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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 NEWS NOTES. R. GEORGE HUNT of Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island, who has been collecting for the Museum for six years, is at present staying in New York, and is engaged in the arrangement of the collec- tion which he has made. The material collected by him represents the culture of the Kwakiutl Indians, and some of the results of his work for the Museum have recently been published in the Memoirs of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. A number of models illustrating the methods of fishing and hunting of the Kwakiutl Indians are at present being made by Mr. Hunt, assisted by Mr. Orchard. When this work is com- pleted, a full collection of all the fish-traps used by these Indians will 1)6 in the possession of the Museum. Mr. Hunt is also re- vising the material of the collection with a view to filling in all the remaining gaps. Dr. E. O. Hovey, Associate Curator of Geology, who has re- turned to the Lesser Antilles to continue his studies of volcanic activity in those islands, writes from St. Vincent, under date of March 5, as follows : " Tuesday, March 5, we ascended La Sou- fri^re in favorable weather and had the good fortune to witness three fine outbursts while we were on the rim of the crater." Of Mt. Pelee, in Martinique, which he had climbed only a short time previous, he writes: "The new cone is a remarkable af- fair with a tremendous ' tooth ' projecting 500 feet above the main body of the cone. . . . There have been several changes in the mountain since last July, the most striking of which are the building of this cone and the almost complete filling of the Riviere Blanche with debris from eruptions." The group of Little Black Rail recently placed on exhibition in the Monkey Hall is the only known one of its kind. Adult birds of this species are both rare and, owing to their secretive habits, difficult of capture, while the young appear not to have been observed before those contained in this group were col- lected. They were brought to Mr. H. H. Brimley of Raleigh, 37

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