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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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mmon species of Americaflowers. They are modeled skillfully in las:with their colors faithfully copied frornature. In the center of the hall (Case D) wi (54) be found a dissolving diorama, the first of aseries on forest conservation. The first scenerepresents a forest area of Colorado WhitePine in Idaho and shows the earlv glow of aforest fire in the distance. This dissolves intoa scene of the same area after the fire, show-ing the burned trees, destroved surfacecoverage, and general desolation. The other specimens in the hall show cross,longitudinal, and oblique sections of the wood of North American forest trees, finish-ed and unfinished. The labels adjacent givethe distribution of the species, the character-istics of the wood, and its economic uses.The trees are grouped bv families, and thelocation of each family will be found on thefloor plans in the first case on either side ofthe hall. The reproductions of the flowers,leaves and fruits are made in the Museumlaboratories.
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A DISSOLVING-YIEYV EXHIBIT in the Forestry and Conservation Hall.The disastrous effectsof a forest fire are depicted when the three-dimensional scene above fades into the one below 1 LivingInvertebrates THE DARWIN HALL OF THEEVOLUTIOX OF LIFE (Index Plan, p. 16, First Floor, Hall 5) THIS hall is devoted chiefly to invertebratesand exhibits illustrating biological principles,especially those concerned with the evolu-tion of life. It is, therefore, dedicated toCharles Darwin. Facing the entrance is abronze bust of Darwin by William Couper,presented by the New York Academy ofSciences on the occasion of the Darwin cen-tenary in 1909. Mil IKEE OF LIKE In the first upright case at the left is a FamilyTree of the Animal Kingdom. Each class ofanimals is represented bv a color sketch, andthe branches show the relationships of thevarious classes and indicate the evolution ofeach group from the parent stem. SYNOPTIC SERIES The exhibits in the succeeding upright casescomprise examples of the vari

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