Nature’s Mirror
How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
Publication supported by the Neil Harris Endowment Fund
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1 “A Gathering Place for Amateur Naturalists”: Ward’s and the Birth of the Habitat Group
2 “Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals”: The Society of American Taxidermists
3 “The Destruction Wrought by Man”: Smithsonian Taxidermy and the Birth of Wildlife Conservation
4 Competing Ideas, Competing Institutions: Decorative versus Scientific Taxidermy at the Carnegie and Field Museums
5 “The Duty to Conserve”: Museums and the Fight to Save Endangered Marine Mammals
6 “Brightest Africa”: Carl Akeley and the American Museum’s Race to Bring Africa to America
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biological Sciences: Natural History
History: American History | Environmental History
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