In 1868, after three years of negotiating its future, the Peter Street museum closed its doors, the property of the Natural History Society was conveyed to Owens College, and its collections were dispersed. Some specimens, like Azru and Old Billy, were retained for the museum to be housed at the new Owens College building on Oxford Road (now the Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester), some, like Vizier (who went to the Louvre to be ‘forgotten in an attic’), were given to national museums, and some were discreetly destroyed or sold at auction. The body of Hannah Beswick was buried in an unmarked grave in Harpurhey General Cemetery on 22 July 1868. This chapter first offers analysis of the demise of the Natural History Society museum and the concurrent rise of Owens College as a provincial academic institution. It considers the arrangements through which the Society's collection was transferred to the College, as well as the decision not to include the body of Hannah Beswick in the new Manchester Museum, but instead to bury her body in a discreet municipal grave. Through archival evidence, this chapter explores the complications faced by the Society's Commissioners, who were left to dispose of an anonymous corpse with no precedent or protocol to draw on.