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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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s been traced back to the four-toedstage. (See Guide Leaflet No. 36, The Evolution of the Horse.) In the Horse Alcove is given a synoptic series showing the stages ofevolution of teeth and limbs in the different geologic epochs and also aseries of complete skeletons. These skeletons, including some of thefinest ever unearthed, fully illustrate the various four-toed, three-toed,and one-toed stages and make it easy to follow the evolutionary changesthat have taken place. Opposite the horse exhibit, in the first fouralcoves on the other side of the hall, are specimens illustrating the evolu-tion of the camel, deer, and other cloven-hoofed animals. Like the cowof to-day, these animals walk on the tips of the third and fourth toes,and the gradual reduction or disappearance of the other toes can betraced, much as in the horse. In addition to these, in the first alcovethere is a unique skeleton of a giant flightless bird that lived at thebeginning of the Tertiary Period, along with Eohippus.
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CAMELS 113 The series of camel skulls and skeletons is now being extensively studied and enlarged and will eventually form an evolutionary series _ , comparable to that of the horse. The most interesting ex- Camels . .11 i . .1 hibit at present is the group of small camels in the central aisle. These graceful little animals, Stenomylus, lived in Nebraska at about the middle of the Age of Mammals. Four skeletons are shown exactly as they were found in the rock, and five others have been mounted in various living poses. Among the other cloven-hoofed mammals, the so-called giant pigsor entelodonts and the oreodonts are especially noteworthy. TheEntelodonts oreodonts, a totally extinct group somewhat pig-like and Oreodonts jn appearance but with teeth more like those of sheep,are strikingly represented by three complete skeletons huddled together,still intact in the rock just as death overtook them millions of years ago. Fossil rhinoceroses are shown near the center of the hall on the rig

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