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PERSONAGES of international repute are in^ 

 terested visitors to the fossil exhibits at the Los 

 Angeles Museum. On historic occasions civic 

 and museum officials have received notables 

 such as Prince Axel of Denmark (in uniform 

 above); Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of 

 the United States Supreme Court and Mrs. 

 Hughes (right above) and Thomas A. Edison 

 and Mrs. Edison at left in the group below. At 

 Mrs. Edison's left is Frank S. Daggett, former 

 director of the museum whose early interest in 

 La Brea Pits was an important factor in the re- 

 covery and preservation of the fossil finds. Dr. 

 A. J. Scott, chairman of the 1915 committee 

 which entertained the Edisons, is seen with hat. 

 In recent years the fossil exhibits have attracted 

 increasing attention throughout the world. A 

 large room in the Museum building is called 

 Rancho La Brea Hall and is devoted almost ex- 

 clusively to skeletal elements and articulated 

 skeletons taken from the tar traps. Under 

 guidance of Dr. John Adams Comstock, director 

 of science, many notable improvements have 

 been made. A summary of Pleistocene life in 

 California by Dr. Chester Stock has been pub- 

 lished by the Museum. 



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