Fossils and Other Teachers

1772

A College tutor traveling in the Ohio Valley sends Dr. Wheelock "a few curious elephant bones."

1796

Dartmouth is given a stuffed zebra. It quickly becomes a favorite of President John Wheelock.

1928

Dartmouth's own Butterfield Museum of Paleontology, Archeology, Ethnology and Kindred Science is torn down to make room for Baker Library.

1937

Slippers once owned by a Nabob from the Ganges become academic realia.

1941

A badly stuffed rhinoceros is brought to Hanover."lt is probably the only rhinoceros that the College is ever likely to acquire," this magazine notes philosophically. The prediction so far proves correct.

1974

Dartmouth sells its entire natural history collection to the local Montshire Museum.

1994

The Hood Museum includes two human skeletons, 22 skulls, and the finger bones of an Egyptian mummy.

Dartmouth providesstudents with plentyof bones to pick.