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Title: The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : Irving Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Mr. Jesup fortunatelysecured his cooperation in the preparation of the collection for theMuseum. The collection of 420 species was formally presented to the Museumin 1891, about twelve years having been required to bring it together.A number of species were at that time lacking, but an expedition sentout in the fall of 1891 secured all but a very few unimportant ones,so that the present collection of 3,092 specimens, of which 505 areon exhibition, is practically complete in its representation of the nativewoods of North America, north of Mexico. The trunks of the treesin the exhibition series are of an average height of five feet, and cutso as to show vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections, half of eachsection being polished. The foliage, flower, and fruit of each species are illustrated by awater-color sketch, the work of Mrs. Mary Robeson Sargent, and somealso by artificial sprays in natural size and color. The sections of the California redwood tree and the giant sequoia (1181
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oa oo A<o 3 N o Eno o oNhJ oU QW w O O <1 WOODS AND FORESTRY on exhibition in the Darwin Hall were presented by Mr. C. P. Hunt-ington in 1891. A flawless plank of the California redwood, measuring six feet inwidth and seventeen feet in length, was added to the collection by Mr.Jesup in 1905. Specimens of foreign woods were among the very early accessionsof the Museum. They were received in 1876, being portions of ex-hibits of the different countries at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposi-tion. Jamaica and Bermuda presented their entire exhibit, containinga rich display of tropical woods. Brazil, Argentine Republic, andMexico presented a number of specimens from their exhibit, whileothers were received from Japan, Turkey, and the Hawaiian Islands. SCIENTIFIC STAFF The Jesup collection of North American woods was brought to-gether under the supervision and direction of Professor Charles Sprague chariesSargent, of Harvard University, under whose charge Mr. Jesup placed ^praguethe De

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