RUSSIAN SCHEME FOR ICE MUSEUM
KEEPING BODIES FOR FUTURE RACES ( Australian Press Assn.—United Service 1 AIOSCOW. Oct. 31. The Eastern Geographical Observatory has worked out a gruesome scheme for a refrigerator museum, in which the bodies of men. women and animals will be preserved in perpetuity un decayed. The scheme proposes the use of eternal ice in Siberia, in which mammoths have already been preserved for 10.009 years, so that the flesh is still fit fo/ human food. Tn the ice museum the bodies of all the human races wil' be frozen in for the benefit of stu»J<?nts centuries hence with the utensi s and food they used in life, and domestic, ami other animals. It is estimated that the cost will be 10,000,000 roubles. An appeal is being issued through out the word for subscriptions to enable the scheme to be carried out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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144RUSSIAN SCHEME FOR ICE MUSEUM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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