HOWLING MONKEYS 

 In the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, mounted by Mr. J. William Critchley. 

 It is a group whose main purpose is to show the varied attitudes of the animals. Such groups preceded 

 the large naturaUstic groups which combine artistic effect with instruction and so greatly enhance 

 the educational value of museiims 



bring home to the ^observer the atmos- 

 phere and vegetation of some typical 

 part of the country. But save in ex- 

 ceptional cases, the foreground does not 

 exactly reproduce any given bit of coun- 

 try, although it does copy the plants and 



shrubs found there. How these groups 

 were prepared, what journey ings by flood 

 and field they involved is told by Dr. 

 Chapman himself in Camps and Cruises of 

 an Ornithologist and very briefly in the 

 leaflet describing these groups. The 



