How the bones of a Smithsonian scientist became part of the collections he helped establish

The Washington Post 2016-08-03

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Nineteenth-century scientist Robert Kennicott spent most of his life collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. Years after his untimely death, he became part of the collections.
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