37 SECOND FLOOR EXHIBITS Second Floor ExhibitsW est W ing Passing the elevator on your left and heading up the staircase you will come to a strik ing photo of Mount Everest Mount Ev er est A er ial Phot o This ver tical photo of Mount Everest 8848 m 29028 f t w as tak en on 22 December 1 984 from an altitude of 1 170 0 m 390 0 0 f t or 30 0 0 m 1 00 0 0 f t abo ve Mount Everest A specially equipped L earjet 35 with a Wild RC1 0 cam era and Aerocolor 2554 flm w as used to capture the image This is one of 360 photos tak en by S wissair Photo Surveys to create a map of Mount Everest for Boston s Museum of S cience and the National Geographic S ociety Gift from Swissair Photo Surv e ys Ltd The V alle y of Mexico Around the corner and to your lef t you will see an oil painting The V alley of Mexico P ainted by R aul del Cor ral the painting depicts the V alley of Mexico in V elasco style T wo famous v olcanoes P opocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl form the bac k ground Gift from Zoltan de Cserna Univ ersidad National Autonoma de Mexico F ossil Fish On the adjacent w all is a specimen of an ancient fossil fsh from the Green Ri v er F orma tion similar to the ones displayed near the S ociety s Council R oom This fossil fsh is Notogenus osculus Cope a member of the family Gonorh yn c hidae It li ved in an ancient lak e that stretc hed across southwestern W yoming and nor thern Utah 53 to 37 million year s ago Gift from Edwin C Buffngton Marine Geolog y Branch Na v al Undersea Center San Diego California Continue down the short hallway turn left and then follow the hallway until you reach a pillar on the right T urn right and proceed to the display case Here you will fnd a memorial to volcanologist David A Johnston At 832 am on 1 8 May 1 980 the day that Mount St Helens erupted Johnston radioed the famous V ancouver V ancouver this is it transmission to the US Geological Survey offce where he was on staff He was among 57 people who died in the massive eruption that followed Mount St Helens V olcanic Bomb A v olcanic bomb is a stic k y c hunk of magma ejected from a v olcano that then cools and becomes rounded in fight This specimen w as thrown about 1 6 km 1 mile by an eruption on 22 J uly 1 980 It w as collected by helicopter by Ric hard P Hoblit t and Mic hael Montgomery from high on the nor thwest side of Mount St Helens The roc k is composed of dacite it probably came from a small steepsided circular v olcanic dome that formed at a vent inside the crater of the larger v olcano The bread crust on the bomb formed while it few through the air The crac ks formed because the outer surface cooled into a crust while g ases were still being released from the hot ter center Donated in memory of Da vid A Johnston b y his friends and colleagues of the US Geological Surv e y Also notice the framed views of Mount St Helens to the left of the memorial