Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (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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MUSEUM NOTES ii The second expedition, in Montana, obtained considerable material from the Judith River beds, including the greater part of a Trachodon skeleton. From the Fort Benton formation on the Crow Indian Reservation, several new forms of crocodiles were obtained. The third expedition, in New Mexico, explored a hitherto unnoted deposit of Laramie Cretaceous, finding a large Diclonius skull and jaws. The most notable find, however, was made in the fourth expedition in the Pleistocene Crevasse of Northern Arkansas from which were secured several thousand skulls, jaws and limb bones representing about fifty species, many of which are living, while not a few are extinct forms. The collection is now being worked up and will prove of great interest in showing the range and distribution of many forms. MUSEUM NOTES.
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"HERE is an increasing demand from teachers for the circulating collections which the Museum loans to public schools. More than a hundred of the schools of the city are using them at the present time. They have been studied by more than 30,000 children since the schools opened in September. The sets of birds and insects are most popular. This plan of supplying small nature study collections to the elementary schools has attracted considerable attention outside the city. Professor A. C. Haddon of the Horniman Museum, London, who, during a recent visit to the Museum, showed great interest in our work and made a careful study of our methods of supplying this material, has written for circulars, labels and other literature re- lating to this work, in order that he may present the project to the London County Council and persuade it to provide similar collections for the public schools of London. The International Congress of Arts and Sciences, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in September, 1904, brought to this country an unusual number of eminent scientific men, many of whom stopped at the Museum on their way to or from St. Louis.

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