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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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Crappie, Starfish, Gars and Sturgeon . . . 140
Porkfish, Sea Horses and Mud Puppy . . . 143
New York Zoological Park Upper Manhattan and Bronx (Map) . . . 145
Italian Gardens and Seal Pool, Baird Court . . . 146
Ground Plan . . . 150
Elk Herd, Elephant House and Rocking Stone . . . 155
Monkeys, Chimpanzees, Orang-utan and Lion Cubs . . . 160
Alligator Pool, Gavial and Elephants . . . 169
Flying Cage, Lake Agassiz and Bear Dens . . . 174
New York Botanical Garden Museum, Conservatory and Pinetum . . . 178
Ground Plan . . . 181
Rhododendron Banks and Herbaceous Gardens . . . 187
Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn (Map) . . . 192
Museum Building . . . 194
Japanese Armor and Image of Buddha . . . 204
Image, Helmet and Bronze Head 210
Chinese Cloisonne . . . 214
Zuhi, Apache and Navajo Indian Specimens . . . 221

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Coral Reef . . . 230
Bald Eagle, Cape Birds and Deer . . . 245
Bird Groups . . . 250
Botanic Garden
Administration Building and Conservatories . . . 256
Japanese Garden . . . 261
Children's Museum Museum and Wireless Room . . . 264
Geographical Groups . . . 267
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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY

THE American Museum of Natural History was
founded and incorporated in 1869 for the purpose
of establishing a Museum and Library of Natural
History; of encouraging and developing the study of Natu-
ral Science; of advancing the general knowledge of kin-
dred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular in-
struction. For eight years its home was in the Arsenal in
Central Park. The corner-stone of the present building in
Manhattan Square was laid in 1874 by President U. S.
Grant. The Museum is located at 77th Street and Central Park
West and can be reached by the Eighth or Ninth Avenue
surface cars, the Sixth or Ninth Avenue elevated to 81st
Street station, or by the subway to 72nd or 79th Street sta-

* The following were the founders of the Museum: William
T. Blodgett, Joseph H. Choate, Robert Colgate, Charles A. Dana,
A. G. Phelps Dodge, Benjamin H. Field, William A. Haines,
Adrian Iselin, Morris K. Jesup, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry
Parish, Howard Potter
Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin B. Sher-
man, D. Jackson Steward, Robert L. Stuart, John David Wolfe.

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