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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (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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REPRODUCTIONS IN DUOTONE OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY MEMBERS OF THE COLLINS-DAY SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITION, GIVING GLIMPSES OF TRAVEL AND LIFE IN THE HIGH ANDES Tliis expedition, sent out under the auspices of the Americnn Museum of Natural History, was financed by Messrs. Alfred M. Collins and Lee Garnett Day, who generously donated to the Museum on their return zoological collections brought together in crossing the South American continent from MoUendo on the west coast to Pard on the east. The expedition brought back also fifteen hun- dred photographs and ten thousand feet of motion-picture fihii
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FORDING A RIVER IN THE ANDES The expedition, when 3000 feet and more above sea level in the Andes, was often obliged to cross streams fifteen or twenty times a day—wide or narrow, shallow or deep with swift current, all flow- ing on their course down from the higher watersheds to make up the river Chapare. A trip that in the dry season might have been made in five days required twenty-four in the rainy season, but had the advantage of allow- ing large collections of Vjirds and mammals to be brought together in a little-known country

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