The American Museum Journal 



CONTENTS FOR MAY 



Cover, Port rait of 'I'lioiupsoirs (iazcllc. British l*]ast Africa 



IMiotosrapli by Kermit Koosevelt, usod tlirouKli tin- courtfsy of Charles Scribner's Sons 



Frontispiece. Keticulated (liralTe 320 



A giant of the African i)lain. Pliotograpli liy 'riiiodorc Kooscvclt 



]\rv Life as a Naturalist 'riiKonoHE Roosevelt 321 



Boyhood days and later experienies of a faunal naturalist 



With many illustrations, presenting in zodloKical series the big game of British East Africa; 

 from previously unpublished i)liotographs by Kermit Koosevelt, taken on the Smithsonian 

 African Expedition under the leadership of Colonel Roosevelt 



Heredity, Environment, and Civilization A. L. Kroeber 351 



Attitude of the anthropologist toward each. — Work in his own especial field traces back the 

 history of man culturally and psycliologically as response to civilization 



Child-life Anions- the Siniih Sound Eskimos Eu.mlxd Otis Hovey 360 



Where childhood lasts but a few years and boys and girls take on the responsibilities of men 



and women before they are sixteen years of age 



Illustrations from copyrigh.ted photogra])hs by Donald B. :MucMillan 



The Bine Tiger Roy Chapman Andrews 372 



Story of a hunt for a particular l)luecoated melanistic individual of the tiger of China 

 Illustrations from photographs by Yvette Borup Andrews and Harry R. Caldwell 



Quick Key to a Knowledge of 



Common Insects William Mortox Wheeler 381 



Review of a FUtd Book of In-sertu, by Frank E. Lutz 



Illustrated by color plates from the book reviewed, the plates loaned through the courtesy 



of G. P. Putnam's Sons and color printing done by the American Museum press 



A Xaturalist's Notes on a Trip up the Orinoco George K. Cherrie 383 



Four months" canoeing through the jungles of Venezuela 



A Fortunate Collector W. D. M. 389 



The discoverer of the remains of the giant bird, Diatryma, which was found in the Bighorn 

 basin of Wyoming 



Second Thnle Expedition Under Rasmnssen 390 



Plans for the Second Thnle Expedition 



to Xorth Greenland Kxud Rasmussex 393 



Illustrations from photographs by Donald B. MacMillan and E. O. Hovey 



The Monk Seal of the Southern Pacific Alfred M. Bailey 396 



Discovery of its breeding grounds among the Hawaiian Islands 



Tlic Eay.san Seal -T. A. Allex 399 



XOTES 401 



M.AKY CVXTHIA DiCKEESOX, Editor 



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