HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Anthropolog- 

 ical Papers. 



American 



Museum 



Journal. 



Guide 

 Leaflets. 



den, Holland, under a favorable contract. This firm published the 

 "Ethnographical Album" also. 



The "Anthropological Papers" are really a part of the "Bulletin," 

 devoted exclusively to the results of field work and other research 

 conducted by the anthropological staff of the Museum. They are 

 published in octavo volumes of about 350 pages each, issued in parts 

 at irregular intervals. The first issue was in 1907. The present 

 edition is 600. 



The publication of the "American Museum Journal" was begun 

 in April, 1900, at the suggestion of Professor Osborn. The "Journal" is 

 a popular record of the progress of the Museum. It was started to give 

 to the members and the public the Museum news in popular and interest- 

 ing form, and as a medium for the prompt acknowledgment of gifts and 

 for making widely known the needs of the Museum. The "Journal" 

 has an edition of 3,000 and is issued monthly from October to May. 



It has been the policy of the administration of the Museum so to 

 label the Exhibits that visitors would have the information desired 

 without the use of a voluminous general guide. The interest of the 

 public, however, in various collections led Director Bumpus to suggest 

 the publication of Guide Leaflets on these special subjects. These 

 leaflets, now thirty in number, appear irregularly and in editions which 

 vary with the popularity of the subject matter discussed. 



Prof. R. P. Whitfield, Curator of Geology, established the form and 

 character of the "Bulletin" through the first four articles, which were 

 contributed by him and published in 1881 and 1882, but there was no 

 definite editor until Prof. J. A. Allen assumed the editorship with the 

 issue of Vol. I, Part 5, in 1884. Professor Allen became editor of the 

 "Memoirs," likewise, when thej^ were established in 1893. Prof. 

 Franz Boas has been the editor of the special series of memoirs pertain- 

 ing to the Jesup North Pacific exploration since it was begun. Dr. 

 Clark Wissler is the editor of the "Anthropological Papers." Mr. W. 

 K. Gregory was made editor of the "American Museum Journal," when 

 that was established in 1900, but since October, 1901, Dr. Edmund 

 Otis Hovey has been editor of the "Journal" and the Guide Leaflets. 



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