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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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and outside and evidently does notinjure the most delicate tissues. A small exhibit in the left-hand corner of the central dark-ened room tells of the remarkable life-history in whichthere is a striking transformation of the stalk-eyed fishinto a Gleaming-tailed Sea Dragon. This exhibitis based on the investigations and material ofDr. William Beebe in connection with deep seafishes taken off Bermuda. He proved thatthe minute stalk-eyed fish,which carry their eyes out atthe ends of long stalks, reallygrow up into the Gleaming-tailed Sea Dragons (Indiacan-thus fasciola), formerly sup-posed to be a different species. The deep sea life is depend-ent ultimately upon the rainof food-bearing particles fromthe richer waters of the sur-face. The countless myriads ofmicroscopic plants are absorbed by the micro-scopic animals and theseby the billions of tinycopepods or shrimpswhich in turn are de-voured by the raven-ous small fishes. Many differentkinds of deep seafishes have thepower of ltimi-
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r UNA (Thunnus thynnus). Amagnificent mounted tuna fishrom the Exhibit of Game Fishes nescence.In some fishesthe surface ofthe body is stud-ded with little glowlamps, each of whichhas a lens, a reflectorand a gland for pro-ducing a substancecalled luciferin whichemits a light whensupplied with oxygen( from the blood. The little shrimps and other creatures upon whichthe fish feeds are attracted toward the lightsas the moth to the flame. The lights also enablefishes of the same kind to find each other and keeptogether in schools. Big Game Fishes. At the end of the Fish Halltoward the Roosevelt Memorial is the exhibit of BigGame Fishes, including many of great size takenwith rod and line chiefly by Zane Grey and Michael

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