Image: gopher snake (Wikimedia)
Grab That Snake!
Dateline: March 1925
If you run across any snakes, pick them up please – the Museum of Natural History wants them. "Our aim is to make casts of all the game fish and snakes of this vicinity," said a museum employee. "But we are busily engaged in casting [wax models] and can't get out to hunt or fish … A number of wax casts naturally colored already have been finished for the fish section of the museum."