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The Alligators of Guiana. William Beebe. Zoological Society Bulletin, January, 
1916. 
A Naturalist’s Tropical Laboratory. Theodore Roosevelt. Scribner’s Magazine. 
The Pomeroon Trail. William Beebe. Atlantic Monthly, January. 
The latter essay is the first of a series of six relating to 
general aspects of life in British Guiana. Perhaps three-quar- 
ters of the scientific notes and an equal amount of the field work 
and laboratory investigation are too unconnected and incomplete 
for publication at the present time. But a number of subjects 
were finished and these have been combined in a volume which 
x7j]] appear before March 1. At the suggestion of Prof. Osborn 
this has been called “‘Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana,” and 
is considered as the joint production of Beebe, Hartley and 
Howes, with an introduction by Colonel Roosevelt. My own 
share in it has been of the nature of general ecological studies 
and of young birds. Mr. Hartley worked more particularly on 
the development of embryos, and Mr. Howes confined his atten- 
tion to the life histories of social wasps and bees. 
As a resumé of the work of the year, I offer the table of 
contents of this volume: 
PART I, BY WILLIAM BEEBE. 
I—Establishment of the Station. 
IJ]—Historical Bartica. 
I]I—Karly Naturalists at Bartica. 
I1V—The General Field of Work. 
V—tThe Open Clearing. 
VI—The Jungle. 
VII—tThe Bird Life of Bartica District. 
VIII—List of the Birds of Bartica District. 
IX—Akawai Indian and Colonial Names of Birds and 
Mammals. 
X—Methods of Research. 
XI—Ornithological Discoveries. 
XII—Notes on Hoatzin Nestlings. 
XIJI—The Homes of Toucans. 
XIV—Notes on the Grey-backed Trumpeter. 
XV—The Tinamou of Bartica District. 
XVI—A Day in Kalacoon Compound. 
XVII—Nesting Seasons and Broods of Tropical Birds. 
X VIJJ—The Alligators of Guiana. 
