The American Museum Journal 



VoLv^m XVIII CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER number s 



Cover, Flags of the Allies 



In a painting, "The Spirit of Belgium," by James Montgomery Flagg. Copyrighted photo- 

 graph by Underwood and Underwood 



Frontispiece, Portrait of Clark Wissler, Ph.D 638 



Curator of the department of anthropology in the American Museum, and Author of The 

 American Indian, recently from the press of Douglas C. McMurtrie 



The Food Supply of Our Allies Graham Lusk G29 



The Interallied Scientific Food Commission, at meetings in Europe in the spring of 1918, 

 figured the sustenance requirements of each of the Allies in order that food might be justly 

 apportioned and scientifically distributed among the different nations 



The Havasupai of Cataract Caiion Leslie Spier 637 



A tribe of Indians, found in one of the most inaccessible gorges of the Grand Caiion, lives 



remote from the influences of civilization 



With photographs of the caiion and Indians by the Author 



Eeview of Wissler's "The American Indian" Albert Erxest Jenks 646 



Dr. Wissler has made the first exhaustive summary of our knowledge of the origin, nurture, 



and culture of the American Indians 



AVith illustrations and distributional maps from the book reviewed 



A Faunal jSTaturalist in South America Theodore Eoosevelt 663 



Mr. Leo E. Miller collected in South America for the American Museum during six years. 

 One of his expeditions was in company vrith Colonel Roosevelt, who here gives a review 

 and an appreciation of Mr. Miller's recent publication, In the WUds of South America 

 With illustrations from photographs by the Author and a map showing Mr. Miller's route 



Notes on African Monkeys Mrs. Carl E. Akeley 671 



With the personal story of J. T. .Jr. 

 Photographs from Africa by Carl E. Akeley 



Narrative of a Cruise to Lake Okeechobee John Kunkel Small 685 



A botanist's visit to the Everglades of Florida and a land of "peat" 



With illustrations from photographs by the Author and a map of the Everglades canal system 



The Grafting of Tissues Leo Loeb 701 



The salvaging of human wrecks from the battlefield has brought surgical grafting into promi- 

 nence. This process also sheds light on how tissues grow 



President Charles Eichard Van Hise, 1857-1918. . . .Charles P. Berkey 705 

 A World of Billions W. W. Keex 707 



A discussion of the marvelous powers of growth and reproduction manifested by plant and 

 animal cells 



"The Flora of Bermuda" : A Eeview Johx AV. Harshberger 718 



"Personal Identification" : A Eeview L. E. Sullivan 721 



This work is a treatise and practical handbook on the methods of making isositive identifica- 

 tions with special reference to finger printing 

 With illustrations from the book reviewed 



Eeport on the Work at Aztec Clark Wissler 725 



Notes 726 



M.^EY CVXTHIA DICKEK.SON, Editor 



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