. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 16 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 195 8. A cast of the "living fossil" fish Latimeria, the most unusual vertebrate dis- covery of recent years, is now exhibited in the foyer of the Museunn of Natural History. those in paleobotany were prepared by head curator Gustav A. Cooper and David H. Dunlde, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology. Four colorful and instructive new habitat groups, being prepared for this installation by George Marchand of Ann Arbor, Mich., will por- tray the life of the Upp
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 16 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 195 8. A cast of the "living fossil" fish Latimeria, the most unusual vertebrate dis- covery of recent years, is now exhibited in the foyer of the Museunn of Natural History. those in paleobotany were prepared by head curator Gustav A. Cooper and David H. Dunlde, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology. Four colorful and instructive new habitat groups, being prepared for this installation by George Marchand of Ann Arbor, Mich., will por- tray the life of the Upper Ordovician, Lower Devonian, Mississippian (featuring crinoids), and Upper Cretaceous. Preparation of exhibit materials in the laboratory progressed. F. L. Pearce, chief of the laboratory, nearly completed the restoration and mounting of the previousl}' flattened and composite arthrodire skull. G. D. Guadagni prepared the strikingl}^ large fish Xiphactinus from the Cretaceous of Texas. T. B. Ruhoff has worked out brain- cases of pycnodont, scaumenacid, and macropetalichthid fishes, and K. F. Hauschildt completed several small fishes to be displayed on slabs. J. E. Ott prepared exhibits of the fish Dipterus and Coccosteus, he mounted the skull of Cricotus, an embolomerous amphibian from the Pennsylvanian beds of Ohio, and also prepared and made the necessary restoration of a skeleton of the Oligocene horse Mesohippus, which will be exhibited in the renovated hall of fossil mammals. A group of attractive mineral specimens from Arizona and a large mass of uranium ore from Colorado were exhibited in the United States PaviHon at the Brussels World's Fair. The general layout of the hall of oceanic life has been approved and detailed planning of exhibits for tliis luill has begun. Exhibits spc-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectl
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