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point. They had a lot of the collections that went into physical anthropology, and things like that.
     
Also, Benson Moore did the illustrations for that [[underlined]] Wild Animals [[/underlined]] book.

MANN:     Oh, yes.

HENSON:   Now who is he? Could you tell me a little about him?

MANN:     He was one of the PWA artists, that's how we got to know him--Public Works of Art. He, [Domenico] Mortellito, and Stephen Haweis--they all got in on the Public Works of Art project, which was headed by Edward Bruce, and that's one of Ned Bruce's paintings over there of the Tuscan farmhouse. I'd forgotten Benson Moore did illustrations for Bill's book, but of course he did. I think he used to just hang around, come to the zoo with a sketchbook, very much as in later years [Atanas] Tasev did. I have that book of Tasev's which is fairly new, you must look at that before you go. Then I did a book called [[underlined]] Friendly Animals, A Book of Unusual Pets [[/underlined]], and Benson Moore illustrated that. That book didn't do too well. It sold all right, but there was never a second edition. Of course, today it would be hopelessly outdated.

HENSON:   I've read that. I guess because not as many people keep, let's say, cheetahs as would keep an aquarium.

MANN:     No, of course not. It was fairly autobiographical. I had stories of a little lemur that I had kept, and various little wildcats, that sort of thing.