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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (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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Three members of the Depart iiient of Invertebrate ZciuloK.v fording a stream in Dominica FAST VANISHING RECORDS Bfl Frederic A. Liie(i.s THE many expeditions sent out under the auspices of the ^Museum represent a most important hraneh of its work; they not only seek tlie n-cords of the past, hut also endeavor to secure for posterity the records of tlie present, which are in even jjreater danjjjer of heinji lost. Not only is man changing the entire face of nature, mowing down its forests and sweeping out of existence their inhabitants, hut he is also blotting out with the sponge of civilization the e\eryday customs of the most secluded and isolated races of mankind. It is not so long ago that Sir John Franklin and his crew disappeared amid the Arctic ice and all traces of his ill-fated expedition were sought in vain for years; it is only yesterday that Livingstone was "lost" in Central Africa and Stanley dispatched to seek him. To-day an enterprising firm i)uts up a sj)ecial brand of baking powder for the western Kskitiio; Stefansson deems it worthy of note that after three years' search he has found natives who have never seen a white man; and excursion trains are run to the falls of the Zambesi. The public looks upon the mastodon as a rare animal, but more than a dozen skeletons are preserved in our museums and others are continually coming to light, while there is not in all the I'nited States the skeleton of an adult wild African elephant. And )\Ir. Carl E. Akeley tells us that in a very few years not a single really old elephant will be left in the length and breadth of Africa, so keen is the hunt for ivory. Mr. A. Kadclyffe Dugmore shows a photograph of a herd of hippos and tells us that since the picture was taken the herd has been exterminated. 270

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