Noveniber-Deeember, 19i5 



CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BULLETIN 



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FIELDIANA 



Since the name of Field Museum of 

 Natural History was changed to Chicago 

 Natural History Museum in December, 

 1943, until now it has not been practical to 

 make the called-for change in the name 

 of the Museum's technical publications. 

 Henceforth, these publications of the 

 Museum will appear under the general 

 title of Fieldiana, with division as formerly 

 into five series — Anthropology, Botany, 

 Geology, Zoology, and Technique. These 

 series will be continuous with the volumes 

 already published and will carry their 

 successive numerical designations as if no 

 change of name had been made. 



The new name will be used neither for 

 the concluding parts of volumes now partly 

 published nor for additions to sets devoted 

 to a single subject, as, for example, the 

 Flora of Peru. 



Technical Publications Issued 



The following technical publications have 

 been issued by the Chicago Natural History 

 Museum Press during the last two months: 



Fieldiana, Zoology, Vol. 31, No. 1. 

 A New Rodent from Dutch New Guinea. 

 By Wilfred H. Osgood. September 19, 1945. 



Fieldiana, Zoology, Vol. 31, No. 2. 

 Malacological Notes — IV. By Fritz Haas. 

 September 19, 1945. 



. Fieldiana, Zoology, Vol. 31, No. 3. 

 Some Remarkable Shells of a South American 

 Fresh-Water Mussel. By Fritz Haas. 

 September 19, 1945. 



Fieldiana, Anthropology, Vol. 36, No. 1. 

 Pottery from the Aleutian Islands. By 

 George I. Quiraby. September 19, 1945. 



Fieldiana, Geology, Vol. 10, No. 1. 

 A New Turtle from the Paleocene of Colorado. 

 By Karl P. Schmidt. September 19, 1945. 



Geological Series, Vol. 9, No. 3. Some 

 Early Miocene Carnivores. By Elmer S. 

 Riggs. October 4, 1945. 



FISHING DOGS 



By ALFRED C. WEED 



RETIRED CURATOR OF FISHES 



During the Museum's Rawson MacMil- 

 lan Expedition of 1926 a brief stop was made 

 at Battle Harbor, Labrador. It is a sur- 

 prising place. Two rocky islands. Battle 

 Island and Grand Caribou, lie on opposite 

 sides of a deep channel so narrow that freight 

 steamers coming in to load dried fish have 

 to ask for help to turn around before they 

 can leave. The farther end of the channel 

 is so narrow and crooked that it is passable 

 only for small ships — at high tide. Even 

 our ninety-foot schooner Bowdoin required 

 careful conning to go out through the 

 "back door." 



At the "front" entrance of Battle Harbor 

 is a smooth ledge of rock that extends across 

 nearly half the channel. It was on this ledge 

 that I first saw dogs make a business of 



fishing. The village lies on both sides of the 

 channel and its dog population was much 

 larger than the human. Every morning we 

 saw a great mob of wolf-like Eskimo dogs 

 gathering on the low shore of Grand Caribou 

 Island. Led by one of the largest, the pack 

 of dogs plunged into the water and swam 

 across the channel. After a hasty shake on 

 the bank, each dog waded out into the water 

 until little more than its head and neck 

 remained visible. Soon one and then another 

 would plunge its head beneath the water, to 

 come up with a fish in its jaws. One or two 

 quick gulps (they had to be quick to save 

 the fish from other grasping mouths) 

 finished the fish and the dog was ready to 



fight off intruders seeking the next fish. 



Since these dogs did not work during the 

 summer, their owners saw no reason why 

 they should be fed — they had to gather their 

 own food. Much of their living came from 

 the refuse under the tables where fish were 

 dressed for salting. They caught sculpins 

 and flounders in the shallow water. On the 

 hills they hunted mice and occasionally 

 surprised a bird or found a nest of eggs 

 hidden in the moss. As these dogs wandered 

 over the tundra in late summer and through 

 part of the winter they found the ground 

 covered with blueberries and crowberries, 

 with which they managed to fill their 

 stomachs. 



JUDGES SELECTED FOR SALON OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY 



The Chicago Nature Camera Club has 

 announced the names of the five judges for 

 the First Chicago International Salon of 

 Nature Photography which it will present 

 at the Chicago Natural History Museum. 



TOAD TRILLING 



By Charles E. Mohr, of Philadelphia. This photograph, one of those awarded a blue 



ribbon in the Museum's International Photographic Exhibit in the autumn of 1943, in 



connection with the institution's Fiftieth Anniversary, is a good example of the type of 



material desired in the forthcoming Nature Salon. 



The judges are: B. D. HoUey, of Downers 

 Grove, 111., an associate of the Photographic 

 Society of America; A. H. Longwell, 

 Chicago, profes-sional photographer; James 

 H. Burdett, Garden Editor of The Chicago 

 Sun, and representative of the Chicago 

 Horticultural Society; and Dr. Paul O. 

 McGrew, Acting Chief Curator of Geology, 

 and Karl P. Schmidt, Chief Curator of 

 Zoology on the Museum's staff. 



Entries for the exhibit are being accepted 

 now, and all must be received by January 12 

 to be eligible for consideration. The 

 exhibition will be held in Stanley Field Hall 

 of the Museum from January 28 to February 

 28 inclusive. Entries 

 may be addressed to 

 the Salon in care of 

 the Museum. 



Photographs and 

 color slides in six clas- 

 sifications are desired: 

 Plant life — flowers, 

 trees, shrubs, fungi, 

 etc. (but not gardens 

 in this division). 



Animal 1 i f e — 



mammals, birds, in- 

 sects, reptiles, tracks, 

 etc. 



Scenery — with par- 

 ticular emphasis on 

 geological aspects and 

 natural phenomena. 



Gardens — espe- 

 cially Victory Gardens 

 and their products. 



Antiiropology — • 

 ethnological and 

 archaeological sub- 

 jects; primitive man, 

 native habitations, 

 sites or ancient cul- 

 tures and civilizations, 

 etc. 



Color slides — any 

 subjects in the fore- 

 going classifications. 

 The entry fee is $1, for which a maximum 

 of 4 prints and 6 color slides may be sub- 

 mitted ; make checks and money orders pay- 

 able to the Chicago Nature Camera Club. 



A number of accepted pictures will be 

 reproduced in the Journal of the Photo- 

 graphic Society of America, and elsewhere. 

 Prizes are to be awarded by the Chicago 

 Nature Camera Club and the Chicago 

 Horticultural Society. 



