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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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reat sabre-toothtiger, one of the host of northern animals that invaded the southerncontinent upon its union with the northern world, and swept before themto extinction most of its ancient inhabitants. The principal exhibits on the north side of the hall are the mammothsand mastodons and the series of skulls showing the evolution of theWarren elephant. The first skeleton is the Long-Jawed Mastodon Mastodon 0f ^jie Pliocene, a predecessor of the true Mastodon in NorthAmerica. The Warren Mastodon is a classic specimen. It wasfound near Newburgh, N. Y., in 1846, and is the finest specimen of itskind that has ever been discovered. Next to it is a fine skeleton of themammoth; portions of skin, hair and other fragments of a mammothcarcass discovered in Alaska are also shown. While modern elephantsare confined to portions of Asia and Africa, fossil remains of elephantsand mastodons show that, at one time or another in the past, they werefound over the greater part of the northern hemisphere.
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HALL OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS 111 Around the walls is a series of paintings by Charles R. Knight,portraying some of the more striking animals that were contemporarywith early man in Europe and America, and whose skeletons are shownbelow. Here are the Great Ground Sloths, the Woolly Rhinoceros, theMammoth and Mastodon and the strange moose-like Cervalces. (See Handbook No. 4, Animals of the Past, and Guide Leaflet No. 62,Mammoths and Mastodons.) Passing through the East Corridor we come to the Southeast Wing Southeast WingOSBORN HALL OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS Fossil Mammals of the Tertiary Period A particular feature of this hall is the wonderful series in the firstalcove on the right showing the evolution of the horse. The Museum isEvolution justly proud of this collection, which is one of the mostof the complete series of fossil horse skeletons in the world, and contains two skeletons of Eohippus, the little four-toeddawn horse, and numerous other unique specimens. As shown by skele-tons of

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