140 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
“ Cordoba, 28 March, 1910. 
“We got back from our mountain trip last might. ‘The first two 
days on the mountain we had constant fog or rain, then it cleared and 
the weather was superb. We camped at 8,500, 9,500, 10,500 and 12,000 
feet. At the highest camp the mercury fell to 12° F. The mountain 
has never been ascended from the side we were on and is said to be 
there unscalable. It looked so! I went only to timber line at 15,000 
feet and then found permanent ice 100 feet higher. Here life ceased and 
further ascent would have served no purpose that I had in view, had it 
been possible. 
“The temperate zone has been materially changed by man, and 
there is no first growth left, even in this unfrequented part of Mexico. 
The limit of human habitation is approximately marked by the limit 
of corn growing, or about 9,000 feet. Here we found magnificent forests 
of pine and spruce, with oaks six feet in diameter and over 100 feet high. 
Timber line is marked by the abrupt cessation of tree-growth, the last 
trees being 30 to 40 feet in height. We got an essentially complete list 
of Alpine birds and other data of value, including a large series of photo- 
graphs.” 
Mr. Roy C. AnpreEws, of the Department of Mammalogy, is visit- 
ing the whaling stations of southern Japan, where the opportunities for 
the study of several species of cetaceans are particularly good. 
Dr. Louis Livincston SEAMAN delivered a lecture at the Museum 
on Thursday evening, April 7, 1910, entitled “ African Explorations and 
Adventures.”’ Dr. Seaman has visited Africa on several occasions. His 
lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views of the territory of Uganda, 
the shores of Albert Nyanza and other regions, and he dealt particularly 
with his studies upon the tsetse-fly and sleeping sickness and incidentally 
with the ethnological and geographical features of his expeditions. 
On Friday, April 15, from four till six and from eight till ten o’clock, 
there was held a private exhibition of the collection of African game made 
in 1909 by Messrs. E. Hubert Litchfield, Bayard Dominick, Jr., and 
Henry Sampson, Jr. The collection includes more than three hundred 
heads and illustrates admirably the range of variation in size and color 
of the animals that have made East Africa famous. During the after- 
noon and evening a large series of photographs illustrating the capture 
