The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18133173026)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 73 An interesting and valuable collection of Termites and nests from the Isthmus of Panama has been donated to the Museum by Mrs. A. Beaumont of Vineland, New Jersey, as a memorial of her husband, the late Joseph Beaumont, Esquire, who collected the specimens. The collection contains several thousand queens, males, workers and soldiers of several species of Termites, pre- served in alcohol and mounted in balsam on slides, together with specimens of nests, Termite tunnels and a number of other in- sects inhabiting Termite nests.
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THE IGUANA GROUP Hal) No. 207 Among groups which have been placed temporarily in the East Mammal Hall, No. 207 of the second floor, may be men- tioned those of the Iguana, the large tropical lizard which was collected for the Museum in Sinaloa, Mexico, the great Texas Rattlesnake, which next to the Diamond Back is the largest and most dangerous of the poisonous snakes in the United States, collected near the mouth of the Rio Grande and the Mud-Turtle,