TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Brian
TI  - The Unburnt Egg: More Stories of a Museum Curator
SN  - 9781927249307
AV  - AM7 .G555 2016 
U1  - 069.53 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Wellington
PB  - Awa Press
KW  - Museums-Curatorship-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes
KW  - Natural history museum curators-New Zealand-Auckland-Anecdotes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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ER  -