Jars, liquors, new species: Oh my!
“If you start odd,” Richard Fortey said, “you might grow odder.”
That is, if you work behind the scenes at a natural history museum.
At the Peabody Museum on Thursday, Fortey, the author of “Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of a Natural History Museum,” talked to an audience of about 50 professors, New Haven residents and graduate students on what it is like to work behind the scenes of a premier collecting museum — a profession that, at times, can seem to become the ultimate cult. Fortey works in the Natural History Museum in London as a merit researcher in the...
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