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==Main Street Museum — Catalog of Artifacts==
 
==Main Street Museum — Catalog of Artifacts==
 
===Categories including ''Series'' and ''Subseries''===
 
===Categories including ''Series'' and ''Subseries''===
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===Inanimate Objects===
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*[[Minerals]]
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**[[Geological Specimens]]
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**[[Relics from Locations of Interest]]
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*[[Man-made Minerals]]
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===Living or Apparently Once Living Objects===
 
*[[Flora]]
 
*[[Flora]]
**[[Corn]]  
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**[[Corn]]
— Subcategory: [[Dehydrated]] — Condition: Fair to poor — Origin: North Eastern Woodlands — Age: unknown
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**[[Exotic, Tropic and Sub-tropic Vegetable Samples]]
 
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***[[The Flora of South Florida and Lousiana]]
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***[[Theodore Roosevelt in Puerto-Rico]]
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**[[Ferns]]
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**[[Familae Rosecea]]
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**[[Mosses and Lichens]]
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**[[Trees; The Anamorphic Perspective]]
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*[[Fauna]]
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The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial
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Antler Cervus
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Artifacts of Geographic Interest (World War II) [see below]
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Military History
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The War of the Rebellion/War Between the States
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Renssalaer William Foote uniforms and  journal
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Armaments
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Munitions and Substitute Munitions. (For World War II items see “The Leroy Short Memorial; Sporting and Wild Game Collection).
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Artifacts Of Historic or Geographical Interest; Relics
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Religioius
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Art
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Two Dimensional Pieces
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Three Dimensional Pieces
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Elvis Aaron Presley Visual Art Amalgam
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Bad Craft
 
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[“Indian”] Corn, Z. mays
 
 
One female inflorescence with up to 1,000 ovules and styles [silks] or potential kernels. Illustrating the genetic ancestor, now extinct for common domesticated corn. Mangelsdorf’s “tripartite theory” on the sexual synthesis, or evolutionary immutability, of North American varieties, is implied.
 
 
“As a corn breeder [Mangelsdorf] had experimented with a third kindred grass, Tripsacum, and with his Texas colleague Robert Reeves had in 1939 formulated a “tripartite theory” to prove that “the ancestor of cultivated corn was corn.” (Fussell, p. 79)
 
 
He speculated that there must once have been a wild corn, now extinct, and that a hybrid of this wild pod popcorn mated with Tripsacum to become the parents of teosinte. He concluded that a gene mix of these three related grasses evolved into our modern races of corn.
 
 
====References====
 
*Betty Fussell, ''The Story of Corn.'' New York City, 1992.
 
*P.C. Mangelsdorf, ''Corn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Improvement.'' Cambridge, 1974.
 
*_____, and R. G. Reeves, "The Origin of Indian Corn and Its Relatives." ''Bulletin.'' 574. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1939.
 
The opposing view is presented in:
 
*H. H. Iltis, “From Teosinte to Maize: The Catastrophic Sexual Transmutation.” ''Science.'' no. 4626;222. 25 Nov., 1983
 

Revision as of 13:00, 24 September 2007

Main Street Museum — Catalog of Artifacts

Categories including Series and Subseries


Inanimate Objects

Living or Apparently Once Living Objects

The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial Antler Cervus Artifacts of Geographic Interest (World War II) [see below] Military History The War of the Rebellion/War Between the States Renssalaer William Foote uniforms and journal Armaments Munitions and Substitute Munitions. (For World War II items see “The Leroy Short Memorial; Sporting and Wild Game Collection). Artifacts Of Historic or Geographical Interest; Relics Religioius Art Two Dimensional Pieces Three Dimensional Pieces Elvis Aaron Presley Visual Art Amalgam Bad Craft