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Dear colleagues,
Thanks for excusing cross postings.
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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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