The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29

red deer of America at all four seasons and
the environment of each is reproduced
perfectly One group of deer secured In
summer. another in fall. another In winter and
another in spring and II is possible In walking
about the groups to three of the animals, the
buck, the doe and the young. as they appear at
the four seasons OF the fawn is seen In
variation OF sizes until It becomes lusty
yearing.
This illustration of deer group from the
Field Museum of Natural History is given In
order TO show what may be expected In the Ma
tional museum at Washington when the larger
mammals OF the Roosevelt collection are placed
on exhibition or course instead OF the American
red deer the visitor viii see elephants lions eop
ards and several of the many families OF ante
opes which inhabit the African country. There
will be similar groups of the smaller animals
while for the purposes of the student of animal
life there will be in drawers and In cases
throughout the museum the skins and the skulls
Of the smaller mammals which invaluable
for purposes Of comparison.
The trophies which former President Roose
welt has presented to the National museum are
net the only gifts of value which he has made to
the institution. Some years ago when the
colonel hunting in Oklahoma. he secured
specimen of what at first was thought to be q
coyote The colonel had remembered that Wood
house. hunternaturast Of sixty years previous
had obtaned animal in about the part
OF the country which It was held was neither
wolf coyote. bnt sort of connecting link
between the two larger than the true coyote
and smaller than the true wolf
Colonel Roosevelt knew that there some
dispute to the validity Of the account OF this
species. He obtained animal which was not
full grown, but he concluded that II was different
from either the coyote or the wolf and he thought
IT might be OF the species variety that Wood
house had obtained He sent the animal to the
scientists in Washington and they became con-
vinced after a study of the Woodhouse and the
Roosevelt specimens that there longer could
t<xttlt <.y .t1. trtA
mediate between the coyotes and the wolves.
The result that an expedition was de-
spatched to the OF the. Roosevelt hunting.
and success crowned its efforts The knowledge
which the former president had OF the Wood
house specimen and the study which he gave the
specimen Of his own taking led to the estab-
lishment of scientific fact OF considerable
value. There is now fine series of the inter,
mediate wolves in the possession Of 'the
fiona authorities.
Nearly one hundred years ago an Engllshman
claimed that the bear of the Gulf states Lousi
ana and Mississippi a different species from
the ordinary black bear. The matter was in dis
pute for years among the scientists. Finally
Theodore Roosevelt secured some specimens of
the Louisiana bear and sent them to DR.. c. Hart
Merriam. then the chief of the biological survey
In Washington DR.. Merriam recently has been
given charge OF the natural history foundation
made possible by the generosity of Mrs e. H
Hartman
DR.. Merriam took the Roosevelt bear speci.
mems In hand. and after long anad painstakins
study proved that the ordinary black bear OF
America and the bear of the cane brakes are
been In doubt for nearly a century II was the
Roosevelt interest In the study of natural history
which led to the establishment OF fact Of mo.
ment to the scientific world