Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...most curious phenomena that has been observed around the University in Several years, may now be seen in operation in the Peabody Museum...
...basket itself is a piece of native work from Borneo which the Museum received last October. It was hung, with many similar objects, in the Pacific Islands room of the Museum for exhibition. Its turning motion was noted immediately and at first thought to be merely the result of the impetus caused by its installation. The strange turning continued, however, and gradually drew the attention of an increasing number of scholars and professors...
...often seemed to me that I must be somewhat infected with a disease most prevalent among the German eighteenth century romantics, namely, longing for Italy. Italy and Italian art have always seemed to me realms of perfect beauty. At 11 o'clock in the Fogg Museum Professor Edgell in Fine Arts 1d will lecture on Umbrian and North Italian Painting, and the opportunity seems too good to miss...
...them as a species of war dance dressed up and transported to the ballroom. I have always had a desire to know just how much foundation these contentions have, so I shall not be missing today when at 12 o'clock Professor Tozzer speaks in Anthropology in the Semitic Museum on the primitive dance...