TEE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PKOGKESS OF SCIENCE 



WHARF-PILE FAUNA IN A 



MUSEUM GROUP 

 The oceanic waters that lap our 

 shores conceal beneath their tidal mar- 



I biology. As terrestrial animals our- 



■ selves we live and move in the midst of 



a world of air-breathing creatures with 



which most of us have become tolerably 



gin a wealth of animal and plant life familiar. Beasts, birds, reptiles and 

 that is surprisingly unfamiliar to those j insects have for us an economic or 

 who are not actually students of marine I esthetic bearing that gives them a 



The Vineyard Haven Wharf Pile Group. 



The upper background is made up of enlarged photographic transparencies show- 

 ing the actual locality. Below the water line, the animals and plants of the wharf 

 piles are represented largely by models. The submarine background effect is produced 

 by five successive sheets of plate-glass through which daylight filters from a window 

 behind. 



