Word: vernay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
...Trustee Vernay had not yet been notified of the good news last week. Said a curator: "We're afraid to tell...