THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



member of the deer family, comprise the next group; these 

 animals, taken at New Brunswick, are shown in an autumn 

 scene characteristic of their natural habitat. 



To the left is a group of American black bears and young, 

 and just ahead a large group of American bison shows an 

 old bull, an old cow and a young cow and calf. 



Under the window are cases exhibiting rocks of the 

 Silurian, Upper Cambrian and Cambrian geological forma- 

 tions with the fossils found in them, and on the wall a 

 vertical section shows the rock strata of New York State. 



A temporary installation, showing skeletons of the sea 

 lion, swordfish and other marine animals, occupies the west 

 wall at this end of the hall, and at the left a large group of 

 fur seals from St. Paul's Island in Bering Sea brings the 

 visitor again to the point at which he began a survey of this 

 section of the exhibits. 



There yet remain exhibits of minerals, invertebrates and 

 plants in the eastern galleries, and, returning to the en- 

 trance to these galleries on the opposite side of the central 

 section, the first corridor (Room 6 on plan) contains the 

 systematic series of minerals. 



In the center of the second alcove, an exhibit of orna- 

 mental minerals shows polished agates, quartz, azurite and 

 other specimens possessing beauty and value. 



The large window group facing the mineral alcove in this 

 corridor shows the Virginia white-tailed deer, the most 

 abundant and most generally distributed of American deer, 

 in a summer woodland scene, and just beyond it a small- 



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