Fig. 53 in A History Of Herpetology At The American Museum Of Natural History

Fig. 53. The Komodo Dragon Habitat Group in the 1927 Hall of Reptile and Amphibian Life. These specimens of the world's largest lizard had been obtained in 1926 specifically for a museum diorama based on Burden's Dutch East Indies Expedition. ''Can we but reproduce in the American Museum group the picture I saw that day, the whole expedition will have been worth while'' (Burden, 1927: 118). AMNH Photographic Archives 311992.