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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (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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1 — Lioness — an example of early work 2 — African lion mounted at the Maison Verreaux about 1865 3 — African lion, Hannibal, mounted at the American Museum of Natural History by James L. Clark in 190G. All three specimens are on exhibition in the American Museum at the present time The earliest bird groups in the Ameri- can Museum of Nat- ural History, the first of which was very appropriately the American robin, were made largely after those in the British Museum and in- stalled each in a small case so as to be viewed on four sides. They thus differed from their prototypes in the Booth Museum which, as noted, were intended to be seen from one side only.^ They were all groups of small or moderate size and confined to species found within fifty miles of New York City. The time was not yet come, though it was near at hand, for the execution of the large naturalistic groups with which we are now familiar, and Museum officers and trustees would have hesitated to in- cur the time and cost involved in their preparation. I These early American Museum bird groups, thirty-four in number, have recentlybeen brought together under the title of " Local Birds " in the west corridor of the second floor

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