. Guide leaflet. A PORTION OF THE BULLFROG GROUPShowing Pickerel Weed Plants of Wax How They are Made in The American Museum of Natural History By Laurence Vail Coleman, Plants of wax have become familiar to museum goers chiefly inconnection with habitat groups of mammals, birds and reptiles. Infact, the impressiveness of a group often depends as much upon theaccessories which enter into its composition as upon the specimens whichit features, and therefore the making of artificial foliage has become animportant branch of work in a museums studios. The following account explains how plants
. Guide leaflet. A PORTION OF THE BULLFROG GROUPShowing Pickerel Weed Plants of Wax How They are Made in The American Museum of Natural History By Laurence Vail Coleman, Plants of wax have become familiar to museum goers chiefly inconnection with habitat groups of mammals, birds and reptiles. Infact, the impressiveness of a group often depends as much upon theaccessories which enter into its composition as upon the specimens whichit features, and therefore the making of artificial foliage has become animportant branch of work in a museums studios. The following account explains how plants are made in the AmericanMuseum. The method employed for leaves was devised and patentedby Carl E. Akeley, and this brief exposition is published with his eon-sent. 4 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET The principal materials required are bleached beeswax, cottonbatting of good quality, annealed and stiff iron wire of various sizes,and a few tools, such as are shown in the cut. Fingers must do the rest;tools will not
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