CONTENTS FOR MAY 



Cover. World Calls for an Increased Food Supply 



Frontispicct', Portrait of the T.ate Jose})li If. Clioate faeino^ "285 



Mr. Choate was trustee and advisor of the American Museum of Xatural History for almost fifty 

 years, and since the death of J. Pieri)ont Morgan, in 1913, was the sole survivor of its body of 

 founders 



Eeminiscences of a Founder of the American ^Museinn. .Joseph H. Choate 285 



Recollections embodied in a letter written shortly before his deatli to the Editor of the JoI'RSAL 



Xotes on Florida Turtles Theodore Roosevelt 289 



Observations made on turtles during a trii) near Punta Gorda, Florida, in company with Russell 



J. Coles 



With a description by G. Clyde Fisher of the unique Florida sport of "gopher pulling" 



Conservation of Our Food Sui)plies in War Time T. G. Hull 295 



Demands from Europe liave depleted our food reserve until America faces necessity in two di- 

 rections: (1) to increase the normal crops by immediate additional planting, and (2) to use 

 economy with regard to food on hand through the ei¥ort of every individual in the land 

 Many suggestions for economy in purchase and preparation of foods 

 Illustrated with tables of the energy and protein values of common table foods 



The Dawn of History T. D. A. Cockerell 299 



Scenes among the Cro-Magnon people, some twenty-five thousand years ago, in the caves of 

 France, introducing hunters of the mammoth, and artists ; suggestions of the wars, the powers 

 of wealth, of cities, of science, by which primitive man must slowly rise to a future — still remote 

 in this year 1917 — where he will realize his true mission on earth 



The Season of Wild Flowers Mary Cyxtfiia Dickersox 303 



Reproductions in duotone 



With suggestions as to the species needing protection (See also article on page 350) 



Weird Diseases of Africa Walter B. James 319 



The story of strange parasites which travel from man to man through the agency of tsetse fly, 

 mosauito, etc. 



Wild Mushrooms as Food Wiltjam A. Murrill 323 



How to distinguish edible from poisonous mushrooms and thus avail ourselves of man.y de- 

 licious varieties common in our fields and woods 

 Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



Recollections of the Old West George Bird Grixxell 333 



An appreciation of the historical pictures of Indian and pioneer American life by William de la 



Montagne Gary 



Illustrations from photographs of a series of the paintings 



Forestry and the Paper Supply Barrixgtox' Moore 341 



The importance of the practice of forestry in conserving and adding to the supply of woods suit- 

 able for manufacturing paper 



A Buffalo Bullfight Ed. D. Crabb 343 



Crocker Land Party Safe, with ]\Iuch Work Accomplished 346 



According to cablegrams via Copenhagen from Donald B. MacMillan, leader of the expedition 

 (See photograph of the steamship "X'eptune" on page 284) 



"The Bird Study Book"— A Review Otto Widmaxx 347 



Conservation of Wild Flowers Mrs. Xathaxiel Lord Brittox 350 



Account of what is being done to check their rapid disappearance 



Illustrations from photographs by Mary Cynthia Dickerson of twelve wild flowers greatly need- 

 ing our care 



Mirages in the Lower Xew York Bay Giii:i;ari)I Davis 352 



Museum Xotes 353 



M.\RY Cyxthia Dickerson, Editor 



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