Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Animal Variations. Dr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of the museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
Last week U. S. art dealers were surprised to learn that the Baltimore Municipal Museum of Art announced the loan for exhibition of the second casting of famed French Sculptor François Auguste Rodin's three-foot bronze, "The Kiss." Of this statue there are many marble replicas and one bronze original; the second bronze casting, given by the sculptor to a friend, had been believed lost for many years. "Where," dealers asked one another, "did it come from...
...Ambrogio Lorenzetti," Professor Edgell, Fogg Museum small room...
...Minoan ami Mycenean Period." Professor Chase, New Fogg Museum...
...current loan exhibit at the Fogg Art Museum is a collection of oil-paintings and pencil drawings by Kanji Nakamura, a young Japanese artist who for the past seven years has been a pupil of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, an Honorary Fellow of the Fogg Museum...