VOLUME XIX

CONTENTS FOR MARCH

Frontispiece, Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 8, 1918. . . .
From the painting by Howard Russell Butler, N. A.

The Total Solar Eclipse of 1918....

NUMBER 3

.S. A. MITCHELL

Various American astronomical expeditions were dispatched to favorable localities for inten-
sive study of the sun and its atmosphere during the few seconds of totality
With photographs of the corona by Lick, United States Naval, and Lowell observatories

Painting the Solar Corona....

....HOWARD RUSSELL BUTLER 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 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.

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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

301

Unknown Panama..

.TOWNSEND WHELEN

309

At the very doors of the Canal lies a virgin tropical jungle, uncharted and unexplored The Senses of Fishes. . C. JUDSON HERRICK T. D. A. COCKERELL The stimulation of greater scientific interest calls for a greater regard for the amateur naturalist

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Recollections of English Naturalists.

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
"Our National Forests": A Review..

331

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 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.....

337

. FRANK E. LUTZ 341

Summary of the technical publications on invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, and birds A New Director for the British Museum..

The Climbing Fish...
Notes

347

R. D. O. JOHNSON 349 351

MARY CYNTHIA DICKERSON, Editor

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