Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blotches on the skin, could be passed from one generation to another. It was contrary to all previous observations on the transference of physical characteristics and Professor Kammerer was hailed by some as brilliant genius, by others as deluded fool. Dr. G. K. Noble of the American Museum of Natural History examined Professor Kammerer's depositions and in an article for Nature (British monthly) drew the lenient conclusion that someone may have tampered with Dr. Kammerer's specimens. In particular, certain dark spots on some of the frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting...
...Fogg Art Museum will have for one of its ceilings on the main floor a carved oak masterpiece from Dijon, France, dating from the 15th century. This ceiling of massive oak beams is the handwork of French monks of the Renaissance period and was designed for a royal chateau. Agents for the Fogg Museum purchased this art treasure when it was discovered that its size approximated that of one of the ceilings of the new buildings...
...many points on the highway, the 48 foot trailer and its convey of trucks encountered sharp curves, narrow roadways, and other obstacles. However, the highway inspector and the truckmen succeeded in escorting the oak sections safely to Cambridge and the Renaissance acquisition has been installed in the new museum after a memorable pilgrimage from Dijon...
...Klopstock's Messias," Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German...
...Methods of Racial Analysis' Professor Horton, Peabody Museum, Anthropology...