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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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The American Museum Journal Vol. VI. JANUARY, 1906. No. i I HE chief feature of the current number of the Journal is an article by Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, of the scientific staff of the Museum, describing the development of a mollusk and forming a guide to the series of models which he has prepared to illustrate the development from the egg to the adult stage of the little shell known to the conchologist as Crepidtda. This shell occurs in great numbers along the North Atlantic coast and is commonly known in the United States as the "Boat Shell," on accoimt of its shape and the diaphragm in it which resembles the thwart of a boat. In Great Britain the same shell is called the "Slipper Limpet." This article is also published separately as No. 21 of the Museum series of Guide Leaflets and may be obtained at a nominal price. A NATURALLY MUMMIFIED BODY FROM CHILE. One of the most remarkable specimens that the Department of Ethnology has acquired in years was obtained by the Museum in November. It is a naturally mummified body which was found in a copper mine at Chuquicamata, province of Anto- fagasta, Chile. The condition of the body shows that the un- fortunate miner, probably a woman, was caught by a cave-in of the roof and partly crushed. The mummification seems to have been produced in part by the action of copper salts and not to have been merely a desiccation due to the dryness of the region. The skin has not collapsed on the bones, as in the mummies found usually in the region, but the body and limbs preserve nearly their natural size and proportions, except for the crushing al- ready mentioned. No analysis has yet been made of the tissues, so that it is too early to hazard any supposition as to 3

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