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Stephen Jay Gould loved the natural history museum in Dublin, with its gleaming glass cabinets. But a financial crisis has forced it to close two floors. How marvellous it would be to see its full trove again

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The museum holds two million specimens – including a dodo skeleton, an even rarer solitaire bird and a death’s-head hawkmoth – but a lack of funds means only 10,000 are on display

There is no climatic reason why at least one species shouldn’t flourish here – but references to our lack of snakes date back to as long ago as the third century

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Experiment developed by Dublin scientists flew to the moon in 1972 with Apollo 16