THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



An exhibit which shows a typical portion of the Wyan- 

 dotte Cave of Indiana, with the larger cave animals which 

 inhabit it, appears next on the right wall. The comparison 

 of this exhibit with that in Room 5, which shows the ex- 

 treme modifications in color and eye atrophy, occurring as a 

 result of continuously dark and limited environment, will 

 prove interesting. (Blindness or absence of eyes is not 

 characteristic of cave animals, except in special cases.) 



Still keeping to the left around the hall, a large iron 

 meteorite from Arizona is seen on the right, near a small 

 model of the American mastodon in a case on the wall, 

 above which to the right is a mounted hippopotamus head. 



The large window case here shows the golden eagle with 

 nest and young, and to the left, flanking the entrance to the 

 eastern galleries, are large sections of fossil trees from the 

 National Forest Reserve in Arizona. Smaller sections of 

 these trees are shown at the extreme left. 



The skeleton of a full-grown male American mastodon 

 occupies the central floor space at this point. 



A large glacial pot-hole, formed in a piece of rock in 

 Maine during the time when that portion of the continent 

 was in the grip of the Ice Age, appears below the mastodon 

 model on the right, and a mounted African eland is exhib- 

 ited in an alcove near-by. Around the walls of this alcove, 

 various forms and uses of the mineral asbestos are shown. 



At the left of the hall at this point, a striking group of 

 golden howler monkeys from South America shows adults 

 and young in a tree-top habitat. 



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