. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 24 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1959. RepresentaMve specimens of all the important chemical groups of minerals are displayed. Here are seen the various forms in which are found gypsum, barite, and other oxysalts. by the exhibits staff in the design and production of the hall exhibits. Architectural design of this hall was b}'^ William Crockett. Design of the layout of a third paleontology hall, "The Age of Mammals," which will interpret the Tertiary mammals, was completed by Mrs. Ann Karras, exhibi
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 24 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1959. RepresentaMve specimens of all the important chemical groups of minerals are displayed. Here are seen the various forms in which are found gypsum, barite, and other oxysalts. by the exhibits staff in the design and production of the hall exhibits. Architectural design of this hall was b}'^ William Crockett. Design of the layout of a third paleontology hall, "The Age of Mammals," which will interpret the Tertiary mammals, was completed by Mrs. Ann Karras, exhibits designer, imder the scientific super- vision of curator C. Lewis Gazin. All exhibits were removed from this hall and the construction contract was awarded. Th(> exhibits in the hall of Pleistocene mammals (formerly the meteorite hall) were rearranged, some of the geological specimens were retired, and the Tertiary mammal skeletons removed from hall 5 were temporarily placed in the Pleistocene hall. The dinosaur hall has not been disturbed except to introduce a small number of the. 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 perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
Size: 1521px × 1643px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookpublisherwashingtonsmithsonianinstitution
