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Forensic Science on Trial is currently on view in the museum's Albert H. Small Documents Gallery, located in the east wing of ...

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Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...

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The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...

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