Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
That attraction, advertised in facsimiles of century-old handbills, was just one of the highlights of a show that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways...
Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...
Strange donors are found on the gift lists. Last year these included the National Museum of Colombo, Ceylon, the Eagle Pencil Company, and the Revere Racing Association...