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

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.
Along Ohio's Historic Route 20

Along Ohio's Historic Route 20

Michael J. Till

The Cleveland Museum ofNatural History, the Cleveland Institute ofArt, Severance Hall (the home of the Cleveland Orchestra), and Case Western Reserve University all border this important thoroughfare at University Circle. Euclid Avenue ...
Arms and armor: the Cleveland Museum of Art

Arms and armor: the Cleveland Museum of Art

Stephen N. Fliegel

Lavishly illustrated and loaded with stellar examples of helmets, shields, swords, crossbows, firearms, and more from the magnificent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this volume traces the history of European arms and armor from ...
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800

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 ...
The Human Fossil Record, Brain Endocasts--The ...

The Human Fossil Record, Brain Endocasts--The ...

Jeffrey H. Schwartz

In the late 1970s, I was allowed to visit the exciting collections of the newly discovered^, afarensis materials under Dr. Donald Johanson's curatorship at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where I had the privilege and pleasure of ...
Nature Museum

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

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, ...
The Cambridge World Prehistory

The Cambridge World Prehistory

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Johanson, D. C.,White,T.D. &Coppens, Y.1978. ANew Species ofthe Genus Australopithecus (Primates, Hominidae) from thePliocene of Eastern Africa. Cleveland Museum ofNatural History: Cleveland. Kappelman, J., Swisher, C. C., Fleagle, ...
Gems & Crystals from the American Museum of Natural History

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 & ...
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art ...

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

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

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 ...
Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art

Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art

Stephen N. Fliegel

Showcases selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection of arms and armor along with period artworks that illustrate their use, and includes discussion of related topics, such as chivalry, the tournament, and weapons as ...
Geologic Field Trips along the Boundary between the Central ...

Geologic Field Trips along the Boundary between the Central ...

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Joseph T. Hannibal* Cleveland Museum ofNatural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA ABSTRACT The Nebraska Capitol is a stunning Art Deco structure located in the heart of Lincoln, Nebraska. This monumental ...
Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers

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

Zoologische Verhandelingen

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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

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

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

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

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, ...
Proceedings

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

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Cromwell 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 ...

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