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A glorious enterprise : the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the making of American science / Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud ; photographs by Rosamond Purcell.

Author: Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Publisher:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Description:xvii, 437 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:A history of the renowned museum recounts key moments in its evolution as a research and education center, as well as the role of such individuals as Thomas Jefferson and John James Audubon in championing its purpose.



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Author:
Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952-
Subject:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- History.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- History.
Natural history -- Research -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Natural history -- Research -- Philadelphia (Pa.)
Additional Author:
Stroud, Patricia Tyson.
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff.