The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIV MARCH, 1914 Number 3 



CONTENTS 



Cover, " The Sabre-tooth Tiger " 



From a canvas in the possession of the Museum, by Charles R. Knight 



Charles R. Knight — Painter and Sculptor of Animals 83 



With an introduction on the union of art and science in the American Museum 

 Color plate of Bermuda fishes reproduced through the courtesy of the Century Company; 

 many plates in black and white to show the artist's work with modern animals; six repro- 

 ductions from canvases owned by the Museum of restorations of extinct animals to indicate 

 the progression of life through the Age of Reptiles and the Age of Mammals 



Collecting in Cuba Frank E. Lutz 99 



Field work in Cuba for comparison with the environments and insect faunas of Florida 



Maya Art and its Development George Grant MacCurdy 107 



Discussion of the prehistoric art of Yucatan with a review of Herbert J. Spinden's memoir 

 on Maya Art 



The Wild Ass of Somaliland. Carl E. Akeley 113 



Museum Notes 118 



Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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

 one dollar and a half per year, twenty cents per copy. Entered as .second-class matter January 12, 

 1907, at the Post-OfQce at Boston, Mass., Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. 



Subscriptions should be addressed to the American Museum Journal, 77th St. and 

 Central Park West, New York City. 



The Journal iar sent free to all members of the Museum. 



