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    The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition

    Robert McCracken Peck

    Edward Lear, known as an author of nonsense verse, was also an artist and natural history illustrator.

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    Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne

    Mr. Robert McCracken Peck

    Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, Specimens of Hair presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon hundreds of specimens of hair–animal and human, Including thirteen of…

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    A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science

    Robert McCracken Peck,Patricia Tyson Stroud

    This first complete history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia narrates signal moments, achievements, and the colorful characters associated with an institution that shaped the study of natural…

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    Object Lessons: The Visualisation of Nineteenth-Century Life Sciences

    George Loudon

    Offering a unique perspective on the intersection of art and science, the historic curiosities in this collection reveal their creators’ remarkable capacity for artistic expression.

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