| ISBN |
9780300226928 (pbk.)
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| 청구기호 |
508.0747468 C7528h |
| 형태사항 |
xvi, 331 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
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| 언어 |
English |
| 서지주기 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-316) and index.
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| 내용 |
Introduction : hunting for truffles -- A West that was actually wild -- The patriarch -- The education of O.C. Marsh -- The wooing of George Peabody -- Rock render -- A rumor of war -- The Marsh expeditions -- Professor M on the warpath -- The year of enormous dinosaurs -- Fossils, buffalo, and the birth of American conservation -- A building of their own -- In the shadow of O.C. Marsh -- The prince of bone hunters -- Bone wars -- Trilobite magic and cycad obsessions -- Mapping ancient worlds -- A city raised like a chalice -- Teaching evolution -- The rise of modern ecology -- The beauty of the beasts -- The art of being invisible -- Into the unmapped world -- Zoology in the time of geneticists -- The man who saved dinosaurs -- Epilogue -- The Peabody's scientists.
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| 주제 |
Natural history museums --Connecticut --New Haven --History.
Natural history --Connecticut --New Haven --History.
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