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

2 Ratings: 3.5

A book by Richard Fortey

“The Natural History Museum is, first and foremost, a celebration of what time has done to life,” writes Fortey, whose engaging book similarly commemorates the vast record of life on Earth. As he meanders through the halls of the museum’s … see full wiki

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Author: Richard Fortey

Publisher: Knopf

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review by TStocksl. September 19, 2008

Night at the museum with a personal tour guide

Behind-the-scenes look at London's Natural History Museum is an interesting peak at the "coalface"--Fortey's term for the daily work occurring beyond and below the public galleries--of museum science. Fortey describes the main work of the Museum, and its sister institutions in other countries, as systematic taxonomy--the attempt to exhaustively categorize and collect reference examples of each species of plant, animal, and mineral. In an era of hard-to-obtain research grants … more

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review by JSMaresca. September 08, 2008

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Secret Life of Natural History Museum

This volume would be useful for patrons of the Natural History Museum . i.e. London or New York The book has extensive photographs of artifacts; such as, a Martian meteorite (igneous rock formation). There are memorable pictures of a giant plant-eating dinosaur, the extinct moa (world's largest bird), a duck-billed platypus and many other fossils of yesteryear. The volume would make a perfect gift for the student in your house.

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