The September 2012 issue of the journal BioScience includes an article entitled “Doing Natural History.” The article, which appears in the journal’s Biology in History column, explores how natural history research changed during the twentieth century. The article is available with a subscription at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2012.62.9.8.
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Our members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities.