The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIV FEBRUARY, 1914 Number 2 



CONTENTS 



■Cover, "Tiger and Cobra" 



Half tone showing portion of canvas by Cliarles R. Knight 



Prontispiece, Fishes of a Coral Reef 



Photograph of a group in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 



The^tory of Museum Groups, Part II Frederic A. Lucas 51 



A continuation of the history of miiseum exhibition, with illustrations from photographs 

 of some of the most famous groups of recent construction 



Hunt in a Big Game Reservation Walter Winans 67 



In Pilowin Forest, Estate of Count Josef Potocki, Volhynia, Russia. With photograph 

 of the largest bull aurochs ever recorded 



Importation of Birds W. DeW. Miller 69 



Authoritative account of the annual importation into the United States of 800,000 living 

 birds for use in zoological parks and private aviaries and for sale by bird-dealers 



The Algonkin and the Thunderbird Alanson Skinner 71 



JSTew Storage Rooms Pliny E. Goddard 73 



How the museum has planned to preserve its valuable historical collections for the use 

 of future generations 



Teaching in the American Museum Agnes Laidlaw Vaughan 76 



Museum Notes 77 



Mart Ctnthia Dickebson, Editor 



Published monthly from October to May by the American Museum of Natural History. Terma: 

 one doUar per year, fifteen cents per copy. Entered as second-class matter January 12, 1907, at the 

 Post-OflBce at Boston, Mass., Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. 



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