Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Nikolai A. Borodin, formerly of the Petrograd Agricultural College, will give an illustrated lecture, today, at 4 o'clock, in room 402, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The lecture, presented under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, will be on two subjects: "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" and "Fisheries...
...additions made to the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum during the past year, and just recently put on exhibition, are especially significant, the directors have announced. Hitherto unobtainable objects have been acquired through the work of Harvard excavators or as gifts from friends...
...sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
...obtain important information throwing light on obscure phases of the history of Australia. The knowledge obtained on this trip he intends to incorporate with the results of his previous expedition into a unified work on Australian marine life. He expects to bring back many important additions to the University Museum...
Such was the response brought forth by the announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON that the Fogg Museum had perfected a plan of lending pictures to students in the University to hang in their rooms, that all of the 27 drawings and engravings open for selection were taken yesterday...