The Museum of Jurassic Technology Jubilee Catalogue

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The first comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collections at the ten year mark. Includes the complete text of the now out-of-print series of guide leaflets, with full transcripts of many exhibits, including the Delani-Sonnabend Halls and the Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau. Ample black and white photos and illustrations.

Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Foundations of the Museum
Floorplan

A MISCELLANY OF OBJECTS FROM THE FOUNDATION COLLECTION

Ethnological and Zoological Holdings
Horn of Mary Davis of Saughall
Voice of the American Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
European Mole (Talpa europea)
Gloves
Old World or Asian Quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Fruit-Stone Carving
Ringnot Sloth
Stink Ant of the Cameroon (Megaloponera foetens)
Rose Collection
Noah's Ark
The Siege and Battle of Pavia
Eugène Dubois and the Pithecanthropus Affair

Physical Phenomenae
Life in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Boules of Corundum
Purification by Sublimation

EXHIBITS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Bernard Maston, Donald R. Griffith, and the Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau
The Delani/Sonnabend Halls
Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter
Historical Models of Memory
No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935
Garden of Eden on Wheels: Selected Collections from Los Angeles Area Mobile Home and Trailer Parks
The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian
Tell the Bees... Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition

APPENDIX

Temporary Exhibitions
The Thums: Gardeners & Botanists (Hagen, Germany)
Nanotechnology
Of Science and Humanity: Treasures from the Mütter Museum


Published by the Trustees
S.F.D.U.I. Press, 2002, hardcover, 119 pages.

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