Acting museum director Spencer Lucas and some of his colleagues had been accused of appropriating the work of a pair of graduate students in their own research papers. A copy of the review, provided to the Journal this morning, concluded:

There were no findings of unethical behavior by Dr. Lucas or any members of the Museum staff. There were clear indications that plagiarism did not occur in either of the instances cited in the allegations.

I'll have more in tomorrow's paper, including interviews with the principals in the case.

For more reading, here are Lucas's written responses to the allegations (which have not been previously made public) along with the executive committee report. (We scanned them in as one PDF. The first 23 pages are Spencer's response, the rest is the report of the executive committee review.)