General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . practicallyextinct in the United States. On the other hand the Police or Shepherddog is now common and the Toy Pomeranian has been created com-paratively recently. East CorridorTo the left of the elevators is a room set apart for the use of honoraryor subscribing members of the Museum where they may leave theirMembers wraps, rest, write letters, or meet their friends. It containsRoom t)1(l portraits of the Presidents of the Museum and of Mr. (Ihoate and Professor Bickmore who played a most important part in thefo
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . practicallyextinct in the United States. On the other hand the Police or Shepherddog is now common and the Toy Pomeranian has been created com-paratively recently. East CorridorTo the left of the elevators is a room set apart for the use of honoraryor subscribing members of the Museum where they may leave theirMembers wraps, rest, write letters, or meet their friends. It containsRoom t)1(l portraits of the Presidents of the Museum and of Mr. (Ihoate and Professor Bickmore who played a most important part in thefounding of the Museum. Here too may be found books by members ofthe Museum staff, in many cases based on or describing the expeditionsin which they have taken part. Southeast WingSYNOPTIC SERIES OF MAMMALS Proceeding east from the hall containing apes and monkeys, wepass the elevators to enter the Southeast Wing, devoted mainly to aseries of exhibits illustrating the characters of mammals, their principalgroups, or orders, the main subdivisions of these, known as families, and. oo So00 s 88 MAMMALS OF THE WORLD various interesting peculiarities of habits and structure. Each family is,so far as possible, represented by a mounted specimen and a skeleton. Walking around the room from left to right, one passes from the egg-laying Platypus to man, represented by the figure of an Australiannative armed with the characteristic boomerang. Incidentally one seesamong other things the modifications of form and structure for variousmodes of locomotion, notices the superiority in brain of mammals overother vertebrates, learns that animals that outwardly look alike may bevery distantly related, sees illustrations of albinism and melanism, isshown how the coat of the hare changes from brown to white, and adapta-tions of plants and animals to a desert habitat. Of special note is the skeleton of Jumbo, the largest elephant everbrought to this country. The most striking object in the hall is the
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