ENERAL GUIDE to™e EXHIBITION HALLS BY FREDERIC A. LUCAS Revised by Members of the Staff SEVENTEENTH EDITION THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, N. Y. 1932 in THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Board of Trustees Pres* >RN Kir- Second Vice-President J. P. MoRQAN Treasu Secretary :< II I I H. Ei-u r i:w York I'TROLLER OF THE ClTY OF NEW YORK Th i 'ark Board Elective J. P. Moic ! . Baker, Jr. Junius S. Morgan, Jr. T. Bown< A. Perry Osborn DBBICK F. Bki Henri Fairfield Osborn l>EN James H. Perkins 'AM CUTTING Daniel E. Pomeroy lERICK TRUBEE Da\ George D. Pratt veland Earl Dodge H. Rivington Pyne Lincoln Ellsworth A. Hamilton Rice Childs Fairs Kekmit Roosevelt Madison Grant Henry W. Sags Chauncey J. Hamlin Leonard C. Sanfobd Clarence L. Hay William K. Vanderbilt Archer M. Huntington Felix M. Warburg kn L. Mills Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitnet Administrative Officers Director and Executive Secretary George H. Sherwood -Director (In Charge of Exploration and Research) Roy Chapman Andrews Vice-Director (In Charge of Preparation and Exhibition) Jambs L. Clark Assistant Director and Associate Secretary (General Administration) Wayne M. Faunce Assistant Treasurer United States Trust Company of New York Bursar Assistant Bursar Frederick II. Smyth Francis Bushell Registrar Assistant Registrar George N. Pindar Ethel L. Neuman Superintendent of Buildings Chief of Construction J. B. Foulkb H. F. Beers Chief Engineer H. J. I.anottam THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENTIFIC STAFF FOR 1932 1. Officers of Administration IIimo Fairfield Osborn, D.Sc, I.I.I), President George II. Sherwood, Ed.D., Director Km Chapman Andrews, Sc.D., Vice-Director (In Charge of Exploration and Research I.. James Clark, Vice-Director I In Charge of Preparation and Exhibition) Wayne M I'm in< k. Si 11, Assistant Director (General Administration) and Assistant Secretary Frederick II. Smyth, Bursal .1 2. Scientific Staff Living and Extinct Fishes {con- nthropology I continut d tinued.) George C.Vaillant, Ph.D. Associate Curator of Mexican Astronomy FRANCEBCA K. LaMoNTE, A B., Assist- ArchseologJ ant ( 'urator Harry I. Shapiro, Pii I). Associate IClvde Fisher, Ph.D., LL.D., Curator Curator of Physical Charles II. Townsend, Sc.D. Re- Anthropology search Associate Margaret Mead, PhD. Assistant ( 'urator of Minerals ami Gems C. M. Breder, Jr., Research Associate Ethnology I. Assistant I. mis Ronald Olson, Ph.D. in ssAKOP, 1'h I) . Research llli hiikrt P. Wiiitlock, C.E., Curator Curator of Associate in Fishes South American Archae- IGeohce P. Ki'NZ, Ph.D., Research Devonian Field ology Associate in Gems Van Campen Heilner, M.Sc, Representative Clarence I.. Hay, A.M., Research Associate in Mexican and Central Fossil Vertebrates Amphibians on<l Reptiles, and American Archaeology Experimental Biology Mit.o Hk.i.i.man, D.D.S., Research IiIkmiv P'airkield Osborx, DSc., Associate in Physical AnthropologJ LL.D., Honorary Curator-in-Chief G. Kingsley Noble, Ph.D., Curator George E. Brewer, MI). LL.D., Re- IChii.ds Fh'ck, U.S. Honorary Curator Clifford H. Pock, U.S., Assistant search Associate in Somatic Anthro- of late- Tertiary ami Quaternary Curator pology Mammals Helen Teale Bradley, A.B., Staff IWai.tkh (ii(\\i;Eii, Curator of Fossil Assistant Asiatic Exploration oml Research Mammals Leah H Richards, B.S., Staff Assist- ||Iminim llmiiiv. A.B., Curator of ant Roy Chapman Andrews, S< D. Fossil Reptiles Bertram G. Smith, Ph.D., Research Curator-in-( Jhief in (!. Simpson, PhD , Associate Cura- Associate Walter Granger, Curator Palae- tor of Veitebrate Palaeontology William Douglas Burden, A.M., ontology !harles C. Mook, Ph.D., Associate Research Associate Charles P. Berkey, Ph.D., [Columbia s. Associate iii Curator of Geology and Palteontology Frank Mathews, M.I) . Research University], Research lUuiiKi. \. Husband, A.M., Staff Associate Geology Assistant Homer W. Smith, Sc.D., Research Amadeus W. Grabau, S.D., [Geological |Waltkr W. Holmes, Field Associate Associate Survey of China], Research Associate in Palaeontology <>. M. Helff, Pii. I), Research Asso- Pere Teilhard in. Chardin [Geologi- ciate cal Survey of China] Research Asso- ciate in Mammalian Paleontology \Geology ami Fossil Invertebrates Birds Frank M. Chapman, Sc.D., Curator- Phester A. Reeds, Ph.D., Curator Preparation ami Exhibition in-Chief Robert Cushman Murphy, D.Sc, James I.. Clark, Vice-Director (In Living Invertebrates Curator oft tceanic Birds Charge) James P. Chapin, Ph.D.. Associate Albert E. Butler, Associate Chief Waldo .Miner, Ph.D., Sc D , ('urator of Birds of the ( 'urator Eastern |\ ii.i.ahu (I. Van Name, Ph.D., Hemisphere 3. Education, Library and Associate Curator JOHN T. ZlMMER, B.S., M.A.. Associate Publication Staff Curator of Birds of the '"rank .1. Myers, Research Associate Western Cura- in Rotifera Hemisphere George H. Sherwood, Ed.D., floRACE W. Sri \kuii), Ph.D., Re- Elsie M. B. Naumberg, Research tor-in-Chief Curator search Associate in Parasitology Associate Clyde Fisher, Ph.D., LL.D . of University, College and Adult |\. L Treadwell, Ph.D., Research Mammals of the World Associate in Annulata Education II. E. Anthony, M.A.. Curator Grace Fisher Ramsey, Associate ROBERT T. IIatt, A.M., Assistant Curator Insect Life Curator William II Carr, Assistant Curator Assistant V Bennett, A.B., staff I'iunk E. I.i 17, Ph.D., Curator George G. Goodwin, Dorothy Curator Assistant J. MuTCHLER, Associate Curator of II. II. Assistant Curator o I'm I. B M\nn, A.M.. Associate m ( 'oleoptera G. Tate, D. H. CuRRAN, M.S., Assistant Curator South American Mammals Education I.i I) .1. Morden, Ph.B . Field I'n \nk iv. l'n . Research As- 'ii ink E. Watson, B.S., Staff Assistant William E i tiitdooi in Lepidoptera Associate sociate in Education |Vu.i.iAM M. Wheeler, Ph.D., I.I.D., Comparative and II union Research Associate III Social Insects Library oml Publications .1 natomy 'harles W. I.i n... B.Sc., Research [da Richardson Hood, A.B., Curatoi Associate in Coleopters William K. (Ihkuohy, Ph.D., Curator Hazel Gay, Assistant Librarian |li:nnEnr A.M., Research II. Associate F. Schwarz, C. Raven, Curatoi Jannette Mn Lucas, B.S., Assistant Associate in 1 1\ meiioptci a S. II. Chubb, Associate Curator Librarian t Isborn Library MARCELLE RoiGNEAU, Staff Assistant in Comparative Anatomy Living and Extinct Fishes Printing and Publishing .1. Howard McGregor, PhD., Re- I i i . iditoi |\'ii.i.iam K. Gregory, Ph.D., Curator- search Associate ill Human Anatomy 1 1 w\ born Daniel, ( Suratoi -Chief* Dudley .1. Morton, M.D , Research of Natural History s. I mi T. 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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY / SC!ENCf> EDUCATION SEVENTEENTH EDITION 1932 New York Published by the Museum CONTENTS Trustees : (Cover) 2 Administrative Stafk (Cover) 2 Scientific Staff 1 General Information 6 Membership 8 History and Work of the Museum 11 Entrance Archway 14 Key to Exhibition Halls 15 First Floor: Visitors' Room, Information Bureau, Sales Booth, Checking Desk 17 Memorial Hall (South Pavilion), Meteorites 17 Elevators (East Corridor) 17 Jesup Collection of Trees of North America (Southeast Wing) 19 Invertebrates (Darwin Hall) (Southeast Pavilion).. 21 Hall of Fishes (East Wing) 29 Hall of Ocean Life (Southeast Court) 32 Indians of the North Pacific Coast (South Central Wing) 34 Eskimo Collection (North Corridor) 37 Meteorites (North Corridor) 37 Auditorium (Central Pavilion) 38 Astronomy (West Corridor) 39 Indians of the Woodlands (Southwest Wing) 40 Indians of the Plains (Southwest Pavilion). 42 Indians of the Southwest (West Wing) 45 Bickmore Memorial Corridor (Southwest Court) 49 Education Hall (Southwest Court) 50 Public Health: Food, Water Supply (Southwest Court) 50-57 Second Floor: Birds of the Continents Hall (South Pavilion) 58 Restaurant (South Corridor) 58 r Mammals of North America (Southeast Wing) . >s Birds of the World (South Central Wing) titi Local Birds (West Corridor) 70 Antiquities of Mexico and Central America (Southwest Wing) 71 Prehistoric Man of North America and Europe (Southwest Pavilion). ... 76 Third Floor: Monkeys and Apes (South Pavilion) 77 Animal Photographs (Smith Pavilion) 80 Members' Room (East Corridor) 80 Mammals (Synoptic Series) (Southeast Wing) 80 Insect Life (Southeast Pavilion) 83 Reptile Life (Last Wing) 87 Birds of North America (Habitat Groups) (South Central Wing) 89 Auduboniana (West Corridor) 97 Indians of South America (Southwest Wing) 97 Chinese and Siberian Collections