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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History ...

Richard Fortey

Reveals 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.

Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees - Chicago. ...

Chicago Natural History Museum

(1907-30) Miiller, J., Vergleichende Anatomie der Mxyinoiden, pts. 1-4 (1835-45) Nicoll, Michael John, Nicoll's birds of Egypt, by Richard Meinertzhagen, 2 v. ( 1930) Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI , ...

Nature Museum

Angela Leeper

Introduces 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 Barrett

Interview 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, ...

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 ...

Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites

Ph. D Ferentinos

Austin, Jill, and Jennifer Brier. “Out in Chicago: Exhibiting LGBT History at the Crossroads.” In Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, edited by Jill Austin and Jennifer Brier, 1–22. Chicago: Chicago History Museum, 2011. ——— , eds ...

Gems & Crystals from the American Museum of Natural History

Anna S. Sofianides

Discusses 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 & ...

Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800

Amy Elizabeth Bogansky

The 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Mystery of the Missing Dinosaurs

Carole Marsh

When Christina and Grant visit the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, they make new friends as they search for the head of a Tyrannosaurus rex and learn about dinosaurs and the scientists who dig them up.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Jay Pridmore

This celebratory volume is the first to make the Museum''s landmark architecture, rich history, and lively interactive exhibits accessible to readers everywhere.

Women's History Sites & Resources

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Published and distributed by the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites c/o Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted, MC 051 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607-7017 http://ncwhs.oah.org peg.strobel ...

Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers

David Brewer

Access 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 editions

We 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 Blainey

Geoffrey 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 ...

Palaeontology

Richard Owen

Owen 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 Kouwenhoven

These 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.

The Unfeathered Bird

Katrina Van Grouw

And 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, ...

Chicago the Beautiful: A City Reborn

Kenan Heise

Explores Chicago's beautiful natural and constructed treasures, including Lake Michigan, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the enhancement of the Loop.

Proceedings

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Mr. 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 ...

Extraordinary Birds: Natural Histories, Rare Book Selections ...

Paul Sweet

This collection gives bird lovers a look at illustrated ornithological monographs from the American Museum of Natural History's rare book collections.

A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum,: Descriptive of the ...

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean 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 ...

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 ...