Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (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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A Faunal Naturalist in South America
by T H E O D O R E R O O S E V E L T

SPECIALIZATION, like every
other good thing, can be ear-
lied to excess; and no forms of
specialization are less desirable than
those which make of the outdoor natu-
ralist a mere collector of "specimens,"'
and of the indoor naturalist a mere la-
borious cata- loguer and de-
scriber of these
specimens
when collected. The outdoor na-
turalist ought
to be able to do
all the indoor
work too; and
he ought to
have the power
to see and to
portray the life
histories of the shy
creatures of the far-off
wilderness.
But it is well
if he can go
even beyond
this. No man
leads a hardier
or more ad-
venturous life than the col-
lecting natural-
ist whose quest
takes him to the uttermost parts of the
earth. He works in the wildest lands,
and on the shifting borders where the
raw outskirts of civilization merge into
savagery. He works with the wild men
of the forest and the desert, and with
the men only one degree less wild who
do the most primitive work of civiliza-
tion on the borders of the forest and the

¹ Colonel Roosevelt prepared this article for the JOURNAL during his recent stay at a New York
hospital, showing his vast interest in natural history, his groat energy even under the trying con-
ditions of ill health, and his loyalty to the men whose work he hud come to know personally on his
expeditions.—THE EDITOR.
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Text Appearing After Image:
Photograph by Kermit Roosevelt
Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons

Mr. Miller, the author of In the Wilds of South Amer-
ica, with "Moses." — Mr. Miller's prime work every-
wliere, the work which is never neglected, is that of a
keen mammalogist and ornithologist, but he is likewise
an observer of men and manners, and a lover of beauty.
He has written a book which will appeal to all cultured
people who care for adventurous wanderings in out-of-
the-way places, for studies of remote peoples, and for the
gorgeous animal life of the tropics

desert. If he has eyes to see he will
have many a tale to tell; and if he can
tell it aright the tale becomes an addi-
tion to that shelf of true stories of ad-
venture in strange lands which is so
fascinating a part of the great library
of worth-while literature.
Mr. Leo E.
Millcr is one
of these men. At the mo-
ment he is a lieutenant in
aviation, chief
observer at
Camp Jackson, South Caro-
lina, and if the
opportunity
comes, all those
who have seen
him in times
of hardship and
stress in the
wilderness
know that he
will make good.
He has jour-
neyed far and
wide through
the middle, the
north, and the
west of the
great South American con-
tinent. He has seen the strange and
curious things which are only to be seen
by those who leave the beaten paths of
travel. His prime work everywhere, the
work which is never neglected, is that
of a keen mammalogist and ornitholo-
gist. But he is likewise an observer of
men and manners, a lover of beauty,
and a well-read man of well-trained

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