That is of particular interest to me as I am Curator of the Logan Museum of
Anthropology and Beloit College Alumna.  This is where the one of the
original preparators of the Blue Whale installation, Roy Chapman Andrews,
got his start.

Roy was a student here at Beloit, making his tuition payments by doing
taxidermy for local hunters.  He graduated from Beloit and went to New York
where he started in the museum profession as a janitor at the AMNH.  He
eventually worked his way up to  Director of the Museum  and Time's Man of
the year in 1930.  He led a series of expeditions to the Gobi Desert in
Mongolia, wrote several articles for National Geographic and is
"unofficially" the real person upon whom the character if Indiana Jones was
based.  Pick up a copy of *Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography
of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews* by Ann Bausum (another Beloit Alum...)
published by National Geographic Society, $17.95.  Also available on
Amazon.com!

At 04:45 PM 3/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>A visit to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC was a recurring
field trip in my grammar
>school days, and the big blue whale hanging from the ceiling was always
talked about afterward.  I
>assume it's still hanging there?
>
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Karrie Porter Brace
Curator of Anthropology
Logan Museum 
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, USA
(608) 363-2119
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