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Copies of what English cat lovers prize as "the Budge monograph on Mike"' reached Manhattan last week...
...years, erudite Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Litt. D., D. Litt., D. Lit., was Keeper of the Museum's Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. His monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated...
...their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed to the Conservative Evening Standard the obituary of Mike which became the basis of the present monograph, printed by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay. Suffolk, and obtainable from Sir Wallis at his chambers, 48 Bloomsbury Street, London. W. C. I. The pamphlet also contains a funeral ode of extreme delicacy by Bibliophile F. C. W. Hiley. M. A.. Assistant Keeper in the Museum's Department...
...more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, after the first exhaustive study ever made of most of the material now available on the subject throughout the world. His findings are set forth in a monograph just published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology under the title "A Revision of the Genus Gorilla...
...Coolidge's monograph is remarkable, not only because he reduces the genus Gorilla to one species, but because he has differentiated two specific subspecies, the "mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time...