The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17975812819)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)

Year: [1918 c1900-[1918]] (c190s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BLIND CHILDREN LIKE "TIP," THE ASIAN ELEPHANT Fortunately for the children of the blind classes, many specimens exhibited in the American Museum are not under glass. The children cannot quickly grasp through the sense of touch the idea of the whole of a large object, or such a thing as a garden or a room, but they can get acquainted with the parts, and the mind makes the combination. The American Museum has had made especially for use with the blind classes small plaster models (one inch to one foot) of elephant, buffalo, giraffe, camel, and hippo- potamus, from which an idea of the shape and pose of the whole can be gained before studying the real object. One small blind boy, passing his fingers over the face of "Caliph," the great hippopotamus in the African hall, remarked that it must have a good disposition as the corners of its mouth turned up 576

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