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Article: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum.(Book review)
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey. Harper Press, London. 338 pages; 2008; 20 [pounds sterling] (hardcover).
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During the past few years, the pages of Rocks & Minerals and similar journals have been flooded with comment on the great changes that have taken place in natural history museums worldwide. This book illustrates some of those changes from the inside (the author worked for the British Natural History Museum for thirty years), but it does much more than that. It illustrates the changes in the organization and the changes in the people, from the wildly eccentric who were ...