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The American Museum of Natural Historywindow they had unlocked hours before
is a landmark on the Upper West Side,the museum was closed. The Star of India
Manhattan, New York, USA. The museum hasand other gems were later recovered from
a scientific staff of more than 200, anda locker in a Miami bus station, but the
sponsors over 100 special fieldEagle Diamond was never found; it may
expeditions each year.[1]have been recut or lost.[citation
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The Museum was founded in 1869 and untilFamous names associated with the museum
construction of the first building ofinclude the paleontologist and geologist
the current complex was completed, wasHenry Fairfield Osborn, president for
housed in the old Arsenal building inmany years; the dinosaur-hunter of the
Central Park. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.,Gobi Desert, Roy Chapman Andrews (one of
the father of the 26th U.S. President,the inspirations for Indiana Jones);
was one of the founders with William E.George Gaylord Simpson; biologist Ernst
Dodge, Jr., Joseph Choate, and J.Mayr; pioneer cultural anthropologists
Pierpont Morgan. The founding of theFranz Boas and Margaret Mead; and
Museum realized the dream of naturalistornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy. J.
Dr. Albert S. Bickmore. Bickmore, aP. Morgan was also among the famous
one-time student of Harvard zoologistbenefactors of the Museum.
Louis Agassiz, lobbied tirelessly forLibrary
years for the establishment of a naturalFrom its founding in 1869, the Library
history museum in New York. Hisof the American Museum of Natural
proposal, backed by his powerfulHistory has grown into one of the
sponsors, won the support of theworld's great natural history
Governor of New York, John Thompsoncollections. In its early years, the
Hoffman, who signed a bill officiallyLibrary expanded its collection mostly
creating the American Museum of Naturalthrough such gifts as the John C. Jay
History on April 6, 1869.conchological library, the Carson
In 1874, ground was broken for the firstBrevoort library on fihses and general
building, now hidden from view by thezoology, the ornithological library of
many buildings in the complex that todayDaniel Giraud Elliot, the Harry Edwards
occupy most of Manhattan Square. Theentomological library, the Hugh Jewett
original neo-Gothiccollection of voyages and travel and the
building(1874–1877), by Calvert VauxJules Marcou geology collection. In 1903
and Jacob Wrey Mould, who werethe American Ethnological Society
collaborating with Frederick Law Olmsteddeposited its library in the Museum and
in structures for Central Park, was soonin 1905 the New York Academy of Sciences
eclipsed by the South range of thefollowed suit by transferring its
museum, by J. Cleaveland Cady, a robustcollection of 10,000 volumes. Today, the
exercise in rusticated brownstoneLibrary's collections contain over
neo-Romanesque, influenced by H. H.450,000 volumes of monographs, serials,
Richardson. A triumphal Roman entrancepamphlets and reprints, microforms, and
on Central Park West, (seeoriginal illustrations, as well as film,
illustration), the New York Statephotographic, archives and manuscripts,
Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt completedfine art, memorabilia and rare book
by John Russell Pope in 1936, is ancollections. The Library collects
overscaled Beaux-Arts monument. It leadsmaterials covering such subjects as
to a vast Roman basilica, where a castmammalogy, geology, anthropology,
of a skeleton of a rearing Barosaurusentomology, herpetology, ichthyology,
defending her young from an Allosauruspaleontology, ethology, ornithology,
is not lost in the generalmineralogy, invertebrates, systematics,
monumentality.ecology, oceanography, conchology,
On October 29, 1964, the Star of India,exploration and travel, history of
along with several other precious gemsscience, museology, bibliography, and
including the Eagle Diamond and the deperipheral biological sciences. The
Long Ruby, was stolen from the museum bycollection is rich in retrospective
several thieves. The group of burglars,materials - some going back to the 15th
which included Jack Murphy, gainedcentury - that are difficult to find
entrance by climbing through a bathroomelsewhere.



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