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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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tionis due to their complete burial for ages in peat bogs, in thefrozen soil of northern Alaska or in deposits of asphalt.1S To give the visitor a clear idea of how these extinct crea-tures appeared in life, many of the skeletons have beenremoved from the matrix in which they were found, andhave been mounted in lifelike attitudes; their probableappearance and habits are illustrated by water-colorrestorations, plaster models and descriptive labels. Thearrangement of the specimens is intended to show the his-tory or evolution of different races of animals, chiefly inNorth America. In the first right-hand alcove is the largest and finestseries of fossil skeletons, illustrating the Evolution of theHorse,111 possessed by any museum. Beginning with theearliest known ancestor of the horse, Eohippus, three hands(twelve inches) high, with its four complete toes on eachfore foot and three on each hind foot, the successive stages 18 Animals of the Past—.35.1!) Evolution of the Horse—.20. 100
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EOHIPPUSUINTATHERIUM 101 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY of development or types of gradual elevation are repre-sented by specimens of Orohippus, four hands high, Meso-hippus, five hands high, Merychippus, nine hands high,Hipparion, ten hands high, and Equus scotti, the originalNorth American horse, fourteen hands high. Although theremains of these fossil species of horse are abundant inNorth America in the latest geological formations, they allbecame extinct in the New World long before the discoveryof America by the Spaniards. There are no traces of thehorse in the Aztec history of America or in the knowledgeof any of the South American peoples or even in the mythsof the American Indian. To typify the conquest of the horse by man, a skeleton ofeach, mounted in an erect position, is in a near-by case.The entire series is supplemented by excellent plaster res-torations and water-color sketches. Across the hall from the horse exhibit is a series of speci-mens showing the Evoluti

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