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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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to its projecting eyes and feelers, and is immediately pounced upon by a lurkinglobster. The crab frantically endeavors to escape by vigorously paddling its oar-shaped hindlimbs. A detail from the Sound Bottom Group. East WingHALL OF FISHES On entering the Hall of Fishes one faces a group of sharks, sweep-ing down upon a helpless loggerhead turtle. The large decorative panelThe Sea on the right illustrates the principal grand divisions of fishRovers (ife aiKi their history in geologic time. The decorative panelat the left represents successive stages in the development of the Austra-lian Lungfish, Neoceratodusforsteri, from the fertilized egg to the adult. The Systematic Exhibit includes a representative series of fishesfrom the lowly cartilage fishes, including the sharks and rays, to theSystematic highest or most complexly constructed bony fishes. Note-Exhibit worthy in this series are the Fishes with Limbs andLungs, the terrible hag fishes, the graceful skates and rays, the hammer-
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THE COUNTRY OF PERPETUAL NIGHT From Group in the Hall of Fishes 31 32 DEEP SEA FISHES head shark, and the thresher shark. Then follow a scries of mountedgroups of ganoids, including the sturgeons, spoonbills, bony gars,bowfins, all of exceptional scientific interest, since they are livingfossils, or descendants of the now extinct fishes of earlier geologic times.In the alcoves and wall cases on the right, or east side, the visitor willfind man) curious forms, such as the giant catfishes, the handsomerooster fish, the brilliant parrot wrasses, and butterfly fishes. At the north end of the Fish Hall is the exhibit of Big Game Pishes,including many of great size taken with rod and line by Zane Grey.Big Game The huge ocean sunfish, caught by him with harpoon andFishes „..in^ weighed nearly a ton. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the mounted sailfish, shown in the act of leaping from the waterin a desperate effort to shake the hook from its jaws. The walls of the inner enclosure represe

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