On the subject of the museum display of body parts (my, this is a wide-ranging discussion), Gen. Dan Sickles lost a leg at Gettysburg. He donated it to the Army Medical Museum, and would visit it every year on the 4th of July. The museum was demolished to make room for the Hirshorn, and its collections were moved to Walter Reed Hospital - don't know if the Sickle Leg is still on display or not, but I remember it fondly from my chidhood. And of course, there's the ancient legend that the Smithsonian has a certain portion of John Dillinger... we don't have it at the Air and Space Museum, but then, it wouldn't really fit our collections rationale. Allan Janus [log in to unmask]