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DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a...
The finny immigrants floated idly in their pickling baths of formaldehyde while the man that brought them, Dr. William Beebe of the Museum of Natural History, expounded their names, habits and habitations to newspaper reporters, intercourse with whom Dr. Beebe never shuns.
Concerning the 20,000-mile cruise from which he, his 14 mates and the S. S. Arcturus were returning, Beebe added the following points to extensive reports he had sent off en route by radio (TIME, Mar 16, Apr. 27, May 11, July 20) :
*A foot for every day the ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog...