Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amaral, who is giving a series of lectures this week at the Harvard School of Public Health and is doing research study at the University Museum of Comparative Zoology, is regarded as the world's foremost authority on snakebites. Although the Instituto Bustantan was founded almost 30 years ago, almost all the serums have been produced within the last few years since the young director took over the duties of research and production. Within recent years the Brazilian institution has expanded so that a North American antivenin research institute is now working in conjunction with...
...means of some 90 models of Eskimo teeth, Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Harvard Dental School Museum, has proved that eating a strictly meat diet is the ideal way in which to keep the human mouth in a healthy condition, and that it is due to the fact that civilized people do not eat enough meat that they as a rule have decayed teeth...
...Donald B. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer, obtained about 90 impressions of the teeth of the Eskimos of Smith Sound, "the meat eaters," who live the farthest north of any human beings. He did this at the request of Dr. Fernald, who desired the models for the Dental School Museum. The impressions were made on one of MacMillan's most recent Artic expeditions. From the impressions, models have been constructed. Commander MacMillan said that "the Smith Sound Eskimos average about four ounces of vegetable matter each year per capita...
...University Museum of Comparative Zoology today opens a large Fossil Exhibition of extensive scope in the north wing of the University Museum. The exhibition covers the entire ground floor of that section of the Museum and includes four rooms, in which are located many new fossils...
...unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case...