VOLUME XIX CONTENTS FOR APRIL-MAY Frontispiece, Portal of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris In connection with "Zoological Sculpture in Relation to Architecture," page 449 New College of Fisheries in the Northwest. A new branch of technical education inaugurated by the University of Washington The Red Salmon.. NUMBERS 4-5 The New Gaspé Bird Sanctuaries.. Notes on Our Hawaiian Reservation.... War Impressions of French Bird Life.. Microphotographs of snow crystals by W. A. Bentley Cinema-microscopy an Essential to Modern Science .HUGH M. SMITH 367 and Education.. Zoological Sculpture in Relation to DAVID STARR JORDAN 370 LUDLOW GRISCOM 411 ...E. F. PHILLIPS 416 WILLIAM K. GREGORY The Evolution of the Human Face. 421 The bones about the orbit of the eye in the human skull can be definitely traced back through an evolutionary series to homologous bones in the primitive fish The Wars of the Wind at Timber-line. .ENOS A. MILLS 427 .HERBERT P. WHITLOCK Art Motives in Snow Crystals..... 437 Among the infinite forms of snow crystals are to be found geometrical designs for textiles, jewelry, and china CHARLES F. HERM Architecture .S. BRECK PARKMAN TROWBRIDGE The history of the architectonic use of animal and human designs from the Cro-Magnon cave sculpture to the present day illustrates the necessity of a blending of architectural and sculptural form, restrained and stylized with the repression of all unnecessary detail. Both ancient and modern sculptural realism have marked periods of architectural degeneracy Illustrations from photographs of a series of Assyrian sculptures in the British Museum Wild Life in Art... A Letter from John Burroughs.. Reply to Mr. Burroughs by Dr. W. D. Matthew. 397 405 Quest of the Ancestry of Man.... Organizations to stimulate anthropological and archa o'ogical research and investigation of the problems relative to the origin and early history of man 441 CHARLES R. KNIGHT 461 Critical review of a recent exhibition, at the Brooklyn Museum, of contemporary American art dealing with plant and animal life Zoological Statuary at the National Capital..... .R. W. SHUFELDT Recent statues by Proctor in Washington illustrate the sculptural possibilities in native big game With photographs of Washington zoological statuary by the Author 449 Studies in Aquiculture or Fresh-water Farming.... .. FRANK BAKER 479 By systematic study of the life conditions in our lakes for fresh-water fish we may still further utilize these as valuable sources of food supply 471 489 491 491 493 M. C. 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. 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Even the voussoirs of the great arch are expressed by the shadows under the canopies over the saints' heads. The central post is the acme of architectonic sculpture -From "Zoological Sculpture in Relation to Architecture," page 449 |
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