Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the securing of the Eskimo teeth models from Commander MacMillan, Dr. Fernald arranged with Professor Hooton of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to secure impressions of the teeth of Yucatan natives during a southern expedition. These people are famous as vegetable eaters. Most of them eat no meat whatever. It was found that their teeth were very much decayed. At a surprisingly early age, their teeth lost all semblance of even a normally healthy condition, and most of them, when middle aged, had practically no teeth, whatever. It has been the experience of most dentists that those people...
...following article is based on a survey of the Peabody Museum published in the current Alumni Bulletin, written by Edward Reynolds '81 M.D. '85, director of the Museum...
...Peabody Museum at Harvard was the first anthropological museum in America. Because of its age and the energy and ability of its early directors, its collection contains great numbers of specimens which are unique and could not be duplicated today. The only other museum of almost equal age, which consequently had much the same possibilities, the National Museum in Washington, having unfortunately suffered from a disastrous fire which destroyed the larger part of its collections, the Peabody Museum stands today in a class by itself among the anthropological museums of the country, and is certainly one of the great museums...
...Museum Lacks Funds...
...much praise can hardly be given to the curatorship of the last Director, who left the collection in what may be described as perfect physical condition. The Museum is remarkably free from dirt or insect pests. The latter, which are a perpetual menace to museum collections, are entirely absent, and have been long unknown here. There has been no deterioration of specimens--all of which can very rarely be said of a past management when a new Director takes office...