Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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54 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL The first bird groups, those in the British Museum and those here, were, if we may borrow a phrase once famiHar, now almost obsolete, pre-Raphaelistic in their character — exact copies of the spot or surroundings where the animals were taken. The plants were counted and plotted on a diagram; sod, roots and shrubs were dug up and transported, often in the face of great difficulties, to the museum where the group was to be established, and there assembled in the exact and proper order of occurrence. The next step was the habitat group and here is where Dr. Frank M. Chap- man comes into the story, for it is to him that we owe the series of nature pictures known by that name. The habitat group does not copy nature slavishly, even though an actual scene forms the background; it aims to give a broad and graphic presentation of the conditions under which certain assemblages of bird life are found, to
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VIRGINIA DEER IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM Virginia deer, American Museum of Natural History, moimted by Mr. Carl E. Akeley in 1902. Tiiis Is an example of work that has made modern taxidermy an art. The work of the taxidermist is in a way more difficult than that of the sculptor, that is he must not only make a model of the animal in lifelike pose, but must then with great art fit over this model the unyielding skin of the animal

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