Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
Catalogue
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Specimens : the spirit of zoology / Roger Lincoln & Phil Rainbow.
Lincoln, Roger J.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Culture methods for invertebrate animals : a compendium prepared cooperatively by American Zoologists under the direction of a committee from Section F of the American Association for the Advancement of Science / Paul S. Galtsoff [and others].
Date: 1937- Books
Hunting insects in the South seas / by Evelyn Cheesman.
Cheesman, Evelyn (Lucy Evelyn), 1881-Date: 1932- Books
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Manuel du naturaliste préparateur, ou l'art d'empailler les animaux et de conserver les végétaux et les minéraux / par Pierre Boitard, naturaliste.
Boitard, Pierre, 1789-1859.Date: 1825- Books
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Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British insects also for collecting and preserving British crustacea and shells ... / By Abel Ingpen.
Ingpen, Abel, -1854.Date: 1827