Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gather as many specimens as possible of the rare and valuable tree snail was the purpose of our trip," declared W. J. Clench, Curator of Mollusks at the Peabody Museum, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, on his return from an expedition of over a month into the Everglade region of Florida...
...expedition was on the whole a success, as we succeeded in gathering many types of the snail which may soon be extinct, as well as others not here to fore discovered. The specimens which we brought back are now aestivating in the museum...
...following extracts, dealing with "George Schwab and the Peabody Museum Expedition to Liberia" are reprinted from an article in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin by E. A. Hooton, associate professor of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum...
...Tribes of Southern South America", Professor Dixon, Peabody Museum...
...kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History...