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C & D 178732                  Field address
                              c/o Aramco
       Donald S. Endman       Ras Tanura
               Jan.  3, 1948  Saudi Arabia 

General Log + notes on Persian Gulf + Jeddah (Jidda) on the Red Sea

Fish Division
U. S. National Museum
Washington 25, D. C. 

Middle East Journal April 1947
"16n Saud's program for Arabia" Richard H. Sanger  
p.186
"Irrigation in the central part of the country presents a different problem. Here the rainfall in the [[Turagg?]] Mountains on the west [[into?]] beneath the ground to the limestone table underlying much of that part of Saudi Arabia, and flows eastward under the [[?]] and Al Hasa to come out in the Persian Gulf. The fisherman of the Bahrein Is. still obtain some of their water by diving overboard and filling their pouches in the fresh water springs that bubble up in the Persian Gulf. The great oasis of [[Hojiuf?]] is kept fertile by forty artesian wells whose water swells up through breaks in the Al Hasa limestone in sufficient quantity to irrigate more than 2 million date trees. Ruyad, Dilan, Buraydah and Urazzah [[?]] - - - draw their water from these underground vines." + "Most [[?]] of all are the great water [[?]] in and around Al Khazi, 50 m. S. E. of Riyad. These are often one hundred yards across, they look like quarries but are really lakes formed by the collapse of the surface limestone table. They are filled to approx 100 ft. below surface of ground with fresh clean water that [[?]] made possible they ag. experiment at Al Kharj."

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people to meet
Mr. Richard H. Daggy, entomologist, Arab-Amer. Oil Co. Dhahran, Saudi-Arabia
Acc. 178624 31 cyprinodonts, 1/20/48, artesian well answer description [[underline]] Cyprinodon dispar [[/underline]] (Ruppell) Saihat, Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Dick Kezel Beirut ref. by Dale Stewart
Ahmad Shakhur fish dealer for Aramco at Saihat
Hussain Tahir. Abull Azizz, Aramco Teddah. helped with my fish collecting in Jiddah and become [[strikethrouhg]] and [[/strikethrough]] am experienced handler of Underwood [[?]] and was successful, in obtaining sever new species, while I took sick in Jeddah
Hassan Monsur contractor Nasur
Richard Hattrup ostrich ^near Transjordan^ Iraq- Saudi Arab border 1939 300 lbs. over, ran 30 m.p.h., 9 ft. stride George Rentz saw from saw fish at Al Khobar 5 1/8 width at base 2" 47 1/4" at tip  32 teeth both sides teeth 1 1/2"
Dr. ^Sunder Lal^ Hora Indian Museum, Bombay
Joe T. Smith ARMACO c/o Al Kharj Agriculture Project Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
RFD #4 Floydada, Texas
Mrs. James C. Ateward 611 West 122th st, New York Colonial house

Transcription Notes:
--"Shakhur" has accents over "a" and "u" --"Monsur" has accent over "u" --"Nasur" has accent over "u"