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November 30, 1968

The New Yorker cover for November 30, 1968

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I-THE AMERICAN MUSEUM

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of the American Museum of Natural History. Morris K. Jesup became the Museum's third president in 1881. He put the Museum on its feet. When he …