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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (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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34 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL and is here verging perceptibly toward
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Portion of the transparent Iiackground of the bowfin group to show the painting of the male bow- fln with tlie swarm of newly-hatched yoting extinction, for its immature spawn is used as a caviar and our fishermen have devised means of well-nigh exterminat- ing it. The third group exhibits the spawning habits of the gar pike, whose close-set armor of enamel plates suggests at once the bony- and glossy-scaled fossil fishes which one finds abundant from the age of the Old Red Sandstone onward. The fourth group shows a gan- oid which has nearly attained the ap- pearance and structure of a modern bony fish. This is the dogfish or bowfin, Amia, which though known fossil from many parts of the world, is practically restricted to-day to the waters of the Middle West. The last three groups mentioned have lately been placed on exhibition. They are the work of Mr. Dwight Franklin, of the Museum's department of prepara- tion, who collected the material and carried out its preparation with the greatest care. The plant-life accessories in the Amia group were executed by Mr. A. E. Butler, also of the Museum's staff, who had the advantage of visiting Mr. Franklin in the field. Mr. Franklin has prepared for the Journal a note on his collecting experiences, and this is published in the present number. It may be said that the department of ichthyology of the American Museum hopes to prepare at some time in the near future a similar habitat group to show the important division of fishes rep- resented by the living sharks and rays, still another group to picture the life of the lungfishes, and several groups to represent the bony fishes — one showing the life habits of pelagic forms, another, which is now well in hand, will picture the "phosphorescent" fishes of the deep sea, and still another the fishes of rocks and surf and bright colored corals.

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