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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (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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THE COLLECTION OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES are Mounted. To give the visitor a clear idea of these extinct animals, the skeletons usually have been removed entirely from the rock in which they were found and have been mounted as ^^^ p^g^j, much as possible like skeletons of modem animals, skeletons To mount a petrified skeleton in this manner is a very difficult matter, for such skeletons are rarely perfect, and the bone is always very brittle and more or less shattered and crushed out of shape. In the mounted skeleton the missing parts have been restored in tinted plaster, modeled from other individuals or from nearly related animals in which these parts are known. The outHnes of the restored parts of bones are marked off with red lines, while entire bones modeled in plaster are marked with a red cross, or with a red circle if supplied from other individuals. All the skeletons are original specimens ex- cept the Megatherium at the far end of the hall; and all are of extinct animals except a few which are placed with the others for comparison. With each fossil skeleton will be found, besides a descriptive label, a small model and a water-color restoration of the animal, showing its probable appearance during life and indicating its supposed habitat. The transparencies in the win- dows show the localities where the fossils are found, chiefiy in the Bad-lands of the western States. General Arrangement.
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The collections are arranged to illustrate the geological his- tory and evolution of the different groups of Verte- general Ar- brata, especially those of North America. They fill rangement two large halls and a corridor. East Wing. Hall Xo. 406. Fossil Mammals. of Collec- tions.

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