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. 



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 



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