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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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EXPEDITION TO EGYPT 25 showing its efforts to disseminate knowledge outside the )\Iuseiim. Japanese Sharks, Hag Fishes and other curious marine forms were very interesting to the speciahst, and Economic Entomology was illus- trated, in part, by the photographs, transparencies and specimens illus- trating recent progress in New Jersey in the extermination of the mosquito and in methods of educating the public on the subject.
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EXPEDITION TO THE DESERT OF FAYOUM, EGYPT. X January 5 Professor Henry F. Osborn sailed for Egypt accompanied by )\Iessrs. Walter Granger and George Olsen of the Department of ^"ertel)rate PahTeontology on an exploring expedition of three months into the Fayoum desert. In 1900 Professor Osborn ^ pre- dicted that the remote ancestors of the Proboscidea, Sirenia and Hyracoidea would prove to be of African origin, and soon afterward, through the extensive exploration and study of this region by the Egyptian Siu'vey, this prophecy came true. This desert has yielded some of the most remarkable recent discoveries in paUieontology, among which may be cited, besides those in the three orders above mentioned, many entirely new and unique forms, one of which is Arsi- noitherium. Dr. C. W. Andrews of the British Museum and Mr. Hugh J. N. Beadnell of the Egyptian Siu'vey have been the principal students of this fauna and have described their discoveries in a series of papers published during the last five years, culminating in a large quarto memoir published last year by Dr. Andrews. Ever since the fulfillment of his prophecy and the discovery of this fauna, new to science. Professor Osborn has been anxious to visit and explore the Fayoiun, but he felt that he could not go before the publi- cation of Dr. Andrews's report freed the field to all scientific workers. Palaeontologists at present regard Africa as the storm center of their work and look to the revelation of its secrets for the solution of many of the problems which confront them in the unraveling of the past. If the expedition is successful, the addition of this fauna to the collec- tion of fossil vertebrates in our ^Museinn will greatly enhance its interest to the public and its value to the student. ^ Fauna! Relations of Europe and America during the Tertiary Period and Theory of the Successive Invasion of an African Fauna into Europe. Ann. N. Y^ Acad. Sci., Vol. XIII, No. 1, July 21, 1900, pp. 1-72.

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