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...collection comprises some ten thousand skins, mostly of Eastern North American specimens, and includes about a hundred type specimens. The skulls of the animals are kept in separate cases, and are numbered to correspond with the respective skins-a method not adopted in the preparation of the original collection, where the skulls are not removed and consequently are not readily studied. Every specimen is accompanied by a label, with full data, including measurements made from the living animal...
...less uniform excellence. The cover drawing is artistic, though with little claim to originality. The centre page and a black-and-white by R. Edwards are both well executed, the former being especially pleasing for its freedom and unconventionality. Of the articles, the cleverest are the specimen lecture and "Life in the Chem...
...Robinson, the curator of the Gray Herbarium, while abroad this summer, spent considerable time examining the types which are preserved in the various European collections. There so called types are the original plants, which such early scientific explorers as Mocino, Lagasca, Alauran, and others, took home with them as specimens of the new world's flora. Since, in botany, classification rests upon a historical basis, any one who first describes a new plant has the right to give that plant a scientific name, which, thereafter, must be accepted by botanists as the only correct one. Further, if he preserves...
...Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...
...exhibit of the Peabody Museum in the Paris Exposition will not contain any specimens, but will show rather the work of the museum. There will be a series of photographs of the rooms and specimen cases, and a series of bromide enlargements showing the explorations in the field. The latter group, which will show the explorations as they are conducted, will cover the excavations of the ruins of Yucatan and Central America and the mounds and burial places in portions of the United States and Central America...