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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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NEW METEORITE 6i women, particularly those of the Maritime Chukchee, are tattooed and the designs are believed to have a magical significance. Many of the ornaments worn by the people are considered effi- cacious as charms. The Chukchee, furthermore, are fond of games and sports. The maps which accompany the book give the ancient and the present distribution of the tribes of north- eastern Siberia. All the ethnological volumes of the expedition are profusely illustrated. THE NEW METEORITE.
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NE of the most important announcements made at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees was that through the generosity of Mrs. William E. Dodge the Museum had come into the possession of the great Willamette meteorite. This mass of iron, the weight of which is estimated at about sixteen tons, was found in the Willamette valley, near Oregon City, Oregon, in 1902. It is the largest meteorite which has been found in the United States, and is probably the most interesting mass of meteoric iron which has ever been discovered. A full des- cription of the mass, which is the most valuable single specimen yet acquired by the Museum, having cost $20,600, is deferred to a later number of the Journal. GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION OF LOCAL BIRDS. We present in this number of the Journal the first installment of an article by Mr. Frank M. Chapman upon the collection representing the birds which are to be found within a radius of about 50 miles of New York City, taking the Museum as a center. The completing installment of the article will be published with the July Journal, and the whole article will be issued together in separate form as No. 22 of the Museum series of Guide Leaflets. The collection referred to may be found in the Hall of Local Birds, No. 303 of the third, or gallery, floor of the Museum building.

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