NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 1U5 



American museum of natural history, Central park, New York. 

 Morris K. Jesiip, president; Hennon C. Bum pus, director; John 

 H. ^Vinsel', secretary and assistant treasurer; Albert S. Bickinore, 

 curator of the department of pnhlic instruction; R. 1*. Whitfield, 

 curator of (jcoloyy and invertebrate paleontoloyy, Edmund O. Hovey, 

 associate; L. P. Gratacap, curator of mineraloyy and in charfje of 

 conchoJoyy; Henry Fairfield Osborn, curator of vertebrate pale- 

 ontology, W. D. Matthew and O. P. Hay, assistants; J. A. Allen, 

 curator of mammalogy and ornithology, Frank M. Chapman, asso- 

 ciate; Frederic W. Putnam, curator of anthropology; Franz Boas, 

 curator of ethnology; Marshall H. Saville, curator of Mexican and 

 Central American archeology, Harlan I. Smith, assistant curator; 

 William Beutenmliller, curator of entomology; A. Woodward, 

 libi'arian. 



Geology and paleontology, invertebrate paleontology, 8000 

 type and figured specimens. Most of these are in the James 

 Hall collection of geologic and paleontologic material based on 

 the New York state natural history publications, illustrative of 

 the paleontology of the New Y^ork system and consisting of a 

 general collection of a large proportion of the invertebrate 

 forms illustrated in those volumes; and also specimens of the 

 fish remains of the same geologic formations both in New Y'ork 

 and from the other states and Canada, where the same geologic 

 formations are known. 



The Holmes collection of fossils, illustrated in Tuomey and 

 Holmes's Pliocene and post-Pliocene fossils of South Carolina ; the 

 type series of the minute fossils of the Spergen hill beds, Ind., 

 which are fissured and redescribed in volume 1 of the museum 

 bulletin, and again in the 12th annual report of the Indiana 

 geological survey; most of the specimens illustrated in the 

 state cabinet reports; all the types of fossils illustrated in the 

 bulletin of the museum, consisting of many rare and unique 

 forms, including fossils from Lake Champlain and the surround- 

 ing regions; a very extensive collection of Cretaceous fossils 

 from Jamaica W. L, containing many rare and peculiar forms 

 of Rudistae, etc.; a very large and nearly complete collection of 



