Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...savages at Mallicolo in the New Hebrides and rescued by a British warship, having made friends with elephants and lions in Eastern and Central Africa, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson arrived in Manhattan a fortnight ago with 200,000 feet of film and 7,000 still pictures for the American Museum of Natural History. Headquarters for their three-and-a-half-year's animal observations were on the shores of a lake on the Abyssinian border, which they named Lake Paradise...
...Akeley told the circumstances of her husband's fever last autumn on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo (TIME, May 23). The Akeley expedition obtained and preserved 'gorillas, studied the scenery of their haunts, aided the Johnsons in photography. Soon, in the Akeley-African hall of the American Museum of Natural History will be many a tribute to the arduous work that hastened the death of Explorer Carl Ethan Akeley, scientist-explorer-sculptor extraordinary...
...diaper cloth; electric lamps; 200 specially-designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk...
This exhibit concludes the series which has been continuing throughout the year, and will remain in the Print Room of the museum for period of ten days...
Dispatched by the Museum on an anthropological expedition, Putnam traveled inland from Merauke, a Dutch village on the coast with only 17 white inhabitants, going from village to village up the rivers in native canoesor in the barks of Chinese bird of paradise hunters. Overland travel was impossible, due to the non-existence of roads in the sections traversed...