The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIII JANUARY, 1913 Number 1 



CONTENTS 



Cover, Return from a Hunting Trip, Photograph by Rudolph M. 

 Anderson 



Taken on the " Barrens " near Langton Bay, Arctic America 



Frontispiece, Memorial Portrait of Morris Ketchum Jesup 



Bronze bas-relief by the sculptor James E. Fraser 



Comment by J. Eastman Chase on the Jesup Bas-relief 3 



Arctic Game Notes Rudolph M. Anderson 5 



Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



A story of the distribution and probable future history of caribou and moose, 



mountain sheep, polar bear and grizzly 



The Mystic Crystal Sphere L. P. Gratacap 23 



Cultural Proof of Man's Antiquity George Grant MacCurdy 27 



With photographs by the Author 



Palaeolithic evidence in examples of primitive man's handiwork in Europe 



Picture Writing of the Aztecs Herbert J. Spinden 31 



Shall the Walrus Become Extinct? Joel Asaph Allen 39 



Fish from Deep Water off New York John T. Nichols 43 



Museum Notes 45 



Mart Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



Published monthly from October to May by the American Museum of Natural History. 

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