THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
SHE LEADS IN BEAUTYAND INTEREST £ 
HOMES TO NATURE'S REALMS. 
EDWARD F. BIGELOW, MANAGING EDITOR! 
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Volume XIV. JULY. 1921 Number 2 
The Bruce Museum. 
The People of the Towns of Greenwich, Stamford and Vicinity Are Cordially 
Invited. 
T HE Bruce Museum, near the Green- 
wich depot, has been for several 
years in process of development 
and the work is still going on. It is open 
to the public every day in the year, even 
including Sundays if special arrange- 
ment is made with the curator. The mu- 
seum was taken over by the town last 
autumn although the equipment is still 
continuing under the Board of Trus- 
tees with Edward F. Bigelow as 
Curator and Paul G. Howes as As- 
ssitant Curator. 
For lack of funds the water was 
turned off and there was no heat in the 
building during the winter. It is greatly 
to be desired that in the near future 
that condition be remedied. 
With the summer exhibition by the 
Greenwich Society of Artists in the gal- 
lery of the museum quite naturally 
there is an added interest, and for that 
reason as well as for the more comfort- 
able temperature the number of visitors 
increases. Miss Cora Parker has been 
engaged for the summer months as 
docent and will assist in making not 
only the gallery but the other depart- 
ments available to visitors. 
Three floors are devoted to the pur- 
poses of the museum; viz., natural his- 
tory, history and art. More than four 
years of intense effort have been spent 
by the curators and those interested in 
the development of collections. The 
material now displayed in its authen- 
ticity and beauty cannot be rivalled in 
any other small museum in the East. 
On the main floor is the room de- 
voted to American mammals, in which 
most of the species now inhabiting the 
state, together with those formerly liv- 
ing in it, are displayed in their natural 
surroundings. Some of these exhibits 
required months of preparation as even 
the leaves of the woodland trees and 
the blossoms of wild flowers are repro- 
duced in wax. Such large animals as 
the black bear with young, elk. Vir- 
ginia deer, and others are represented, 
together with a host of beautifully 
mounted smaller mammals, including 
bats, jumping mice, shrews, beaver, 
porcupine, squirrels, foxes and pec- 
caries. 
Owing to their special interest a few 
foreign animals have been added, 
among which will be found the giant 
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