The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIII APRIL, 1913 Number 4 



CONTENTS 



Cover, Design from Objects in the Morgan Gem Collection 



[See note page 200] Drawn by Mr. S. Shimotori 



Frontispiece, J. Pierpont Morgan, Recent Photograph 



J. Pierpont Morgan — A Founder and Benefactor of the Museum 



Joseph H. Choate 155 



The Gifts of Mr. Morgan to the American Museum 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 157 



With an expression of gratitude and indebtedness by the Board of Trustees 



The Morgan Collection of Precious Stones 



George Frederick Kunz 159 



History of the assembling of the Morgan gem collection and some description of its 

 contents 



A Treasure House of Gems L. P. Gratacap 169 



An appreciation of the beauty of the Morgan collection 



The Work of Carl E. Akeley 173 



Illustrations from models of elephant groups and single figures to be cast in bronze 

 Brief suggestions as to the plans for the new African hall 



Personnel of the Crocker Land Expedition Edmund Otis Hovey 179 



Mr. Donald B. MacMillan, leader; Mr. W. Elmer Ekblaw in charge of geological 

 and botanical work; Ensign Fitzhugh Green, U. S. N., meteorology, map-making, 

 earthquake records, wireless telegraphy. Mr. Maurice C. Tanquary, zoologist 



Bird Studies in the Andes 183 



With portrait of Mr. Frank M. Chapman and quotations from his letters 



The Albatrosses of Laysan Homer R. Dill 185 



Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



Opening of the Hall of Public Health 193 



Report by the department with descriptions of the enlarged model of the house 

 fly constructed during the past year by Mr. Ignaz Matausch 



Quotations from addresses by Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn and Dr. C-E. A. 

 Winslow, given on the evening of the opening at a public meeting in the interest 

 of the campaign for civic cleanliness instituted by the New York City Department 

 of Health 



Museum Notes 198 



Mart Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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