Oldest Mummy in World Destroyed
HAVOC AT ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS (British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, May 21. Irreparable losses have been suffered by tho Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn. Fields, London, from damage in the Tecent air-raid. Thousands of museum pieces are gone, including skeletons of kangaroos brought by Captain Cook from Australia, and the comparable osteology collection of foul thousand specimens acknowledged to be the finest in existence. The oldest mummy in the world has also been do.stroyed, and by a grim coincidence the invaluable army medical war collection containing plaster casts of every type of wound was also demolished.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 7
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