Museum are Franklin Brandreth, 

 John L. Cadwalader, James (". Carter, 

 Mrs. Louisine W. Havemeyer, H. B. 

 Hollins, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, 

 Charles Lanier, Miss Carolyn ^Morgan, 

 Henry Clay Pierce, Henry W. Poor, 

 F. Augustus Schennerhorn, ]\Irs. 

 Phillip Schuyler, Mrs. John B. Trevor 

 and Mrs. Robert Winthroj). 



The third is the paddlefish or 

 spoonbill sturgeon grouj) in the hall of 

 fishes. It is as barren in respect to 

 vegetation as the Orizaba group is 

 luxuriant. A group of this character 

 is perhaps the most difficult proposi- 

 tion that the preparator has to 

 encounter. There is absolutely 

 nothing in the way of accessories to 

 help him and he has to sohe as best 

 he may the problem of making a 

 school of fishes hanging in mid air 

 look as though swinnning in water. 

 The casts of fishes were made by 

 Dwight Franklin and James ( ". Bell, 

 while Albert Operti has deftly painted 

 the remainder of the school. 



The spoonbill, which may weigh 

 one hundred and sixty pounds, is a 

 market fish, one of the most valuable 

 of tho.se taken from the Lower Missis- 

 sippi. Moreover its roe makes a 

 caviar of good cjuality and adds to 

 the profits of the spoonbill fishery. 

 The species is known only in the Mis- 

 sissippi and neighboring waters how- 

 ever, and so has not the importance 

 commercially that it would assume 

 if more widely distributed. The casts 

 for the grouji were obtained on a 

 Museum expedition to Moon Lake, 

 Mississippi, in 1909 and both the 

 field study and the work on the grou]) 

 have been carried on by means of the 

 Cleveland H. Dodge Fund. 



Transparencies 

 at the right of 

 the Orizaba 

 group 



Boreal Zone 

 Above timber- 

 line , alt. 

 13,500 ft. 



Boreal Zone 

 Pines a'n d 

 Spruces, alt. 

 0.500 fl. 



Temperate 

 Zone 

 Oak forest, alt. 

 .5000 ft. 



Tropical Zone 

 Primeval for- 

 est. alt. 1000 ft. 



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