. Zoological Society bulletin . DEER FROM T1BURON ISLAND. Killed by Lt. Stanley of the Albatross. Photograph by H. E. Anthony. attractive museum exhibits of such forms of life. The land work included not only the collect-ing; of mammals, birds, reptiles and plants, butthe collecting of fishes and marine invertebratesalong shore. The scientific staff consisted of eight persons,representing the United States Bureau of Fish-eries, the American Museum of Natural His-tory, the New York Zoological Society, theNew York Botanical Museum and the UnitedStates National Museum. The expedition obtained 650
. Zoological Society bulletin . DEER FROM T1BURON ISLAND. Killed by Lt. Stanley of the Albatross. Photograph by H. E. Anthony. attractive museum exhibits of such forms of life. The land work included not only the collect-ing; of mammals, birds, reptiles and plants, butthe collecting of fishes and marine invertebratesalong shore. The scientific staff consisted of eight persons,representing the United States Bureau of Fish-eries, the American Museum of Natural His-tory, the New York Zoological Society, theNew York Botanical Museum and the UnitedStates National Museum. The expedition obtained 650 birds, 200 mam-mals, many hundreds of reptiles and a verylarge collection of plants. Lower California, with its islands, is a desertregion, and a large proportion of its animalsand plants are peculiar to it. Many of the mostinteresting of these were obtained. Several islands in the Gulf of Californiahitherto unvisited by naturalists, yielded newspecies. On Tiburon Island, about forty mileslong and lying near the head of the Gu
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