CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVI 



.Iaxuahv 



The Beginnings of Flight Frederic A. Lucas 5 



"Men of the Old Stone Age" Clark Wissler 13 



South Americiui Trails Lee Garnett Day 23 



Reproductions in Duotone of South American Photographs oijposite 32 



The Grim Wolf of the Tar Pits W. D. Matthew 4.5 



The Pawnee Human Sacrifice to the Morningstar. .Clark Wissler and Herbert J. Spinden 49 



Ignaz Matausch C.-E. A. Winslow 57 



Porto Rico Henry E. Crampton 59 



Natural History Museums and the Library George H. Sherwood 71 



February 



The Oldest Town in America and Its People A. L. Kroeber 81 



The Hoofed Animals of the Yellowstone M. P. Skinner 87 



Prediction of Climatic Variations Ellsworth Huntington 97 



The Asiatic Exi)edition of the American Museum of Natural History. . Roy Chapman Andrews 105 



Reproductions in Duotone of Asiatic Photographs 107 



Ornamental Uses of Shells L. P. Gratacap 1 15 



Is the Crocker Land Party Living Like Esquiino? 121 



The Work of Ignaz Matausch and Its Significance to the Museum Roy W. Miner 125 



A Few Observations on Snakes in the Field Arthur L. Gillam 129 



IVIarch 



East Africa — Game Garden of the World C. Hart Merriam 145 



Pioneer Photography in Africa James L. Clark 154 



African Photographs by Mr. Carl E. Akeley 167 



Progress — A Drama of Evolution T. D. A. Cockerell 183 



The Treatment of Snake Bite Clarence R. Halter 192 



Language as an Index to Ancient Kinships Pliny E. Goddard 197 



Are our Birds Decreasing or Increasing Henry Oldys 199 



The Pahsadcs Interstate Park 201 



April 



Color Plate, The Flamingo and its Young opposite 217 



My Fight with the Devilfish Russell J. Coles 217 



Heredity and Sex Frank E. Lutz 228 



Color Plate, Assyrian and Babylonian Seals opposite 243 



"TheMagicof Jewels and Charms" HerbertJ. Spinden 243 



The White Rat and Sleeping Sickness R. W. Tower and C. F. Herm 249 



A Reptilian Aeronaut W. D. Matthew 251 



The Traffic in Feathers T. Gilbert Pearson 253 



Stories of South American Birds George K. Chbrrie 259 



May 



The Ruins of Ancient Petra Lee Garnett Day and Joseph Wood, Jr 273 



Reproductions in Color of Arabian Photographs 287 



Three Polar Expeditions, 1913-1916 Herbert L. Bridgman 291 



A Garden of Germs C.-E. A. Winslow 295 



Decorative VaUie of American Indian Art Esther A. Coster 301 



Moccasin Exhibit in the American Mu.seum Clark Wissler 308 



Sea Cows, Past and Present Frederic A. Lucas 315 



"Men of the Old Stone Age" G. Elliot Smith 319 



Vagrant Cats in the United States. . . .' 326 



Bird Protective Laws and Tlieir Enforcement T. Gilbert Pearson 329 



October 



Sharks — Man-eaters and Others Hugh M. Smith 341 



A Community of Sea Mussels Irving A. Field 356 



Reproductions in Duotone of Seacoast Photographs 367 



The Laws of Species Forming '. . . . David Starr Jordan 379 



The Loom in the New World M. D. C. Crawford 381 



Ancient Peruvian Cloths C. W. Mead 389 



Uncle Sam's Birds T. Gilbert Pearson 395 



Hunting Dogs of the Ancients Charles R. Eastman 403 



November 



Design and Color in Ancient Fabrics M. D. C. Crawford 417 



Tileflshiiig in Fifty Fathoms George H. Sherwood 433 



Colorado a Million Years Ago T. D. A. Cockerell 443 



The Whale House of the Chilkat George T. Emmons 451 



Reproductions in Color of Northwest Indian Carvings 461 



A Suggested Study of Costumes Clark Wissler 465 



The Scourge of the Santa Monica Moimtains W. D. Matthew 469 



Why Does the Heart Beat? R. W. Tower and C. F. Herm 473 



