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...curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time.’”FAD FOR THE FAUXIn 1677 Ashmole donated the collection to Oxford University, which in turn created the world’s first University Museum, the Ashmolean.A curious clause in Ashmole??s bequeathal stipulated the museum remove decaying specimens to maintain the collection’s integrity.By 1775, the dodo, now at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History, had grown “too tattery,” Berry said. “The dodo was probably rotting...
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