The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIV OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1914 Numbers 6 and 7 



CONTENTS 



Cover, Scene of Fire Destruction in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho 



Frontispiece, Portrait of the late Morris K. Jesup, President of the American 



Museum from 1881 to 1908 218 



The Museum and the American People Henry Fairfield Osborn 219 



Research fund increased by the Morris K. Jesup endowment of five million dollars. Build- 

 ing and maintenance still in the hands of the American people 



Series of Twelve Photographs Suggestive of the Progressive Policy of our Na- 

 tional and State Governments in Regard to Forest Conservation 



Reproduced through the courtesy of the American Forestry Association and the New York 

 State Forestry Association 



Forestry in the State of New York Mary Cynthia Dickerson 221 



With an introductory note regarding the interest of the Museum in forest conservation, 

 through its former president, the late Morris K. Jesup 



Palaeolithic Art as Represented in the Collections of the American Museum 



George Grant MacCurdy 225 



New Faunal Conditions in the Canal Zone H. E. Anthony 239 



With flash-light photographs by Mr. George Shiras, 3d, and many photographs by the Author 



The Copper Queen Mine Model Edmund Otis Ho vey 249 



Along Peace River Pliny E. Goddard 253 



"My Life with the Eskimo" Herbert L. Bridgman 261 



Review of a recent book by Stefansson 



Shell Collection in the x\nierican Museum L. P. Gratacap 267 



The shell collection in its new hall in the west wing of the third floor is now open to the public 

 after having been closed for study and arrangement during a period of three years 



Museum Notes 269 



Mary Cynthia Dickehson, Editor 



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