Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: Joel Asaph Allen
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
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Author: Joel Asaph Allen
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Author: Jim Lacefield
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780976930419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Museum of Natural History
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 339
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin Davey
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0823287076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews.
Author: Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 022673045X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created—as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook—established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort—including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues—created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature—and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.
Author: Joel Asaph Allen
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1098
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781454912149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 0
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