The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIII DECEMBER, 1913 Number 8 



CONTENTS 



Frontispiece, Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913 



Half tone by courtesy of Popular Science Monthly 



A Great Naturalist — Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 331 



South African Fossil Reptiles Robert Broom 335 



With portrait of Dr. Broom, the world's chief authority on South African Per- 

 mian reptiles. Article illustrated with photographs of fossil reptiles from Dr. 

 Broom's private collection, showing some ancestors of modern mammals 



The Stefansson Expedition and Other Arctic Explorations 



A. W. Greely 347 



To the Maquiritares' Land Leo E. Miller 351 



Report by the leader of the Museum's lower Orinoco expedition 



Some Kitksan Totem Poles George T. Emmons 362 



An inland Indian race of the extreme northwestern part of British Columbia 

 and their carved heraldic columns not hitherto reported upon 



A Record Sunfish Bashford Dean 370 



Museum Notes 373 



Mart Ctnthia Dickerson, Editor 



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