A study from life. Series of wax casts to show the American newt's metliod of shedding 

 the skin: from the head bacl<ward until it binds the fore legs which are drawn out one at a 

 time, on t)ack\vard until the hind Ic^s must be worked free 



engrossed in a cliickadcc just alighted on a hircli hraiidi al)()\c liis licad, 

 and inattfiitivo to dan<,^cr, is about to tall a prey to a l)lack snake. A 

 frog far over at the left is "lying low" witli head lowerefj and lianfls 

 lifted, ha\ing unexjx'ctedly found himself in too close proximity to the 

 black snake to make it ad\isable to leap for safety. I'nder water one frog 

 in resting position — ciiiite different from the resting position on land — has 

 throat contracted and nostrils closed and like a fisli is breathing oxygen 

 from the water, his skin doing the work in j)lace f)f gills. A swimming 

 frog is sending up a stream of bubbles from the nostrils, showing that the 

 lungs are enij)licd of air as tlie skin comes into i)lay I'oi- breathing. 



At first glance the group i)resents a small cove reaching into a larger 



expanse of water, with only foiu' or 

 fi\-e frogs in view. The abnndance 

 of vegetation and the great array of 

 animal life (there are some half-hun- 

 dred specimens in the group) have 

 been subordinated to tlie effect of 

 the whole. All of the animals are 

 directly bct'oiM' the eye yet are .so 

 chosen and placed as to be incon- 

 spicuous except upon a more careful 

 search, thus imitating the conditi(Hi 

 in nature. 



Jn addition to the 1 hi II frog (ii-oup 

 there have been put on view recently 

 a Monitor Group and various smaller 

 exhibits. The exhibition of ami)hibia 

 and rcjjtiles is beset with unusual 

 difhcnlty and the various species 

 Portion of a wa.\ cast before color is ap- ha\e been represented in muse- 

 piied. The gills are of glass. Congo ^^g heretofore bv alcoholic material 



ee] (Amphiuma menns) "North Carolina.: cast ". 



from a model from life by Frederick Blaschke more often than in any other wav. 

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