Upon discovering the subject of Mark Avery’s most recent Sunday Book Review, I found myself suddenly musing upon one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings, “Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer” (also sometimes known as “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer”) for indeed, in this review we have one significant figure of, in this case, modern British natural history and conservation, musing over – here, a new addition to – the embodiment of an older collection of works to which his own owe something of their own foundation.
