Word: othniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peabody's founders have long since been exceeded; they appear modest purposes indeed, set against the multifarious activities of the Museum today. Curiously enough he initial idea for the foundation of the institution, one of the first of its kind in America came in 1805 from a Yale graduate, Othniel Charles Marsh. The science of anthropology was then in its relative infancy and Marsh, later to become America's first professor of paleontology, was little more than a novice in the field. But while digging one day in an ancient Indian mound in Ohio, Marsh was struck by the realization...