Monday, 21 October 2019

Centaurus 60/4, 2018, Special Issue:Skulls and Blossoms: Natural History Collections and their Meanings Pages: 231-349 November 2018

ISSUE INFORMATION


Issue Information


  • First Published: 28 August 2019

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL


Skulls and blossoms: Collecting and the meaning of scientific objects as resources from the 18th to the 20th century


  • Pages: 231-237
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES


“Born with the taste for science and the arts”: The science and the aesthetics of Balthazar‐Georges Sage's mineralogy collections, 1783–1825


  • Pages: 238-256
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

A passion for plants: Collections and power games in botany in the Russian Empire from the 18th to the early 19th century


  • Pages: 257-275
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

“I was stealing some skulls from the bone chamber when a bigamist cleric stopped me.” Karl Ernst von Baer and the development of physical anthropology in Europe


  • Pages: 276-293
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

The Zoological Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1860s–1910: From an academic institute to a public museum


  • Pages: 294-314
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

Killing for museums: European bison as a museum exhibit


  • Pages: 315-332
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019

The rise and fall of the Belgian Forestry Museum and Geographic Arboretum (1900–1980): A political origin and a winning opportunity for science?


  • Pages: 333-349
    •  
  • First Published: 28 August 2019
at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

CfP: Online Talk Series “The Human–Animal Bond in Eastern and East-Central Europe” (19th ct.)

Animals have long occupied an ambivalent place in human societies, serving as sources of food, labor, and material resources while also beco...