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Annual Report - American Museum of Natural History
Annual Report American Museum of Natural History Author:American Museum of Natural History General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: American Museum of Natural History. Subjects: Natural history Nature / General Nature / Essays Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typ... more »os or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I I I Access1ons. -- The list of accessions published in the later pages of this report is an evidence of the growing interest felt in this Museum by our citizens. The donations were numerous, and represent many valuable additions to the collections and Library. I desire to record our appreciation of the gift made by Mr. Wm. F. Havemeyer of a painting and four studies of some of the important works of Wm. Bradford. These have been hung in the Library, with the large painting of the " English Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin," given to the Museum in 1892 by Mr. Havemeyer and a number of his friends. The celebrated work owned by C. P. Huntington, and painted by the same artist, entitled " The Polaris in the Ice at Thank God Harbor," also hangs in the Library. Mr. James A. Bailey has given an Indian Elephant, two Camels and two Kangaroos, to the Department of Vertebrate Zoology. Our thanks are also due to the Commissioners of Parks for a number of animals which died at the Menagerie and at the Aquarium. Mr. James M. Constable and your President had the pleasure of securing for the same department three excellent specimens of Mountain Sheep, the types of a new species described in the present volume of the Bulletin. drifts of rare and very desirable collections of mammals, birds and reptiles were received from Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army; Mr. Morris M. Green, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Mr. W. R. Horn, of Melbourne, Australia. Mis...« less