I work at a research center which houses an extensive natural history
collection that is open to the public. The wildest part of the collection
is the Cats. It seems that an anthropologist (and noted cat-lover), who
believed that the evolution of the domestic feline was a crucial area of
research, had her cats stuffed. When they died (of natural causes) she had
them stuffed and then donated them to the center in the name of science. We
currently have three cats in the collection. They were preserved study-skin
style (stretched out as flat as a board and just as stiff), fully labeled
with their name, sex, date of birth, date of death, cause of death, and
geneaology.

Jen



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I would like to pose a question to the group. What is your most unusual
acquisition? What is the one thing the kids go home and talk about at
supper? The exhibit that people thirty years later remember? Examples
from my experience include "The Amputated Leg of General Sickles" at the
old Army Medical Museum, or the "supposed" 19th Century witch in a lead
sealed bottle mentioned last autumn on this list. The bizarre, the
outre, the acquisition with a folk legend attached (Hope Diamond). Tell
the list! The item need not be on exhibit. Things from the basement like
Yale's collection of pickled brains. Same goes for works of art! Any
good stories accompanying them. Likewise strange curatorial experiences.

David Gerrick - Information Services
Dayton Lab

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