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New from Left Coast Press, Inc.: 



Museum History Journal 

Edited by Hugh H. Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei 

January 2009 

Vol. 2, N. 1 



_Table of Contents_ 

*From the Editors* 

*Feature Articles* 

Wax Bodies: Art and Anato my in Victorian Medical Museums -- Samuel J. M. M. Alberti 

Narrativity and the Museological: Myths of Nationality -- Donald Preziosi 

Matter of Fact: Biographies and Zoological Specimens -- Taika Dahlbom 

Frederic Ward Putnam, Chicago's Cultural Philanthropists, and the Founding of the Field Museum -- Paul D. Brinkman 

*Book Reviews* 

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art In Public Galleries by David Carrier -- reviewed by Bruce Robertson 

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums, second edition by Edward P. Alexander and Mary Alexander -- reviewed by Suzanne M. Fischer 

Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage, Revivalism, and Museum Memory by Beverley Butler -- reviewed by Tiffany Jenkins 

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850 - 1950 by Robert E. Kohler -- reviewed by Charlotte M. Porter 

*Archive* 

Earliest known photographic portraits of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, celebrating the bicentennial of their births on February 9, 2009 



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