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installed in the same hall, and a complete skeleton of an Atlantic Fin- 
back Whale, or Rorqual, which has been suspended from the ceiling 
in the North Hall (No. 308) of the third floor. 
The model of the Sulphur-bottom Whale represents an animal 
76 feet long in the act of swimming. It consists of papier maché upon 
a wire shell which has been built over an elaborate frame of struc- 
tural iron. ‘The Sulphur-bottom is the largest of marine mammals and, 
in fact, of all known animals either living or extinct, sometimes attain- 
ing a length of 95 feet, with a girth of 39 feet and an estimated weight 
of 147 tons. This whale occurs in the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific 
Ocean, but it has become very rare in recent years on account of relent- 
less hunting. It receives its name from the color of the under surface. 
The skeletons in the East Mammal Hall are of a I yperoédon or Bottle- 
nose Whale which was captured twenty years or more ago in the Ger- 
man Ocean, a Globicephalus or “Caé-ing Whale,” as it is called by 
the Scotch, which was caught near the Faroe Islands, and a Mesoplodon, 
or Beaked Whale, which was taken near New Zealand in 1893. 
The Fin-back Whale was captured off Provincetown, Mass., in April, 
1896, and was about 63 feet long when alive. The maximum size for 
females of this species, which are larger than the males, is 70 feet. ‘The 
Finback is still captured in considerable numbers off the coast of North 
Carolina and northward to Newfoundland. The whale is hunted by 
means of steamships and is killed with explosive harpoons. |The com- 
mercial products obtained are whalebone of short length and coarse 
quality and oil, while the flesh and skeleton are used in making fertilizer. 
AN EXHIBITION OF MUSEUM ART AND METHODS. 
URING the month of May there was held in the East 
Mammal Hall an exhibition of drawings, paintings 
and models by the artists of the scientific staff of the 
Museum, showing the manner of preparing groups 
and figures for the public cases and illustrations for its 
scientific publications. 
Among the features of the exhibition were studies in clay by James 
L. Clark for the mounting of the African Lion Hannibal and the group 
