Richard Fortey
Richard Fortey is a research associate at the Natural History Museum. His latest book is Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum.
In the LRB Archive:
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Tasty Butterflies: Entomologists · 24 September 2009
- Bugs and the Victorians by J.F.M. Clark
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Hammers for Pipes: The Beginnings of Geology · 9 February 2006
- Bursting the Limits of Time by Martin Rudwick
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Archaeology is Rubbish: The Last 20,000 Years · 18 December 2003
- After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen
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Everything but the Glue on a Victorian sensation · 22 August 2002
- Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ by James Secord
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Down to the Last Flea: resurrecting the mammoth · 23 May 2002
- Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant by Richard Stone
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Prophet of the Rocks on William Smith · 9 August 2001
- The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester
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They might be giants on classical palaeontology · 2 November 2000
- The First Fossil Hunters: Palaeontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor
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No Such Thing as a Fish on cladistics · 6 July 2000
- Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee
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Did the self-made man fake it with Bohemian fossils? on Jacques Deprat · 25 November 1999
- The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina by Roger Osborne
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Most Curious of Seas: Noah’s Flood · 1 July 1999
- Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
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Shock Lobsters: The Burgess Shale · 1 October 1998
- The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris
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Blow-Up · 2 October 1997
- Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change by Richard Fisher, Grant Heiken and Jeffrey Hulen
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