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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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52 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL allowable, why not a wax frog and a celluloid fish? One of the first efforts in the line of fish groups, that by Mr. Alfred J. Klein in the Brooklyn Museum, showing the fishes of a coral reef, is one of the best, partly from the nature of the subject, which affords more scope for attractive surroundings than is usually presented. And while the credit for this group, pre- pared in 1907, is entirely due to Mr. Klein, yet it really dates from a memo- randum written in 1893 after an inter- view with Dr. Goode, " make a group of red snappers with natural surroundings." It embodies principles, carried to great perfection in the habitat groups, that were independently worked out in the construction of a group of octopus, form- ing part of the exhibit of the United States National Museum at the Chicago Exposition of 1893. Painted background connected with the foreground, rounded corners and overhead lighting were all used in this small group, and while in comparison with what has been done since, it now seems a very crude little affair, yet it contained the germs of the beautiful Orizaba group. The curved, panoramic background and overhead lighting — borrowed con- sciously or unconsciously from our cycloramas — permit the last touches in the way of illusion and control of light
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THE WHARF-PILE GROUP A new marine group in the American Museimi made by Mr. I. Matausch and other preparators imder the supervision of Mr. Roy W. Miner. It shows the sponges, hydroids, sea anemones and other invertebrate animals with which wharf piles in favored localities are crowded below low-water mark

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