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=== Cabinet of Geology and Minerology ===

Henry A. Ward, a Professor of Natural History at the University of Rochester, was hired in 1862 to assemble a museum for the College.<ref name=":0">Natural History Museum - Vassar Encyclopedia - Vassar College</ref> In 1864, Ward constructed the Cabinet of Geology and Minerology on the 5th floor of Main.<ref name=":1">Vassar college and its founder: Lossing, Benson John, 1867: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</ref> A smaller Cabinet of Natural History was also kept on the third floor.<ref name=":1" /> Yale professor James D. Dana described the collection as surpassing anything he had seen in the United States of Europe.<ref name=":0" /> Sanborn Tenney was hired in 1865 as Vassar's first Professor of Natural History. A student of [[wikipedia:Louis_Agassiz|Louis Agassiz]], the famed Darwin critic, Tenney was a creationist and rejected the theory of evolution. Tenney was replaced by James Orton in 1869. Orton was a friend of Henry Ward and Charles Darwin, and served as manager of the collection until he died in 1877 in Peru on a collecting trip.<ref name=":0" />

Henry A. Ward, a Professor of Natural History at the University of Rochester, was hired in 1862 to assemble a museum for the College.<ref name=":0">Natural History Museum - Vassar Encyclopedia - Vassar College</ref> In 1864, Ward constructed the Cabinet of Geology and Minerology on the 5th floor of Main.<ref name=":1">Vassar college and its founder: Lossing, Benson John, 1867: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</ref> A smaller Cabinet of Natural History was also kept on the third floor.<ref name=":1" /> Yale professor James D. Dana described the collection as surpassing anything he had seen in the United States or Europe.<ref name=":0" /> Sanborn Tenney was hired in 1865 as Vassar's first Professor of Natural History. A student of [[wikipedia:Louis_Agassiz|Louis Agassiz]], the famed Darwin critic, Tenney was a creationist and rejected the theory of evolution. Tenney was replaced by James Orton in 1869. Orton was a friend of Henry Ward and Charles Darwin, and served as manager of the collection until he died in 1877 in Peru on a collecting trip.<ref name=":0" />

=== Vassar College Museum of Natural History ===

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 === Cabinet of Geology and Minerology ===
-Henry A. Ward, a Professor of Natural History at the University of Rochester, was hired in 1862 to assemble a museum for the College.<ref name=":0">Natural History Museum - Vassar Encyclopedia - Vassar College</ref> In 1864, Ward constructed the Cabinet of Geology and Minerology on the 5th floor of Main.<ref name=":1">Vassar college and its founder: Lossing, Benson John, 1867: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</ref> A smaller Cabinet of Natural History was also kept on the third floor.<ref name=":1" /> Yale professor James D. Dana described the collection as surpassing anything he had seen in the United States of Europe.<ref name=":0" /> Sanborn Tenney was hired in 1865 as Vassar's first Professor of Natural History. A student of [[wikipedia:Louis_Agassiz|Louis Agassiz]], the famed Darwin critic, Tenney was a creationist and rejected the theory of evolution. Tenney was replaced by James Orton in 1869. Orton was a friend of Henry Ward and Charles Darwin, and served as manager of the collection until he died in 1877 in Peru on a collecting trip.<ref name=":0" />
+Henry A. Ward, a Professor of Natural History at the University of Rochester, was hired in 1862 to assemble a museum for the College.<ref name=":0">Natural History Museum - Vassar Encyclopedia - Vassar College</ref> In 1864, Ward constructed the Cabinet of Geology and Minerology on the 5th floor of Main.<ref name=":1">Vassar college and its founder: Lossing, Benson John, 1867: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</ref> A smaller Cabinet of Natural History was also kept on the third floor.<ref name=":1" /> Yale professor James D. Dana described the collection as surpassing anything he had seen in the United States or Europe.<ref name=":0" /> Sanborn Tenney was hired in 1865 as Vassar's first Professor of Natural History. A student of [[wikipedia:Louis_Agassiz|Louis Agassiz]], the famed Darwin critic, Tenney was a creationist and rejected the theory of evolution. Tenney was replaced by James Orton in 1869. Orton was a friend of Henry Ward and Charles Darwin, and served as manager of the collection until he died in 1877 in Peru on a collecting trip.<ref name=":0" />
 === Vassar College Museum of Natural History ===