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THE

AMERICAN Museum
JOURNAL

VOLUME

IL

1902

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
1902


Committee
EDMUND
FRANK

M.

O.

of Publication

HOVEY,

CHAPMAN

GRATACAP
WILLIAM K. GREGORY
LOUIS

P.

Editor

"1

\
j

Advisory Board


Due to narrow inner margin, this

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The American Museum

Natural History

of

BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR

D. WILLIS JAMES
ARCHIBALD ROGERS
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
GUSTAV E. KISSEL
ANSON W. HARD
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
GEORGE G. HAVEN

MORRIS K. JESUP
ADRIAN ISELIN
T. PIERPONT MORGAN
"tOvSEPH H. CHOATE
WILLIAM E. dodge
ROBB
J. HAMPDEN
CHARLES LANIER
D. O.

MILLS

HEWITT
ALBERT S. BICKMORE
ANDREW H. GREEN

ABRAM

902

1

S.

HENRY

H. O.

HAVEMEYER

A. D.

JUILLIARD

FREDERICK E. HYDE
PERCY R. PYNE
OSBORN

F.

OFFICERS AND COMMFfTEES FOR I902
PRESIDENT

MORRIS

JESUP

K.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

WILLIAM

E.

HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

DODGE

TREASURER

CHARLES LANIER
DIRECTOR

HERMON

C.

BUMPUS

SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT TREASURER

JOHN

WINSER

H.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
T.

HAMPDEN ROBB,

Chairman

ANSON W. HARD

MORRIS K.' JESUP
WILLIAM E. DODGE
HENRY F. OSBORN
CHARLES LANIER

H. O.

HAVEMEYER

FREDERICK E. HYDE
PERCY R. PYNE

AUDITING COMMITTEE

ANSON W. HARD
GEORGE
The

GUSTAV

G.

E.

KISSEL

HAVEN

President, ex-ofjicio

FINANCE COMMITTEE

PIERPONT MORGAN
CHARLES LANIER

D. O. MILLS
D. WILLIS JAMES

J.

The

President, ex-officio

NOMINATING COMMITTEE
D. O.

WILLIAM

MILLS

ABRAM
The

S.

HEWITT

President, ex-officio

E.

DODGE


Scientific Staff

Director

Hermon
Department

Albert

Prof.

Department

of

Bumpus

of Public Instruction

Bickmore, Curator

S.

Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology

Prof. R. P.

Edmund

C.

Whitfield, Curator

O.

Hovey, Ph.D., Associate Curator

Department

of

Prof. J. A.

Mammalogy and

Ornithology

Allen, Curator

Frank M. Chapman,
Department

Associate Curator

of Vertebrate Palaeontology

Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Curator
W. D. Matthew, Ph.D., Associate Curator

O. P.

Hay, Ph.D., Assistant Curator
Department

of

Entomology

William Beutenmuller, Curator
Departments
L. P.

Prof.

of Mineralogy

and Conchology

Gratacap, A.m., Curator

Department

of Invertebrate Zoology

Hermon

Bumpus, Curator

C.

George H. Sherwood, A.M.,
Department
Prof.

Prof.

of

Assistant Curator

Anthropology

Frederic W. Putnam, Curator
Franz Boas, Curator of Ethnology

Marshall H. Saville, Curator

of

Mexican and Central

American Archaeology

Harlan

I.

Smith, Assistant Curator of Archaeology
Library
A.

Woodward,

Ph.D., Librarian


CONTENTS OF VOLUME
Title-page

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Committee of Publication
Trustees, Officers and Committees

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Scientific Staff

iv

Contents

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List of Illustrations

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NO.

JANUARY,

I,

1902

Editorial
Geological Department

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Anthropological Work in the Southwest
New Bird Groups
Notes and News
Lecture Announcements
The Hall of Fossil Vertebrates. By AV. D. Matthew.
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A Remarkable

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FEBRUARY,
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1902.

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Slab of Fossil Crinoids.

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Department of Public Instruction
The Andrew J. Stone Expedition
News Notes
Lecture Announcements
The Collection of Minerals. By L. P. Gratacap.

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NO.

3,

MARCH,

Supplement

1902.

Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees
A Fossil Armadillo from Texas. By J. AY. Gidley
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Hypocephalus Armatus.
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Wm. Beutenmuller

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Lecture Announcements
North American Ruminants.

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A. Allen.

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International Congress of Americanists

News Note

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Supplement

CONTENTS
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APRIL,

1902.

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Department of Public Instruction
Illustrations of Terms in Descriptive Ornithology.

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By

F. M. Chapman (Illustrated)
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Mexican Codices. By F. W. Putnam
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News Notes
36
Lecture Announcements
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The Ancient Basket AIakers of Southeastern Utah. By
George H. Pepper
Supplement
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NO.

5.

MAY,

1902.

Editorial
A Her.maphrodite Io Moth
News Notes:

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39

Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology
40
Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology
41

Department of Anthropology
43
Recent Publications
45
Attendance at the Museum during 1901
46
The Butterflies of the Vicinity of New York City. By
William Beutenmuller
Supplement
NO.

New

6,

JUNE,

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1902.

Ethnic Groups

47

The Development of the American Museum of Natural
History

Depart.ment of Anthropology.

(Coiitinned).

By Franz Boas

47

Depart.ment of Vertebrate Pal.-eontology. Summer Plans.

53

Editorial
Visit to Martinique and St. Vincent after the Great
Eruptions of May and June, 1902. By E. O. Hovey.
Recent Ethnological Work of the Museu.m.
Ethnological Work in the Southwestern United States

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and Mexico
AuTu.MN Course of Lectures to Teachers

68

News Notes

72

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OCTOBER,

1902.

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CONTENTS
NO.

NOVEMBER,

1902.

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Editorial

Entomological

Work

8,

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The Sequoia. A Historical Review of Biological Science.
Supplement
By George H. Sherwood
NO.

9,

C'-

the Black Mountains of North

Carolina. By Wm. Beutenmuller (Illustrated)
Collecting Flamingoes and their Nests in the Bahama
Islands.
By Frank M. Chapman (Illustrated)

Lecture Announcements
Notes

PAGE

DECEMBER,

1902.

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The Thirteenth International Congress of Americanists.
News Notes

87

Lectures
Meetings of Scientific Societies

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE JOURNAL.
PAGE

UlNTACRINUS SOCIALIS
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FoSSIL CrINOID FROM KAN.

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IJlNTACRINUS SOCIALIS

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GrINNELL.

An

INDIVIDUAL FROM THE

Slab.
Natural Size
Fossil Armadillo from Texas

Hypocephalus Armatus Desmarest
Types of Bills.
Types of Feet.
Two Parts of the Exhibit Designed to Illustrate Terms Used in Descriptive Ornithology

The Io Moth
The Red-Eyed Vireo
La Soufriere, St. Vincent

Mt. Pelee and the Ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique
"Bread-Crust" Volcanic Bomb from Mt. Pelee
Map Showing the Routes Followed by Dr. Hrdlicka in his
Investigations among the Indians of the Southwestern United States and Mexico

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The Black Brothers, North Carolina
Flamingo Nests.

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Part of Colony Occupied

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SUPPLEMENTS.
To No.

I.

THE HALL OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES.

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The Hall of Fossil Vertebrates

"Age of Reptiles"
"Age of Mammals"

Restoration of Titanotherium, an Extinct Hoofed Mammal of Western America
Evolution of THE Horse. Skull, Forefoot and Hind Foot
Evolution of the Horse Feet
Hall of Fossil Vertebrates. Plan of Present Arrangement OF Cases, January, 1902
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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Skeleton of Brontosaurus. Restoration of the Skeleton
OF A Dinosaur, or Giant Reptile
Photograph of the Skeleton of the Great ^Iarine Lizard
in the American Museum
Restoration of the Four-toed Horse
Scene in the Bad Lands of the Uinta Basin Tertiary
Fossil Field of Northeastern Utah

To No.

14

15
17

18

2.

THE COLLECTION OF MINERALS.

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The Main Hall, Depart.ment of Mineralogy
Sulphur from Cianciani, Italy
Plan of Halls, Department of Mineralogy

2

6
8

Stibnite from Mt. Kosang, Japan

II

Fluorite Coated with Quartz, Cumberland, Englan
Quartz from Magnet Cove, Arkansas
Azurite from Bisbee, Arizona
Calcite Pseudomorph after Aragonite, Cianciani, Italy
Aragonite (" Flos-Ferri ") from Steiermark, Austria
Malachite from Bisbee, Arizona
Rhodonite from Franklin, New Jersey
Barite from Cumberland, England
Barite from Cumberland, England

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13

15
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17

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20
21

3.

NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS.
Elk or Wapiti. New York Zoological Park
Pronghorn or American Antelope, New York Zoological
Park
Elk or Wapiti, North Dakota
Arizona Elk
Alaska Moose (Alces gi(ias)
Newfoundland Caribou {Rangijer tcrnowvcc)
.

Kenai

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Caribou (Kangifcr stonei)

Virginia Deer
Mexican Deer.

New York

Zoological Park

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9
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ILLUSTRATIONS

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American Bisox
American Bison
Stone Mountain-vSheep (Ovis stoiici)
2. Rocky Mountain Bighorn
I. Stone Mountain-Sheep.
Barren Ground Musk-Ox. Adult Male
Peary Musk-Ox. Adult Male
Peary Musk-Ox. Adult Female

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26

28

4.

THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH.
Baskets and other Objects from the Caves of Southeastern Utah. Hyde Expedition
Burial Cave of Basket Makers, Grand Gulch, Utah
Basket Burial, Grand Gulch, Utah
Basket Burial, Grand Gulch, Utah
Burden and other Types of Baskets
Food Trays or Meal Bowls
Food Tray with Butterfly Design
Food Tray with Water-Fowl Design
Food Tray w^ith Butterfly and Water-Fowl Designs
Open- Work, or "Sifter." Basket
Bowl-Shaped Basket with Sun-and-Mountain Design
Bowl-Shaped Basket with Mountain Design
Food or Gambling Tray
Yucca Spli.nt Basket
Food Basket of Coiled Work
S.MALL Storage Baskets
Yucca Basket as Found in a Cave, Gra ND Gulch, Utah

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To No.

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17

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21
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23
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25

5.

THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK

Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio

4

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tnniiis)

CITY.

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Black Swallowtail {Papilio astcrias)
Green Clouded Swallowtail (Papilio troilit
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio crcsphoutcs)
Zebra Swallowtail (Papilio ajax)
Blue Swallowtail (Papilio philcnor)

)

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3
4'

5

6
7

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ILLUSTRATIONS
Imported Cabbage Butterfly (Picris rapcc)
Southern Cabbage Butterfly {Picris protodicc)
Dog's-Head Butterfly (Colias ccusonia)
Clouded Sulphur Butterfly (Colias pJiilodice)

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Orange-Tip (Euchloe genutia)
Orange Butterfly {Eurema iiicippi)
Little Sulphur Butterfly {Eurema lisa)
Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly {Catopsilia eiibide)
Milkweed or Monarch Butterfly {A)iosia plexippns)

Regal Fritillary {Argynnis idalia)
Great Spangled Fritillary {Argynnis

cyhele)

Silver-Bordered Fritillary {Argynnis

Meadow

niyrina)

Fritillary {Argynnis belloiia)
Variegated Fritillary {Euptoieta clandia)

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Pearl Crescent {Phyciodes tharos)
Silver Crescent {Phyciodes nycteis)
Black Checker Butterfly {Melitcea phaeton)
Harris's Butterfly {Melitcea harrisii)
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Violet-Tip {Polygonia interrogation is)
Hop Merchant or Comma Butterfly {Polygonia comma

Marbled Comma Butterfly {Polygonia faunus)
Gray Comma Butterfly {Polygonia progne)
White—J Butterfly {Polygonia j-albnm)
American Tortoise-Shell Butterfly {Vanessa milberti)
Mourning-Cloak Butterfly {Vanessa antiopa)
Thistle Butterfly {Pyranieis cardiii)

Painted Beauty or Hunter's Butterfly {Pyranieis hunteri)
Red Admiral {Pyranieis atalanta)
Buckeye Butterfly {Junonia ccenia)
Blue Viceroy {Limenitis astyanax)
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Brown Viceroy {Limenitis disipp2is)
Blue-Eyed Grayling {Satyrus alope)
Pearly-Eyed Grayling {Debis portlandia)
Eyed Grayling {Neonympha canthiis)
Little Wood-Satyr {Neonympha cnrytn.
'Snout Butterfly {Libythea bachinani)
Gray Hair-Streak {Thecla nieliniis)
Banded Hair-Streak {Thecla calanus)
Striped Hair-Streak {Thecla strigosa)
Hoary Hair-Streak {Thecla irus)
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Coral Hair-Streak (Thecla
Green Hair-Streak {Thecla

Brown Elfin

titns)

.

daiiioii)

(Thecla augustus)

Pine Hair-Streak {Thecla niphon)
Tailed Blue Butterfly (Lyccena coinyntas)
Scudder's Blue Butterfly {Lyccena scudderii)
Spring Azure Butterfly {Lyccena pseudargiolus)

American Copper Butterfly {Chrysophaniis hypophlcea -0
Bronze Copper Butterfly {Chrysophaniis thoe)
The Wanderer {Feniseca tarquinius)
Small Skipper {Ancyloxypha nimiitor)
.

Massasoit Skipper {Pamphila massasoit)
Logan Skipper {Pamphila logan)
Hobomok Skipper {Pamphila hohomok)
Leonard's Skipper {Pamphila leonardns)
Huron Skipper {Pamphila httr on)
Sassacus Skipper {Pamphila sassacus)
Mystic Skipper {Pamphila mystic)
Common Skipper {Pamphila cernes)
Egeremet Skipper {Pamphila otho, var. egcrcmct)
Metacomet Skipper {Pampliila metacomct)

Hianna Skipper {Pamphila hianna)
Peck's Skipper {Pamphila peckiiis)
PoNTiAC Skipper {Pamphila pontiac)
OcoLA Skipper {Pamphila ocola)
Spotted Skipper (Pamphila phyla us)
Clouded Skipper (Pamphila accius)
Glass-Spotted Skipper (Pamphila verna)
Manataaqua Skipper (Pamphila manataaqita
Broad- Winged Skipper (Pamphila viator)
Checkered Hesperid (Pyrgus tesellatus)
Grizzled Hesperid (Pyrgus centaurece)
Sooty Skipper (Pholisora catnllus)
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Nisoniades brizo
Nisoniades icelus
Nisoniades persius

Nisoniades martialis
Nisoniades pivejialis

Golden-Banded Hesperid (Eudamus cellus)
Northern Cloudy-Wing (Eudamus pylades)
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ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

Southern Cloudy-Wixg {Eudamiis

bathylliis)

SI

Silver-Spotted Hesperid (Eiidanms tityrns)
Hoary Cloudy- Wing {Endanuis lycidas)
Long-tailed Hesperid {Endaimts protcus)

To No.

THE SEQUOIA.

.

52

8.

A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCE.

The fall of "Mark Twain"
Map showing distribution of the "Big Tree"
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2

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Diagram of the structure of the stem of an Exogenous
Tree of three years' growth
The section of the "Big Tree" in the Museum
Felling the tree

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The section before shipment
The stump of "Mark. Twain"

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Volume

II,

Number

January, 1902

i

THE

American Museum

Journal

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gi^a a*

i_B

15

3

WITH SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDE LEAFLET ON
THE HALL OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES

Published by the American

New

Museum of Natural History

York City


American Museum

of

Natural History

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MORRIS K. JESUP
ADRIAN ISELIN
J. PIERPONT MORGAN
JOSEPH H. CHOATE
WILLIAM E. DODGE
J. HAMPDEN ROBB

CHARLES LANIER
D. O.

MILLS

HEWITT
ANSON W. HARD
BICKMORE WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
ANDREW H. GREEN GEORGE G. HAVEN

ABRAM

ALBERT

S.

S.

H. O. HAVEMEYER
D. WILLIS JAMES
ARCHIBALD ROGERS A. D. JUILLIARD
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY FREDERICK E. HYDE
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY PERCY R. PYNE
GUSTAV E. KISSEL
HENRY F. OSBORN

OFFICERS AND STAFF
President,

Morris K. Jesup

Second Vice-President,

First Vice-President,

William

E.

Henry

Dodge
Treasurer,

Assistant

to the

President,

Osborn

Hermon

Secretary and Assistatit Treasurer,

Department

F.

Charles Lanier

C. Bumpus
John H. Winser

Associate and Assistant Curators

Curator

Public Instruction

Prof. A. S.

Geology
Mineralogy and

Prof.

BiCKMORE
R. P. Whitfield

Concholog}"

L. P.

Gratacap, A.m.

Edmund

O.

Hovey, Ph.D.

(Associate)

Mammalogy and
Ornithology
Vertcoiate
Palseontolog}'^

Prof. J. A.

Prof. H. F.

.

Frank M. Chapman

Allen
Osborn

S

1

W.

(Associate)

Matthew, Ph.D.

D.

Hay, Ph.D.

O. P.

fProf. F. Boas, Curator of Ethnology

M. H. Saville, Curator of Mexican

Anthropology

Prof. F.

W. Putnam

a)id Central

H.

Entomology

W. Beutenmuller
Bumpus
A. Woodward, Ph.D.

American Archaeology

Smith,
Archseology
I.

Assistant Curator of

Inverteljrate Zoology. Prof. H. C.

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The American Museum
Vol.

JANUARY,

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Journal
No.

1902

i.

|HE

present number of the Journal, commencing
Volume II, inaugurates certain changes in typography and page which it is hoped will prove acceptable to our readers and to those who make
use of the supplements.
The plan which was
adopted with the number for October last of issuing a supplementary guide leaflet to an exhibit or group of exhibits in the

has met with so
present.

much

favor that

The supplement

it

will

Museum

be continued for the

issued with the current

number

is

a

general description of the material on exhibition in and of the

arrangement of the hall of Vertebrate Palaeontology. It is proposed to prepare several similar illustrated leaflets describing at
some length and in a popular manner difi'erent portions of the
exhibit in this hall which may be considered as units.
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authorities of the

Museum

are issuing the

Journal

as a

means
and

of bringing the institution into close touch with the public

the schools, and

it is

to be

hoped that the friends

of the

Museum

making the circulation of the publication as large
as possible.
The Journal proper will continue to give to the
public items of news regarding the work of the various departments, notable new accessions, programs of lectures and popular
short articles on specimens in the Museum.
The price of subscription to those not members of the institution has been
will assist in

placed at the low price of one dollar per year, which barely covers

the actual cost of paper, illustrations, printing and postage.

The Department

of

Geology has just completed a large under-

taking, namely, the publication of a tabulated catalogue of

the type and figured specimens contained in
of the

all

extensive collec-

The term "type", as employed in this DepartMuseum, embraces not only the specimens actually

tion of fossils.

ment

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which have been illustrated in some publication. From the
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the most valuable portion of any collection, and should, therefore, be marked in some conspicuous manner and be preserved
with the greatest care, while the knowledge of their location and
All
their history should be as widely disseminated as possible.

the types and figured specimens in this Department are individualized by the use of a small rhomb of emerald green paper
with the

first

securely

gummed

There are

publication.

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vonian system;
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK AMONG THE INDIAN
TRIBES OF THE SOUTHWEST.
N January Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Department
i

of

Anthropology, started on his fourth expedi-

tion for this

Museum

Pueblos and

Cliff-Dwellers,

to the region of the Aztecs,

and he expects to

re-

turn in about eight months.
These expeditions have had for their object the systematic
study of the physical characteristics of all the Aztec, Pueblo
and Cliff-Dweller tribes, living or extinct, from southern Utah

and southern Colorado down to the state of Morelos, Mexico.
Among other results which may be expected are the definite
identification of these tribes and either a refutation or a confirmation of the theory that the Aztecs came from the north
and were probably related to the Pueblos. Physiological observations are also made for a comparison of some of the principal
functions of the body, such as pulse, temperature, respiration

and muscular

force, in these tribes

observations are

and on

their

made on

manner

and

in

white men.

the ordinary diseases

among

Medical

the Indians

of treating them.

Dr. Hrdlicka 's previous expeditions in this series have been
as follows:

first,

in Mexico, in

1898, with Dr. Carl Lumholtz,

covering the Tarahumares, Huichols and Tepecanos; second, in

Navahos and southern Utes; third, in 1900, to all
the Pueblos and Apaches. The present expedition will co\'er the
remaining tribes in southwestern Arizona and northern Mexico,

among them the Bimas, Papagos, Yaquis, ]\Iayos, Tepehuanes,
Coras, Aztecs and Tarascos.
The first expedition was supthe second, third and fourth by Mr.
ported by the Museum
Frederick E. Hyde, Jr.
1899, to the

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