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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo02amer (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 reptiles and mammals; an expedition to the Selkirks for birds; one to South Dakota and Wyoming for fossil invertebrates, and one to the Black Mountains of North Carolina for insects. Among the notable acquisitions received during the year there may be mentioned a unique and valuable collection of gold coins to the number of eight hundred from the Philadelphia mint, presented by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan; the Briggs collection of Indian basketry, presented by Mr. George Foster Peabody; a series of xVinu objects made by Prof. Bashford Dean, and pre- sented by Mr. Arthur Curtiss James; a large collection of shells donated by Mr. Frederick A. Constable; large additions to the Hoffman collection of Butterflies by the Very Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman ; the Sennett collection of eight thousand birds; the Dorenburg collection of Mexican antiquities, and a large col- lection of Indian objects. The scientific staff' of the Museum has been active along the line of publication, having issued during the year six parts of the quarto Memoirs, Part IV (conclusion) of V^olume XI, Volume XIV and Part I of Volume XV of the Bulletin and eight numbers of the American Museum Journal. Four of the Memoirs emanated from the Anthropological Department, one from the Entomological Department and one from the Depart ment of Vertebrate Palaeontology. Mr. Morris K. Jesup was elected President for the twenty- second term; Mr. Wm. E. Dodge and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn were re-elected First and Second Vice-Presidents, re- spectively; Mr. Charles Lanier was re-elected Treasurer, and Professor Hermon C. Bumpus was made Director. A FOSSIL ARMADILLO FROM TEXAS. ■.^■'.-/, r)s-^j^,rn^jji^j)p^")7 f,f ^j-iQ rnost valuable and interesting finds made by the American Museum Texas expedition of 1901 was that of a nearly complete carapace, or shell, the tail-pieces and part of the internal skele- ton of a Glyptodont. The specimen was found by the writer in the side of a bluff of "Bad Lands" at Mount 24
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