THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



reptiles and mammals ; an expedition to the Selkirks for birds ; 

 one to South Dakota and Wyoming for fossil invertebrates, and 

 one to the Black Mountains of North Carolina for insects. 



Among the notable acquisitions received during the year there 

 may be mentioned a unique and valuable collection of gold 

 coins to the number of eight hundred from the Philadelphia 

 mint, presented by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan ; the Briggs collection 

 of Indian basketry, presented by Mr. George Foster Peabody; 

 a series of xVinu objects made by Prof. Bashford Dean, and pre- 

 sented by Mr. Arthur Curtiss James ; a large collection of shells 

 donated by Mr. Frederick A. Constable; large additions to the 

 Hoffman collection of Butterflies by the Very Rev. Eugene A. 

 Hoffman ; the Sennett collection of eight thousand birds ; the 

 Dorenburg collection of Mexican antiquities, and a large col- 

 lection of Indian objects. 



The scientific staff' of the Museum has been active along 

 the line of publication, having issued during the year six parts 

 of the quarto Memoirs, Part IV (conclusion) of V^olume XI, 

 Volume XIV and Part I of Volume XV of the Bulletin and 

 eight numbers of the American Museum Journal. Four of the 

 Memoirs emanated from the Anthropological Department, one 

 from the Entomological Department and one from the Depart 

 ment of Vertebrate Palaeontology. 



Mr. Morris K. Jesup was elected President for the twenty- 

 second term ; Mr. Wm. E. Dodge and Professor Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn were re-elected First and Second Vice-Presidents, re- 

 spectively; Mr. Charles Lanier was re-elected Treasurer, and 

 Professor Hermon C. Bumpus was made Director. 



A FOSSIL ARMADILLO FROM TEXAS. 



■. ^■'.-/, r)s-^j^,rn^ jji^j]p^"]7 f,f ^j-iQ rnost valuable and interesting finds made 

 by the American Museum Texas expedition of 

 1 90 1 was that of a nearly complete carapace, or 

 shell, the tail-pieces and part of the internal skele- 

 ton of a Glyptodont. The specimen was found 



by the writer in the side of a bluff of "Bad Lands" at Mount 



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