. Guide leaflet. Reprinted from Natural History Magazinefor July-August, 1931 GUIDE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 78 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, 1933 .4 .^^|« FORTY TONS OF CORAL h ROY WALDO MINER Cl RAJDR OF 1,IV1N<; 1 N\ tR I KS, AMERICAN MlSEUM THE r AMERICAN 1MUSEUM i NATURAL i,. HISTORY ,^, „ SaENCE^EDUCAIION Repfintedfrom Natural History Magazinefor July-Aug^ust, 1931 GUIDE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 78 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, 1933 iS^i |^»^^. Fantastic Cirowths ot Coral in Weiixl Formations Crowd the Sea Bottom FORTY TONS OF CORAL The Story of the
. Guide leaflet. Reprinted from Natural History Magazinefor July-August, 1931 GUIDE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 78 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, 1933 .4 .^^|« FORTY TONS OF CORAL h ROY WALDO MINER Cl RAJDR OF 1,IV1N<; 1 N\ tR I KS, AMERICAN MlSEUM THE r AMERICAN 1MUSEUM i NATURAL i,. HISTORY ,^, „ SaENCE^EDUCAIION Repfintedfrom Natural History Magazinefor July-Aug^ust, 1931 GUIDE LEAFLET SERIES, No. 78 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, 1933 iS^i |^»^^. Fantastic Cirowths ot Coral in Weiixl Formations Crowd the Sea Bottom FORTY TONS OF CORAL The Story of the Preparation of the Immense Coral Reef Exhibit Now UnderConstruction in the New Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum By ROY WALDO MIXER Curator of Living Invertebrates, American Mu?eum FORTY tons of coral trees growing onthe ocean floor, bathed in the crj^stalwaters of tropic seas, three fathomsl,elow the surface, amid wa\ing seaplumes and schools of brilUantly coloredfishes flitting between their branches! Forty tones of coral ripped from theheart of a hundred-mile submarine forestof tinted limestone, hauled to a snowybeach, bleached, embedded in spongeclippings, packed in huge crates, andshipped to the American Museum! Forty tons of coral rising from the floorof the Hall of Ocean Life, their serratedl)ranches interlaced as of old and oncemore invested with the deUcate huesthat gave them their pristine beauty,while al)ove them again spreads the mir-roring quicksilver of a si
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