Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (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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512 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL
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I nderwood and Vndcrwood Captain H. E. Anthony last spring accompanied the 309th F. A. regiment to France as First Lieu- tenant. After three months, there came promo- tion to a captaincy with the order to return to the United States to drill and take across a new company. Captain Anthony is now at Fort Lewis, Washington, training a company of field artillery for service at the front Knud Rasmussen, left North Star Bay early in April, 1917, traveled to Peary Land, and returned across the Greenland ice cap. By the time De Long's Fjord was reached, game gave out and the men were obliged to retrace their steps. They suffered incredible hard- shijjs on the way back, and at Cape Agassiz, Rasmussen and one of the Eskimos started on ahead on a forced march for aid, while the others followed slowly. After a few days' travel without food, Dr. Wulff weak- ened and died. In the fall, Peter Freuchen, the Danish factor at North Star Bay, made an unsuccessful attempt to recover the body. Despite the general policy of the Ameri- can Museum to suspend field work until the close of the war, it has been deemed expe- dient to continue certain explorations. Two expeditions have been sent to China: The Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition, in charge of Mr. Roy C. Andrews of the depart- ment of mammalogy, sailed on .June 22, and plans to supplement the work of the Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-1917, if pos- sible penetrating farther into the interior; The Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition, under the leadership of Mr. Paul J. Rainey, accompanied by Mr. Edmund Heller as natu- ralist, left San Francisco on July 27, its purpose being to collect large game animals in the Far East. In Aztec, New Mexico, Mr. Earl H. Morris, assisted by Mr. B. T. B. Hyde, has continued the excavation of the Indian ruins, which are yielding important collections and historic data. The department of verteljrate palaeontol- ogy of the American Museum has lately added to its study collection, through the gift of Mr. Warren Delano, of New York, the skull and vertebral column of a colt which is a cross between an Arabian steed and a Norwegian horse. Whether the Ara- bian type, with its five lumbar vertebrae as contrasted with the six lumbar vertebrae of the commoner species, would be perpetuated by such a crossing of species, or whether the reverse would be true, is the question which interests scientists. The present specimen shows both influences. It follows the Arabian type in having but twenty-three dorsal-lum- bar vertebrae instead of twenty-four as in the common horse, but to the last of the dorsal vertebrae there are attached, instead of true ribs, the transverse processes of lumbar ver- tebrae articulated like ribs and having on one side, not directly joined to the process, a little abortive rib. Technically, however, the possession of the correct number of ver- tebrae seems to place the specimen with tliC' Aiabian species. Ix .June and July Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow, of the American Museum, was in charge of the courses in bacteriology and hygiene at the Vassar College Training Camp for Nurses, where four hundred college gradu- ates received the theoretical part of their training for service in the emergency created by the war. In August he gave an iuten-

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