Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge : natural history in North America 1730-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Prince, Sue Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : American Philosophical Society, 2003.
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 93, pt. 4.
Subjects:
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.