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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... looks like some kind of cathedral, dominated by towers topped by short spires; these lie at the centre of the building and at its eastern and western corners. Ranks of round-topped Romanesque windows lie on “aisles” connecting the ...
... looks like some kind of cathedral, dominated by towers topped by short spires; these lie at the centre of the building and at its eastern and western corners. Ranks of round-topped Romanesque windows lie on “aisles” connecting the ...
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... looks like some kind of cathedral , dominated by towers topped by short spires ; these lie at the centre of the building and at its eastern and western corners . Ranks of round - topped Romanesque windows lie on " aisles " connecting ...
... looks like some kind of cathedral , dominated by towers topped by short spires ; these lie at the centre of the building and at its eastern and western corners . Ranks of round - topped Romanesque windows lie on " aisles " connecting ...
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... look convinced . The bones that caused such a sensation in Andrew Carnegie's time a century ago , and that still command attention in the main hall , are now sometimes considered a little too tame . There is , to my mind , still ...
... look convinced . The bones that caused such a sensation in Andrew Carnegie's time a century ago , and that still command attention in the main hall , are now sometimes considered a little too tame . There is , to my mind , still ...
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... look as if they are swimming along this wall , one above the other , making a kind of Jurassic dolphin pod ( although of course they are not biologically related to those similar - looking living mammals ) . They comprise a famous ...
... look as if they are swimming along this wall , one above the other , making a kind of Jurassic dolphin pod ( although of course they are not biologically related to those similar - looking living mammals ) . They comprise a famous ...
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... look at them for very long to realize that there was a kind of chain running from a Negroid caricature on one side to a rather idealized Aryan type on the other . This was a remnant of an old exhibit , heaven knows from what era , with ...
... look at them for very long to realize that there was a kind of chain running from a Negroid caricature on one side to a rather idealized Aryan type on the other . This was a remnant of an old exhibit , heaven knows from what era , with ...
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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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum Richard Fortey Limited preview - 2009 |
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum Richard Fortey No preview available - 2009 |
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum Richard A. Fortey No preview available - 2008 |
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