October 23, 2006
Philly Museum to Sell Gems
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Trustees of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences are selling more than 15,000 minerals and gems that haven't been displayed for decades to raise money for the 194-year-old natural history museum's library. The cash-strapped academy must obtain court permission to sell its remaining 7,000-odd pieces because William S. Vaux, who donated them 123 years ago, requested that they never be sold.
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