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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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■26 TJIE AMKRICAX MUSEUM JOURXAL l^vsideiit Jesup jjrovided the iiecessarv ))eciiniarv .suj)))()rt for the •exjjeihtion, and Professor ()sl)orii embarked on his nn(lertakin<j with letters from President Roosevelt to Lord Cromer, the head of the Egyp- tian government, intro(hi(in<r him as (Jeologist and Paheontologist of the U. S. (leological Survey, as well as Vice-president and Curator of this Museum, and from eminent English and (iernum scientists who have preceded him in the work of exploring this desert. Professor Oshorn will return about April 1 and will doubtless have a story of experiences very diflFerent from those incident to the exploration of our own western country, to which he has devoted so much time in the last fifteen years, interesting as the latter have been. The jjarty goes by camel train southwestward from Cairo three days' journey into the desert, and the region in which work is to be carried on is at least fifty miles from the nearest source of water. THE MUSEUM "BULLETIN" FOR 1906.
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HE twenty-second volume of the Bulletin' of the Ameri- can Museum was issued during the year lOOG. The articles, which pertain to the scientific work of the museum and are technical in character, are also pub- lished separately and, like the volume itself, may be obtained from the Librarian. The table of contents of the volume is as follows: Page 1 Art. I. The Habits of the Tent-Building Ant (Crrma.sfofja.sfrr Iliiro- /ato Say). By Willlvm Morion Wiikklkk. (Plates I A'l) Art. H. On the Skull of Edajihosnuriis por/onirts Cope. By K. C. r:ASK. (Plate VII) 19 Art. hi. Descriptions of two new (jcuera (Ecliiinitriiii/.s- and Xnio- chelys) and two new Species (Xenochclys jttrmosd and Trrrnpene 7>?////«;»/) of Fossil Turtles. By Olivkr P. II \v. (7 text figures) 27 Art. IV. On the Pounding of Colonics by (^iiccn .\nts, with special reference to tlie Parasitic and Slave-making S;)ccies. i(y W'li.i.iwi Morton- WIIi;i:li:i(. (I'laies VIII XPn) 33 Art. V. The Ortlioptcra of the Bahamas. By .Ia.mks A. (J. Kkiin. (4 text figures) 107 Art. VI. Tlie Myzostoines of the "Albatross" K\;)editi(>n to .la;»an. By .1. F. M(('l,r.\i)o\. (Plates XV XVII) II'.) Aur. \ II. Notes on Suiiic .lurassic Fossils fnini l'"i\iii/. .loscf Land,

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