Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those same Pre-Raphaelites and of how he, Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young...
...entertain a slight bias, he being director and chief librarian of the British Museum, a onetime (1917-21) President of the British Academy, a member of numerous societies and academies devoted to classical culture, a scholar deeply steeped in Oxford tradition and repeatedly honored by universities from Athens to Ohio...
...Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent in the game conservation movement and advanced a plan for establishing game sanctuaries throughout...
...finny immigrants floated idly in their pickling baths of formaldehyde while the man that brought them, Dr. William Beebe of the Museum of Natural History, expounded their names, habits and habitations to newspaper reporters, intercourse with whom Dr. Beebe never shuns...
...foot for every day the ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...