Dry Storeroom No. 1, Issue 1A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged scientists, curators, and research specialists have been—the hallowed halls that hold the permanent collection of the Natural History Museum. Replete with fossils, jewels, rare plants, and exotic species, Fortey’s walk through offers an intimate view of many of the premiere scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Like looking into the mind of mankind and all the fascinating discoveries, ideas, and accomplishments that reside there, Fortey’s tour is utterly entertaining from first to last. |
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... Landscape Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Trilobite ! Eyewitness to Revolution Fossils : The Key to the Past Earth : An Intimate History Dry Storeroom No. 1 Dry Storeroom No. 1 RICHARD FORTEY.
... Landscape Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Trilobite ! Eyewitness to Revolution Fossils : The Key to the Past Earth : An Intimate History Dry Storeroom No. 1 Dry Storeroom No. 1 RICHARD FORTEY.
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... Earth runs to at least 3.5 thou- sand million years . Or , if you prefer , more than a million times the age of the great arboreal Methuselah of living organisms that I was contem- plating . Every specimen preserved in the Museum is a ...
... Earth runs to at least 3.5 thou- sand million years . Or , if you prefer , more than a million times the age of the great arboreal Methuselah of living organisms that I was contem- plating . Every specimen preserved in the Museum is a ...
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... Earth . It sounds easy . This is , of course , only the beginning of finding out about life , because there lies beyond identification so much more , such as how animals live - their ecology - or why there are dif- ferent species in ...
... Earth . It sounds easy . This is , of course , only the beginning of finding out about life , because there lies beyond identification so much more , such as how animals live - their ecology - or why there are dif- ferent species in ...
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... Earth . I will choose one example , from a cast of thousands . You have to be a special kind of person to love fungus gnats , but if you look at mushrooms growing in woods you will certainly see these tiny insects flying around the ...
... Earth . I will choose one example , from a cast of thousands . You have to be a special kind of person to love fungus gnats , but if you look at mushrooms growing in woods you will certainly see these tiny insects flying around the ...
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Contents
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Old Worlds | 73 |
Animalia | 114 |
Theatre of Plants | 154 |
Multum in parvo | 185 |
Museum Rocks | 220 |
Noahs Ark in Kensington | 257 |
House of the Muses | 292 |
Acknowledgements | 315 |
Further Reading | 317 |
Illustration Credits | 319 |
Index | 325 |
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