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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (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 brought it to this country. For more than twenty ye&rs it re- mained packed away out of sight, in the cehar of Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The Museum has acquired the collection through the generosity of H. O. Havemeyer, Wil- liam E. Dodge, D. Willis James, Adrian Iselin, Henry F. Osborn and the late James M. Constable. It includes a very full representation of the Pleistocene fauna of South America, especially of the large Edentates, Glyptodon, Lestodon and Scelidotheriuiu. There are also numerous remains of Toxodou. Altogether there are in the collection six or seven skeletons of these rare animals which are so nearly complete that they may be mounted. The gem of the collection is a skeleton of the Sabre-toothed Tiger, belonging to the genus Smilodon. This superb specimen lacks only the forefeet, which will be sup- plied from casts taken from the skeleton in the Museum of Buenos Aires. It is now being mounted by )\Ir. Hermann for immediate exhibition. The two collections together embrace about 4000 specimens and include a large number of Professor Cope's types.
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THE ESKIMO COLLECTION FROM HUDSON BAY. URING the month of October the Museum received an interesting collection made among the Eskimo tribes of Hudson Bay and adjacent territory by Captain George Comer, who sent a valuable Es- kimo collection to the Museum two years ago. The special interest of the new collection centres in material collected from places that are very difficult of access, and that have not been visited by white men for a very long period. One of the tribes represented is that of Igloolik, a village in the ex- treme northern part of Fox Channel (see map page 7). This place was visited by Parry in 1822. Since that time only a single white man has visited the region. The other collection is from the tribe inhabiting the most northern part of the American continent northwest of Hudson Bay. This tribe was first visited 6

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