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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (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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13() Till-: AMKRIC.IX Mi'SELM JOTliXAL Tliis exquisite basket, which is a master()iece of Aleutian worknian- ship, was given to the Blue Anchor Society by the chief of the Attn in token of ajipreciation of certain assistance rendered the tribe during a period of distress, and it has l)een given to the American ^Museum for permanent preservation. Mary I.ois Kisski.i.. AN ANT-HUNTING TRIP TO EUROPE IN THE SUMMER OF 1907. HE past summer was devoted by Dr. W. INI. AVheeler to a study of the P^uropean Formicida' (aiits) and to secur- ing extensive series of these insects for the ^Museum. This study was necessary for the purpose of throwing Hght on the structure, habits and relationships of our North American forms, many of which are regarded as mere subspecies or varieties of well-known palearctic (European and North Asiatic) species. After collecting for a short time at Ponta I)el- gada in the Azores, a locality in which no ants had been collected ;)re- viously, at Gibraltar and at Genoa, Dr. Wheeler selected Switzerland as the best place in which to continue his work, because this country presents an extraordinary variety of physical and biological conditions and therefore an epitome, .so to speak, of the whole ant fauna of Europe, and because it has become the classical locality for such studies through the remarkable work of Pierre Huber during the early years of the nineteenth century and of Auguste Forel during the j)ast half century. Professor Forel, the most eminent of living myrmecologists, who until recently has been residing at Chigny near Lausanne on the .shore of Lake Leman, showed the greatest interest in Dr. \Mieeler's studies and gave liim in\ahial)lc a.ssistance, both l)y directing him to the most profital)Ie localities in which to observe and collect ants and l>y accom- panvinronte Generi and Monte Generoso in Ganton 'Ficino and to the Albula Pass, Samaden, Pontresina, St. Moritz and Silva Plana in the I'pper hjigadine (Ganton

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