80 Report of the President 



man Murphy, based on the Brewster-Sanford Collection of 

 Birds, entitled "A Study of the Atlantic Oceanites" has been 

 published in the Bulletin (Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 1 17-146, pll. 

 i-iii, text figs. 1-7). A second ornithological paper, by Dr. 

 Jonathan Dwight, on "The geographical Distribution of Color 

 and of other variable Characters in the Genus J unco: a new As- 

 pect of specific and subspecific Values" (idem, pp. 269-309, pll. 

 xi-xiii (colored), and 5 maps, is based in part on material in 

 this department. A by-product of the First Asiatic Zoological 

 Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History is the 

 narrative account, "Camps and Trails in China" (D. Appleton 

 and Company) by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup 

 Andrews, issued in July last, illustrated with numerous half- 

 tone plates from photographs. 



Mr. Leo E. Miller's "In the Wilds of South America" (New 

 York, Charles Scribner's Sons) is an attractive narrative of 

 his six years of exploration in Colombia, Venezuela, British 

 Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil as a 

 field assistant in the Department of Mammalogy and Ornith- 

 ology. It is replete with intensely interesting information 

 regarding many parts of South America never before visited 

 by a naturalist. Besides his daily experiences as an explorer 

 and collector in tropical jungles, on bleak paramos and in the 

 pampas, the leading physiographic and biologic features of the 

 regions traversed are intelligently presented, maps and nearly 

 one hundred photographic illustrations adding to the realism 

 of the text. 



Near the close of 19 17, the Curator of this department asked 



to be relieved of the editorial supervision of the Bulletin and 



Memoirs, in order that he might have more time 



itors lp £ or researc ] la rj r F ran k E. Lutz, Associate 



Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, was 

 designated as his successor and has had editorial charge of 

 these publications during the present year. 



