Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902

Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall. Barbara Mathé. and Thomas Ross Miller. with Stanley A. Freed. Ruth S. Freed. and Laila Williamson. New York, 1997. American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. 112 pp., 97 illustrations.     

Constructing Cultures Then and Now

Constructing Cultures Then and Now:. Centenary Conference Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1997. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 13-17 1997.     

Body Art

Body Art: Marks of Identity. American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 20, 1999–May 29, 2000.     

Continuity and Change in Modern India

A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700–1935 . Frank F. Conlon. Sponsored by the Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xv + 255 pp. $15.00 (cloth).
Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a Village in North India. Vol. 1: Social Organization . Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed. Anthropological Papers, 53, Part 1. New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1976. 254 pp. $13.85 (paper).
Family and Social Change in Modern India . Giri Raj Gupta , ed. Main Currents in Indian Sociology, 2. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1976. xxxiv + 263 pp. n.p. (cloth).
Caste, Class and Democracy: Changes in a Stratification System . Vijai P. Singh. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1976. viii + 158 pp. $12.50 (cloth), $5.95 (paper).
Dimensions of Social Change in India . M. N. Srinivas, S. Seshaiah , and V. S. Parthasarathy , eds. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Private, 1977. xiii + 518 pp. Rs 60.00 (cloth).     

Baseball as America/Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game.

Baseball as America. National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum and Library, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. March 16-August 18, 2002, traveling exhibition.
Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 330 pp.     

Darwin��s Busts and Public Evolutionary Outreach and Education

For the 1909 Darwin Centennial, the New York Academy of Sciences gave a large bronze bust of Charles Darwin to the American Museum of Natural History. Created by the well-known sculptor, William Couper, the bust was placed on its tall granite pedestal at the entrance at the newly designated exhibition hall, the Charles Darwin Hall of Invertebrate Zoology. Later that year, the American Museum ordered a bronze copy of the bust and presented it to Christ’s College, in Cambridge, England at the British Darwinian celebration. In 1935, Victor Von Hagen requested a plaster copy of the bust for a monument he was erecting on San Cristóbal in the Galapagos Islands to celebrate Darwin’s arrival in the Galapagos. During 1960, the American Museum of Natural History returned the original bronze bust to the New York Academy of Science, where it is now on display at its headquarters in New York City. To celebrate the Darwin bicentennial, the National Academy of Sciences recreated the bust in a computer-generated copy for display at their Washington, DC headquarters.     

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI, 1998; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, December 4, 1999-February 2000; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, April 20-July 16, 2001; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, August 27, 2000-January 16, 2001; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, March-May 2001; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, June-September 2001; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT, October 2001-January 2002.
Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles. Barbara A. Hail. ed. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 2000. 135 pp.     

Hair in African Art and Culture

Hair in African Art and Culture. The Museum for African Art, New York, February 9–May 28, 2000 (review venue); Apex Museum, Atlanta, July–September 2000; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, October–December 2000; Museum of African American History, Detroit, January–April 2001; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, May–August 2001.
Hair in African Art and Culture. Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman. eds. New York: The Museum for African Art; Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2000. 192 pp.     

Heterotopic Dissonance in the Museum Representation of Pacific Island Cultures

Two exhibits, the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History (1971) and Traveling the Pacific at the Field Museum of Natural History (1989), are compared. Foucault's concept of heterotopia is used to examine why, in spite of major recent changes in museum philosophy and technology, the subtexts of the two exhibits remain remarkably similar. Both confuse spatial distance with temporal flow, creating an incoherent framework of disjunctive orders.     

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, Ukiah, California, May through September 1998; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998 through January 1999; National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, May 9through August 15, 1999 (review venue); University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, October 1999 through September 2000.
Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market. Special issue of Expedition, The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 40(1), 1998.     

A catalog of bird specimens associated with Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and potential type material in the natural history collection in Wiesbaden

Bird specimens collected by 19^th century explorer and ornithologist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied form one of the foundation collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. However, parts of his collection remained in Germany and came to the Museum Wiesbaden. Since Wied described numerous new species without designating types, some of these specimens might be type material. Here we present a catalog of the 30 Wiesbaden specimens associated with him and discuss their potential type status. We conclude that 17 individuals in 11 species are potential type specimens that should be considered in future taxonomic work.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Avila, J. L. & Harris, J. R. (ed.). 1992. Subcellular Biochemistry, Volume 18: Intracellular Parasites. Plenum Press, New York.
Fensome, R. A., Taylor, F. J. R., Norris, G., Sarjeant, W. A. S., Wharton, D. I. & Williams, G. L. 1993. A Classification of Living and Fossil Dinoflagellates. Micropaleontology Special Publication No. 7. Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Volberding, P. & Jacobson, M. A. (ed.). 1993. AIDS Clinical Review 1993/1994. Marcel Decker, Inc., New York.
Hyde, J. E. (ed.). 1993. Protocols in Molecular Parasitology , Volume 21 in the Methods in Molecular Biology Series. Hurnana Press, Totowa, New Jersey.     

Darwin: Origin and Evolution of an Exhibition

Two hundred years after his birth, Darwin, originated by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is the most important exhibition about the English scientist ever organized for the general public. This traveling exhibition has appeared in many versions worldwide, and a study of the relationships between local developers of the various editions of the exhibition underlines how a scientific exhibition and, more generally, science communication can succeed in striking a good equilibrium between universal content and cultural determinants.     

A Weather Watch for All Grades

Berger, Melvin Computers in Your Life New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1981 117 pp. $8.95 trade, $8.79 library. Reviewed by Edwin Halfar.

Gardner, Martin Science: Good, Bad and Bogus Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981 408 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by R. Emile Jester.

Frazer, Frank Discovering Energy Alexandria, Va.: Stonehenge Press, in association with the American Museum of Natural History, 1981 96 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by James W. O'leary.

Finney, D. J. Statistics for Biologists New York: Chapman and Hall, 1980 162 pp. $9.95 paper. Reviewed by John G. Harvey.     

Pacific Voices

Pacific Voices: Worlds within Our Community. Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Seattle, Washington, permanent installation.     

The Ladew expedition to Bolivia and Peru: George Tate’s Botanical Collections

In 1926 George Tate participated in a collecting expedition to the Cordillera Real of Bolivia and Peru under the auspices of H. S. Ladew and The American Museum of Natural History. Although the emphasis of the expedition was zoological, Tate managed to collect 1215 plant numbers from which over 50 new species were later described, primarily by H. H. Rusby. These specimens, including most types, were deposited at The New York Botanical Garden. Tate retained 632 duplicate sheets at the Museum to form the core of the “Ecological Herbarium of Dept. of Mammals.” The 24 collecting stations worked by Tate in Bolivia are described and mapped from data obtained from a transcribed copy of Tate’s field notes deposited in the archives of The New York Botanical Garden.     

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1998-March 19, 1999; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, June 25-September 5, 1999; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, January 29–July 16, 2000 (review venue); Graham Foundation, Chicago, November 15,2000–January 25,2001.
ElNuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. Gustavo Leclerc. Michael J. Dear. and J. Dallas Dishman. eds. Los Angeles: Southern California Studies Center, 2000.48 pp.     

A history of the Piltdown hoax.

The history of the Piltdown hoax and its importance in convincing the world of Darwin's theory is reviewed. Compelling evidence existed from the beginning that the find was a hoax or, at the very least, was not evidence for human evolution. Yet for decades, Piltdown was touted by textbooks, articles, and major museums (including the American Museum of Natural History in New York) as major evidence of human evolution. The hoax is an excellent illustration of the difficulties in drawing conclusions about evolution from fossils. The hoax convinced many people of the validity of Darwinism, but its final, definitive exposure did little to alter the basic views of most Darwinists.     

Two New Species of Interstitial Marine Triclads from the North American Pacific Coast, with Comments on Evolutionary Trends and Systematics in Tricladida (Turbellaria)

Holmquist, Ch. and Karling, T. G. (Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.) Two new species of marine triclads from the North American Pacific coast, with comments on evolutionary trends and systematics in Tricladida (Turbellaria). Zool. Scripta 1(3–4): 175–184, 1972.–Two marine triclads, Oregoniplana opisthopora gen. et sp.n. and Pacificides psammophilus gen. et sp.n. are described from the Pacific coast of USA. They are inhabitants of sand in the surf zone. They are provisionally included in the family Procerodidae but their anatomy is aberrant in several respects; they elucidate some evolutionary trends as well as some unsatisfactory points in the systematics of the aquatic triclads.     

香港的两栖和爬行动物

香港及其附近水域已有纪录的两栖和爬行动物共4目23科70属107种。本文着重分析陆地与淡水产种类,计有4目21科63属98种,其中目前仅见于香港的特有种4种,物种密度高达897．4／104km2,东洋界种类占绝对优势,其中主要为南中国成分,其次为印度支那成分和印度马来成分,香港与我国东南沿海各省（区）具有很高的生物相似值（＞0．4）,在动物地理区划上属于东洋界华南区东南沿海亚区。香港地处北半球亚热带季风区,气候温暖湿润,雨量充沛,适合两栖爬行动物的生存和繁衍;但由于面积不大、地貌较不复杂,随着经济的发展和人口的增加,它们生存的地域越来越缩小,再加以人为的干扰,物种和数量有减少的趋势。