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Members' Room 



THIRD FLOOR 

 EAST CORRIDOR 



To the left of the elevators is a room set apart for the 

 use of honorary or subscribing members of the Museum, 

 where they may leave their wraps, rest, write letters or 

 meet their friends. Near by is a bronze tablet in memory of Jonathan 

 Thorne, whose bequest provides for lectures and objects for 

 the instruction of the blind. 



Members 

 Room 



Thorne Tablet 



SOUTH PAVILION 



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 side, was one of the first groups 

 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. "Mr. Crowley," one of the few full grown 

 apes 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 mammals that really fly, and rodents, the most 

 numerous and widely distributed of mammals are provisionally placed 

 in this hall pending other arrangements. 



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