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Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History / by Stephen Christopher Quinn.

Title
Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History / by Stephen Christopher Quinn.
Author
Quinn, Stephen C., 1951-
Publication
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2006.

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American Museum of Natural History
Description
179 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 x 29 cm.
Summary
Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color photos and archival images.
Subject
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Habitat (Ecology) > New York
  • Diorama > New York
Note
  • Published in association with the American Museum of Natural History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Habitat Diorama: Art in the Service of Science 8 -- The Dioramas 25 -- Mountain Gorilla 26 -- African Elephant Group 30 -- Klipspringer 34 -- African Buffalo 38 -- Greater Koodoo 40 -- Cheetah 44 -- Leopard 46 -- Mountain Nyala 48 -- Libyan Desert 50 -- Gemsbok 52 -- Black Rhinoceros 54 -- Serengeti Plain 56 -- Upper Nile 58 -- Bongo 62 -- African Lion 64 -- Okapi 66 -- Water Hole 68 -- Chimpanzee 70 -- Black-and-White Colobus Monkey 71 -- Mandrill 72 -- Hunting Dog 74 -- White Rhinoceros 76 -- Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds 79 -- Cuthbert Rookery 82 -- Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific Bird Life 86 -- Alaska Brown Bear 90 -- Dall's Sheep 94 -- American Bison and Pronghorn Antelope 96 -- Alaska Moose 100 -- Mountain Goat 104 -- Grizzly Bear 107 -- Mountain Lion 110 -- Wolf 112 -- Mule Deer 114 -- North American Beaver 118 -- Muskox 120 -- Coyote 122 -- Jaguar 124 -- Ermine and Red-Backed Vole 127 -- Mountain Beaver 128 -- Cacomistle and Spotted Skunk 130 -- Pine Marten 131 -- Antelope Jackrabbit and Black-Tailed Jackrabbit 132 -- Canadian Lynx and Snowshoe Hare 134 -- Wapiti 136 -- Olympic Forest 138 -- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life 140 --
ISBN
  • 0810959402 (hardcover with jacket : alk. paper)
  • 9780810959408
LCCN
^^2005025646
OCLC
  • 61461678
  • SCSB-11298080
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library