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- housed extensive collections covering the entire
field of biology + palaentology [paleontology]. There are some
extremely fine collections of fossil mammals
from south American including 2 mounted Mylodon [underlined]
+ 2 Glyptodont [underlined]. Other very noteworthy items
I saw were 2 great Auks + one egg. The only
perfect skull of a dodo in existence - it is
complete even to the scleratic ring.
A very fine new exhibit of the Quaternary
vertebrate remains divided into several periods.
The periods recognized here are a late
Pleistocene, a tundra community; a post pleistocene
that was much warmer + is technically referred
to as the [space left blank] period. It was a savannah
ecology with horses etc [etcetera]. Then came another
colder period with great extension of the
water over the land, + this in turn led
to a beach-oak forest climax that persists
today. The separation of the Island
of Zealand from the peninsula took place
about 6000 B.C. [Before Christ]
[Magnus Anton] Degerbol tells me that all the mammals
of the recent, on Zealand are smaller than
their Pleistocene counterparts except the
badger which is distinctly larger.
I lunched with the museum group and
met
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