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AN important event in the American Museum of Natural History is the approaching completion of the Hall of the Age of Man. This hall has been planned as a climax to the series of collections in invertebrate and vertebrate palaeontology, arranged so that the student or visitor will begin with the Hall of Invertebrates, dating back to the Cambrian, and pass in geologic and palasontologic sequence through a series of five halls surrounding the south-east court, to be devoted to the Age of Fishes; the Age of Amphibians, of Permian and Triassic Reptiles; the Age of Jurassic Reptiles, including the giant Sauro-poda; to the Cretaceous Reptiles; into the Age of Mammals; and finally into the Hall of the Age of Man. This will afford effective exhibition of the collections in vertebrate palaeontology which began in 1891 and extend from the first appearance of vertebrate life to the very close of the Pleistocene of North America. These collections now include about 25,000 catalogued specimens, chiefly from North and South America, but there are also specimens from Eurasia, Africa, and Australia, obtained either by museum expeditions or by exchange.
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OSBORN, H. The Hall of the Age of Man in the American Museum1. Nature 107, 236–240 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107236a0
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