Comments on: Book review – Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums

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

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:49:32 +0000

[…] is like being unaware of words that 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 – Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:54:55 +0000

[…] Lance Grande, a curator at Chicago’s Field Museum, dedicated a chapter to this in his book Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums. The repatriation of old skeletons to for example Native American tribes, for whom the bones of the […]

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By: Book review – The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:16:43 +0000

[…] Full of wonder and adventure, The Lost Species is an amazing read that I simply could not put down. It made me search the internet for citizen science projects to see how I can help out unlocking some of this knowledge (seems I have just missed the London NHM’s volunteer project to transcribe information from the specimen labels of microscopic fossils). Taxonomists and curators have a great advocate and standard bearer in Kemp and are indebted to him for putting their work and its importance in the limelight. Simply put, this book should be in the shop of every natural history museum and is a great read next to Lance Grande’s Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums. […]

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