The American Museum Journal 



CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1912 



Cover, Winter Houses of the Coronation Gulf Eskimo 



Frontispiece, Portrait of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ethnologist and 



Explorer 194 



The Eskimo and Civilization Vilhjalmur Stefanssox 195 



The explorer's statement of the present status of the newly-discovered Corona- 

 tion Gulf Eskimo and a discussion of the disastrous effects their civilization will 



inevitably carry in train. Illustrated with photographs by the author and a 



mapj^drawn under his supervision 



Stef ansson's Discoveries — A Tentative Summary of Results 



Clark Wissler 205 



Authoritative judgment of the importance of the Stefansson discoveries, espe- 

 cially in supplying knowledge for a transitional belt of Eskimo culture between 

 Alaska and Hudson Bay 



An Expedition in Korea Roy C. Andrews 207 



Rediscovery of the California gray whale. With photographs by the author 



Field Work in Colombia Frank M. Chapman 215 



Collections of birds with many new species. Material for a group of the cock-of- 

 the-rock 



Cave Material from a Mexican Mine Edmund Otis Hovey 218 



New Dinosaurs for the x'Vmerican Museum W. D. Matthew 219 



A People's Museum of Europe Walter Granger 219 



Museum Notes 221 



Marv Cvnthia Du-kerson, Editor 

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