Stories
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
American Society of Zoologists
Date: 1988Reference: SB/1/2/28Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- 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
The beginnings of embryonic development / a symposium organized by the Section on Zoological Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, cosponsored by the American Society of Zoologists and the Association of Southeastern Biologists, and presented at the Atlanta meeting, December 27, 1955 ; edited by Albert Tyler, R.C. von Borstel, and Charles B. Metz.
Date: 1957- Archives and manuscripts
Admission tickets signed by Henri Milne-Edwards
Date: 1875-1885Reference: MS.7348/30-33Part of: Milne-Edwards, Henri, (1800-1885) and his son Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), French zoologists- Archives and manuscripts
Printed chart of classification scheme for mammals, by Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7348/45Part of: Milne-Edwards, Henri, (1800-1885) and his son Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), French zoologists