The American Museum Journal 



CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1912 



Frontispiece, Dr. Joel Asaph Allen 



Quotations from an Explorer's Letters 3 



News from the Arctic expedition with a detailed account of Ihe discovery of an 

 Eskimo tribe which liad never seen a white man and of a Scandinavian-like 

 people in Victoria Land 



A New Restoration of a Titanothere William K. Gregory 15 



Dr. Joel Asaph Allen: An Appreciation 18 



Shell and Pearl Fishing on the Mississippi W. P. Hkrrick 19 



Methods of obtaining the pearl clams; market value of shells and pearls 



Exhibition of the New York Aquarium Society. Bashford Dkax 21 



The Sun Dance ^Medicine Bundle (lark Wisslkh 24 



The Museum's Collection of Life Casts 26 



With photographs illustrating the method of niakiuj; ixUw molds for duplicate 

 casts 



A Note on Poisonous Snakes Mary Cynthia Dickerson 30 



The Anson W. Hard Collection of Saltillo and Chiinayo Blankets. . . 33 



Museum Notes 35 



Mary Cynthia Dickekson, Editor 

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