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The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

Fifty Years of the American Museum of Natural History.

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-onHudson, N. Y. FIFTY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY It has become necessary to postpone the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the charter of the museum for five years, namely, until 1924. It is hoped that this celebration may be marked by the completion...

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Noronhomys vespuccii, a new genus and species (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), is described from Ilha Fernando de Noronha, a small volcanic island located 345 km northeast of Cabo de Sao Roque, Brazil. The abundant cranial and postcranial material of the fossil rodent was recovered from old beach dunes that are late Quaternary in age (probably late Holocene). Noronhomys vespuccii retains incomplete me...

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A new Early Miocene iguanian lizard from New Mexico is described. This specimen is the oldest demonstrable member of the iguanine clade as determined by its possession of derived characters of Iguaninae as a whole and those of its two primary subclades. The phylogenetic relationships among iguanines are reevaluated with the inclusion of this and another recently described fossil iguanine. The f...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Arthrodires were predatory vertebrates of the Devonian seas, with simple lower jaws conducible to examination of feeding across growth, evolution, and local diversity. 2D finite element analyses (FEA) of arthrodire mandibles (scaled to equivalent length and force, and checked against a 3D control), and a new method of stress integration, enable extensive comparisons of bite stress. FEA indicate...