to GENERAL GUIDE ™e EXHIBITION HALLS BY FREDERIC A. LUCAS Revised by Members of the Staff NINETEENTH EDITION THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, N. Y. 1934 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Board of Trustees Honorary President Henry Fairfield Osborn President F. Trtjbee Davison First Vice-President Second Vice- President J. P. Morgan Cleveland E. I> Treasurer Secretary E. Roland Harriman Clarence L. Hay Ei-officio The Mayor of the City of New York The Comptroller of the City of New York The Commissioner of Parks of the City of New York Elective George F. Baker A. Perry Osbokn George T. Bowdoin Frederick H. Osbohs Douglas Burden Henry Fairfield Osborn Suydam Cutting E. Roland Harriman F. Trubee Davison Daniel E. Pomeroy Cleveland Earl Dodge George D. Pratt Lincoln Ellsworth H. Rivington Pyne Childs Frick A. Hamilton Rice Madison Grant John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. Chauncey J. Hamlin Kermit Roosevelt Clarence L. Hay Henry W. Sage Archer M. Huntington Leonard C. Sanford Ogden L. Mills William K. Vanderbilt J. P. Morgan Frederick M. Warburg Junius S. Morgan Cornelius V. Whitney Administrative Officers Executive Secretary and Director George H. Sherwood Vice-Director Roy Chapman Andrews Vice-Director (Preparation and Exhibition) James L. Clark Assistant Executive Secretary and Assistant Director (General Administration) Wayne M. Faunce Assistant Treasurer United States Trdst Company of New York Bursar Assistant Bursar Frederick H. Smyth Francis Bushell Registrar Assistant Registrar George N. Pindar Ethel L. Newman Superintendent of Buildings Chief of Construction J. B. Foulke H. F. Beers Chief Engineer Henry J. Langham Assistant to the President Hans Christian Adamson THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENTIFIC STAFF FOR 1934 1. Officers of Administration Frederick Trubee Davison, LL.D., President George H. Sherwood, Ed.D., Director Roy Chapman Andrews, Sc.D., Vice-Director James L. Clark, D.Sc, Vice-Director (Preparation and Exhibition) Wayne M, Faunce, Sc.B., Assistant Executive Secretary and Assistant Director (General Administration) Frederick H. Smyth, Bursar George N. Pindar, Registrar 2. Scientific Staff Amphibians and Reptiles .4 nth ropology (continued) Astronomy G. Kingsley Noble, Ph.D., Curator Margaret Mead, Ph.D., Assistant Clifford H. Pope, B.S., Assistant Curator of Ethnology Clyde Fisher, Ph.D., LL.D., Curator Curator W. C. Bennett, Ph.D., Assistant Cu- High S. Rice, B.S., Associate in As- Harvey Bassler, Ph.D. Research rator in Anthropology tronomy Associate Clarence L. Hay, A.M., Research Minerals and Gems Associate in Mexican and Central Experimental Biology American Areha'ology Herbert P. Whitlock, C.E., Curator Milo Hellman, D.D.S., Research G. Kingsley Noble, Ph.D., Curator Fossil Vertebrates Associate in Physical Anthropology H. J. Clausen, Ph.D., Assistant Cu- George E. Brewer, M.D., LL.D., Re- rator Henry Fairfield Osborn, D.Sc, search Associate in Somatic Anthro- LL.D., Honorary Curator-in-Chief Bertram G. Smith, Ph.D., Research pology Childs Frick, B.S., Honorary Curator Associate Ronald L. Olson, Ph.D., Research Research of Late Tertiary and Quaternary Douglas Burden, M.A., Associate in Peruvian Archaeology Mammals Associate William W. Howells, M.A., Associate Walter Granger, D.Sc, Curator of Frank S. Mathews, M.D., Research in Physical Anthropology Fossil Mammals Associate Barnum Brown, Sc.D., Curator of Homer W. Smith, Sc.D., Research Fossil Reptiles Associate Asiatic Exploration and Research G. G. Simpson, Ph.D., Associate Cura- O. M. Helff, Ph.D., Research Asso- tor of Vertebrate Palaeontology ciate Roy' Chapman Andrews, Sc.D., Cu- Charles C. Mook, Ph.D., Associate Charles E. Hadley, Ph.D., Re- rator-in-Chief Curator of Geology and Pala>ontology search Associate Walter Granger, D.Sc, Curator of Edwin H. Colbert, A.M., Assistant S. W. Handforb, A.B., Research Pala-ontology Curator Associate Charles P. Berkey, Ph.D., Sc.D. Rachel A. Husband, A.M., Staff [Columbia University], Research As- Assistant Birds sociate in Geology Walter W. Holmes, Field Associate 1'hank M. Chapman, Sc.D., Curator- Amadeus W. Grabau, S.D. [National in PUeontology in-Chief Geological Survey of China], Research Robert Cishman Murphy, D.Sc, Associate Geology and Fossil Invertebrates Curator of Oceanic Birds Pere Teii.hard de Chardin jNationa Chester A. Reeds, Ph.D., Curator James P. Ohapin, Ph.D., Associate Geological Survey of China], Re- search Associate in Mammalian Living Invertebrates Curator of Birds of the Eastern Hemisphere Palaeontology Roy Waldo Miner, Ph.D., Sc.D., John T. Zimmeh, M.A., Associate Curator Curator of Birds of the Western Willard G. Van Name, Ph.D., Hemisphere Preparation and Exhibition Associate Curator Ernst Ph.D., Associate Curator Mayr, James L. Clark, D.Sc, Vice-Director Frank J. Myers, Research Associate of Birds (In Charge) in Rotifera Associate in Orni- Albert R. Brand, Albert E. Butler, Associate Chief Horace W. Stunkard, Ph.D., Re- thology Francis L. Jaques, Staff Associate search Associate in Parasitology Elsie M. B. Naumburg, Research A. L. Treadwell, Ph.D., Research Associate Associate in Annulata 3. Education, Library and Insect Life Mammals of the World Publication Staff Frank E. Lutz, Ph.D., Curator H. E. Anthony, D.Sc, Curator George H. Sherwood, Ed.D , Cura- A. J. Mutchler, Associate Curator of Robert T. Hatt, Ph.D., Assistant tor-in-Chief Coleoptera Curator Grace Fisher Ramsey, Associate C. H.Curran, D.Sc, Assistant Curator George G. Goodwin, Assistant Curator Curator Willis J. Gertsch, M.A., Assistant G. H. H. Tate, M.A., Assistant Curator William H. Carh, Assistant Curator Curator of South American Mammals Dorothy A. Bennett, A.B., Assistant Frank E. Watson, B.S., Staff Assistant T. Donald Carter, Assistant Curator Curator in Lepidoptera of Old World Mammals Herman A. Sievers, Staff Assistant William M. Wheeler, Ph.D., LL.D., Richard Archboi.d, Research Associate John Saunders, Staff Assistant Research Associate in Social Insects William J. Morden, Ph.B., Field Farida A. Wiley, Staff Assistant Charles W. Leng, B.S., Research Associate Agnes G. Kelly, A.M., Staff Assistant Associate in Coleoptera Arthur S. Vernay, Field Associate L. Wales Holden, Staff Assistant Herbert F. Schwarz, M.A., Research William Lord Smith, M.D., Staff Associate in Hymenoptera Comparative and Human Assistant E. L. Bell, Research Associate in Paul P.. Mann, AM., Associate in Lepidoptera A natom y Education William Frank E. Lutz, Ph.D., Research As- Living and Extinct Fishes K. Gregory, Ph.D., Curator H. C. Raven, Associate Curator sociate in Outdoor Education Ph.D., Curator- William K. Gregory, S. H. Chubb, Associate Curator in-Chief* Marcelle Roigneau, Staff Assistant Nichols, John T. A.B., Curator of in Comparative Anatomy Library and Publications Recent Fishes J. Howard McGregor, Ph.D., Re- Bibliographer Hazel Gay, Acting Curator E. W. GuDfiER, Ph.D., search Associate in Human Anatomy Associate Jannette May Lucas, B.S., Assistant and J. Morton, Dudley M.D., Research Librarian Osborn Library Francesca R. LaMonte, B.A.. Assist- Associate — ant Curator Frederick Tilney, M.D., Ph.D., Charles H. Townsend, Sc.D., Re- Research Associate Printing and Publishing search Associate C. M. Breder, Jr., Research Associate Hawthorne Daniel, Curator, Editor Louis Hussakof, Ph.D., Research Anthropology of Natural History A. Katherine Berger, Associate Associate in Devonian Fishes Clark Wissler, Ph.D., LL.D., Cu- Editor of Natural History William Beebe, Sc.D., Research Asso- rator-in-Chief in Ethel J. Timonier, Associate Editor ciate Oceanography N. C. Nelson, M.L., Curator of Pre- of Scientific Publications Van Campen Heilner, M.Sc, Field historic Arclueology Representative George C. Vaillant, Ph.D., Associate *Also Research Associate in Pala'- Curator of Mexican Archa>ology Public and Press Information ontology and Associate in Physical Harry L. Shapiro, Ph.D., Associate Anthropology Curator of Physical Anthropology Hans Chhistian Adamson, Chairman "= T = r o ~ — ' ^2 ' _Q E t- _ V +5 « r= = a ~ S £ £ 8 * — _- '7 - " 2 £ 'C 5 i2 £ .*2 c = --S "8 — j:a ~ O o "« +3 > B .2 S <u «, o "3 .2 O ~ >. -= > - a -S ct ~ ° 5 ~£ 5 "-. o — C c H b «a •- " _r — X <u J X < ^ S *73 .2 a; *2 — ' on "l^ D £ co a p H > < en Z 1S g.>P- u. ^ 1 S -* O 33 *^ t* *2 Oj o3 2 7. «g l-[ p b£ "3 D _^ "; u. CJ **" cS B 3 >. 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(Cover) 2 Scientific Staff 1 General Information (; Membership 9 History and Work of the Museum II Entrance Archway 14 Key to Exhibition Halls 15 First Floor: Checking ami Information Booth, Education Bureau, Publications 7 Memorial Hall, Meteorites (South Pavilion) 18 Elevators (East Corridor), Polar Exhibit, Seismograph 18, 20 Jesup Collection of Trees of North America (Southeast Wing) 20 Invertebrates, Darwin Hall, Corals (Southeast Pavilion) (Southeast Tower) 20 Hall of Fishes (East Wing) 30 Hall of Ocean Life (Southeast Court) 31 Indians of the North Pacific Coast (South Central Wing) 37 Auditorium (Central Pavilion) 40 Eskimo Collection (North Corridor) 40 Building Stones (North Corridor) 40 Food Economics (West Central Wing) 41 Astronomy (West Corridor) 48 Bickmore Memorial Corridor (Southwest Court) 48 Education Hall (Southwest Court) 48 Indians of the Woodlands (Southwest Wing) 49 Indians of the Plains (Southwest Pavilion) (Southwest Tower). 51 Indians of the Southwest (West Wing) 54 Second Floor: Faunal Groups of Birds of the World Hall (South Pavilion) 59 Restaurant (South Corridor) 59 Mammals of North America (Allen Hall) (Southeast Wing, Southeast Pavilion) 59 Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of South Asiatic Mammals (East Wing) 69 Birds of the World Hall (South Central Wing) 69 Local Birds (West Corridor) 73 Antiquities of Mexico and Central America (Southwest Wing).