The American Museum Journal 



CONTHNTS KOK AIMUL, I'.H 



I-'rontispioc'C, "(hikic Builders", hy W ill S. Tjiyloi- 



From miiiMl panel in I hi' Xortli I'acilir Hall. Ki'iii'iMlucrd In color 



Riu-v Klcphaut Seals for the Museum 10!) 



Dr. Cliarli's H. Townscnd in command of the Alhalros.s l^.xpcdition in ilic 

 Pacific sends rcprcsciitativcs of an almost extinct spcci'.'s 



Illtistrat(>d from i)lioto{;rai)lis which arc the first ever puhlislied of the ele- 

 phant seal of the Pacific 



'I'lir (Irouiid Sloth (Ii-ouj) \V. D. ^^.^TTHK\v 113 



The S|)(M>iil)il] Fishery of the Mississippi Louis HcssAKOi-' 121 



Research and Mxploratioii aiiioiiu' tlu Indians of the Xorthern Plains 



Clahk Wisslkh 12(i 



New Mural Paintinfi;.s K. ( ". H. Fassktt 129 



Mural di'corations in the Xorlh Pacific Hall by Will S. 'I'a\lor 



The Menoniini Game of Lacrosse Alaxsox SKixxKii 139 



A Question of Public Health C-E. A. Winslow 142 



The Museum to show an exliibit of motlels illusiratinj; scientific methods of 

 sewage disi)osal 



A Modern Museum of Celebes Roy C. Axdrews 140 



Museum New s Notes 150 



Lecture Announcements 152 



Maky Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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 Act of Congress. .July l(i. 1S94 



