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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



SHUFELDT, Robert W.— Continued. 



Three talf-tone figures illustrate this article, 

 being reproductions of photographs of the 

 Common White Stork of Europe ( Ciconia alba). 

 The most interesting one of these gives a 

 Stork in full flight the moment it quits its 

 nest, while the other two show them in differ- 

 ent attitudes. Brief i)opular accounts are 

 given of various species of storks found in 

 different parts of the world, and several 

 legends in regard to some of them are also 

 referred to. 



(Jrebes. 



Popular Science News, Xix, No. 1, New 

 York, Jan., 1895, pp. 3-4. 

 This is a popular account of the birds called 

 Grebes, and their allies, based upon the au- 

 thor's extended scientific work in the group, 

 in which latter the collections of the U. S. 

 National Museum have been very extensively 

 used. It gives the classification and relation- 

 ships of the Pygopodes, and makes constant 

 reference to those occurring in the United 

 States and elsewhere, as well as the probable 

 origin of the Loons and Grebes in time. Of 

 this it is pointed out that they are the descend- 

 ants of a now extinct ancestral stock of birds, 

 from which those remarkable fossil forms of 

 toothed divers of the Cretaceous beds of Kansas, 

 described by Marsh— the Hesperornithidae— 

 were an offshoot. The article is illustrated by 

 a half-tone of the author, and figures of the 

 Horned Grebe, drawn by Dr. Shufeldt after 

 Audubon. 



[Letter to Editor. Reply to Pro- 

 fessor Coo.] 



Popular Science News, xxix, No. 1, New 

 York, Jan., 1895, p. 7. 

 Sustains the opinion of Dr. Giinther, of the 

 British Museum, in that the Rattlesnake 

 (Crotalus) is incapable of sounding its rattle 

 when from any reason the interspaces between 

 the several individual rattles are filled with 

 water. This fact has been noted at the Zoolog- 

 ical Gardens of London in the case of these 

 reptiles. Professor Coe holds a contrary opin- 

 ion, based upon personal observation and ex- 

 periments with rattles taken from the snakes. 



The Loons. 



Popular Science News, xxix, No. 2, New 

 York, Feb., 1895, pp. 17-18. One figure 

 in text. 

 A popular description of the Loons of the 

 United States, their habits, plumage, .and geo- 

 graphical ranges, much of the information 

 being derived from the specimens contained 

 in the collections of the U. S. National Museum. 

 Reference is made to the rarity of the Black- 

 throated Diver in the latter, of which species 

 there are no skins in the collection, and only a 

 few mounted examples. 



A figure of TTrinator arcticus is given, drawn 

 from one of these specimens. 



SHUFELDT, Robert W. Beauty from 

 an Indian's point of view. 



Cosmopolitan, viii, No. 5, New York, Mar., 

 1895, pp. 591-598. Nine figures in text. 



In this contribution the question of the esti- 

 mation of female beauty in several of the tribes 

 of North American Indians is dealt with. 

 Descriptions, comparisons, and the reproduc- 

 tions from ihotographs of a number of women 

 considered to be belles in the several tribes to 

 which chey belong are given. Among the.se 

 are to be noted selections from the Lagunas, 

 the Navajoes, the Zufiians, the Apaches, the 

 Tumas, the Moquis, and the Mojaves. 



To these descriptions (anatomical, anthro- 

 pological, and otherwise), are added accounts 

 of the various kinds of diess and trinkets worn 

 by these women as a matter of personal adorn- 

 ment. 



Auks and their allies. 



Popular Science News, xxix. No. 3, New 

 York, Mar., 1895, pp. 33-34, with figures. 



A great many of the skins and mounted 

 specimens, as well as all the osteological mate- 

 rial representing this group of birds in the col- 

 lections of the U. S. National Museum, have 

 been extensively studied by the author. Much 

 of this has already been published, while stiU 

 more remains in MSS. It is upon this that 

 the present popular article is based. The arti- 

 cle is illustrated with drawings by Dr. Shufeldt, 

 such as the Whiskered Auklet (after Ridgway), 

 and the Great Auk. The latter was loaned by 

 the Century Company, the original having 

 appeared in The Century Magazine, where it 

 illustrated another article by the author (Jan., 

 1886). 



On a method of modeling certain 



invertebrata for museum exhibition. 



Journ. Institute Jamaica , xi. No. 2, Kings- 

 ton, Jamaica, Apr., 1895, pp. 170-172. 



Presents a fairly complete account of the 

 methods employed at the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum to preserve and mount various forms of 

 invertebrates, both marine and terrestrial. The 

 modeling of an Octopus is given as an example, 

 and the material used in making gelatin casts 

 is likewise described, and its formula pre- 

 sented. 



Reference is also made to the mode of pre- 

 paring models from zoological figures and pho- 

 tographs of the specimens. 



Some Fort Wingate reminiscences. 



New Mexico. 



Nidologist, n. No. 8, New York, Apr., 

 1895, pp. 102-105. Two plates. 



In 1888-89 the author was stationed, as post 

 surgeon, at Fort Wingate, N. Mex., and during 

 the latter part of this period he passed through 

 the ordeal of a military court-martial, one of the 

 most famous in the history of this country. It 

 practically tested the question as to whether 

 or not an officer on duty could avail himself of 

 his spare time for the purpose of scientific 

 investigation. 



