120 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
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striking mounts in the Horse Alcove is that of the rearing horse and 
man, showing the domination of man over this powerful animal through 
superior intelligence, in spite of relatively slight physica! strength. 
The American Museum collections of fossil horses are larger than 
those of all other museums put together, but only a small part are on 
exhibition, by far the greater part being in the study collections on the 
top floor, accessible to scientific students. Here there are preserved 
RUNNING RACE HORSE IN ACTION. 
Instantaneous photograph taken from apparatus shown on page 119. 
gray 
hundreds of skulls and partial skeletons, thousands of jaws and tens of 
thousands of teeth and bones. They come from all parts of the world 
where fossil horses have been found, but chiefly from the western bad 
lands. Some have been obtained by exchange with other museums 
or by purchase, but the greater part has been collected by expeditions. 
which have been sent out year after year since 1891. 
