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VOLUME XIX

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER

Frontispiece, The Last Bust of Roosevelt Modeled from Life...
By Sigurd Neandross, Sculptor

A Geographer at the Front and at the Peace

NUMBER 6

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Conference...

.DOUGLAS W. JOHNSON

The nature of the terrain influenced the strategy of the World War, and the geography of
Europe was fundamental in the settlement of boundary problems at the Peace Conference
With photographs of famous strategic positions in France

Five Land Features of Porto Rico....

.A. K. LOBECK Knowledge of the geological formation of Porto Rico is of value to the tourist bent on study or adventure

"Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children"....HERMANN HAGEDORN Sculptures of the Late Theodore Roosevelt.... .. FRANK OWEN PAYNE Including reproductions of most of the notable likenesses of Roosevelt in bronze, clay, and marble

THOMAS BARBOUR

G. CLYDE FISHER

Creating a National Art...

National art an embodiment of the common cultural traits of a united country

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The Coming Back of the Bison..

...C. GORDON HEWITT

Under Government and private protection bison have increased to many thousand head
With photographs from Buffalo Park, Alberta, and reproductions of old and famous pictures
of the bison hunt

Boulenger, the Man and His Work...
The Honorable Position of Naturalist..

Relative to the work of Gilbert White, of Selborne
The Love of Nature.

T. D. A. COCKERELL 571

A review of Field and Study by John Burroughs. With the American naturalist and author, we enter into sympathy with the beauty and meaning of the natural world Previously unpublished portraits of John Burroughs and scenes from his favorite haunts

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Series of Photographs from the First Exhibition of America Textiles,

Costumes, and Mechanical Processes..

Held at the American Museum of Natural History, November 12 to December 1, 1919

An "Old Tramp" Among the Florida Keys.

Island Animals and Plants..

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Bird Photographs of Unusual Distinction....

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Work of noted bird photographers and naturalists, published in honor of John Burroughs Sequoia-the Auld Lang Syne of Trees.......HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN 599

Among the many natural beauties and resources of the country which have fallen before industry the redwoods have suffered in an especial degree because of their great value for timber. If a remnant is to be saved for our own generation and the delight and use of posterity, it is imperative that the Government immediately acquire redwood reservations

Photographs of Llewellyn Glacier, British Columbia.

The Dawn of Art: A Poem....

.L. C. READ 614 GEORGE LANGFORD 621 HERBERT J. SPINDEN 622

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Army Intelligence Tests..

CHARLES T. SIMPSON WILLARD G. VAN NAME .. GEORGE F. ARPS To render possible a rapid classification of the millions of recruits taken into our Army during the war, a Psychological Division was established in the Medical Department which gave intelligence tests in the army and reported on the mental abilities and disabilities of the men ..M. R. TRABUE 680

The Intelligence of Negro Recruits....

A serious educational problem, calling for a radical departure from our current educational policy

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.

Entered as second-class matter April 3, 1919, 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.

CONTENTS (CONTINUED)

The Pygmy Races of Man....

. LOUIS R. SULLIVAN

Probably not surviving primitive types of man, but aberrant groups which have developed independently

Nomad Dwarfs and Civilization...

..HERBERT LANG

Mr. Lang traveled and lived among the Pygmies of Central Africa where he collected valuable anthropological data

With reproductions of photographs of the Pygmies taken in the Congo by the author and of a photograph of the Pygmy group in the American Museum

WILLIAM J. LAVARRE

A Real El Dorado....

British Guiana, a country of rich natural resources

Birds and a Wilderness..

The New York State Wild Life Memorial to

Theodore Roosevelt. . . . .

...CHARLES C. ADAMS

The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station opens to the field naturalist opportunities for study of our game animals

JOHN T. NICHOLS

Samuel Garman, of the Agassiz Museum..

Scientific Zoological Publications of the

American Museum. . . . .

Summary of the work on fossil mammals

ALLAN BROOKS

A Region too Alkaline for Crops.

.E. W. NELSON

The Klamath Lake district of California and Oregon is an ideal locality for a bird reservation but useless for agriculture

United States Biological Surveys of States...

Latest Conservation News from the Pacific Coast....

William Brewster: In Memoriam..

Forest Conservation in New York State....

Extracts from a Report by the State of New York Conservation Commission

Adam Hermann, Preparator.

Notes ...

Including brief statements of science, exploration, and conservation news, personal mention of various men of the scientific world, and activities of the Red Cross, Rockefeller Foundation, International Research Council, and several scientific departments of the United States Government

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Associate Benefactor

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FRANK M. CHAPMAN

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W. D. MATTHEW

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For the enrichment of its collections, for scientific research and exploration, and for publications, the American Museum of Natural History is dependent wholly upon membership fees and the generosity of friends. More than 4000 friends are now enrolled who are thus supporting the work of the Museum. The various classes of membership are:

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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THE LAST BUST OF ROOSEVELT MODELED FROM LIFE

The work of Sigurd Neandross

Mr. Neandross aimed to make a faithful life portrait of the older Roosevelt. The work was executed from studies made at Mr. Roosevelt's New York office and at the American Museum of Natural History just before Roosevelt was taken to the hospital prior to his death, and the bust was never completed.

At the close of a new single-volume edition of Rudyard Kipling's verse, just from the press of Doubleday, Page & Company, are these lines on Roosevelt:

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