A doctor's curious collection of things past

Courtesy Culture - International Herald Tribune  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 07:30

Over the course of seven decades the urologist John Lattimer amassed more than 3,000 objects that ranged in age from a few years to tens of millions of years.


 

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