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Gems & Crystals from the American Museum of Natural History
Anna S. SofianidesDiscusses the properties, history, lore, and sources of gems Featuring 150 stunning full-color photographs of 400 different gems and crystals from the world-famous spectacular collection of the American Museum of Natural History, Gems & ...
Annual Report - American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History... Byrne Florence Calatayud Robert Campanile Cxinstance Campbell Amy Caplow Ruth Cardito Caryl T. Carnow Alcssandra Cazzaniga Cynthia Chan Diane Lindsay Charlap Scvcrine Chavcl Tung F. Cheng Tony Cheng Louise Chcrkis ...
Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History... Burroughs Madeline Byrne Florence Calatayud Robert Campanile Constance Campbell Amy Caplow Ruth Cardito Caryl T. Carnow Alessandra Cazzaniga Cynthia Chan Diane Lindsay Charlap Sevcrine Chavel Tung F. Cheng Tony Cheng ...
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History ...
Richard ForteyReveals the hidden treasures of London's Natural History Museum and the people, research, and passions that created the museum, in a study of the social history of the scientific accomplishments of the past two centuries.
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art ...
Bridget R. Cooks... of Science, Natural History, and Art disbanded into three separate museums in 1951: The Los Angeles County Museum of Science, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt. 7.
Nature Museum
Angela LeeperIntroduces a natural history museum, exploring who works there and what they do, different types of exhibits, and other things to do in a museum.
Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum
Jennifer BarrettInterview with Jennifer Barrett, Australian Museum, Sydney, 25 October 2005. Hutchings, Pat. 'Foundations of Australian Science, Sydney's Natural History Legacy, and the Place of the Australian Museum'. In The Natural History of Sydney, ...
The Unfeathered Bird
Katrina Van GrouwAnd Tom Trombone, Paul Sweet, Peter Capainolo, and Matt Shanley for providing photographs of specimens from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Last but not least, thanks go to Kaitlin Evans of the Bishop Museum, ...
Extraordinary Birds: Natural Histories, Rare Book Selections ...
Paul SweetThis collection gives bird lovers a look at illustrated ornithological monographs from the American Museum of Natural History's rare book collections.
From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of ...
Andrea A. Burns" This book tells the story of four of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago (founded in 1961); the International Afro-American Museum in Detroit (1965); the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in ...
Guide Leaflet
American Museum of Natural History... JR., Ph.D., Editor FREDERICK L. HAHN, Production Manager CHARLES J. O' CONNOR, Manager of Circulation and Advertising The Junior Natural History Magazine DOROTHY LEE EDWARDS, Editor CHARLES J. O'CONNOR, Manager ...
1957 Expeditions Journal: Baja California American Museum of ...
Oakes A. PlimptonEmerson has written 150 scientific publications and eight popular shell books including: TheAmerican Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells: Land, Freshwater, and Marine from Nova Scotia to Florida by William K. Emerson and Morris K.
Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers
David BrewerAccess to museum material was of paramount importance and I am very grateful to Dr Ross James and Mark Peck of the Royal Ontario Museum, Dr John Bates and Dr David Willard of the Field Museum of Natural History, David Agro, Dr Nate ...
Zoologische Verhandelingen
More editionsWe are most grateful for the help and patience of Mrs F.E. Warr and Alison Harding of The Natural History Museum, Tring with our library work there and also to Mrs Ann Datta and her colleagues at the Zoology Library, The Natural History ...
A Very Short History Of The World
Geoffrey BlaineyGeoffrey Blainey. source notes at the back of the original edition. I gained from visits to many museums and art galleries as well as libraries. I especially thank the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Museum of Natural History and the Science ...
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800
Amy Elizabeth BoganskyThe Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 Amy Elizabeth Bogansky Amelia Peck. Lenders to the Exhibition American Museum of Natural History, New York The Art Institute of Chicago Centraal Museum, Utrecht Cleveland Museum of Art Cora ...
The American Development of Biology
Ronald RaingerSee Adam Hermann, "Modern Laboratory Methods in Vertebrate Paleontology," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1909, 26: 283-331; Schuchert and LeVene, Marsh, p. 91; and Sylvia Massey Czerkas and Donald F. Glut.
Inside Dinosaurs
Andra Serlin AbramsonScientists from the American Museum of Natural History recreate the world of dinosaurs as it was over 250 million years ago.
Palaeontology
Richard OwenOwen was the founder of the Natural History Museum, bringing the collections over from the British Museum. This volume examines fossil evidence for change in species over time.
Siebold and Japan: His Life and Work
Arlette KouwenhovenThese are now part of the collections of the world-renowned National Museum of Ethnology and the Naturalis (National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American ...
PreviewNatural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental awareness, activism, and justice throughout American history.
The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and ...
David Goodman MandelbaumBased on the author's thesis. Part I was previously published in 1940 by the American Museum of Natural History. This revised edition includes two additional comparative sections.
Proceedings
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological SocietyMr. Martin Henig has been studying the Museum's intaglios, a hitherto untouched subject and one on which he comments "they are perhaps more interesting than any Museum collection in the country, not excluding Bath!" The Yetties, a local ...
Anthropology News
More editionsBy Pravina Shukla (American Museum of Natural History) A young Navajo lady has just finished her puberty ceremony. She stands in front of a hogan where the ceremony took place. She and her jewelry were blessed during the ceremony.
A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum,: Descriptive of the ...
Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean Museum, Philip Bury Duncan. He thus very clearly explains the plan of his arrangement of the contents of the Museum : " The first division proposes to familiarize the eye to those relations " of all natural objects which form the basis ...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain
DKCromwell Museum (Huntingdon) 212 D-Day Museum (Portsmouth) 173 Dales Countryside Museum (Hawes) 389 ... Folk Museum 390 Groam House Museum ( Rosemarkie) 535 Grosvenor Museum (Chester) 314,315 Hands on History ...
Minerals of the World
Ole Johnsen"--George E. Harlow, Curator of Minerals and Gems, American Museum of Natural History "This is a very appealing handbook and textbook for minerals. It is clearly and competently written. This book cannot go out-of-date.
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