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Peabody hosts ID Day for city children

From insects to skulls, city children bring in many objects for experts to identify

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, April 21, 2005

The fossilized residents of the Peabody Museum of Natural History had to make room for a hodgepodge of living critters and children visiting for Identification Day.

Children and adults alike gathered in the museum yesterday to watch experts identify a wide range of both living and inanimate specimens brought in by local residents. The museum's Great Hall was permeated with excited children, colorful exam tables and eclectic artifacts which the museum put on display especially for the occasion.

David Heisser, the event's coordinator and a trained botanist, said the event...

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