Fig. 50. William G in A History Of Herpetology At The American Museum Of Natural History

Fig. 50. William G. Hassler ''infiltrating in Santo Domingo,'' 1929 or 1930. Hassler's expeditions to the Dominican Republic had several objectives, including surveying fauna and supplying living specimens to Noble's experimental biology laboratories in the American Museum. As seen here, Hassler also took Noble's technique of wax infiltration into the field in order to prepare specimens for habitat groups in the Hall of Reptile and Amphibian Life, for which new exhibitions were still being prepared well after the 1927 opening date. AMNH Photographic Archives 287510.