[Reprinted from Sci-ENCE, N. S., Vol. XL VIII., No. 

 1S48, Pages 547-549, November S9, 1918] 



Wild Animals of North America: Intimate 

 Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the 

 Mammal Kingdom. By Edward W. InTelsgn. 

 Natural-Color Portraits from Paintings by 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Track Sketches by 

 Ernest Thompson Seton. Published by the 

 National Geographic Society, Washington, 

 D. C, U. S. A.; 8vo, pp. + 385-612, folded 

 frontispiece, 108 colored illustrations on text 

 paper (not plates), 85 halftone illustrations. 

 [This' is essentially a reprint of two articles 

 which appeared in the National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine, for November, 1916, and 

 May, 1918. The changes comprise repaging 

 beyond page 472, the readjustment of the 

 ■ matter on pages 473-475, the replacement of 

 a half-tone on page 475, the rectification of 

 page references to illustrations to accord 

 with the new paging where needed, and read- 

 justment of the matter from page 571 on, 

 so as to admit 32 new illustrations of foot- 

 prints and the captions to these.] 

 This is a work which meets to a gratifying 

 degree the need for an essentially non-tech- 

 nical treatise upon the natural history of the 

 mammals of North America. No living person 

 is better equipped to carry to a successful con- 

 elusion such an midertaking than is its author. 

 Nelson has contributed in the fiield of verte- 

 brate zoology now for over forty years, to be 

 explicit, beginning in July, 1876 (Bulletin 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. 1, p. 39). 

 With a background of long experience in the 

 field, and with further years of official con- 

 nection with the United States Biological Sur- 

 vey and its unique resources in mammalogy, 

 he has made available a brochure of pleasing 

 amplitude and satisfying authoritativeness. 

 Between the colored pictures and the written 



