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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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EAST AFRICA —GAME GARDEX OF THE WORLD 153 Heller's descrip- tions of the animals are clearly stated, easily understood, and may be regarded as models of their kind. The matter re- lating to geographic ranges has been writ- ten from the vantage ground of familiarity with the species both in life and in lit- erature, and the text is supplemented by a series of maps showing graphically the areas inhabited. There are no fewer than forty of these maps, constituting, it is hardly necessary to add, a most valuable feature of the work. Another commendal)le feature is the ■publication of tiie native names of the animals in the languages of several tribes. These names sooner or later are sure to be of a.ssistance to ethnologists and are likely to be the means of avoiding errors in the transcription of animal myths and tales, for unhappily, ethnologists are seldom naturalists. Heller has enjoyed rare opportunities and has accomplished what no other naturalist ever attempted; for in addi- tion to the six hundred specimens of some seventy species brought back by the expedition, he has studied the W. L. Abbott and Paul Rainey African collec- tions in our National Museum, the col- lections of the American Museum of
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^^rmo'/' From McCulcheon's In Africa By courtesy Bohbs-Merrill Company Writing his adventures while they're hoi ' Natural History in New York, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Powell-Cotton collection in England, and the rich col- lections in the national museums of Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and France. In comprehensiveness, thoroughness, popular interest, and in the scientific value of its contril)utions to knowledge, the Life Hisiories of African Game A?ii- mals is far and away the best book ever written on the big-game animals of any part of the world. ' The cartoons from J. T. McCutcheon's In Africa were chosen by the Editor to give, in the first and second, a flavor of the African camp, and in the third, to emphasize one of the most important principles in all natural history field work, namely — that for the sake of accuracy, observations should be recorded at the moment they are made, or at least "while they're hot."

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