Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's largest, and most complete prehistoric flying reptile of its size has just been assembled at the Agassiz Museum. The four month's work of mounting the specimen was completed two weeks ago by George Nelson, who does all the mounting for the University Museum...
...reptile, known as a Ptesandon, was of that species which frequented Kansas about 60,000,000 years ago. It was brought to the museum in 1883, where it was put away in the attic still embedded in the rock, and its presence forgotten. In an extensive cleaning-up last summer the specimen was found again and proved to be of rare size and completeness...
...commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Lessing's birth, Professor Kuno Francke will give a public reading from "Nathan der Weise", and other religious writings of Lessing, next Tuesday, at 4.30 o'clock, in the lecture room of the Germanic Museum...
...Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia, whither he had taken a party from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
...activities of the International Ice Patrol, which cooperates to a great extent with the Harvard Museum or Comparative Zoology, are depicted in a film called "Icebergs". The patrol has been in existence since the Titanic disaster, anti from that time on the Curator of Oceanography of the Harvard Museum has continuously served as scientific adviser to the Ice Patrol, and most of this time except during the World War, the navigating officer has been stationed at the Harvard Museum, working on scientific material gathered on the cruises...