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The liall itself has been remodeled into bold asymmetry. Along one 

 side of its length the solid bulk of double-decked display housing rises 

 and recedes, to counterbalance the plunging volume of the whale in 

 the clear, rectangular space opposite. The gently curved shape of 

 the second-tier balcony and its railing evokes memories of ships, with- 

 out straining credulity by actual imitation of form and structure. 

 The stairs leading from main floor to balcony, and from balcony up 

 and out of the room, are unobtrusively reminiscent of companionways. 

 By these, and other, gently suggestive devices the designers have 

 very cleverly managed to imbue the space itself with a subtly nautical 

 air that makes the whale, in defiance of all logic, seem a far more 

 reasonable and attractive sight than it ever did before under a roof. 



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1837. Mammalia. In A Naturalist's Library, vol. 6, pi. 5. Edinburgh. 



LOWEGREN, YnGVE. 



1961. Zoologisk Museiteknik, Djurens Viirld, vol. 15. Malmo. 

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1849. Dictionnaire tiniversel d'histoire naturelle. Atlas, vol. 1, pis. 22, 23. 

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