>Unfortunately...no.  When we redesigned The Barnum Museum in the late '80s,
>we would have given plenty for the Fejee Mermaid; but it had been gone for
>more than a century.  (However, reports that it is indeed in Bridgeport may
>offer some clue as to how fakes, forgeries, and rumors get their "legs.")

About 15 years ago, when touring the collections storage area of the
Peabody Museum at Harvard University, I saw a construct that the curator
said was Barnum's Fejee Mermaid. If you are trying to locate it, you might
want to try there.

Susan Wageman
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