Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge : natural history in North America, 1730-1860 / Sue Ann Prince, editor.

Date:
2003
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia, Pa. : American Philosophical Society, 2003.

Physical description

xvi, 113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

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Notes

Published for the exhibition ... presented at the American Philosophical Society, Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 June 2003-31 December 2004" -- t.p. verso.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 96) and index.

Contents

Preserving nature for study and display / Robert McCracken Peck -- Alcohol and arsenic, pepper, and pitch : brief histories of preservation techniques / Robert McCracken Peck -- Surface and depth : the art of early American natural history / Michael Gaudio -- Nature and nation : natural history in context / Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin.

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    History of Medicine
    AN.6.AA7-8
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  • 0871699346