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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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es, comprising the larger examples, among them Ahnighito,weighing 36.5 tons, the largest meteorite in the world, brought fromGreenland by Peary in 1897. On the right and left of Memorial Hall are the small Assembly Hallsin which various scientific and other societies hold their meetings. Thelarge lecture hall, seating 1400, is at the end of the Hall of Indians of theNorthwest Coast. The new School Service Wing contains the offices of Educationand Public Health, the slide room, where loans are made to public schools,and several lecture rooms equipped with projection apparatus for theaccommodation of classes numbering from 50 to 250. Entrance from West Corridor, and from Hall of Indians of thePacific Coast. The elevators start at intervals from the East Corridor, at theentrance to the hall of Trees of North America. The visitor may eithertake an elevator to the fourth floor and visit the balls as he descends, orchoose his hall from the Guide or from the Directory opposite the elevators.
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