THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



western United States, and the huge Kadiak bear of the 

 Alaskan Peninsula. 



Suspended from the ceiling is a model of a seventy-six 

 foot sulphurbottom whale. 



Southeast Pavilion, used as a workroom for the prepa- 

 ration of African elephants and other mammals. Proceed 

 to the 



SOUTH PAVILION 



"Nature is a revelation of God, 

 Art, a revelation of man." 



Longfellow. 



At the present time this hall contains a varied assem- 

 blage of animals, but in the main is devoted to a series of 

 groups of reptiles and amphibians which for composition, 

 detail and exactness are not excelled in any museum. 



In the immediate foreground, dominating all others, is 

 a mounted specimen of "Tip," an Asiatic elephant who 

 was the main attraction in Central Park Menagerie for 

 many years. In 1894 it became necessary to kill him be- 

 cause of his treacherous disposition. In the east wall cases 

 are many species of seals. Other conspicuous mammal 

 specimens or groups are those of the sea elephant, the 

 largest of the earless seals and now nearly extinct; an ex- 

 ceptionally well mounted white rhinoceros; Bactrian camel; 

 tigers; Chinese takin, a clumsily built animal with yellow- 

 ish-brown hair and curiously curved horns, and black rhi- 



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