Captain Cook’s Kangaroos Bombed
LONDON, May 22
Irreparable losses have been suffered by the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, from damage in a recent air raid. Thousands of museum pieces have gone, including skeletons of kangaroos brought by Captain Cook from Australia, and a comparative osteology collection of 4000 specimens acknowledged to have been the finest in existence.
The oldest mummy in the world was also destroyed, and, by a grim coincidence, an invaluable army medical war collection, containing plaster casts of every type of wound, was also demolished.
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Northern Advocate, 23 May 1941, Page 4
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