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Collection and preservation

Teacher’s Pets

by Walter Potter,

From Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy,

Perfect sound forever

by Eddie Dean,

The birth of the blues, stamped in black shellac

Museology

by Richard Ross,

Skeletons in our Museums’ Closets

by Douglas J. Preston,

Native Americans want their ancestors’ bones back

Readings

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould,

Readings

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould,

A hidden treasure

by Harper’s Staff,

Geological progress of the century

by Henry Smith Williams,

Paleontological progress of the century

by Henry Smith Williams,

The Peabody Museum of ArchÃ¦ology and Ethnology

by Charles Franklin Thwing,

The owl-critic. A lesson to fault-finders

by James Thomas Fields,

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