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000324380 1001_ $$aFortey, Richard A.
000324380 24510 $$aDry storeroom no. 1 :$$bthe secret life of the Natural History Museum /$$cRichard Fortey.
000324380 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2008.
000324380 300__ $$a335 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000324380 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index.
000324380 5050_ $$aBehind the galleries -- The naming of names -- Old worlds -- Animalia -- Theatre of plants -- Multum in parvo -- Museum rocks -- Noah's Ark in Kensington -- House of the Muses.
000324380 520__ $$aIn an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.
000324380 61020 $$aNatural History Museum (London, England)$$xHistory.
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