The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18160905275)

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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COMMOX ShWSI-: AM) AM MM. ( o/.i )I:a Tlo.X 13 iiK'tricallv oppdsi'il" to tlir fiicts lie li;is mammals. The lads as rej^ards tlu'se noted about reef fishes, ami imlecd is arc so olivioiis that any man of common "so inconsistent" with what he has oh- sense must realize them, if he wislies to served ahout one lish that "fuller com- translate his theory into action. To ment is unnecessary." In other wdnis, deny them htands literally on m jmr heeaus I'rofessor Loii>rley linds. or with denying: that two and two make thinks he timls. that jiroteel ivc eolora- four, or that a strai«,dit line is the .-hnrt- tion is (d' eoneealiny valu(> to certain est distance hetween two points, coral reef lishes when in motion, there- NO man can successfully shoot ducks, f(»re he takes the position that this oh- no man can successfully hunt hi«j; orame, servation on a small nundier of lishes without treating as axiomatic the fact necessarily proves that motion does not that suddtMi motion on the part of the reveal protect ively colored animals <fen- liiiiilcr. if in view of his (piarrv will ■ < v^^Ji-^'^P^f*) - / J^ -^-^^ y'

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I'tariuigun in summer and iii winter plumiige, t.vpe.s ot concealing coloration erally I Because in a very small field he believes that he has found a rule to obtain, he believes it must obtain every- where. To use his own words, it would be impossible to take a more "wholly illogical" and therefore a more utterly unscientific position than this. More- over, as to birds and mammals, and cer- tainly as to most (and probably as to all) land reptiles and batrachians. Pro- fessor Longley is in actual fact wrong and the naturalists whom he criticises are right. In my articles to which he refers, I state that I am dealing only with birds and mammals, and Dewar and Finn^ deal mainlv Avith birds and ' Thf Makinp of Siierieg. By DoukIhs Dewar and Frank Finn. J. Lane. London and New Yorlc. warn it, no matter what color his cloth- ing may be. Professor Longley appar- ently thinks that this is treated as "ob- vious" without attempt to test it by trial; the real fact is that the trial test invariably and instantly establishes the fact to any human being of the small- est intelligence, so that thereafter he accepts it as being "obvious" in the same sense that it is "obvious" that if a chair is w uhdrawn from under a man who is sitting down he will fall to the floor—really, it is about as absurd to argue on behalf of one position as on behalf of the other. But, if Professor Longley must have "proof" of the obvi- ous, I will explain that I have ap- jiroached and observed many thousands

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1918

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