ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
47 
TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
BRITISH GUIANA 
T HE Department of Tropical Research of 
the New York Zoological Society has 
established itself as a successful under¬ 
taking - , credited with five expeditions to the Re¬ 
search Station in British Guiana, and with hav¬ 
ing afforded opportunity for scientific investi¬ 
gation and artistic work to twenty-two persons. 
It has contributed one hundred and eight publi¬ 
cations relating to its activities. The greatest 
source of satisfaction to the Director is the fact 
that the Department has been and always will 
be so inseparably a part of the Zoological So¬ 
ciety, Park and Aquarium, being merely a new 
path of opportunity for extending the activities 
and influences of these institutions. 
The object of this division of the Bulletin 
is to keep the members of tire Society informed, 
month by month, of the discoveries made in the 
jungle by the staff of the Research Station and 
to adumbrate in popular language the researches, 
which in their entirety will appear later in the 
Society’s scientific publication Zoologica. 
Grenada, February 9, 1922. 
S. S. Maraval en route to British Guiana. 
Fifth Expedition of the Tropical Research 
Station. 
This left New York on February 1st, with a 
membership of eight,—the Director, William 
Beebe; John Tee-Van, Assistant; Isabel Cooper 
and Helen Damrosch, artists; Henry Seton of 
Harvard, a Research Assistant new to the Sta¬ 
tion who replaces Inness Hartley; Ruth Rose 
to take Mabel Satterlee’s place, as the latter is 
at present studying bacteriology at the Sorbonne 
in Paris, and Paul G. Howes and Mrs. Howes. 
Mr. Howes is an entomologist, Curator of the 
Bruce Museum at Greenwich, Connecticut, and 
was a member of the first expedition of the Re¬ 
search Station in 1916. He takes the place 
this year of Prof. J. F. M. Floyd who has been 
recalled to his duties at Glasgow University. 
The expedition will reach Kartabo about Febru¬ 
ary 20 and begin work at once. 
Contribution No. 110 
Recent Publications 
Thirteen numbers of Zoologica relating to the 
work of the Station have just been issued. 
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn has reviewed the 
objects of the work in the tropics, followed 
by a list of all the publications thus far issued. 
Dr. Schultz of Johns Hopkins has compared 
embryo twin howling monkeys with human 
embryos. Professor Wheeler in a long paper 
tells of the relations of fifty organisms, ants, 
beetles, etc., to the ant-plant Tachigalia. He 
found that the beetles were associated with 
honey-secreting coccids, as our ants are with 
their aphid-cows. H. E. Anthony of the Amer¬ 
ican Museum has contributed a list of fifty- 
six mammals found at the Station, four of which, 
including two peccaries or wild pigs, a mouse 
and a spiny rat are new to science. Any of 
these papers may be had, free of charge on 
application, by the members of the Zoological 
Society. A second volume of essays, “Edge of 
the Jungle,” relating to animal life at the Sta¬ 
tion, has just been published by William Beebe. 
The Acid Test for Books 
To read a book in the presence of its subject 
is the crucial test. I once reread “Kim” at 
the top of the Himalayas after I had followed 
his footsteps along the Great White Road to 
Shamlegh—and found it more vivid and true 
than ever. On the present steamer trip we 
ran into a three days’ storm off Hatteras with 
waves twenty to twenty-five feet high, the ves¬ 
sel rolling forty degrees and making no progress 
for hours at a time. When it was over I took 
H. M. Tomlinson’s “The Sea and the Jungle” 
and read the account of the storm from page 
22 on, and I found it, as I have always con¬ 
sidered it, the finest in the English language. 
It survived the acid test of direct comparison. 
IV. B. 
