THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



fishes, the fringe-firmed fishes, shark-like in form and fins 

 but with dermal bones and bony skeleton, and finally the 

 spiny-finned fishes, or teleosts, which constitute the multi- 

 tudinous forms of the present time and which include stur- 

 geon, garpike, cod, herring, perch and the other common 

 bony fishes. Return to the East Corridor and enter the 



SOUTH PAVILION 

 HALL OF THE AGE OF MAN 



"Far must thy researches go 

 Wonldst thou learn the world to know." 



Confucius. 



Conspicuous in the center of the hall is a skeleton of the 

 giant carnivorous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex (king of 

 tyrant saurians), measuring forty-seven feet in length and 

 standing nineteen feet in height. It can safely be said that 

 Tyrannosaurus, which lived three million years ago, is the 

 largest terrestrial flesh-eater of all ages. This specimen 

 forms one of a group intended as the central exhibit of a 

 new hall. Owing to lack of space, however, only one speci- 

 men can be mounted or exhibited at the present time, and 

 this is placed temporarily in the Age of Man Hall, as there 

 is not room in the Dinosaur Hall to show it properly. 



On the left is a series of skeletons illustrating the evolu- 

 tion of the horse under the hand of man. In the exhibit 

 are skeletons of the Shetland pony and draught horses, as 



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