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Title: The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : Irving Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ew building where, because of lack of space,only the most important specimens were exhibited, the remainderbeing stored in the basement, where it remained until about 1890.Most of the collections, excepting the models of the lower invertebrates,which were made at the Museum, have been acquired through gift andexpeditions. Until 1901 Prof. R. P. Whitfield served as curator ofthese collections. The first important accession to this Department was the collec-tion of corals presented in 1885 by Mr. Percy R. Pyne. Invertebrate material ranging from moUusca and crustaceansthrough the lowest branches of the animal kingdom, from the Atlanticand Pacific waters, have been received at various times since 1873 asa result of the deep-sea dredgings conducted by the United StatesFish Commission. Many of the animals in the various groups of invertebrates are sominute, or their anatomical structure is so compUcated, that it is notpracticable to place the original specimens on exhibition. In order (58)
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05 o 05 1^ HKH O at> o Q o H oo CO <: w INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY to bring out more clearly the structure of these animals, and theirrelation to man, large models, carefully constructed, have been pre-pared. This is especially true in the lowest group of the animal king-dom, namely—^the Protozoans. The models are constructed in wax andglass, and are worked out with the most careful detail. The sponge collection represents extensively the forms found inBermuda, the Bahamas, and Japan. Almost all of this material,excepting that from Japan, was collected by Professor R. P. Whit- Sponges,field. A series of siliceous sponges from Japan, containing exception-ally fine examples, was purchased in 1901. The collection containedthirty-seven specimens, representing twenty-six species. The superb collection of corals is representative of the forms foundin the East and West Indies, Bermudas, Bahamas, Hawaiian Islands,New Zealand, and Florida, and have been acquired largely throughthe generosity

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