no systematic audit of the Tring’s collection was ordered. Even if it had been, with over fifteen hundred cabinets housing 750,000 specimens and a small staff, a complete audit—which hadn’t been conducted for at least a decade—could take weeks. Dr. Robert Prys-Jones, the museum’s collections manager, was relieved that nothing appeared to be missing. A brief police report was written up, and the case of the broken window was considered closed.

