A celebration of bones. (exhibit of mounted skeletons at American Museum of Natural History)

Science News | April 13, 1985| | Copyright

A CELEBRATION OF BONES

Originally a machinist by trade but a naturalist by avocation, S. Harmsted Chubb early this century set himself the challenge of breathing life into bags of bones. At that time, exhibits of mounted skeletons were "of questionable interest even to specialists,' he wrote, because there was no attention to detail, many bones were simply omitted and the skeleton was often arranged into a flat-footed position that would have been impossible during the animal's life. "It is small wonder,' Chubb wrote in 1929, "that the department of skeletons [in ...

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