The American Museum Journal 



CONTENTS FOR OCTOBKK. I oil 



Frontispiece, The Hullt'roij,- (Iroup 



A Note Ivegai'diiig Iliiiuaii Interest in Museum Ivxiiihits 



Fkkdkkic a. LfCAs 1S7 



A Gift of Peculiar \'alue Gkokgk II. Siikhwood 1S<J 



Tlu> personal lil)rary and a collortion of aioiv than 2(),(){)() lantern slides 

 presented by Professor Albert S. Bickmoro 



News of the Conjjo Expedition 191 



The Makine- of Pottery at San TIdefonso. . .Hi-:KBP:irr .1. Si'IXDKX 11)2 

 The Anii)liil)ians of the Great Coal Swamps W. I). Matthew 197 



Animal life many million years ago in whieh lay the possibilities of develop- 

 ment into the intelligent life of to-day 



"Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and ^Mammals," a 



book by Theodore Roosevelt 200 



Exhibition of Reptiles and Amphibians Bashfohd Dkax 201 



Some Methods and Results in Herpetology 



Mary Cynthia Dkkerson 203 



Museum News Notes 213 



Mary Cynthia Dickeuson. Editor 



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