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Hamnett continues WILDLIFE IN NORTH CAROLINA magazine series on museums that exhibit nature. This month the State Museum of Natural History in Raleigh is reviewed. The North Carolina Legislature authorized the Department of Agriculture to “keep a museum or collection to illustrate the agricultural and other resources and the natural history of the State.†At the present time the collection of fish, amphibians, and reptiles from North Carolina is recognized as one of the best of those owned by museums devoted to state collections.
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Harry Davis is the director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural History. Davis is a Cape Hatteras native and a UNC graduate. Hired to work for Director H. H. Brimley at the then State Museum, Davis's love for all things interesting led him to include more than just geological information in the exhibits. Davis has helped expand the museum staff from two to nine workers and to create new displays for the 200,000 yearly visitors.
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After years of presenting its collection of countless items in an ill-arranged manner and displaying them darkly in row after row of old cases, the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History in Raleigh has a new look. The problems were a small budget and an even smaller staff. The new look is the result of over $400,000 in structural and mechanical improvements and a more realistic budget.
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Harry Davis, a native of Cape Hatteras, as well as a scholar, scientist, and Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, has spent his life contributing to education and museum development within the state.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley were born in England and came with their parents to North Carolina in 1880. Although the article focuses on H. H., his brother became famous in his own right through his work in the Entomology Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Both brothers achieved international fame as the leading Southern naturalists of their day. H. H.'s fame rests on his work as a zoologist and his more than fifty years with the North Carolina Museum of Science. Under his leadership the museum grew into the one of the country's best-known of its type.
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John B. Funderburg, Director of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, envisions the museum to have large life-sized habitats depicting animals from various parts of the world in their native habits. In the meantime, he continues his progressive program by exhibiting a display of small scale wildlife sculptures by Louis Paul Jonas.