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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SOUTH In the East Corridor (No. 205) of the second or main floor a fine head of the rather rare African Elephant is to be seen on the wall opposite the elevators. Turning to the east, the Mammals visitor finds himself in the Hall of North American of North Mammals (Hall No. 206). The principal exhibits in America. this room are the large central groups representing the Moose and the Bison or Buffalo. The Moose group pictures the animal as it is found in the forests of New Brunswick. It is the most elaborate group of its kind exhibited in any Museum. As one item of detail, it may be mentioned that twenty-two thousand artificial leaves enter into its composition. The Bison is one of the animals which man has rendered practically extinct within the last thirty years, hence this group is of especial importance. Some of the single specimens in this hall are particularly noteworthy, such as: the Walruses collected on the Peary Relief Expedition of 1895, showing a fine bull and a cow, the Elk, the Virginia Deer. The last two in particular are considered excel- lent examples of modeling. Guide Leaflet No. 5, entitled "North American Ruminants" describes in detail a portion of the collection placed in this hall. It may be borrowed or pur- chased of the attendant. 29

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