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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (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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256 THE AMERICAX MUSEUM JOURNAL and as though that were not misfortune enough, the horse fell on its back in a ditch and broke some of the most valual)le vials. Finally, so many had been the mishaps that I felt grateful to see that the entire collection was not ruined. The rest of the journey had fewer unexpected incidents. I did some collecting at Cordova and in the vicinity of Mexico City. On the way to Texas a flood at Monterey made it impossible to reach San Antonio through I^aredo, so a westerly detoin- was made by way of Eagle Pass. At Austin, I spent a week collecting inider very difficult conditions, for the weather had been dry so long that the soil was desiccated and cracked and the insects and spiders were hidden deep in the ground. Professor Paterson of the Ihiiversity of Texas and Professor Brown of the Pease School accompanied me on several of these excursions and most cour- teously helped in the collecting. As may be easily imagined, the work of the trip was considerably impeded by the heavy rains and floods which turned the forests of the lowlands into swamps and lakes. With all that, however, the net result of the expedition was large. The collections consist not only of some 2000 specimens of spiders, scorpions and other arachnids but also of more than 400 vials containing many specimens each of myriapods and insects. To this list nnist be added a few specimens of amphibians and reptiles and a small collection consisting of nineteen Mexican snakes given to me by Mr. Olmstead of Mexico City for presentation to the Museum. Alexander PETRrNKEViTCH.
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E. (). Hnvpy, Photo., 1906. TEHUANA TRANSPORTATION

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