THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



ensis), and the Cro-Magnon Man (Homo sapiens). In 

 addition to the casts of the more important skulls, there are 

 weapons and other implements, and drawings to illustrate 

 further the appearance and habits of paleolithic man. 

 These specimens served as subjects to illustrate the recent 

 book of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Men of the Old 

 Stone Age." 



The remainder of the hall is occupied by a most compre- 

 hensive and instructive exhibit of mammoths, mastodons 

 and elephants. 22 The Warren Mastodon, found near New- 

 burgh, New York, is the finest specimen of its kind ever 

 discovered. The Evolution of the Mastodons and Elephants 

 is illustrated by a series of skulls and separate teeth. 



In the wall cases may be seen portions of skin and hair 

 and other fragments of a mammoth found in Alaska. The 

 plaster models of living and extinct elephants by Charles 

 R. Knight are worthy of examination. Proceed to the 



SOUTH CENTRAL WING 



Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology 



"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak." 



Skakespeare. 



North of the Hall of the Age of Man, containing the mas- 

 todons and mammoths, is the Hall of Geology and Inverte- 

 brate Palaeontology. At the entrance to the hall are two 



--Mammoths and Mastodons— .10. 



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