Abstract
THE exhibition of specimens illustrating the modification of the structure of animals in relation to flight which has been in preparation for many months at the Natural History Museum will be open to the public on Friday, August 15. It occupies the fourth bay on the right of the central hall, and comprises 166 mounted objects and twelve microscopic specimens for the purpose of elucidating the subject in a popular manner. The adaptation of each kind of flying animal for aerial locomotion is explained, and the changes that must have taken place in the structure of the body before the animal could really fly are indicated, and attention is directed to the remarkable fact that the power of flight has been evolved independently in i different groups of animals—e.g. bats, birds, Ptero-dactyles, and insects.
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Notes . Nature 91, 613–617 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091613a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091613a0
