Missing brains

A recent issue of The New York Times had an article by Tamar Lewin about the University of Texas at Austin:

The case of the missing brains has apparently been solved. UT issued a statement that most of the one hundred brains, preserved in formaldehyde in jars, that had disappeared from the basement of the Animal Resources Center had been disposed of by the University's environmental health and safety officials in 2002, under protocols for biological waste...
Not everyone is convinced that the University's explanation accounts for all the missing gray matter. But, if accurate, the statement resolves the status of an unlikely collection of missing items; the brains were taken from mental patients in autopsies as far back as the 1950s. They were kept in heavy glass jars, each with an identification label, a diagnosis, and the date of death, according to Alex Hannaford, co-author, with Adam Voorhes (who photographed the brain collection, above) of a new book, Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital...
There is no evidence, apparently, that one of the brains came from Charles Whitman, the infamous (and former Marine) tower sniper whose 1966 rampage terrorized the UT campus and killed sixteen people...
"These brain collections go back to the mid-1800s, and it's not uncommon for their whereabouts to be unclear", said Brian Burrell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "There was one collection of six hundred brains by a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania anatomist, and no one knows where they are," said Burrell.

Rico says that he doesn't have 'em, but try the Mutter Museum. (And all this evokes Young Frankenstein for Rico...)