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| Title | Nature's mirror: how taxidermists shaped America's natural history museums and saved endangered species |
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| Creators | Andrei Mary Anne |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Taxidermy — History. ; Natural history museums — History. ; Zoological specimens — Collection and preservation — History. ; EBSCO eBooks |
| Document type | Other |
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| Language | English |
| Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать, копирование) |
| Record key | on1202458744 |
| Record create date | 10/31/2020 |
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- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. “A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists”: Ward’s and the Birth of the Habitat Group
- 2. “Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals”: The Society of American Taxidermists
- 3. “The Destruction Wrought by Man”: Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation
- 4. Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums
- 5. “The Duty to Conserve”: Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals
- 6. “Brightest Africa”: Carl Akeley and the American Museum’s Race to Bring Africa to America
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
