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Show NO PLACE ' FOR STAR POINTER CHICAGO, 'Dec. 17. Scientific au-l au-l thoritles ut the University of Chicago j have a new problem In natural his-' his-' tory. The professors are undecided ! what disposition to make of the hide and bones of the late Star Pointer, l which are to be offered to the lnatitu-I lnatitu-I lion by James A. Murphy, owner of , the famous pacer that first negotiated j a mile In less than two minutes some i thirteen years ago. It is s.ild to be j Mr. Murphy s In ention to mount tho remains oi the famous horse and pro- stnt them to tho university. Mem- bers of the various departments ot ltnrniDg at the university were wi-I wi-I able to Ktato In wb;it mueeum of tho J univers.ty the specimen would bo i placed I The professors said they knew of j n precedents to guide their actions, i and asked for tim; to think It over, i The curators of the Walker mu-I mu-I scum and the Haskell museum a-, a-, sorted that Star Pointer's skeleton might be out of place in their de-I de-I pai tments. The ,alker collection consists of prehistoric bones, eth-, eth-, nnlosicnl exhibits and geological for-. for-. rnations, and Haskell houses a num-j num-j ber of,Kgpt:an mummies and works of art. The racer would hardly find refuge In cither museum, it was btated "I know of no specimen of n raco horse? In c-it collection." said Prof. Robert R. Beneley of the department I of anatomy which had been regarded ns a possible solution of the problem, t "Yes, we have skeletons, but nothing J of the sort you have mentioned." I |