American Museum Journal, Volume 8, Issue 7American Museum of Natural History., 1908 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ALASKA American Museum Journal Applications to chemistry archæological Arctic Ocean Assistant Curator ATHABASCA LANDING August BASHFORD DEAN Big Horn birds Black Hills boat Bradley Brower Central Park West CHAPMAN CHARLES LANIER coast Columbia University Colville CUTHBERT ROOKERY December DEPARTMENT Doors open EDMUND OTIS HOVEY Eskimos exhibition experiments and stereopticon Flaxman Island Florida Fort Smith GEORGE H GIVEN in coöperation HAMPDEN ROBB HARLAN HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN Herschel Island hope of ships horse ice conditions Icy Cape Illustrated by stereopticon Indians inhabited INVERTEBRATE JOCHELSON July Karluk Leffingwell LL.D Louisiana Herons Mackenzie River Macpherson matches and tobacco membership fees miles west Monday natives North November o'clock Oil Creek OSBORN Class PEOPLE'S COURSE petroglyphs Ph.D placoderms Point Barrow prehistoric quarries Prof R. M. ANDERSON RECONNAISSANCE OF WYOMING region Roseate Spoonbill securing Slave Lake SMITH Snowy Egrets Stefánsson STEFÁNSSON-ANDERSON stereopticon views Subscription supplies trip Wednesday westward whaleboat whaling ships
Popular passages
Page 96 - American Museum of Natural History, Seventy-seventh Street and Central Park West, New York City...
Page 99 - ... made to accomplish wonders in bird preservation. CUTHBERT ROOKERY Cuthbert Rookery is probably the last rookery in Florida at all comparable with those great gatherings of nesting birds formerly common throughout the state. Rookeries of Ibises, or Cormorants, of Little Blue and Louisiana Herons and other nonplume-bearing birds may still be found by those who know where to look for them. But at Cuthbert alone, so far as I am aware, will one find all the birds mentioned, together with Spoonbills,...
Page 99 - Cuthbert also makes it a refuge for birds which have been "broke up" in less remote places, and it is not improbable that the last Snowy Egret and Roseate Spoonbill of Florida will be shot here.