The American Museum Journal 



Vol. II. 



NOVEMBER, 1902 



No. 8. 



ITH this number of the Journal there is issued a 

 Supplement entitled "The Sequoia: A Historical 

 Review of Biological Science," which relates to 

 the history of the Big Tree section which is on 

 exhibition in the southeast corner hall, just be- 

 yond the Wood Hall, and cites the most striking events in the 

 development of the natural sciences, almost all of which have 

 come within the life-period of this tree. The noble specimen of 

 Sequoia which forms the subject of this paper was presented to 

 the Museum in 1893 by the late Collis P. Huntington, and the 

 institution is indebted to Mrs. Collis P. Huntington for the funds 

 needed for its preparation and installation. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS 

 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



HE collections of the Entomological Department of 

 the IMuseum have been greatly enriched during the 

 past season by about five weeks' work in the Black 

 Mountains of North Carolina which the writer was 

 enabled to do through the generosity of the late 

 Very Reverend Eugene A. Hoffman. One object of the expe- 

 dition, which was in the field from June 9 to July 15, was to 

 explore the region of the main chain situated north of Mount 

 Mitchell, and including the following peaks: Black Brothers, 

 Balsam Cone, Cat -tail Peak, Hairy Bear, Deer Mountain, Long 

 Ridge, Middle Point and Bowlen's Pyramid. The prevailing 

 heavy fogs, rain and hail storms, however, rendered it impossible 

 to penetrate these wild regions any farther than to the other 

 side of the summit of the Black Brothers, shown on the accom- 

 panying plate. Another object of the trip was the obtaining of 



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