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Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.
Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.

Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.

Date1/8/1971
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Studying rocks is a complicated business. Here Dr. Joseph Mandarino shows 13-year-old Steven Berdock how to operate an x-ray spectograph which is used by the museum for analyzing chemical materials in specimens.
Studying rocks is a complicated business. Here Dr. Joseph Mandarino shows 13-year-old Steven Berdock how to operate an x-ray spectograph which is used by the museum for analyzing chemical materials in specimens.
Darrell, Dick
1/8/1971
Don't worry, they're pickled. Dr. E. J. Crossman, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's department of ichthyology and herpetology, checks two sharks he has taken from an alcohol solution. He's making the checks as the museum moves 1 million fish specimens to a warehouse during renovations.
Don't worry, they're pickled. Dr. E. J. Crossman, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's department of ichthyology and herpetology, checks two sharks he has taken from an alcohol solution. He's making the checks as the museum moves 1 million fish specimens to a warehouse during renovations.
Bull, Ron
8/26/1977
Ancient evidence: Chris McGowan, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's vertebrate palaeontology department, and Rev
Ancient evidence: Chris McGowan, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's vertebrate palaeontology department, and Rev
Toronto Star (Firm)
11/17/1984
Showman: Mel Hinde and his company Museum Productions create displays for museums around the world.
Showman: Mel Hinde and his company Museum Productions create displays for museums around the world.
Faught, Ken
1/27/1993
386-Pound Meteorit at Royal Ontario museum. Dr. V. B. Meen si museum's chief mineralogist
386-Pound Meteorit at Royal Ontario museum. Dr. V. B. Meen si museum's chief mineralogist
Goode, Jeff
9/1/1966
Peter Buerschaper is senior technician in the ichthyology department at the Royal Ontario Museum whose drawings of fish are becoming well known. Some of his work will be displayed at the annual meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists to be held at Niagara Falls from April 10 to 12.
Peter Buerschaper is senior technician in the ichthyology department at the Royal Ontario Museum whose drawings of fish are becoming well known. Some of his work will be displayed at the annual meeting of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists to be held at Niagara Falls from April 10 to 12.
Spremo, Boris
3/9/1970
Bat man: Randolph Lee Peterson, the Royal Ontario Museum's expert on bats, holds up a bat known as a flying fox
Bat man: Randolph Lee Peterson, the Royal Ontario Museum's expert on bats, holds up a bat known as a flying fox
Bull, Ron
10/26/1989
Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
Goode, Jeff
1/4/1972
Edward Meyer works out of a Toronto office for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! hunting down exhibits for 20 museums around the world
Edward Meyer works out of a Toronto office for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! hunting down exhibits for 20 museums around the world
Eglinton, Rick
9/14/1992
Harley Parker: Designer of museum's new gallery
Harley Parker: Designer of museum's new gallery
James, Norman
1/24/1967
Old cars come out like new. Restoring antique cars is the hobby and the business of Ron Fawcett of Whitby leading on a 1956 Thunderbird under the Harvard trainer mounted on the roof. Fawcett has restored cars for museums in Ottawa. Oshawa and Niagara Fall
Old cars come out like new. Restoring antique cars is the hobby and the business of Ron Fawcett of Whitby leading on a 1956 Thunderbird under the Harvard trainer mounted on the roof. Fawcett has restored cars for museums in Ottawa. Oshawa and Niagara Fall
Darrell, Dick
11/3/1975
The rigid English said he was 'unsuitable' but the Royal Ontario Museum's keeper of 'romantic magical' dinosaurs has proved them wrong
The rigid English said he was 'unsuitable' but the Royal Ontario Museum's keeper of 'romantic magical' dinosaurs has proved them wrong
Slaughter, Mike
3/28/1983