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Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
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Description

A narrative microhistory of the Field Museum of Natural History's groundbreaking expedition to hunt and preserve rare African animal specimens for its collection before it went extinct due to modern progress and natural selection, a common view among natural historians as the 1800s came to a close.

Author Biography:

Paul D. Brinkman is head of the Science Research Lab and curator of Special Collections at the Environmental Research Laboratory and adjunct associate professor at North Carolina State University. He is author of The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Release date NZ
August 20th, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
50 images
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780817361488
Product ID
38079652

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