The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIV JANUARY, 1914 Number 1 



CONTENTS 



Cover, Photograph showing Group of Virginia Deer 



The work of Carl E. Akeley in the Field Museum, Chicago 



Frontispiece, Photograph of the American Robin Group 2 



The first l)ird group in the American INIiiseum 



The Story of Museum Groups, Part I Frederic A. Lucas 3 



A history of the popular development of museums, a development which has changed these 

 institutions from ' ' the dreary exhibits of forty years ago " adapted only for the use of techni- 

 cally trained scientists to ' ' the present realistic pictures of animal life ' ' fitted for the pleasur- 

 able instruction of all classes of people 



Illustrations from photographs of groups at present exliibited in the British Museum, Lon- 

 don; Booth Museum, Brighton, England; United States National Museum, Washington; 

 Field Museum, Chicago; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, and the American Musaum, New 

 York 



A Chapter of Ancient American History Herbert J. Spinden 17 



A brief review of the wonders of the ruined city Cliichen Itza of Yucatan, ' 'founded when the 

 Huns under Attila were battling \vith the failing armies of Rome," and ten centuries later 

 sinking "into oblivion, while the English and French fought out the Himdred Years' War" 

 Illustrations from photographs taken at the site of the ruins by the Author 



Fish Exhibits in the American Museum Bashford Dean 33 



Some Fish of the Middle West Dwight FRANKLi>f 37 



The BHnd in the American Museum Agnes Laidlaw Vaughan 39 



Museum Notes 43 



Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



Published monthly from October to May by the American Museum of Natural History, Terms: 

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