A PORTION OF THE BULLFROG GROUP 

 Showing Pickerel Weed 



Plants of Wax 



How They are Made in The American Museum 



of Natural History 

 BY LAURENCE VAIL COLEMAN, M.A. 



Plants of wax have become familiar to museum goers chiefly in 

 connection with habitat groups of mammals, birds and reptiles. In 

 fact, the impressiveness of a group often depends as much upon the 

 accessories which enter into its composition as upon the specimens which 

 it features, and therefore the making of artificial foliage has become an 

 important branch of work in a museum's studios. 



The following account explains how plants are made in the American 

 Museum. The method employed for leaves was devised and patented 

 by Carl E. Akeley, and this brief exposition is published with his con- 

 sent. 



