Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge
Subtitle: natural history in North America 1730-1860
By: Sue Ann Prince, editor.
Contributors: Prince, Sue Ann.
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 93, pt. 4
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Natural history -- North America -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Natural history -- North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: class: part
title: Preserving nature for study and display -- Robert McCracken Peck; class: chapter
title: Alcohol and arsenic, pepper and pitch: brief histories of preservation techniques -- Robert McCracken Peck; class: part
title: Surface and depth: the art of early American natural history -- Michael Gaudio; class: part
title: Nature and nation: natural history in context-- Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin.