The American Museum Journal 



Vol. XIII MAY, 1913 No. 5 



CONTENTS 



Cover, Scene at Pelican Island Reservation, Florida 



Photograph by Prank M. Chapman 



Frontispiece, Portrait of Professor Albert S. Bickmore 202 



Bronze bust by William Couper 



Our National Bird Reservations T. S. Palmer 203 



With maps reproduced through the courtesy of the Biological Survey, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and photographs of habitat bird groups in 

 the American Museum 



Shell Cameos L. P. Gratacap 215 



With illustrations from the Morgan gem collection 



Some Cuban Fossils Barnum Brown 221 



Animals that lived before the advent of man identified from bones discovered in 

 a hot spring. Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



An Insect-borne Disease — Infant Paralysis C-E. A. Winslow 229 



Storage of Mammal Skins in the American Museum 



Roy C. Andrews 235 



Museum Notes 23S 



Mart Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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

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