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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....

NUMBERS 4-5

...HUGH M. SMITH 367

A new branch of technical education inaugurated by the University of Washington
The Red Salmon....

The New Gaspé Bird Sanctuaries.
Notes on Our Hawaiian Reservation...

DAVID STARR JORDAN 370

JOHN M. CLARKE . ALFRED M. BAILEY

Alexander Wilson. . . . . . . Quotation from The Kentucky Warbler by James
Lane Allen, through courtesy of Author and Publishers..
Thomas Jefferson's Contributions to Natural History...JOHN S. PATTON
Jefferson's political activities have tended to crowd out remembrance of his wide interest
and investigations in American natural history. It was his scientific zeal which prompted
him to sponsor the Lewis and Clark Expedition

War Impressions of French Bird Life...

Conserving Our Natural Resources of Sugar.
The Evolution of the Human Face....

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LUDLOW GRISCOM 411 ..E. F. PHILLIPS 416 WILLIAM K. GREGORY

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.

Art Motives in Snow Crystals...

421

.ENOS A. MILLS 427

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Among the infinite forms of snow crystals are to be found geometrical designs for textiles,
jewelry, and china

Microphotographs of snow crystals by W. A. Bentley
Cinema-microscopy an Essential to Modern Science

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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. cient 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..... ..CHARLES R. KNIGHT Critical review of a recent exhibition, at the Brooklyn Museum, of contemporary American art dealing with plant and animal life

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Zoological Statuary at the National Capital.... ...R. W. SHUFELDT 471

Recent statues by Proctor in Washington illustrate the sculptural possibilities in native big game

With photographs of Washington zoölogical statuary by the Author

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

Quest of the Ancestry of Man....

489

Organizations to stimulate anthropological and archa o'ogical research and investigation of the problems relative to the origin and early history of man

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DRAWING AND

NOTES BY
ALEXANDER
WILSON

Among the val
ued possessions of
the American Mu-
seum is a yel-
lowed paper, bear-
ing this drawing
in color of the
head of the great
white crane, and
this description,
the work of the
pencil and brush
of Alexander Wil-
son in 1808, five
years before his
death. The docu-
ment was given by
Wilson to George
Ord, his friend
and the compan-
ion of many of his
field journeys, and
came to the Mu-
seum in the ef-
fects
of Titian
Peale (youngest
son of Charles
Willson Peale, an-
other naturalist
friend of Alexan-
der Wilson and
George

Ord-see

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PORTAL OF NOTRE DAME TO ILLUSTRATE SCULPTURE IN CORRECT RELATION

TO ARCHITECTURE

The world rejoices with France that the war did not reach Paris

Every figure in this portal of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, expresses with infinite skill the beauties of Gothic architecture-the pose of the heads in the tympanum, the lines of the draperies and the shadows are all designed with reference to the structure. 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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