Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquisitive nine-year-old from Marblehead stumped the experts of the University Museum of Comparative Zoology last week with a query, "Can mules sit down...
...youngster's moth first consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turned to the New England Museum of Natural History, who suggested the University Museum...
Used to answering simple questions on vertebrate paleontology and morphology, the Museum was floored by the request. It unashamedly admitted, "We have no authoritative information on mules' sitting down. Why don't you try Ringling Brothers? And if you get an answer . . . we would like it for our files...
...March of Science. In London, Dr. Hugh B. Cott of the Cambridge Museum of Zoology reported that his three-man panel of experts, after sampling the eggs of 81 species of birds, had come to an authoritative conclusion: big eggs usually taste better than little ones...
Manhattan's classy, glassy Museum of Modern Art owns seven of his pictures, but except for his preoccupation with subject matter that is not conventionally beautiful, there was never anything "modern" about Hopper...