The American Museum Journal 



CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1912 



Cover, Entrance to ("avern of Mas d'Azil, photographerl by George 



Grant MacCurdy 

 Portraits 274 



Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson, Zoologist of the Stefansson- Anderson Expedition 

 Captain Roald Amundsen, Discoverer of the South Pole 



Mr. Donald B. MacMillan, Leader of the Reorganized Crocker Land Expedi- 

 tion 



Professor Hugo de Vries, Champion of the Mutation Theory in Evolution 

 Dr. Alexis Carrel, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1912 



Frontispiece, Cave Paintings from Altamira 



Reproduced in color from a mural series in the American Museum ' 



Men of the Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn 279 



The Art of the Cave Man Clark Wissler 289 



The Seismograph at the American Museum . . Edmund Otis Hovey 297 



Ancestry of the Edentates W. D. Matthew 301 



Flamingos of Lake Hannington, Africa Carl E. Akeley 305 



The Reorganized Crocker Land Expedition 309 



Note on the Giant Salamander Group. .Mary Cynthia Dickerson 311 



Cooperation with the New York Entomological Society 



Charles E. Leng 314 

 Museum Notes 317 



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