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 ====== Museum of Natural History ======
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 Between 1966 and 1968, Boardman Hall was locked up, and the museum's extensive collections quietly disappeared, an enduring Trinity mystery. According to Life Sciences Professor Dr. J. Wendell Burger, "the balance of the biological material was legally transferred to the [[https://www.thechildrensmuseumct.org/about-us/our-history/|Children's Museum]] and more especially to the [[https://csmnh.uconn.edu/about/|University of Connecticut]]. They were stunned by the volume of their inheritance."
-Today, a small number of human and animal skeletons remain in room 308 of the Life Sciences Building; many of them appear to be from the Ward collection. They are used as teaching implements, in very much the same way that students would have studied them over the past 200 years.
+Today, a small number of human and animal skeletons remain in room 308 of the Life Sciences Building; many of them appear to be from the Ward collection, including the elephant, horse, and llama. They are used as teaching implements, in very much the same way that students would have studied them over the past 200 years.
 ==== Collections ====
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   * **1921:** Dr. Robert Mosely Yergason, Class of 1908, gifts the Biology Department "a collection of embryological and anatomical specimens to be used for demonstration purposes in premedical courses." They are a series of 17 preserved human embryos and placentas, ranging from very early pregnancy to pre-to-mid gestation. C.E. Hadley, a graduate student and a teacher of biology at Hartford High School, gifts the museum "some specimens of aquatic insects."
   * **1947:** The Natural History Museum gains several prominent collections, primarily of birds, on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum; these collections originated in the now-defunct Hartford Scientific Society and included the Dr. William Wood Collection of Connecticut Native and Migratory Birds, the John H. Sage Collection of Birds, birdskins, and other ornithological material, Trowbridge Collection of Eggs, and the Neff Collection of bird nests.
-  * **1966-1968:** The museum is dismantled. The Sage Collection of Birds is transferred to the University of Connecticut's State Museum of Natural History, and other materials, per Wendell Burger, may have been sent to the Children's Museum of Hartford (today, West Hartford). Trinity retains a small sample of its teaching skeletons.
+  * **1966-1968:** The museum is dismantled. The Sage Collection of Birds is transferred to the University of Connecticut's State Museum of Natural History, and other materials, per Wendell Burger, may have been sent to the Children's Museum of Hartford (today, West Hartford) and Yale Peabody Museum. Trinity retains a small sample of its teaching skeletons which include horse, elephant, llama, .
   * **1971:** Boardman Hall is demolished.
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 Repatriation is appropriate where objects still confer a spiritual and/or cultural significance, or where they can be irrefutably demonstrated as being stolen. All material being considered for repatriation, even unprovenanced material, must be properly documented with respect to the repatriation process. Any repatriation that does take place must be undertaken with the full knowledge and agreement of all interested parties and comply with the legislative and institutional requirements of all parties involved.// ((ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums, p. 1))
+The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), enacted in 1990, is a federal law that protects and returns Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations. Federal agencies and museums, universities, state agencies, local governments, or any institution that receives Federal funds must comply with NAGPRA.
 ===== Sources =====
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 [[https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nathcode_ethics_en.pdf|ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums]]
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1970&context=reporter|Trinity Reporter]], October 1971.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31571856|Trinity Reporter]], October 1971.
 [[https://www.proquest.com/hnphartfordcourant/docview/550894946/D614F1C57172433FPQ/2?accountid=14405|The Hartford Courant]], 08/23/1971.
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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 36, 75-76, 171.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1694&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod]], 09/20/1966.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29848658|Trinity Tripod]], 09/20/1966.
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/668/|The Trinity Tripod]], 10/13/1964.
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 [[https://www.proquest.com/hnphartfordcourant/docview/554081659/BD9009ED99DC4443PQ/3?accountid=14405|CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE: Trinity's Nucleus for a Fine Collection]], //The Hartford Courant//, 05/21/1880.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=tablets|The Trinity Tablet]], 01/31/1880.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.32643156|The Trinity Tablet]], 01/31/1880.
 [[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tablets/125|The Trinity Tablet]], 11/29/1879.