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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232119803 Title: Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum Author: Richard A Fortey Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780307263629 : 0307263622 OCLC:232119803

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Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum

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Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum

Author:	Richard A Fortey
Publisher:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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 Read more...
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Richard A Fortey Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780307263629 : 0307263622
OCLC Number:	232119803
Description:	335 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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.
Other Titles:	Dry storeroom no. one
Responsibility:	Richard Fortey.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Sample text

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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.

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