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The Rarest of the Rare The Stories Behind the Harvard Museum of Natural History

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By: Nancy Pick(Author), Mark Sloan(Illustrator), Edward O Wilson(Introduction By)
192 pages, 94 colour photos
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  • The Rarest of the Rare ISBN: 9781785510113 Paperback Aug 2015 Out of Print #226131
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Where do you find Nabokov's butterflies, George Washington's pheasants, and the only stuffed bird remaining from the Lewis and Clark expedition? The vast collections of animals, minerals and plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are among the oldest in the country, dating back to the 1700s. In the words of Edward O. Wilson, the museum stands as both "cabinet of wonder and temple of science". Its rich and unlikely history involves literary figures, creationists, millionaires, and visionary scientists from Asa Gray to Stephen Jay Gould. Its mastodon skeleton – still on display – is even linked to one of the nineteenth century's most bizarre and notorious murders.

The Rarest of the Rare tells the fascinating stories behind the extinct butterflies, rare birds, lost plants, dazzling meteorites and other scientific and historic specimens that fill the museum's halls. You'll learn about the painting that catches Audubon in a shameful lie, the sand dollar collected by Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle, and dozens of other treasures in this surprising, informative, and often amusing tour of the natural world.

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Nancy Pick, a former journalist for the Baltimore Sun, is a staff writer for the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Photographer Mark Sloan is the author of Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 as Seen by F.W. Glasier, and co-author of three other books. He is the director of the Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston School of the Arts.

Edward O. Wilson, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the author of many bestselling books, including Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge and The Diversity of Life. He was currently Pellegrino University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Out of Print
By: Nancy Pick(Author), Mark Sloan(Illustrator), Edward O Wilson(Introduction By)
192 pages, 94 colour photos
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