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West Wing [~~5 



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. b Central Section 5 , 4 



SECOND FLOOR 



Ascending to the second floor, the visitor passes exhibits 

 of fabrics, musical instruments and other objects from East 

 India. The entrance to the Natural History Collections is 

 flanked on either side by the bronzes, by Carl E. Akeley, of 

 an African elephant group and a lion and buffalo. 



The room directly at the left from the elevator (Room 5 

 on plan) forms the best point of departure for a study of 

 these collections. It contains exhibits illustrating the Evo- 

 lution, Distribution and Preservation of animals, designed 

 to indicate the manner in which new types and species have 

 come into existence; various ways in which animals may 

 become adapted to environment, and how the present dis- 

 tribution of animals has been brought about. The latter 

 point is illustrated by maps on either side of this room, as 

 one enters, and over the doorway inside, showing the ex- 

 tent and relations to one another of the continental areas 

 at different epochs of the world's history, and the zoological 

 regions of the world as they are to-day, thus indicating how 

 animals in the past have been able to travel by land be- 

 tween regions now separated by sea. 



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