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Re: "Dinos of a Feather" (ABC Science News On-Line)



In a message dated 2/28/99 11:52:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jhecht@world.std.com writes:

<< Harvard has a "Peabody Museum" on its campus, a name which I _think_
 includes the natural history museum as well as some other displays. Sombody
 must have looked up "Peabody Museum" and found the one at Harvard but not
 the Yale Peabody. Yet another example of the importance of unambiguous
 nomenclature. -- Jeff Hecht >>

I believe the same Peabody gave major seed money to both institutions, so the
ambiguity was appropriate, at least at first.