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Title: Annual report of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the year
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : (American Museum of Natural History)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ntrance to the forestry hall and has at-tracted much attention. As a whole, it is 43 inches in width,the largest leaf measuring 21 inches, and the flower 9 inches. Among other sprays worked on during the year the follow-ing were put on exhibition: black maple (Acer nigrum) ; redash (Fraxinus Pennsyhanicum); black oak (Quercus velu-tina) ; and Arizona sycamore (Platanus Wrightii). In connection with this work the cooperation of botanistsand foresters was enlisted in supplying the fresh material forthe reproductions. Through this professional courtesy in dif-ferent parts of the country, 20 specimens in all were received,from which were selected the handsomest and most typical toserve as models. As a result it will be possible to add eightspecies to the collection. These include: blue ash (Fraxinusquadrangulata), from Indiana; western cherry laurel (Prunusilicifolia), from California; California sycamore (Platanus * Under the Department of Woods and Forestry (see also pages 185 and 186).
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Habitat Invertebrate Groups 65 racemosa) ; Schnecks oak (Quercus Schneckii), from Indi-ana; Arizona sycamore (Platanus Wrightii), and Mexicanwalnut (Juglans rupestris), from Arizona; broad-leaved maple(Acer macrophyllum), from Oregon; Oregon ash (Fraxinusoregonia), from Oregon and California. In addition to these sprays of deciduous trees, one valuableprepared conifer spray, of Douglas spruce (Pseudotsuga taxi-folia), from Colorado, was purchased from Mr. A. E. Butler. The reference collection has been enriched by gifts of WestIndian and South American woods as follows: Porto Rico, 82pieces, representing 40 varieties; Cuba, 23 pieces; and Co-lombia, 38 pieces. A series of 62 photographs illustratingSitka spruce lumbering methods in the northwestern UnitedStates has been added to the educational files of the department. EXISTING INVERTEBRATES *Henry Edward Crampton, Curator The activities of the department as a whole have been con-tinued along normal lines, although the war has affecte

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