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Traces the history of the American Museum of Natural History describes the individuals who helped shape the museum, and discusses its collection of dinosaur bones, insects, birds, meteorites, and minerals.
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Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.
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Kirkus评论
Delightfully rummaging survey, somewhat whimsical, of the history and holdings of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, by a longtime museum staffer. The largest private museum in the world, it is a fantastic complex of well over 1000 rooms housing more space than the Empire State Building and serviced by 200 scientists and technicians, 600 employees, and 1000 volunteers. No more than two percent of its collection is on exhibit on its 700,000 square feet of floor space; the rest is squirreled away in 23 interconnected buildings. ""The Museum defies reasonable description and enumeration, it possesses the most spiders, the most beetles, the most dinosaur bones, the most fossil mammals, the most whales, the most plant bugs, and the most birds of any museum in the world""--as well as the largest hippo on record and P. T. Barnum's famed circus elephant Jumbo. When one considers the Museum's 2 million butterflies and 5.5 million wasps, a sense of madness drifts over the mind. Who needs 5.5 million wasps, or 2 million butterflies? Planned for Central Park, the museum was first seen as a great Paleozoic Museum based on London's Crystal Palace. It was begun, but when Boss Tweed came to power in 1870 and found he could not bilk the city for work on the museum, he scotched the project, had its foundations plowed under and his henchmen sledgehammer the dinosaur collection. Physically today, going by its original plans, the museum is still only two-thirds built, but its collections--both permanent and ongoing--are ""the real museum."" Preston takes a grand tour of the museum's library of bones, its labs, vaults, corridors and storage rooms, stopping here and there to report on the first findings of some unusual specimens and give a gripping history of New York's cockroaches or of gorilla and elephant life in darkest Africa. For all libraries and great fun. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
New York's American Museum of Natural History, one of the outstanding science museums in the world, contains an extraordinary collection of objects: dinosaur skeletons, human mummies, tiny beetles, birds of paradise, and massive totem poles. Only a tiny fraction of the millions of catalogued specimens is on public view, and Douglas, with a series of judicious choices, takes us on a tour of the great labyrinth of storerooms and vaults that houses the bulk of the collection. Of equal interest are the people who built up and continue to maintain this extraordinary collection. This is a delightful book filled with fascinating stories, anecdotes, and personalities. Highly recommended. Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Biology Dept., Western New Engalnd Coll., Springfield, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Delightfully rummaging survey, somewhat whimsical, of the history and holdings of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, by a longtime museum staffer. The largest private museum in the world, it is a fantastic complex of well over 1000 rooms housing more space than the Empire State Building and serviced by 200 scientists and technicians, 600 employees, and 1000 volunteers. No more than two percent of its collection is on exhibit on its 700,000 square feet of floor space; the rest is squirreled away in 23 interconnected buildings. ""The Museum defies reasonable description and enumeration, it possesses the most spiders, the most beetles, the most dinosaur bones, the most fossil mammals, the most whales, the most plant bugs, and the most birds of any museum in the world""--as well as the largest hippo on record and P. T. Barnum's famed circus elephant Jumbo. When one considers the Museum's 2 million butterflies and 5.5 million wasps, a sense of madness drifts over the mind. Who needs 5.5 million wasps, or 2 million butterflies? Planned for Central Park, the museum was first seen as a great Paleozoic Museum based on London's Crystal Palace. It was begun, but when Boss Tweed came to power in 1870 and found he could not bilk the city for work on the museum, he scotched the project, had its foundations plowed under and his henchmen sledgehammer the dinosaur collection. Physically today, going by its original plans, the museum is still only two-thirds built, but its collections--both permanent and ongoing--are ""the real museum."" Preston takes a grand tour of the museum's library of bones, its labs, vaults, corridors and storage rooms, stopping here and there to report on the first findings of some unusual specimens and give a gripping history of New York's cockroaches or of gorilla and elephant life in darkest Africa. For all libraries and great fun. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
New York's American Museum of Natural History, one of the outstanding science museums in the world, contains an extraordinary collection of objects: dinosaur skeletons, human mummies, tiny beetles, birds of paradise, and massive totem poles. Only a tiny fraction of the millions of catalogued specimens is on public view, and Douglas, with a series of judicious choices, takes us on a tour of the great labyrinth of storerooms and vaults that houses the bulk of the collection. Of equal interest are the people who built up and continue to maintain this extraordinary collection. This is a delightful book filled with fascinating stories, anecdotes, and personalities. Highly recommended. Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Biology Dept., Western New Engalnd Coll., Springfield, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.