The 1981 
Natural History 
Photographic 
Competition 
Is Open 
The Grand Prize-winner this year will have 
a rare opportunity to photograph exotic wild- 
life with a close-up lens. And the winner 
may not even be a photographer. Let us ex- 
plain about the special 1981 contest: 
The Grand Prize will be an eleven-day trip, 
including airfare from New York and a berth 
on the yacht Buccaneer, to the Galapagos Is- 
lands. Many fearless creatures on those is- 
lands let photographers walk right up to 
them. The tour, sponsored by the American 
Museum of Natural History, will be led by 
two Museum scientists. 
Seventeen cash prizes, totaling $3,500, will 
go to winners in seven categories, including 
a special new one. Historical Photographs. 
In this category, you need not be the original 
photographer, but you do have to own the 
picture and it should be more than fifty years 
old. So search your attic and old albums for 
prize-winning pictures that fit our three ma- 
jor categories. 
The three major categories are Animals (in- 
cluding birds and bugs); Plants and Their 
Environment, and The Human Family. First 
prizes of $500 will be awarded in each. 
In addition. Merit Awards of $250 each will 
go to the best entries in four categories: 
Photomicrography; A Sequence in Nature 
(up to five photographs); Historical Photo- 
graphs; and Humor in Nature. Ten Hon- 
orable Mentions of $100 each will be selected 
from all entries. 
The winning entries will be published in 
the July issue of Natural History and ex- 
hibited at the American Museum of Natural 
History. 
THE RULES 
1. The competition is open to everyone 
except employees of the American Museum 
and their kin. 
2. Competitors may submit up to five 
previously unpublished entries (a sequence 
is considered a single entry). 
3. The Museum acquires the right to 
publish, exhibit, and use for promotion 
the winning photographs. The Museum 
assumes no responsibility for other entries. 
4. Entries may be transparencies or 
prints, either color or black and white, 
up to 8 by 10 inches. Each must bear the 
photographer's name and address. Entries 
must not be mounted in glass. 
5. Enclose a sejf-addressed, stamped 
envelope for the return of entries. 
6. Entries must be postmarked no later than 
April 1, 1981. 
Pack them carefully and mail them to: 
Natural History Photographic 
Competition 
11 West 77th Street 
New York, New York 10024 
And good luck! 
Born and raised in England, Na- 
omi E.S. Griffiths began her studies 
of the Acadians when she arrived 
in Canada in 1956 to take a master’s 
degree at the University of New 
Brunswick. Although she returned to 
England to earn her Ph.D. in history 
from London University, her profes- 
sional career has been linked to Can- 
ada and the Acadians. Their resil- 
ience, despite a troubled history that 
includes a mass deportation in 1755, 
has fascinated Griffiths. She points 
out that, unlike many other peoples, 
the Acadians never believed they 
needed a separate state in order to 
preserve their identity. At present 
dean of the Faculty of Arts at 
Carleton University in Ottawa, Grif- 
fiths teaches Acadian and French 
history. 
“My interest in biology developed 
quite early,” writes Michael Hutch- 
ins. “As a child in rural Iowa I col- 
lected insects, amphibians, and rep- 
tiles and observed their habits. The 
crowning glories of these early ex- 
plorations were the hatching of a 
luna moth from a cocoon and the 
raising of a pair of tiger salaman- 
ders.” Now a doctoral candidate in 
psychology at the University of 
Washington, Hutchins’s primary re- 
search is focused on the evolution 
of social behavior in birds and 
mammals. He is continuing his work 
on the behavioral ecology of moun- 
tain goats in Olympic National Park 
and is applying for a postdoctoral 
fellowship to study fratricide in the 
masked booby, a sea bird that nests 
on oceanic islands. 
Also a doctoral candidate at the 
University of Washington, but in for- 
estry (wildlife biology), coauthor 
Victoria Stevens is concentrating on 
the population biology of the intro- 
duced mountain goat population on 
the Olympic Peninsula. She has re- 
corded the reproductive history of 
more than one hundred marked in- 
dividuals and has done a comparison 
of the data for nine subpopulations 
of mountain goats, following their 
dispersal into new areas and observ- 
ing their food customs and use of 
the habitat. 
“Most satisfying,” says John D. 
Milliman of his work in Chinese wa- 
ters last summer. “I’ve long been 
interested in the big rivers of the 
world and you can’t understand them 
unless you work in Asia.” When that 
opportunity arose, he therefore 
jumped at it. An associate scientist 
at Woods Hole Oceanographic In- 
stitution, with degrees in geology and 
oceanography, Milliman was the 
U.S. project coordinator on the re- 
search voyage described in his ar- 
ticle. As a self-confessed foodophile, 
he also enjoyed the traditional ban- 
quets, especially one in Shanghai the 
night before the cruise began. “It 
was a fantastic delight,” he says. 
“Eighteen courses. But I must admit, 
I only got through twelve of them.” 
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