The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18160458925)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (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 NOTES 135 them with my stick. At the time, it seemed to me as though the male was dehberately pro- tecting the retreat of the fe- male. Snake.s seem to be beyond hard and fast rules of individ- ual action and the more they are studied the more unex- pectedly interesting are the traits discovered. They offer an endless subject for fascinat- ing investigation. The liog-nosed snake (Hetcrodon platyrhinus) otherwise known as "puff adder" and "spreading ad- der," is a big bluffer and the "pos- sum" among North American snakes. It is absolutely harmless in spite of its warlike posturings and hissings and can under no conditions be induced to bite. When its threats prove vain, it simulates death. Even the young snakes newly hatched from the eggs hiss, spread and flatten the head and neck and strike savagely, later playing dead. The ringhals cobra of South Africa also is reported to feign death fF. W. Fitzsimmons. Snakes of South Africa)
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M useum Notes 8i\cE the last issue of the Journal the following persons have become members of the Museum: Lift Members, Mrs. Frederic Delano Hitch, Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, and Messrs. William Franklin Luxton Ed- AVARDS, Alfred Warren Gale, Norman James and Frederic A. Juilliard; Sitstnining Members, Miss Emeline Roach and Messrs. A. W. Erickson, J. Prentice Kellogg, and Philip C. Lindgren ; Annual Members, Mrs. P. B. Acker, Mrs. Robert C. Birkhahn, Mrs. Arthur C. Blagden, Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Mrs. Joel Feder, Mrs. Henry E. Hawley, Mrs. E. R. Hewitt, Mrs. Robert Hunter, Mrs. R. G. Hutchins, Jr., Mrs. William B. IsHAM, Mrs. S. M. Jarvis, Mrs. Philip B. Jennings, Mrs. Helen M. Kennerley, Mrs. Percy H. Stewart, Mrs. A. W. Swann, Mrs. Carll Tucker, Misses Marian Hague and Margaret C. Hurlbut, Dr. Myron P. Denton, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Dr. Oscar H. Rogers and Messrs. T. Howard Barnes, Welcome W. Braden, WiLLi.-ui B. DowD, Sandford D. Foot, George S. P'ranklin, Henry Hering, Bernhard Hoffmann, Arthur S. Hyde, Joseph A. McAleenan, F. H. Theakston, Samuel Hinds Thomas, Lewis M. Thomp- son and William Turnbull. All doubt as to the jirobable safety of the members of the Crocker Land Expedition, and of the party sent under Dr. Hovey to bring them home, was removed on February 6 by a letter from Mr. Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, dated London, January 28. Mr. Rasmussen was in London in order to meet his .ship "Kap York" which had re- cently arrived in an English port from Green- land. Captain Pedersen of the "Kap York" was in connection with the "Cluett" and Dr. Hovey on September 12 for about two hours and therefore had the latest news of the relief party. The ports were then full of new ice and Dr. Hovey dared not put into port from fear of becoming icebound for the winter. The "Cluett" was therefore waiting in Wol- stenholme Sound for the return of Mr. Rasmussen's motor boat, which had been