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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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the room, ending with the lemurs. Noteworthy amongthe Primates is the Gorilla, largest and most powerful of apes, the curiousProboscis Monkey from Borneo, and the Aye-aye of Madagascar. On one side of the hall is a group of the beautiful Horse-tailedMonkeys, which are threatened with extermination owing to the demandfor their fur, and on the other a troop of South American Spider Monkeys. The closed corridor contains a few groups of Primates characteristicof various parts of the world, Africa, Asia, South America and Mada-Grou s a;scar> ar»d a group of African Pygmies, a low race to becontrasted with the high apes. The African Red Monkeys are rolling up the moss, hunting forinsects, and the lied Howling Monkeys are in their favorite home amongthe tree tops. Outside of the central corridor, on the south side of the hall, is agroup of Orang (tans from Borneo; this was one of the first groups oflarge animals to be mounted in this country and it was looked upon as adaring innovation.
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a > Z < u u. 86 SYNOPTIC SERIES OF MAMMALS On the south side of this hall is installed a notable series of photo-graphs of wild animals donated to the Museum by the men who tookAnimal them. They were originally part of a competitive ex- Photographs hibition of wild animal photographs shown at a meetingof the American Society of Mammalogists. At the west, or farther end of the hall, a series of skeletons en-ables the student to study the comparative structure of the PrimatesStructure and note the changes that take place in passing ,fromof Primates Lemurs to Man. Temporary Exhibits The fruit bats, often known as flying foxes, the largest members of the order, and found only in the warmer parts of the Old World, are _ . _ represented by a small portion of a colony from Calapan, Philippine Islands. Such a colony may number several thousands, and may be very destructive to bananas and other fruits. Temporarily placed in this hall also is a small exhibit of domesti-cated dogs, which,

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