Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge : natural history in North America 1730-1860 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
American Philosophical Society,
2003.
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| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;
v. 93, pt. 4. |
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Table of 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.