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ROOSEVELT GIVES MUSEUM TWO BUFFALO SPECIMENS

Theodore Roosevelt '08, retiring Governor-General of the Philippines, has notified the Museum of Comparative Zoology that he has obtained two specimens of the rare Philippine Buffalo known as Tamaro, for the museum. The Tamaro is only found in the dense jungles of the island of Mindoro. Mr. Roosevelt Returned to Manila with the specimens after a sixty hour trip by aeroplane.

Roosevelt is an authority on the animals of the Far East. He has recently published, in collaboration with H. J. Coolidge '92, assistant curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a book, "Three Kingdoms of Indo-China."

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