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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens. The university's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of Oxford in the various colleges. The university's collection of anatomical and natural history specimens were similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring together all the aspects of science around a central display area

United States Lines was the trade name of an organisation of the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, created to operate German lines seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by the USSB and all finances of the line were controlled by the EFC