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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 Vol. II. JANUARY, 1902 No. i. ;HE present number of the Journal, commencing Volume II, inaugurates certain changes in typog- raphy and page which it is hoped will prove ac- ceptable to our readers and to those who make use of the supplements. The plan which was adopted with the number for October last of issuing a supplemen- tary guide leaflet to an exhibit or group of exhibits in the Museum has met with so much favor that it will be continued for the present. The supplement issued with the current number is a general description of the material on exhibition in and of the arrangement of the hall of Vertebrate Palaeontology. It is pro- posed to prepare several similar illustrated leaflets describing at some length and in a popular manner difi'erent portions of the exhibit in this hall which may be considered as units. The authorities of the Museum are issuing the Journal as a means of bringing the institution into close touch with the public and the schools, and it is to be hoped that the friends of the Museum will assist in making the circulation of the publication as large as possible. The Journal proper will continue to give to the public items of news regarding the work of the various depart- ments, notable new accessions, programs of lectures and popular short articles on specimens in the Museum. The price of sub- scription to those not members of the institution has been placed at the low price of one dollar per year, which barely covers the actual cost of paper, illustrations, printing and postage. The Department of Geology has just completed a large under- taking, namely, the publication of a tabulated catalogue of all the type and figured specimens contained in its extensive collec- tion of fossils. The term "type", as employed in this Depart- ment of the Museum, embraces not only the specimens actually

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