VOLUME XIX CONTENTS FOR MARCH Frontispiece, Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 8, 1918.. From the painting by Howard Russell Butler, N. A. NUMBER 3 The Total Solar Eclipse of 1918..... ...S. A. MITCHELL 245 Various American astronomical expeditions were dispatched to favorable localities for inten- Painting the Solar Corona.... Mr. Butler is the first artist to make a record of the solar corona on canvas. The painter tells how he overcame the difficulties of transcribing his subject, which posed for only 112 seconds With reproductions in color of two paintings made by H. Russell Butler at the time of the solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 The Plant Life of Northwest Greenland.... W. ELMER EKBLAW The perpetual northern snows, far from reigning supreme over Greenland, give place in summer to flowers and grassy plots with Lilliputian forests of trees scarcely three inches tall Illustrations from photographs of Arctic flora by members of the Crocker Land Expedition Our Centrifugal Society... ...G. T. W. PATRICK 292 Do we need to consider again the social importance of the ancient virtues of restraint, moderation, and self-control? The dominant ideals of the day, self-expression and self-realization, although marks of great vitality, tend to become disruptive forces American Indian Poetry. HERBERT J. SPINDEN This cultural heritage of the New World appeals in its lyric beauty not alone to the ethnologist, but to the modern poet as well Unknown Panama. TOWNSEND WHELEN At the very doors of the Canal lies a irgin tropical jungle, uncharted and unexplored The Senses of Fishes. 273 Nelson's "Wild Animals of North America": A Review. JOEL ASAPH ALLEN Dr. Nelson has given a valuable account of North American mammals, large and small. The book is illustrated in color from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and in black and white from drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton and photographs by various naturalists 301 .C. JUDSON HERRICK 322 Recollections of English Naturalists. 325 The stimulation of greater scientific interest calls for a greater regard for the amateur naturalist The Climbing Fish.. Notes 309 331 "Our National Forests": A Review.... BARRINGTON MOORE 334 A brief survey of Mr. Boerker's book on the purpose, administration, and protection of our national forests Food for a Family of Five.... MARY GREIG 337 With the vast increase in the prices of foodstuffs it has become more imperative to select a diet which will give maximum nutrition value for the money expended. We should market less by the pound and more "by the calorie" and other food values Scientific Zoological Publications of the American Museum for 1918.... Summary of the technical publications on invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, and birds A New Director for the British Museum.. FRANK E. LUTZ 341 347 R. D. O. JOHNSON 349 351 MARY CYNTHIA DICKERSON, Editor Published monthly from October to May, by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Subscription price, $2.00 a year. Subscriptions should be addressed to the Secretary of the American Museum, 77th St. and Central Park West, New York City. NATURAL HISTORY is sent to all members of the American Museum as one of the privileges of membership. Entered as second-class matter February 23, 1917, at the Post Office at New York, New York, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 15, 1918. |
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