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Identifier: naturalhistory07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o £ o f- d Ll Z 5 33 _i r* < 3 _^ O ^ en o D cc 2; 5 =~ E 2 o ii 96 THE AMEBIC AX MUSEUM JOURNAL installed in the same hall, and a complete skeleton of an Atlantic Fin-back Whale, or Rorqual, which has been suspended from the ceilingin the North Hall (No. 308) of the third floor. The model of the Sulphur-bottom Whale represents an animal76 feet long in the act of swimming. It consists of papier mache upona wire shell which has been built over an elaborate frame of struc-tural iron. The Sulphur-bottom is the largest of marine mammals and,in fact, of all known animals either living or extinct, sometimes attain-ing a length of 95 feet, with a girth of 39 feet and an estimated weightof 147 tons. This whale occurs in the Atlantic as well as in the PacificOcean, but it has become very rare in recent years on account of relent-less hunting. It receives its name from the color of the under surface.The skeletons in the East Mammal Hall are of a Hyperoodon or Bottle-nose Whale which was cap

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