In The Owl That Fell from the Sky, Dr. Brian Gill, Curator of Land Vertebrates at Aukland’s War Memorial Museum recounts some of the astonishing histories of fifteen specimens presently housed in some of New Zealand’s finest natural history collections.
Rachel Poliquin‘s The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing isn’t a book that fits neatly into any single category. Given its author’s interest and expertise in natural history museology and collecting, it would at first seem to fall into the history of natural history. However it also contains significant veins of art and cultural criticism, […]
Prior to reading Richard Fortey’s Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, I honestly cannot recall audibly exclaiming “Bravo!” upon completing a reading of any book.
Prior to reading Richard Fortey’s Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum I honestly cannot recall audibly exclaiming “Bravo!” upon completing a reading of any book. Such is the effect of Professor Fortey’s prose – it wraps one up in a continuous flow of fascinating scientific insights, superbly wrought historical […]