To those of us who are natural history museum enthusiasts, curators are the veritable high priestesses and priests of the temple. The opportunity to meet and chat with one during a visit, even if for only a few minutes, makes the day a red letter one indeed.
Dr. Erica McAlister knows quite a lot about flies – something that she no doubt finds handy as Collections Manager for Diptera, Siphonaptera, Archnida and Myriapoda at the Natural History Museum. So as you might expect, news of her forthcoming book “The Secret Life of Flies” has been greeted with great excitement by naturalists around the world.
As Yale’s famous Peabody Museum is celebrating its one hundred fiftieth anniversary in 2016, it is only fitting that someone should recount the much-storied history of the institution in a book. That that someone should turn out to be the award-winning author Richard Conniff is of particular good fortune to all those of us who would be interested in reading such a history.
Darrin Lunde does such a superb job of presenting his new book The Naturalist; Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History in this recent podcast from the American Museum of Natural History that I scarcely think there’s any more I could write in a review that wold make you even more […]