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Article body copy Located in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences exudes the aura of a sprawling cabinet of curiosities. Its neoclassical facade is covered in natural motifs: doors flanked by ammonites, banisters that curl into ferns, bronze doorknobs in the shape of ibis skulls. As the oldest …