TUB American lHuseum Journal 



FOR 1913 



FREE TO MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM 



AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO A POPULARIZATION 

 OF SCIENCE WITH STRONG EMPHASIS 

 ON ITS HUMAN INTEREST 



THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL takes the reader out into every part 

 of the world with great explorers, — with Stefansson who discovered the Es- 

 kimo of Coronation Gulf, with Akeley who hunted elephants on the slopes of Mount 

 Kenia, with Andrews who pursued whales in the Japan Sea. During 1913 it will 

 follow Stefansson again who is going back to the Arctic ice fields; Macmillan who 

 leads a party in search of the dimly seen Crocker Land; Lang and Chapin who have 

 not yet returned from the Congo expedition in the heart of Africa; Chapman who is 

 now on his way to South America for tropical birds; an expedition which leaves soon 

 for Alaska to hunt the bowhead whale; another which is already in the South Georgia 

 Islands for sea leopards and king penguins; and still others not yet organized. 



The American Museum Journal contains articles by the men who are doing this 

 work, who above all others can speak of it authoritatively, as well as by writers such as 

 Robert E. Peary, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Theodore Roosevelt, George B. Sudworth 

 and others as distinguished, scheduled to appear in the list of contributors for 1913. 



It presents articles of current interest on subjects such as comparison of Arctic 

 and Antarctic exploration, Chinese culture in the light of recent history, cultures and 

 psychology of the negro races of Africa, conditions at the Pribilof fur-seal rookeries, 

 reproduction of the bigtrees of California, the conservation of our forests and of 

 the world's animal life, the problem of polluted river and harbor waters. 



At home in the American Museum, it takes the reader behind the scenes so that 

 he may see sculptors and preparators modeling some jungle beast, creating a pano- 

 rama of wilderness life or mounting the fossil bones of a prehistoric animal. Most 

 important of all it tells of the educational campaign in progress at the Museum and 

 the cooperation which exists between its work and that of the public schools of New 

 York City. In brief the American Museum Journal is a medium for the dissemi- 

 nation of the idea to which the Museum itself is dedicated — namely, that without 

 deepening appreciation of nature, no people can attain to the higher grades of 

 knowledge and worth. 



THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL is sent free to all members of the 

 Museum, who are entitled to many privileges besides, which it is not practicable to 

 extend to others. Among these privileges are the attendance of guide or instructor 

 at the Museum whenever desired, tickets admitting to all the institution's courses 

 of lectures, the use of the members' room with service, and complimentary copies on 

 request of the many popular publications of the Museum. 



The more than three thousand members in 1912 include statesmen, leaders in 

 science and art, and men and women of achievement and influence in many walks of 

 life. All are banded together to help in the American Museum's campaign in 

 science education. 



