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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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collections, but in their quality, and inthe high standards of scientific accuracy, thoroughness, and artisticexcellence maintained in all its work. The generous support receivedfrom Trustees and friends of the Museum and the interest and appre-ciation shown by the people of New York have warranted expandingthe original plans to a much larger scale than at first contemplated.Where eighteen years ago a single hall seemed adequate to presentthe evolution of the mammalian life of North America, the exhibitsalready require three times this space; and we look forward to pre-senting the broad succession of vertebrate life of land and sea, fromits inception far back toward the beginnings of the geological record,down to its culmination in the appearance of man, in a successionof halls corresponding to the great periods of geology. The materialsfor this larger plan are rapidly accumulating, and will be preparedfor a splendid presentation before the space is available for theirexhibition. (76)
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c5 o nH faO a o z;o H bJ O O & > oo H oo 5O W r-l El FOSSIL VERTEBRATES COLLECTIONS The collections in this department are mainly from three sources,namely, Expeditions, Exchange, Purchase. First, and most important, are the collections brought in year by collectionsyear by expeditions sent out by the Museum to explore various fossil- Expeditions,bearing horizons in the United States and other parts of the world.Fifty-two expeditions have been sent out in this department betweenthe years 1891 and 1909 inclusive, at a total cost of upward of $110,000.The expense of these expeditions is borne partly by the GeneralEndowment Fund provided by the Trustees, partly by the specialannual fund of $2,000 provided by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn,and in some instances by funds for special explorations which havebeen provided by the late President Jesup, by Mrs. Jesup, by thelate William C. Whitney, by Messrs. Percy R. Pyne, J. P. Morgan, Jr.,Frank K. Sturgis, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and

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