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...amassing a grisly assortment of pickled human and animal parts with the aim of advancing the limited medical knowledge of the age. His collection of more than 3,000 anatomical and pathological specimens?from bone tumors to bumblebee heads?forms the core collection of London's Hunterian Museum in Holborn, which reopened in February after a two-year, $6 million refurbishment...
...amassing a grisly assortment of pickled human and animal parts with the aim of advancing the limited medical knowledge of the age. His collection of more than 3,000 anatomical and pathological specimens?from bone tumors to bumblebee heads?forms the core collection of London's Hunterian Museum in Holborn, which reopened in February after a two-year, $6 million refurbishment...
Born in 1930 to professor parents, Hanna Holborn entered college determined to avoid the bourgeois academic life. As a child growing up in New Haven, Conn., where her family had come after fleeing Nazi Germany, she even contemplated a career as a radio comedian...
...panel moderated by University of Chicago President emeritus Hanna Holborn Gray, donors also discussed balancing their interests with Harvard's needs...