Word: museum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture on the currency he printed. Husky, 26-year-old Elphinstone Forest Gilmour was not a counterfeiter but a student of entomology whose interest in his subject earned him the right to prowl at will among the 13 million beetles in South Kensington's Natural History Museum. Gilmour joined the Royal Entomological Society, wrote for the society's journal a knowing discourse on a black and yellow beetle called Tmesisternus laterimaculatus. He boasted that the beetle was "unique in my own collection...
This led to the discovery that the museum's own Tmesisternus laterimaculatus, captured 15 years before on an uninhabited New Guinean island, was missing. At Gilmour's home Scotland Yard found 5,141 missing bugs. The hot beetles, insisted Gilmour, had merely been borrowed for further study. But this, decided a magistrate, scarcely explained why the student had sold 16 museum specimens to other collectors. He gave Gilmour three months' opportunity to study roaches in a local jail...
...painted her portrait for the Duke, his patron. Innocent, fresh and direct, the portrait was like a summing up of everything that the complex, secretive, worldly-wise Old Master himself was not. It made a highlight in the comprehensive show of Leonardo and his circle at Los Angeles County Museum last week...
...Painter Peter Hurd's studio door, is slim protection from the friends, neighbors, admirers and tourists who frequently overrun his ranch. Last week some of the visitors were being diverted to the nearby town of Roswell, N. Mex. by the new Hard wing of the Roswell Museum. It contained 31 of his lithographs and six of his spacious, sharply detailed paintings. The collection had been financed by an anonymous California donor, who planned to add more Kurd pictures each year...
...deftly did the purloiner whisk the $11,800 worth of art treasure from its hooks that its absence was not noted for about an hour. Museum curators explained the thief had selected his loot so that he never disturbed the symmetry of the exhibit...