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WOUKSllOl'S 



ENLARGED MODEL OF A RADIOLARIAN 

 One of many made in the Museum laboratories. 



oxhi})its, work which calls for the services of a very considerable uiimber 

 of artists and artisans. 



Here are cast, modeled, or mounted the figures for the man>- <2;r()ups 

 from Man to Myxine, her(^ heaves are made to grow and flowers to bloom 

 as a('cessori(^s for beasts,* birds and fishes, to say nothing of reptiles and 

 amphibians, and here, with painstaking care, are slowly created in glass 

 and wax tlu^ magnified copies of invertebrates. 



From all this may be gathered that a museum is a very busy place, 

 mucli more so than the casual visitor is apt to imagine. In fact, a very 

 good nuiseum man has said that a nuiseum is much like an iceberg, seven- 

 eighths of it under water and invisibh'. We will now proceed to the visible 

 eighth. 



*Sec Cuidv Lcaflcl \o. 34. 



