. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 18 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1962. Botany-Exhibits Expedition recorded Kaieteur Falls, British Guiana, and its surroundings on film and canvas for rain-forest group in the new hall of plant life. Photographs will provide color data. Under the chairmanship of curator of mammals David H. Johnson, representatives of each of the vertebrate divisions cooperated with exhibits designer Eolland O. Hower in planning the renovated hall of osteology. This hall will present a large series of skeletons of mammals, bird
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 18 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1962. Botany-Exhibits Expedition recorded Kaieteur Falls, British Guiana, and its surroundings on film and canvas for rain-forest group in the new hall of plant life. Photographs will provide color data. Under the chairmanship of curator of mammals David H. Johnson, representatives of each of the vertebrate divisions cooperated with exhibits designer Eolland O. Hower in planning the renovated hall of osteology. This hall will present a large series of skeletons of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, carefully selected to -demonstrate relationships, variations, specializations, and adapta- tions. A systematic arrangement of the various groups will be re- tained as far as possible, and a section of the hall will be devoted to general topics such as the nature of bone and the interrelationships of skeletal parts. Taxidermists have begun the preparation of ma- terials for exhibition. At year's end the hall was cleared in readiness for the beginning of the construction of cases and other built-in fea- tures of the modernized installation. During the year "Martha," last of tlie passenger pigeons, was placed on exhibition in the bird hall. The temporaiy exhibit of mollusks in (he west hall of the second floor was removed to make way for reno- N'ation activity in the cold-blooded vertebrate and osteology 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
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