Written by the curator of ethnology Pliny Earle Goddard.
Published in 1924
Sample of its glory:
" Fauna. Elk and moose as rule do not occur on the islands. On some of them there are no black bear, only the enormous brown ones. Only recently the sea teemed with life of which the killerwhale was the monarch." pg 20
You work for the museum of natural history and you can not name a grizzly bear?
Also the Killerwhale is the monarch of the sea ? really ?
I do not know which bothers me more: calling the Pacific Ocean a sea or using the term monarch where it clearly does not belong.
This is what the museum looked like in the 1920's.
don't let the 1920s ignorance of zoological intricacies between bears fool you. the museum of natural history in new york is one of the world's best museums, period.
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