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Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University |
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On October 22, 1866, George Peabody donated $150,000 to Yale University. The gift stipulated a museum devoted to zoology, geology and mineralogy as well as a professorship of natural history at the university. Only a few weeks earlier, Peabody had given an identical amount to Harvard University for a similar purpose.
Peabody’s nephew, Othniel Charles Marsh, was the country’s first paleontologist. Marsh, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at Yale, persuaded his uncle to create the museum.
The museum’s original building was demolished in 1917 and rebuilt on its current site eight years later. It is famous for its Incan artifacts as well as its Great Hall of Dinosaurs.
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