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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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