TY  - BOOK
N2  - In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.
AB  - In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.
T1  - Dry storeroom no. 1 :the secret life of the Natural History Museum /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Fortey, Richard A.
CN  - QH70.G72
CN  - QH70.G72
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008.
ID  - 324380
SN  - 9780307263629
SN  - 0307263622
TI  - Dry storeroom no. 1 :the secret life of the Natural History Museum /
ER  -