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A Tropical Laboratory
February 21, 1918 issue

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This article discusses the book "Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana," by William Beebe, G. Inness Hartley, and Paul Howes. On carefully selected vantage ground, at the threshold of a luxuriant and beautiful tropical jungle literally teeming with remarkable mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, Beebe and his corps of assistants settled down in comfort, and also in scientific luxury, to capture the unstudied creatures of the jungle and turn their life histories face-up on the table. The bird-lover who takes up this handsome volume must adjust his mind to the high-speed gear. His long series of impressions of dry-as-dust, slightly annotated catalogues of tropical bird-skins, innocent of life histories, are at once left behind.

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TROPICAL Wild Life in British Guiana (Book); BOOKS; BEEBE, William; HOWES, Paul; HARTLEY, G. Inness; ANIMALS
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