The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIV APRIL, 1914 Number 4 



CONTENTS 



Cover, African Lion Group 



Photograph of the model by A. Phimister Proctor for a lion group to be installed in 

 the new African Hall planned by Carl E. Akeley 



Frontispiece, Portrait 



Professor Albert S. Bickmore, Trustee of the American Museum 



The American Beaver Frederic A. Lucas 123 



A description of the new beaver group in the American Museum and a discussion on 

 beavers in general 



With illustrations from photographs of the finished group and of the site in Colorado 

 where preliminary studies for the group were made, as also illustrations of the beaver 

 historically considered 



The Broom Fossil Reptile Collection Henry Fairfield Osborn 137 



Further Observations on South African Fossil Reptiles Robert Broom 139 



Resolutions to Professor Albert S. Bickmore on the Occasion of his Seventy- 

 fifth Birthday 144 



A Letter from Theottore Roose^'elt, Patron of the Museum's South American 

 Field Work 145 



Bandelier — Pioneer Student of Ancient American Races. . . .Clark Wissler 147 



What One Village is Doing for the Birds Ernest Harold Baynes 149 



With many illustrations from photographs taken at Meriden, New Hampshire, by 

 Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes 



The Charles S. Mason Collection Alanson Skinner 157 



Description and illustration of an archaeological collection from Tennessee presented 

 to the Museum by Mr. J. P. Morgan 



Plea for Haste in Making Documentary Records of the American Indian 



Edward S. Curtis 163 



Museum Notes 166 



Mart Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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