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The Man Behind the Museum: The Life of Chauncey J. Hamlin

By Kathryn H. Leacock - April 11, 2013

Named one of the past century’s most influential Western New Yorkers, Chauncey Hamlin was a politician, a conservationist and a key figure in the development of the Buffalo Museum of Science and the field of museology nationwide.

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