Comments on: Book review – The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

By: Book review – Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:04:04 +0000

[…] be the difference between life and death” (p. 29). Lost Wonders thus offers its own little rallying cry for taxonomy. Of course, species exist before we describe them, and his overview of their evolution is a potent […]

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By: Book review – A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:49:35 +0000

[…] are essential to cogent speech” (p. 210). These are sentiments that have been expressed by other authors and resonate deeply with […]

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By: Book review – Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:07:58 +0000

[…] studied and described (I called this the dirty secret of natural history museums in my review of The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums). The book also made me appreciate again just how fragmentary and haphazard the material is with […]

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By: Book review – Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:02:48 +0000

[…] latter topic is one that I touched on in my review of Christopher Kemp’s wonderfully written The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums. Museum collections provide unique snapshots of species diversity throughout recent history and are […]

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By: Book review – The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:19:05 +0000

[…] in museum collections that have been in storage for decades, sometimes centuries (see my review of The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums) speaks volumes. Similarly, is repatration of fossils always the best? The descriptions of the […]

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By: Book review – The Art of Naming | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Art of Naming | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:38:54 +0000

[…] my review of Kemp’s The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums, I highlighted the importance of naming species and the rich vein of undiscovered species hiding in […]

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By: Book review – The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 10 May 2018 07:40:14 +0000

[…] to answer questions that the original collectors could never have envisioned. My recent review of The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums highlighted their value, but Johnson mentions two more specifically pertaining to bird specimens. […]

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