Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dental School Museum has just received the largest tooth in the world, measuring 11 feet, two inches in length, and weighing well over 300 pounds. This tooth is over 50,000 years old, and was formerly a part of the anatomy of a mastodon...
Heretofore the largest mastodon tusk was in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, a specimen measuring nine feet. The Harvard specimen is over two feet longer than the Carnegie specimen, and scientists have estimated that, during the 50,000 years it lay in the earth, corrosion has reduced its size at least two feet, making its former length well over 13 feet...
...Foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler '28, tried to catch each man in a characteristic pose. Director Barbour of the University Museum was filmed charming a dangerous snake, while Professor Merriman had his inevitable pointer...
Drawings by Corot, Degas, Delacroix, ingres, Courbet, Bellows, Speicher, Diego Rivera, Simka Simkohvitch, and others, which were recently placed in the Fogg Art Museum, are now on exhibition...
...dead body. Good for modern paleontology was their filthy covering. It preserved the sloth-bones, teeth, tendons, hide and even a food ball in its stomach. Recently one Ewing Waterhouse of El Paso descended the pit and found the remains, which forthwith went to Yale's Peabody Museum. It is the third and best-preserved ground sloth known, reported Yale's Richard Sivann Lull...