Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum / Richard Fortey.
2008
QH70.G72 L6533 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum / Richard Fortey.
Author
Fortey, Richard A.
ISBN
9780307263629
0307263622
0307263622
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Language
English
Description
335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
QH70.G72 L6533 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
508/.074/4212
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index.
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Table of Contents
Behind 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.
The naming of names
Old worlds
Animalia
Theatre of plants
Multum in parvo
Museum rocks
Noah's Ark in Kensington
House of the Muses.