The Rarest of the Rare
Subtitle: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Publisher: Collins
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780060537180
Subjects: Nature; Natural history; General; Reference; Nature/Ecology; Natural history museums; History; Nature / General; Catalogs and collections; Cambridge; Massachusetts
First sentence: Peale, who founded America's first scientific museum in Philadelphia in 1784, taught himself the art of taxidermy.