Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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The Bulletin, published continuously since 1881, consists of longer monographic volumes in the field of natural sciences relating to zoology, paleontology, and geology. Current numbers are published at irregular intervals. The Bulletin was originally a place to publish short papers, while longer works appeared in the Memoirs. However, in the 1920s, the Memoirs ceased and the Bulletin series began publishing longer papers. A new series, the Novitates, published short papers describing new forms.
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Item A.J. Stone's measurements of natives of the Northwest Territories. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 6.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1901) Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.; Stone, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), b. 1859.; Constable Expeditions to the Northwest (1897-1899)Item Abnormal dentition in sharks, Selachii. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 73, article 2.(New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1937) Gudger, E. W. (Eugene Willis), 1866-1956.Item Absence of the pollex in Perissodactyla. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 37, article 21.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1917) Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930.Item Acanthoceratid Ammonoidea from near Greybull, Wyoming. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 93, article 1(New York : [American Museum of Natural History], 1949) Haas, Otto, 1887-Item Aceratherium tridactylum from the Lower Miocene of Dakota. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 5, article 7.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1893) Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.; Peterson, Olof August, 1865-1933.Item The adaptive modifications of the arboreal tadpoles of Hoplophryne and the torrent tadpoles of Staurois. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 58, article 7.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1929) Noble, Gladwyn Kingsley, 1894-1940.; Pope, Clifford Hillhouse, 1899-Item Adaptive significance of the shortening of the elephant's skull. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 19, article 9.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1903) Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-; Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.Item Additional characters of the great herbivorous dinosaur Camarasaurus. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 10, article 12.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1898) Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.; Wortman, Jacob Lawson.; Knight, Wilbur C. (Wilbur Clinton), 1858-1903.Item Additional description of the genus Zatrachys Cope. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 23, article 30.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1907) Case, E. C. (Ermine Cowles), b. 1871.Item Additional mammals from Nicaragua. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 28, article 9.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1910) Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921.; Richardson, William B.Item Additional notes on Asaphus canalis, Conrad. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 2, article 4.(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1889) Whitfield, Robert Parr, 1828-1910.; Seely, Henry Martyn, 1828-1917.Item Additional notes on Costa Rican mammals, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 3.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1897) Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph).Item Additional observations on the Creodonta. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 1(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1901) Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930.Item Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 42, article 8.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1920) Mann, William M., 1886-1960.; Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.Item Additions to the ant-fauna of Jamaica. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 30, article 3.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1911) Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.; Wight, Alexander E.; Grabham, Michael Comport, 1840-1935.; Andrews, E. A. (Ethan Allen), 1859-Item An adult pug-headed brown trout, Salmo fario : with notes on other pug-headed salmonids. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 58, article 10.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1929) Gudger, E. W. (Eugene Willis), 1866-1956.; Miller, Louis P.Item The affinities of the fish Lycoptera middendorffi. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 51, article 8.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, The American Museum of Natural History, 1925) Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948.; Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930)Item African stone-flies and may-flies collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 43, article 4.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1920) Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956.; Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957.; Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964.; American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)Item Alfonso Olalla and his family : the ornithological exploration of Amazonian Peru. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 343)(American Museum of Natural History., 2010) Wiley, R. Haven.In 1922 Frank M. Chapman hired a family of Ecuadorians to collect birds and mammals for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). In the following two years, Carlos Olalla and his four sons (especially Alfonso and Ramón) shipped some 3500 carefully prepared and neatly labeled specimens of Ecuadorian birds to New York. In 1925, under a new contract with the AMNH, the Olallas moved their operations to northeastern Peru, and during the next two and a half years, mostly as a result of efforts by Alfonso and Ramón, they sent over 7000 specimens of birds to New York from Amazonian Peru, as well as additional thousands of specimens of mammals. The two brothers shifted their operations to Brazil in 1928. Alfonso went on to ship even larger collections of birds from Brazil to museums in the United States, Sweden, and Brazil. Altogether these collections have provided the documentation for much of what we now know about the distributions of Amazonian birds and mammals. In 1962 accusations surfaced that the Olallas had falsified much of the information about their specimens. Although based on hearsay, these accusations raised lingering doubts about the Olallas' collections. Alfonso sent reports of the brothers' activities to the AMNH with their shipments of specimens. These reports together with their correspondence with Chapman and other curators are still preserved in the archives of the departments of ornithology and mammalogy. Examination of these archives and of most of the Olallas' specimens of birds and primates from Peru provides a clear view of their activities for the first time. All of the Olallas' collecting sites in Amazonian Peru can now be confidently located, and a large majority of their specimens from these localities accord with current understanding of avian distributions in Amazonian Peru. The accusations of general carelessness or systematic duplicity can thus be rejected. Nevertheless, there remains a small number of problematic specimens. Especially suspect are those acquired from the Olallas in Iquitos by Harvey Bassler with labels from the mouth of the Río Urubamba. These specimens eventually came to the AMNH as a part of Bassler's collection, rather than directly from the Olallas. Alfonso and Ramón Olalla's choice of collecting sites suggests that they became aware of the importance of major rivers in limiting avian distributions in Amazonia, and their correspondence with Chapman suggests that their collections brought this insight to the attention of ornithologists in New York. In addition, their collections suggest patterns of avian distribution that still need further investigation, especially the extension of some species of the Andean foothills into the lowlands of upper Amazonia and the less consistent limitations of avian distributions by the upper Río Ucayali in comparison to the Río Amazonas. No doubt some of the Olallas' specimens indicate yet undiscovered features of avian distribution in upper Amazonia, where, despite Alfonso and Ramón's pioneering efforts, there is surely more to learn.Item Alleged changes of color in the feathers of birds without molting. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 3.(New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1896) Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921.