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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AMONHA_161005_002.JPG: Akeley Hall of African Mammals A memorial to Carl Akeley The public is indebted to the experience and vision of Carl Akeley for the creation of this Hall of African Mammals. The Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History, in recognition of his many years of devotion to a high ideal and the unstinted giving of his energies, even to life itself, have dedicated this hall. The fulfillment of his dreams, to his memory.
2. AMONHA_161005_024.JPG: Water Hole Gift of George Eastman
3. AMONHA_161005_051.JPG: Akeley Hall of African Mammals Carl Akeley, a skilled naturalist, taxidermist and sculptor, conceived the paln for this two-level hall and developed many of its dioramas. Each scene represnets a specific place in the habitat of the animals shown. This new approach to exhibition gave visitors the vivid experience of seeing lifelike animals placed in environmental settings. Concern about the shrinking habitats and populations of African wildlife inspired Akeley's work. Through his efforts an area was set aside to protect Mountain Gorillas in the Kivu Mountain of Zaire -- the first animal sanctuary in Africa. On an expedition in 1926, Akeley died in this area, the scene of the gorilla diorama.
4. AMONHA_161005_140.JPG: Columbian mammoth, 1909 Charles R. Knight
5. AMONHA_161005_147.JPG: Bringing the Past to Life: The Art of Charles R. Knight (1874-1953) The murals in this hall were all painted by Charles Knight, between 1911 and 1930. Born in Brooklyn, Knight studied at the Metropolitan Art School and the Art Students league. An interest in depicting wild animals led to his association with the American Museum of Natural History, and, eventually with its Vertebrate Paleontology Department. There, he became the first artist to seriously study and reconstruct the appearance of extinct animals. Knight's paintings have stirred the imagination of generations of museumgoers, and are still admired by scientists and artists today.
6. AMONHA_161005_148.JPG: Wooly Mammoths and Reindeer of the Pleistocene Ice Age, 1916
7. AMONHA_161005_149.JPG: Pleistocene Panorama at Rancho La Brea, 1921 Autumn in New Jersey with a Giant Beaver and a Deer Moose, 1919 Four of Knight's murals, a series titled "The Age of Mammals in North America," were completed in 1930 and are newly cleaned. They remain in the same positions in this gallery as when they were installed here in the first Hall of Fossil Mammals, which had opened in 1895 under the direction of Henry Fairfield Osborn, the museums's first curator of vertebrate paleontology and later the museum's president. The other murals are form a series titled "Life in the Ice Ages," completed between 1911 and 1921. They originally hung in the Hall of the Age of Man. These three murals are newly restored and mounted in this gallery after being in storage for over 25 years.
8. AMONHA_161005_155.JPG: Middle Eocene Panorama in Southwestern Wyoming, 1930 Late Eocene Panorama in Southwestern South Dakota, 1930
9. AMONHA_161005_160.JPG: The Agate Springs Block
10. AMONHA_161005_168.JPG: Elephants and their extinct relatives, as well as sea cows and the extinct desmostylians, all belong to a group called tethytheres. Their eye sockets are located near the snout, over the front teeth. This feature, inherited from the common ancestor of tethytheres, has no known function.
11. AMONHA_161005_176.JPG: Recent Climatic Changes and Extinctions
12. AMONHA_161005_188.JPG: Mammals whose foot has a hoof belong to a group called ungulates. The hoof evolved when the bone at the end of one or more toes broadened and became overlaid with a thick, horny covering made of material like your mails. Ungulates include pigs, camels, deer, horses, rhinos, whales, elephants, sea cows, and their relatives. Clearly, some of these animals, such as whales, no longer have hooves, but evidence shows that the mammals from which they evolved did. Consequently, they belong to the ungulate family.
13. AMONHA_161005_215.JPG: A stirrup-shaped middle ear bone, the stapes, is an advanced feature found in epitheres. This group includes all placental mammals except sloths and their relatives. In these animals, the stapes is shaped like a stirrup of a saddle. More primitive mammals, such as the bandicoot, a marsupial, have a stapes shaped like a column. The stapes plays a critical role in transmitting sound vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear, enabling you to hear. In many epitheres, a major blood vessel that serves the brain runs through the hole in the stapes.
14. AMONHA_161005_225.JPG: Mammals and their extinct relatives have a hole in the skull behind each eye socket -- the synapsid opening. That is why mammals and their extinct relatives are called synapsids. On your skull, this opening is located between your eye socket and your cheekbone. When you chew, you can feel the movement of the jaw muscles that run through it.
15. AMONHA_161005_235.JPG: The watertight egg is one of several advanced features found only in turtles, lizards, dinosaurs (including birds), mammals, and their relatives. The fact that all of them have a watertight egg tells us that they inherited this feature from a common ancestor. These animals belong to a group of vertebrates called amniotes, named for the watertight membrane inside the egg -- the amnion. Even though humans do not lay hard-shelled eggs, there is still an amnion in the eggs stored inside human females. Consequently, we too are amniotes.
16. AMONHA_161005_239.JPG: David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
17. AMONHA_161005_241.JPG: Dinosaur Extinction What killed all the non-avian dinosaurs about 65 million years ago?
18. AMONHA_161005_245.JPG: This block, collected near Jordan, Montana, contains a thin layer of grayish beige clay that is thought to represent the fallout from a large impact at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. The rock below the clay layers was deposited before the impact, at the end of the Cretaceous period. The rock above the clay layer was deposited at the beginning of the Age of Mammals.
19. AMONHA_161005_260.JPG: Cerapods include horned dinosaurs, duckbills, and dome-headed dinosaurs. Their advanced feature is an uneven covering of enamel on the teeth. It is thicker on the outside of the upper teeth, and on the inside of the lower teeth. As a result, the teeth wore unevenly and developed sharp ridges when the upper and lower teeth rubbed against one another as the animal chewed. This chewing surface worked like a file, allowing cerapods to break down tougher vegetarian than other plant-eating dinosaurs could.
20. AMONHA_161005_265.JPG: Genasaurs include all the ornithischian dinosaurs except Lesothosaurus. In these dinosaurs, the chewing teeth are set in from the outside edge of the jaws. Inset tooth rows form cheeks. When the animal was alive, this formed a cheek region between the teeth and the skin on the face. Presumably, the cheek enabled genasaurs to hold more food in the mouth and chew it more thoroughly. This may have allowed these animals to eat plants that were relatively difficult to digest.
21. AMONHA_161005_273.JPG: Backward-pointing extension of pubis bone. The hip structure of ornithischian dinosaurs is advanced in relation to that of saurichians. The pubis bone, located at the front of the pelvis, has an extension that points toward the rear of the animal. Because this arrangement of hip bones was originally thought to resemble that of birds, this group of dinosaurs was named Ornithischia, or "bird-hipped".
22. AMONHA_161005_278.JPG: The David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing The American Museum of Natural History is deeply grateful to David H. Koch for his exceptional generosity and dedication to the pursuit of scientific discovery.
23. AMONHA_161005_284.JPG: C. Astori A. Brown, assistant 1942 Constantin Astori From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Constantin Astori is a renowned artist of mostly landscapes in pastels, watercolors and charcoal. He was born on March 29, 1889 as Constantin Nicholas Astafieff in Voronezh, Russia close to Ukraine. He had his art education in Russia. He married Olga Trofimoff, on May 17, 1916 in Crimea, Russia (presently an autonomous region within Ukraine). When the Soviet revolution happened in 1917 the region had a lot of conflicts and did not support the revolution. This was not a good time for the newly married couple so they decided to move to Constantinople (presently Istanbul). Once they moved to Turkey they changed their name to Astori to start a new life with a new name. Constantin Astori spent his years in Istanbul painting street scenes. He was particularly interested in mosques with minarets and old Istanbul streets with people. He experimented pastels and charcoal. The art world in Istanbul was limited and not intriguing. The couple first thought about moving to Paris then decided to move to New York. On October 1, 1923 he immigrated to the United States of America, while his wife Olga moved to Paris. She joined her husband three years later, in 1926. Astori settled in New York City and tried to get into the art world. He worked as an art restorer for various museums. He became naturalized US citizen in 1936. From 1930's to 1940's he restored art works for the Smithsonian Institution and Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. In 1940 he was commissioned to paint a mural for American Natural Museum in New York. He completed the mural the same year which depicted pterosaurs (flying reptiles). This mural is still over the stairs in the museum. Later in 1970 this mural was used in the album cover of Dinosaur Swamp by the band called the Flock (band). He participated to various art shows but never realized his dream of becoming a famous artist. He experimented with black and white drawings of New York street scenes. Later in his life he was more interested in pastels depicting serene country scenes. His wife Olga died in January 1975, he died the same year in June, 1975. The couple had no children. His artwork can be found in art dealers internationally.
24. AMONHA_161005_328.JPG: Flamingo Colony
25. AMONHA_161005_331.JPG: Louis Agassiz Fuertes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 Ithaca, New York – August 22, 1927 Unadilla, New York) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered as one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
26. AMONHA_161005_337.JPG: Fossil Birds from Rancho La Brea
27. AMONHA_161005_339.JPG: Robert W. Kane '62
28. AMONHA_161005_367.JPG: Dodo extinct, 1665
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Wikipedia Description: American Museum of Natural History
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The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a private 501(c)(3) natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens of plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum occupies more than 2�106 sq ft (190,000 m2). AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.

The AMNH is a private 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission statement is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and education—knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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