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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Three working typescripts of his article "Advertising and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals," with approximately 2,000 handwritten revisions and emendations in pencil (most in the first typescript), several pages with lengthy handwritten additions in the margins, n.p., n.d. [c. 1910]. Approximately 550 pages, 4to, edges with normal wear, light browning.
THE EX-PRESIDENT AS NATURALIST
This lengthy article, which draws on Roosevelt's lifetime as naturalist and hunter, presents his personal observations "bearing on the question of concealing, or protective, coloration," but he states that "I am convinced,...that this part has been largely, and by some persons absurdly, exaggerated..." Roosevelt specifically criticizes a recent book by G.H. and A.H. Thayer in which "the doctrine seems to me to be pushed to...a fantastic extreme..." He considers examples as diverse as the flamingo, ibis, wood duck, bluejay and hawk, and such mammals as the cougar, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, rabbit, etc. "I have spent nearly a minute in endeavouring to make out an elephant much less than a hundred yards off, which my native companion saw nearly at once..." Roosevelt also recalls many of his hunting experiences in the American West. (3)
THE EX-PRESIDENT AS NATURALIST
This lengthy article, which draws on Roosevelt's lifetime as naturalist and hunter, presents his personal observations "bearing on the question of concealing, or protective, coloration," but he states that "I am convinced,...that this part has been largely, and by some persons absurdly, exaggerated..." Roosevelt specifically criticizes a recent book by G.H. and A.H. Thayer in which "the doctrine seems to me to be pushed to...a fantastic extreme..." He considers examples as diverse as the flamingo, ibis, wood duck, bluejay and hawk, and such mammals as the cougar, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, rabbit, etc. "I have spent nearly a minute in endeavouring to make out an elephant much less than a hundred yards off, which my native companion saw nearly at once..." Roosevelt also recalls many of his hunting experiences in the American West. (3)