xii Illustrations 



The Harvard Garden, Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba 88 



The author and "Lizzie" at Soledad, 1941; On the 

 steps at the Aula Magna, University of Havana, 

 March 1930 100 



David Fairchild and William Morton Wheeler at 

 Barro Colorado Island, 1924; Henry B. Bigelow 

 aboard the Grampus, 191 3; John C. Phillips, 1934 144 



Three of George Nelson's finest fossil reptiles: A sail- 

 back lizard, Edaphosaurus; Unique mount of Ophi- 

 acodon; Unique type of Dynodontosaurus oliveroi 

 Romer from southern Brazil 166 



The Hunter home from the kill. Churima rests after 

 bringing in a peccary to camp; The author and 

 Juicio, the chief of all the Chokoi Indians with 

 whom we came in contact 182 



The author with three Indians near Garachine, west- 

 earn Panama, 1922; The Laboratory at Barro Colo- 

 rado Island 194 



One of the giant Bombacopsis on Barro Colorado 

 Island; Shore-line vegetation at Barro Colorado 

 Island 196 



Our tent by an almost dry stream in eastern Panama; 

 Churima's house, where we hung our mosquito bars 

 on various occasions 200 



Alexander Agassiz and the Sultan of the Maldive 

 Islands aboard the Amra, 1901 214 



A yearling Greater Kudu in the Kruger Park 266 



Bird Island, forty miles off southeast Africa 274 



T. B.'s office in the Agassiz Museum 290 



