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To supply the need of specimens to illustrate certain biological 

 facts, there were again loaned to A Century of Progress exposition 

 116 mounted and unmounted specimens of birds and mammals, 

 and ten fish models. For the duration of the exposition, these 

 specimens were displayed in the biological section of the Hall of 

 Science, where they were used to exemplify speciation, and in 

 exhibits showing world-wide ecological association and undersea life. 



INSTALLATIONS AND REARRANGEMENTS — ZOOLOGY 



A new hall (Hall 12) was opened in the Department of Zoology 

 for a novel exhibit of nineteen sculptured champion British domestic 

 animals, one-quarter life size. These were modeled from the living 

 animals by the noted sculptor, Mr. Herbert Haseltine. The col- 

 lection is a gift from Trustee Marshall Field. Among the animals 

 depicted are many of international fame. Notable are the Shire 

 stallion. Field Marshal V, from the stables of King George V of 

 England, and the great thoroughbred sire Polymelus. The Suffolk 

 Punch breed is represented by Sudhourne Premier, the Percheron 

 by the stallion Rhum, the polo pony by Perfection, and the steeple- 

 chaser by Sergeant Murphy, winner of the Grand National in 1923. 

 Cattle are represented by an Aberdeen Angus bull, a Shorthorn 

 bull, a Hereford bull, and a Dairy Shorthorn cow. Sheep and pigs 

 include two Lincoln rams, a Southdown ewe. Middle White boar 

 and sow, and a Berkshire boar. A varied technique adds greatly to 

 the attractiveness of the figures. Some are cast bronze, others 

 chiseled bronze, bronze plated with gold, bardiglio marble, black 

 Belgian marble. Burgundy limestone, and rose St. Georges marble. 

 Although highly realistic, they are also endowed with great artistic 

 feeling. 



Unusual progress was made in the production of new exhibits, 

 principally of mammals and birds. Seven large habitat groups of 

 mammals were completed and opened to public view. Much 

 advance was made, also, in the systematic exhibits of birds, five 

 new screens being finished and two others rearranged and trans- 

 ferred to new positions. One bird group, the birds of Bering Sea, 

 was reinstalled with a new background. Of the new mammal 

 groups, five are Asiatic and two African. The addition of the five 

 Asiatic groups to William V. Kelley Hall (Hall 17) nearly doubles 

 the display in that hall, which contained only six finished groups at 

 the beginning of the year. It now has eleven, with space for ten 

 more, five of which are well on the way toward completion. The 

 new Asiatic groups are those of the sambar deer, the swamp deer. 



