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will deal with the important discoveries made during the last decade in connection 
with the spread of typhoid fever, malaria and yellow fever through the agency of 
flies and mosquitoes and with the recent achievements of sanitation in controlling 
these diseases. 
December 1 — Mr. Frank M. Cuapman, “From Sea-level to Snow-line 
in Vera Cruz, Mexico: A Study of the Distribution of 
Bird-life as it is Controlled by Altitude.” 
Mr. Chapman worked on Mt. Orizaba from the coastal lagoons (where moving 
pictures were secured of the rare roseate spoonbill) and the luxuriant forests of the 
lowlands upward to the magnificent pine and spruce forests with their snowbirds 
and crossbills, characteristic of the Canadian zone. 
December 8 — Mr. James L. Cuark, “Snap Shots from British East 
Africa.” 
Mr. Clark, a successful sculptor and taxidermist, has returned recently from a 
fourteen months’ stay in British East Africa. While there he obtained a splendid 
series of pictures of the big game of the country, as well as of the picturesque 
natives, and besides had some most unusual adventures, for example, at one time he 
was treed by a herd of two hundred elephants. 
December 15 — Dr. Puiny E. Gopparp, “ Nomadics of the Southwest.” 
Through the generosity of Mr. Archer M. Huntington, the Museum for the past 
two years has been maintaining expeditions in the Southwest for the purpose of 
making an exhaustive study of the Indian tribes there and of their relationships. 
Dr. Goddard has spent several months among these Indians, and will give an ac- 
count of his experiences and observations. 
December 22 — Mr. Roy C. ANDREWs. Subject to be announced. 
Mr. Andrews of the Museum staff has recently spent six months at the whaling 
stations on the eastern coast of Japan and has secured a number of large whale 
skeletons for the Museum. Many of his photographs are remarkable. 
PUPILS’ COURSE 
These lectures are open to the pupils of the public schools when accom- 
panied by their teachers and to the children of Members of the Museum 
on presentation of Membership tickets. Lectures begin at 4 Pp. M. 
Oct. Novy. 
Monday, 24 14—“New York City: Past and Present.” By Mr. 
Roy W. MIner. 
Wednesday, 26 16— “Insects and Health.” By Pror. C—E. A. WinsLow. 
Friday, 28 18— “Forests and their Uses.”” By Mrs. A. L. RoEsuer. 
Monday, 31 21—“Scenes in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.”’ By Dr. 
Louis Hussakor. 
