page_title: San Diego Natural History Museum
section_title: Research Library
hierarchical_section_title: San Diego Natural History Museum / Research / Research Departments / Research Library
caption_attribution_description: English: Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People: A History of Citizen Science. San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library.
context_page_description: The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933. A major addition to the museum was dedicated in April 2001, doubling exhibit space.
context_section_description: Library collections include a complete natural history reference library, the rare book collection, the Klauber Herpetology Library, and the map collection. In addition, the Library's art collection includes treasures such as the botanical watercolors of A. R. Valentien and wildlife paintings by George Miksch Sutton and Allan Brooks. The Library's archives include a large collection of historical photographs and many important field notes collections, such as those of herpetologist Laurence Klauber (available online at the Internet Archive), mammalogists Frank Stephens and Laurence M. Huey (available at the Internet Archive), and naturalist Charles Russell Orcutt.  The library director curates the Museum's permanent exhibition Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People: A History of Citizen Science, which draws from the rich resources of the library's varied collections.
caption: Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People: A History of Citizen Science. San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library.
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