Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed Aviator Cobham. But two years ago William Douglas Burden of Manhattan led out an expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...
...Museum taxidermists embalmed the three specimens, stuffed them, placed them in a realistic setting of Komodo reeds and trees...
Last week, when the museum's new Hall of Reptiles was opened for the first time by President Henry Fairfield Osborn, distinguished visitors could see two nightmares poised fighting over a wild boar. A third one, a female, glared, waiting division of the lizard kill...
Under the auspices of the school of Landscape Architecture. Sir Lawrence Weaver will give an illustrated lecture on "Modern Garden Design" at 8 o'clock on Monday in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Museum...
Speaking on "Modern Garden Design", Sir Lawrence Weaver will give the second lecture the evening of the same day at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum. He is director of the United Kingdom Exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and is President of the Design and Industries Association of Great Britain...