The Unburnt Egg : More Stories of a Museum Curator.
Gill, Brian.
The Unburnt Egg : More Stories of a Museum Curator. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (140 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- A hapless 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 -- Illustrations -- Registration numbers -- Further reading -- Other sources -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
9781927249307
Museums-Curatorship-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes.
Natural history museum curators-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
AM7 .G555 2016
069.53
The Unburnt Egg : More Stories of a Museum Curator. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (140 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- A hapless 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 -- Illustrations -- Registration numbers -- Further reading -- Other sources -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
9781927249307
Museums-Curatorship-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes.
Natural history museum curators-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
AM7 .G555 2016
069.53