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Subject(s)

• Zoological specimens—Exhibitions—Social aspects—History [Browse]
• Natural history museums—Exhibitions—History [Browse]
• Human-animal relationships—History [Browse]

Editor

• Thorsen, Liv Emma [Browse]
• Rader, Karen A. (Karen Ann), 1967- [Browse]
• Dodd, Adam, 1976- [Browse]

Series

• Animalibus [More in this series]
• Animalibus: of animals and cultures [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Monstrous pigs : animal monsters and museum practices in the eighteenth-century El Real Gabinete de Historia Natural / Lise Camilla Ruud
• The frames of specimens : glass cases in Bergen Museum around 1900 / Brita Brenna
• Preserving history : collecting and displaying in Carl Akeley's In brightest Africa / Nigel Rothfels
• The pleasure of describing : art and science in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's monthly insect entertainment / Brian W. Ogilvie
• Images, ideas, and ideals : thinking with and about Ross's gull / Henry A. McGhie
• A dog of myth and matter : Barry the Saint Bernard in Bern / Liv Emma Thorsen
• Popular entomology and anthropomorphism in the nineteenth century : L. M. Budgen's Episodes of insect life / Adam Dodd
• Interacting with the watchful grasshopper; or, why live animals matter in twentieth-century science museums / Karen A. Rader
• Polar bear Knut and his blog / Guro Flinterud.

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ISBN

• 9780271060705 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0271060700 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0271060719
• 9780271060712

LCCN

2013012122

OCLC

844774244

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