Adquisición de un esqueleto de ballena por el MNCN en 1895-1896

• C. Martín Escorza ^[1]
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• Localización: Geotemas (Madrid), ISSN 1576-5172, Nº. 7 (Simposio homenaje a D. Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros y Hervás), 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: VII Congreso Geológico de España), págs. 87-89
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  • In the Archive of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) of Madrid are preserved six letters written by the hand of Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros. By means of them can be reconstructed the acquisition by the MNCN of whale bones of a carcase found on a beach 4 km of Gijón on the Asturian coast in the autumn of 1895. Jiménez de Cisneros was interested by the whale so that bones would be acquired by the MNCN. For this he sent letters to the Director and maintained meetings with the fishermen that they had captured the whale. In the wake of all these negotiations, in January of 1896, a total of 167 whale bones arrived in railway to the MNCN of Madrid. This new material had to produce preoccupations to the MNCN, since then were found in a critical situation, without a building where to accept its valuable inheritance.

    All these pieces are found in facilities of the CSIC the waiting of the fact that a specialist mount all, in order to their exhibition in the Expositions Room of the MNCN.