Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Tau B. Stoughton Holbourn, Professor of the History of Art at Carleton College, will lecture on "Art and Civilization" on Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Hall in the Fogg Art Museum...
...country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession of noble families enjoyed its possession; it was spoken of as "the great astronomical ball." A month ago, Baron Ralamb, its owner, brought the great ball to Manhattan. Last week it was displayed to admiring crowds at the American Museum of Natural History. They were delighted with its appearance when they learned that its value...
However, a party of explorers from the American Museum of Natural History, who were back in Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
...ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare among their catches was a variety of the Thomas rat, second of its kind ever caught. (The first is in the British Museum.) They also trapped five strange mice with sharp noses, beady eyes and long claws, more a digger than a gnawer type of creature. Altogether in their bales, sacks, boxes and cages the explorers brought back to the American Museum of Natural History, and last week were sorting, 1,260 birds...
...Races and Culture of Europe," Professor Tozzer, Semitic Museum...