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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A study from life. Series of wax casts to show the American newt's metliod of shedding the skin: from the head bacl<ward until it binds the fore legs which are drawn out one at a time, on t)ack\vard until the hind Ic^s must be worked free engrossed in a cliickadcc just alighted on a hircli hraiidi al)()\c liis licad, and inattfiitivo to dan<,^cr, is about to tall a prey to a l)lack snake. A frog far over at the left is "lying low" witli head lowerefj and lianfls lifted, ha\ing unexjx'ctedly found himself in too close proximity to the black snake to make it ad\isable to leap for safety. I'nder water one frog in resting position — ciiiite different from the resting position on land — has throat contracted and nostrils closed and like a fisli is breathing oxygen from the water, his skin doing the work in j)lace f)f gills. A swimming frog is sending up a stream of bubbles from the nostrils, showing that the lungs are enij)licd of air as tlie skin comes into i)lay I'oi- breathing. At first glance the group i)resents a small cove reaching into a larger expanse of water, with only foiu' or fi\-e frogs in view. The abnndance of vegetation and the great array of animal life (there are some half-hun- dred specimens in the group) have been subordinated to tlie effect of the whole. All of the animals are directly bct'oiM' the eye yet are .so chosen and placed as to be incon- spicuous except upon a more careful search, thus imitating the conditi(Hi in nature. Jn addition to the 1 hiIIfrog (ii-oup there have been put on view recently a Monitor Group and various smaller exhibits. The exhibition of ami)hibia and rcjjtiles is beset with unusual difhcnlty and the various species Portion of a wa.\ cast before color is ap- ha\e been represented in muse- piied. The gills are of glass. Congo ^^g heretofore bv alcoholic material ee) (Amphiuma menns) "North Carolina.: cast ". from a model from life by Frederick Blaschke more often than in any other wav. 208
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