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Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft.
Sea Searching (private recreation). William Beebe, unlike most explorers who talk for their dinners after they have made their more or less perilous expeditions, takes his dinner parties along with him aboard the private yachts of rich friends when he goes a-faring. Last week a flotilla of four vessels bore him company along the Florida edge of the broad Atlantic from Miami southward to the Florida keys. There, while his hosts sipped ices under the southern sun, Mr. Beebe dropped, under the shield of a glass-windowed helmet, to see what he could see swimming at the bottom of the shallow sea.
Arctic Mummies (American Museum of Natural History). Under the leadership of Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, the famed polar ship Morrissey (Captain R. A. Bartlett in command) is now on its way among the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska, to collect sea otters and sea birds.
Later in the summer the expedition will go along the Arctic coast of Siberia, hunting for live and mummified animals, birds, fish.
EASTERN HEMISPHERE
On the opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with a theatre, a school of music, a philharmonic orchestra (it has just finished its fifth season), and, source of all, an industry.