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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Curatorship--New Zealand--Auckland--Anecdotes.

Museums.

Natural history museum curators--New Zealand--Auckland--Anecdotes.

Natural history museum curators.

Auckland War Memorial Museum--Anecdotes.

Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Gill, Brian (Brian James).

Gill, Brian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Awa Press, [2016]

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.

Contents:

Introduction

A hapaless 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-927249-30-9