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 Elevators 2. Members' Roor 



THIRD FLOOR 

 EAST CORRIDOR 



Members 

 Room 



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 the use of honorary 

 Museum, where they may leave th(Mi 

 meet their friends. 



SOUTH PAVILION 



elevators is a room set apart for 



or subscribing members of the 



wraps, rest, 



write letters or 



Monkeys, Apes, Rodents, Bats 



This is one of the halls in course of rearrangement and, in the final 

 plan, is intended to include primitive man as well as the other members 

 of the order Primates. 



The family of orang-utans, on the south sid(\ was one of the first 

 group of large animals to be mounted in this country, and was considered 

 a daring innovation. Near by are examples of the gorilla, the largest 

 and most powerful of the great apes and the chimpanzee, which is the 

 most like man in proportions and structure. " ]\Ir. Crowley," one of the 

 few full grown ap(^s that have endured captivity, lived for some time in 

 the Central Park Zoo. Skeletons of man and the large apes illustrate 

 the similarities and difference in structures between them. 



The bats, the only mannnals that really fly, and rodents, the most 

 numerous and widely distributed of mammals are provisionally placed 

 in this hall pending other arrangements. 



Suspended from the ceiling in the center of the hall is the skeleton of 

 a medium sized North Atlantic right whale, a species once common on 

 our coast, but now all but exterminated in the North Atlantic. 

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