. ELEVATORS 



2. COPIES OF MAYA MONUMENTS 



3. LOCAL BIRDS 



SECOND FLOOR 



SOUTHEAST WING 



MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA 



As the visitor leaves the elevator on the second floor he 

 faces an admirable painting, "Polaris in Thank God Har- 

 bor," by William Bradford. At the immediate left is a 

 portrait of von Humboldt by Julius Schrader. Turning to 

 the right of the elevators, the giant moose of Alaska is the 

 first object to catch the eye. On each side in the west wall 

 cases are groups of small mammals found within fifty 

 miles of New York: opossum, the only common North 

 American representative of the order of marsupials, or 



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