he caught up by phone on a Friday Dr. Samuel Stanley serves full time as Dr. George W. Stocking, Jr., Depart­ human behavior as interpreted by eleven night with Rear Admiral Read at his program coordinator. Scholars who have ment of History, University of Chicago. distinguished scientists · and scholars home in Virginia Beach. accepted invitations to join the inter­ from the United States and abroad. di sciplinary group include: Dr. William C. Sturtevant, SI Depart­ "Come at nine Sunday," Read said, ment of Anthropology. Eleven scholars will present interpretive and Steirman was there. Dr. Fredrik Barth, Institute of Social papers in three subject areas: "Funda­ Anthropology, Bergen Norway. Dr. Sherwood L. Washburn, Depart­ He taped hours of talk. But the bulk mental Mechanisms of Social Behavior," Dr. Henry B. Collins, S1 Department ment of Anthropology, University of of his anecdotes about Read came from "Extending the Scope of Social Be­ of Anthropology.
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