ZOOLOGY EXHIBITS AT MUSEUM IN PROCESS OF FULL REORGANIZATION

An extensive re-organization of the Comparative Zoology section of the University Museum is being carried on by staff of the Museum and assistants. During the past few months the Museum has been active in acquiring new exhibits and rearranging their present habits to display their full value. A complete replacement of obsolete labels and radical change in the plan of exhibits has been made.

Most of the renovations have centered about the third floor and it is here that the new acquisitions have been located. Among the new cases, the display of specimens brought back by the Universities Alaskan expedition, which shows antlers and skulls of prehistoric bison in a remarkable state of preservation, has a prominent place. Included the same case are specially prepared exhibits of insectivora.

An addition to the African Room, is exceptionally good specimen of an African wart hog. The collection in the South American Room has been augmented by the acquisition of two new animals. One of these the Blackmaned Red Wolf is a very rare species inhabiting South America, or more exactly Uraguay, where this was captured. The other is a Capybrara, another rare animal found in South America and the largest existing member of the rodent family.

The relabeling of the Museum which is now under way, has been completed in the Mammal Room, and the system of family and genera labeling has been done. With this system the family variances can be more visibly treated. In order to show geographical distribution maps have been included in many of the cases.

In the Fish Room, where the outstanding renovations have been made, the exhibits have been placed in plate-glass show cases and relabelled according to scientific classifications. The display, as it now stands, is perhaps the finest exhibit of dried fish skins in America.