VOLUME XIX CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER NUMBER 6 Frontispiece, The Last Bust of Roosevelt Modeled from Life... By Sigurd Neandross, Sculptor A Geographer at the Front and at the Peace Conference... .DOUGLAS W. JOHNSON The nature of the terrain influenced the strategy of the World War, and the geography of Five Land Features of Porto Rico.... 510 511 A. K. LOBECK 523 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 541 543 Including reproductions of most of the notable likenesses of Roosevelt in bronze, clay, and marble ..C. GORDON HEWITT 553 The Coming Back of the Bison.. 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.... THOMAS BARBOUR 567 G. CLYDE FISHER 568 .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the American naturalist and author, we enter into sympathy with the beauty and meaning of the natural world Previously unpublished portraits of John Burroughs and scenes from his favorite haunts Bird Photographs of Unusual Distinction. 583 599 Work of noted bird photographers and naturalists, published in honor of John Burroughs Sequoia-the Auld Lang Syne of Trees..... . HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN 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.... .L. C. READ 614 The Dawn of Art: A Poem.. Creating a National Art..... GEORGE LANGFORD 621 622 National art an embodiment of the common cultural traits of a united country 631 Held at the American Museum of Natural History, November 12 to December 1, 1919 An "Old Tramp" Among the Florida Keys.. 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 657 665 671 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 687 Nomad Dwarfs and Civilization... .HERBERT LANG 697 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 Scientific Zoological Publications of the Summary of the work on fossil mammals The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station opens to the field naturalist opportunities for study of our game animals Samuel Garman, of the Agassiz Museum.... American Museum..... JOHN T. NICHOLS 730 A Region too Alkaline for Crops... The Klamath Lake district of California and Oregon is an ideal locality for a bird reservation but useless for agriculture .E. W. NELSON 734 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 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY MEMBERSHIP 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: Full information regarding membership may be obtained from the Secretary of the Museum, 77th Street and Central Park West. Sustaining Member 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: "Concerning brave Captains Our age hath made known One standeth alone, Of whom o'er both oceans 510 |