Title The unburnt egg : more stories of a museum curator / Brian Gill

Edition First edition Published Wellington, New Zealand : Awa Press, 2016 meBooks, 2018 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A hapless king penguin; Secrets of the shining cuckoo; The unburnt egg; The man who imagined the moa; Flight of the long-tailed cuckoo; Booby eggs and a solar eclipse; Song of the huia; Seals in sand dunes; Ship rats of Big South Cape Island; Charles McCann's giant flying frogs; Seeking Pacific skinks; Rarotonga revisited; Baden Powell's sea-slug paintings; Fur, feathers and frogs' legs; Further reflections; Illustrations; Registration numbers; Further reading; Other sources; Acknowledgements; Index Summary Natural history museums contain many thousands of zoological specimens and each has a tale to tell an often involving extraordinary people, daring explorations, unquenchable scientific curiosity, and strange coincidences. This perfectly presented book, with its engaging pictures, is rich in stories and unveils many secrets. Read about: the fate of a tortoise given as a gift by Captain Cook - the epic international voyage of the biggest known moa egg - the admiration induced by an ape from the jungles of Borneo - the barn owl of mysterious origins - the unfortunate fate of an angry young elephant - the quest to discover how a New Zealand heron turned up in a Florence museum - the strange arrival of an Australian banjo frog - and many other mind-boggling mysteries Notes Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in EPUB. Nz Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title may not be functional. Nz Subject Gill, Brian (Brian James) SUBJECT Gill, Brian (Brian James) fast Subject Auckland War Memorial Museum -- Anecdotes SUBJECT Auckland War Memorial Museum fast Subject Museums -- Curatorship -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes Natural history museum curators -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes Natural history museums -- Collection management -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes Zoological specimens -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Anecdotes Natural history -- New Zealand Museums -- Curatorship Natural history Natural history museums -- Collection management Zoological specimens New Zealand New Zealand -- Auckland Genre/Form Anecdotes Form Electronic book ISBN 9781927249307 1927249309 9781927249314 1927249317

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