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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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Tliis iiliotosi'iipli. taken on August 11, 1889, is believed to be tin; first ever taken of a living Florida crocodile, Crocodylus acutus Cuvier. A few days later I shot what I thought the record specimen, 14 feet 2 inches long (it was sent to Yale University), but discovered many years after- ward that in 1875. fourteen years previous, Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Park, had shot a specimen of just the same size. In later years I often visited the Florida crocodiles and found great sport in photographing them. It was a matter of ethics that a (•rocodile should be free at the time his I'icture was taken. This species of crocodile is found not only in southern Florida, but also through the Greater Antilles (except Porto Rico), Mexico, and along both coasts of Central America to Ecuador and Colombia The Florida Crocodile By A. W. D I M 0 (; K i ^^'itll illustrations from photographs by the Author and his son, Julian A. Dimock T HAT the authors of dictionaries were supermen I always be- lieved until I began to make the acquaintance of lexicographers and learned that scissors and paste did most of the authoring. So in other lines, it is usually im- possible really to tree an originator, or even a discoverer, of anything. Lever- rier's discovery of Neptune was ac- counted the crowning triumph of human reasoning, but Adams ante- dated him by months, and many work- ers had lifted the science of astronomy to a plane which made the discovery in- Mr. A. W. Dimock, member of the Authors Club, New York, and of the Camp Fire Club of America, is the autlior of Florida Enchantments, Wall Street and the Wildn, and other books and articles setting forth the natural beauties of Florida and other parts of the southeastern United States and tlie fascina- tion of the region for the sportsman. His writings are illustrated by large series of photograi)hs taken by Mr. Dimock and his son, Julian A. Dimock. ' September 11 brought the announcement of the sudden deatli of Mr. Dimock at his home at Peeka- mose, New York. evitable. Amerigo Vespucci gave his name to the new world which Colum- bus discovered. I have even originated patentable ideas myself, only to find in the Patent Office the evidence that from one to a dozen or a hundred people had originated the same thing. In exploiting some of the creatures of the wild, I have never been a pio- neer; always the trail had been blazed, usually by some one who was pursuing his avocation with a singleness of pur- pose that left no room for thought of the distinction of discovery. Uncle Remus' naming; of the toad dis- u:

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