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Item Adaptive branching of the kangaroo family in relation to habitat. American Museum novitates ; no. 1309(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1946) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-Item Comparative anatomy of the sole of the foot. American Museum novitates ; no. 871(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1936) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.Item The identity of Tarsius pumilus, a pygmy species endemic to the montane mossy forests of central Sulawesi. American Museum novitates ; no. 2867(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1987) Musser, Guy G.; Dagosto, Marian.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944."In 1917, Henry C. Raven obtained a small-bodied tarsier from upper montane rain forest in the mountains of Central Sulawesi. Miller and Hollister (1921b) designated the specimen as holotype of Tarsius pumilus, included two others collected from lowland evergreen rain forest, and pointed to small body size as one of the diagnostic specific characters. Subsequent faunal checklists and taxonomic revisions treated pumilus as a subspecies of the widespread Sulawesian Tarsius spectrum until 1985 when Niemitz advocated recognition of specific status for pumilus based upon the original series and recorded vocalizations. But only one of the three specimens discussed by Miller and Hollister is an example of T. pumilus, and the calls said to be those of this species were probably made by T. spectrum. Tarsius pumilus is distinctive, but it is known by only the holotype and a second example from montane forest in Central Sulawesi. The morphological and biogeographical limits of the species based upon these two specimens are documented here. The definition of T. pumilus is set within a context of morphological and geographical comparisons among T. bancanus (Sunda Shelf), T. syrichta (southern Philippine islands), and T. spectrum (Sulawesi and nearby islands); and subsequent comparisons between these three and T. pumilus. Information is provided on habitat and faunal associations of T. pumilus. The species is also contrasted in greater detail with morphology, habitats, and regional as well as altitudinal distributions of T. spectrum. A hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships among the four species of tarsiers is briefly discussed"--P. [1].Item Introduction to human anatomy. (Guide leaflet, no. 86)(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1937) Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970.; Roigneau, Marcelle.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; American Museum of Natural History.Guide to section I of the Hall of the Natural History of Man in the American Museum of Natural History.Item The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum novitates ; no. 1287(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1945) Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Neuhäuser, Gabriele, 1911-; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1936-1937); Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1938-1939); Australian Expedition 1921-1922)Item The monotremes and the palimpsest theory. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 88, article 1(New York : [American Museum of Natural History], 1947) Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.Item A new Lamprologus from Lake Tanganyika. American Museum novitates ; no. 478(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1931) Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958.; La Monte, Francesca Raimonde, b. 1895.; Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.Item A new melanotaeniin fish from Queensland. American Museum novitates ; no. 296(New York City : American Museum of Natural History, 1928) Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.Item Notes on Cercopithecus hamlyni Pocock. American Museum novitates ; no. 1177(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1942) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Hill, John Eric, 1907-; Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964.; Ruwenzori-Kivu Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927); Columbia University-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Africa (1929-1931)Item Notes on the alimentary tract of the swordfish (Xiphias gladius). American Museum novitates ; no. 902(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1937) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; La Monte, Francesca Raimonde, b. 1895.; Lerner Cape Breton Expedition 1936)Item Notes on the anatomy of Ranzania truncata : a plectognath fish. American Museum novitates ; no. 1038(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1939) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944."Ranzania represents the most specialized of the all the molids in body-form and ... in musculature. The elongation of the body, as compared with other molids, is undoubtedly secondary. The persistence of the inclinator muscles of the dorsal and anal fins is the sole primitive feature noted. The former presence of the puffing apparatus is indicated by the retention of the m. retractor postclavicularis, which originated as a slip of the m. inclinator analis in some early balistoid. The most remarkable feature of the skeleton is the caudal inclination of the haemal and neural spines, indicating the posterior displacement of the dorsal and anal fins. This, in conjunction with the great development of the dorsal and anal fin musculature and the narrow high fins, suggests that Ranzania, contrary to earlier opinions, is a fast-swimming form"--p. 7.Item Notes on the anatomy of the viscera of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). American Museum novitates ; no. 877(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1936) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893-; Sage, Dean, Jr.; Sage West China Expedition (1934)Item Notes on the taxonomy and osteology of two species of Mesoplodon : (M. europaeus Gervais, M. mirus True). American Museum novitates ; no. 905(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1937) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.Item On some earthworms from Burma. American Museum novitates ; no. 1555(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Gates, G. E. (Gordon Enoch), 1897-; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1934-1935)Item On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 88, article 3(New York : [American Museum of Natural History], 1947) Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Neuhäuser, Gabriele, 1911-; Australian Expedition 1921-1922)Item On the anatomy and evolution of the locomotor apparatus of the nipple-tailed ocean sunfish (Masturus lanceolatus). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 76, article 4(New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1939) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Pflueger, Albert."The purpose of this study was to discover, through a structural series from primitive percomorph to Masturus, the evolutionary changes which gave rise to the peculiar locomotor apparatus of the molids. The structural series: (1) generalized percomorph, (2) acanthurid, (3) balistid, (4) diodont, (5) molid, which was worked out by Gregory on skull structure, was adopted as a provisional basis for the present study and the present study affords additional evidence for its validity. In general the following major changes are involved in passing from generalized percomorph to molid: (1) great shortening and deepening of body; (2) extreme emphasis and vertical growth of dorsal and anal fins; (3) corresponding hypertrophy of erector and depressor muscles of dorsal and anal, involving their great extension forward and eventual atrophy and disappearance of mm. inclinatores; (4) corresponding reduction and eventual loss of the lateralis mass of metameric musculature; (5) correlated reduction and loss of undulation of the body and of the true caudal fin; (6) formation of new or pseudo-caudal fin by extension of dorsal and anal, meeting around the shortened caudal end of the column; (7) crowding of the posterior dorsal and anal pterygiophores against the seventh neural and eighth haemal spines; (8) crowding of the body cavity by forward growth of the erector plus depressor muscles of the anal fin; (9) reduction and loss of the puffing habit (will be treated more fully in a paper on Ranzania); (10) the long ligament, from supraoccipital crest to the anterior border of the dorsal fin, probably represents a vestige of the trigger mechanism of balistoids. The characters of the alimentary tract suggest that these fishes are bottom-living forms; the skin, skeleton, and the loss of the air-bladder suggest that they live in deep water and the form of the fins with their powerful muscles indicates an active existence"--P. 149-150.Item On the structure of Mesoplodon densirostris, a rare beaked whale. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 80, article 2.(New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1942) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; McKenzie, Russell Alderson, 1902-Item Report upon a collection of insect ectoparasites from Australian and Tasmanian mammals (Diptera Pupipara, Siphonaptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 110(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1924) Ferris, Gordon Floyd, 1893-1958.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Australian Expedition 1921-1922)Item The spermaceti organ and nasal passages of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon) and other odontocetes. American Museum novitates ; no. 677(New York City : The American Museum of Natural History, 1933) Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-Item Studies on the anatomy and phylogeny of the Macropodidae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 91, article 2(New York : [American Museum of Natural History], 1948) Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953.; Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944.; Neuhäuser, Gabriele, 1911-; Australian Expedition 1921-1922)