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10 NEW APPOINTMENTS: Guard: Edward J. King Samuel J. Duncan William F. Steiner File Clerk: Evelyn B. Stewart Ethnologist: William C. Sturtevant Library Assistant: Glen H. Borders Sheetmetal Worker: Lionel A. Sweitzer Laborer: Ellen G. Hardy Clerk-Stenographer: Annie Laurie Black Jane J. Cromer Storekeeping clerk: Ollie A. Turman Policeman: Wallace J. Armstrong Illustrator: Patricia J. Isham Secretary: Beulah G. Moore SEPARATIONS: Frances Antonakos Lawrence H. Merritt John A. Seitz Juan M. Garcia Edgar C. Burton Charles Semple Oliver K. Tyler Peggy M. Crowl Ceclia W. Stein Dorothea S. Michelman John W. Harvey Patricia A. Kelly --- TESTIFIES IN SMUGGLING CASE Dr. Herbert Friedmann, curator of birds, recently returned from Jefferson, Texas, where he testified as a bird expert in a parrot-smuggling case. The curator left Washington on Sunday, April 1, and returned on Wednesday April 4. On Monday and Tuesday he sat in a hallway outside the courtroom, except for a 15-minute interval when he went inside and testified that "exhibit A' was not a native of the United States. Dr. Friedmann says he believes his testimony was outstanding in that he was the only witness for the prosecution who was not a reformed bird-smuggler. But we think he meant he was the only government witness at the trial who had never been a smuggler. --- NEWS FROM THE CARIBBEAN Word reaches us now and then from the Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition down in the West Indies. The group consists of Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, head curator of zoology; Dr. Fenner A. Chace, Jr., curator of marine invertebrates; Dr. J.F. Gates Clarke, curator of insects; and Dr. A.C. Smith, curator of phanerogams. Sailing from New York on March 2 by regular steamship, they met their chartered yacht, the Freelance, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, a few days later. They are now working their way up through the islands, visiting a number of obscure ones as well as the better-known ones, to Puerto Rico. From Puerto Rico they will return home, probably by freighter, about May 1. Following are excerpts from two of Dr. Schmitt's recent letters: "Port Castries, St. Lucia, March 20, 1956....We have been