The owl that fell from the sky
Subtitle: stories of a museum curator
By: Brian Gill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Awa Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wellington, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781877551130
Subjects: Collection management; Natural history museum curators; Museum curators; Natural history museums; Anecdotes; Zoological specimens; Collection and preservation; Auckland War Memorial Museum; Curatorship; Museums
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: The owl that fell from the sky; title: The Kaikoura moa egg; title: Jammit, the Ōkārito kiwi; title: Leo Cappel's albatross diorama; title: Willie Cheeseman's reef heron; title: The Duke of Genoa's black-thighed falconet; title: A long-remembered ovenbird nest; title: Rajah, the elephant; title: Mr. Mackechnie's Arctic group; title: Charles Adams' orang-utan; title: The mystery of the banjo frogs; title: Captain Cook's tortoise; title: Turtle bones; title: The Aitutaki house geckos; title: Foster Bay's sea snake.