District of Columbia Natural History Exhibit
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PrintThe United States National Museum sets aside Rooms 44 to 47 in the foyer of the Natural History Building for a District collection, chiefly designed to aid teachers and students in nature study. Birds were installed in Rooms 44 and 45 while the mammals, reptiles (snakes, lizards and turtles), batrachians (frogs, toads, and salamanders), fish, mollusks, and insects are displayed in Room 46. In Room 47, a stereomotorgraph was placed, in which lantern slides of bird homes and local wild flowers as they come in bloom were exhibited.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February 1923