Science: Rio Teodoro

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With War breaking in Europe, however, the "River of Doubt" was soon forgotten by everyone but cartographers. The Brazilian Government had confirmed the name "Rio Roosevelt," subsequently changed it to "Rio Téodoro." In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt died. In 1927 George Miller Dyott made a second trip down the river, found it as his predecessor had described. And in 1931 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt journeyed from Albany to Manhattan to lay the cornerstone of the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, voted by the State Legislature at a cost of $3,700,000. Connected with the main building of the American Museum of Natural History, this memorial is a vast hall which presents to the street a lordly Roman entrance arch.

Last week the "River of Doubt" surged up from two decades of obscurity. In the new Roosevelt Memorial hall which the Museum will open next autumn, was installed a towering mural painted by William Andrew Mackay. At the top a comely female figure in Grecian dress, representing the river, is pouring a torrent from a vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river.