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A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press's Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series.

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"""It is a joy to follow Anne MacKinney's lively mind at work as she insightfully teases out an expansive world of dynamic relationships hidden in Berlin's nineteenth-century natural history museum lists and registers. A must-read for historians interested in museums, science, bureaucracy, and the public as they codeveloped in the crucial but underresearched era before 1850."" --Lynn K. Nyhart, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison ""Today, our interactions with museum exhibits are mediated through labels, catalogs, archival records, and endless reams of correspondence. In Nature on Paper, Anne Greenwood MacKinney offers readers a captivating and masterful guided tour of natural history in nineteenth-century Berlin to explain how these mundane paper technologies came to play such a key role in the modern museum experience."" --Daniel Margocsy, University of Cambridge"

This magnificent study of the early history of the Zoological Museum in Berlin effortlessly brings to life the intimate and transformative entanglement of natural history with Prussian bureaucracy. Theoretically informed, archivally grounded, and good storytelling--science history at its best!--Staffan M�ller-Wille, University of Cambridge It is a joy to follow Anne MacKinney's lively mind at work as she insightfully teases out an expansive world of dynamic relationships hidden in Berlin's nineteenth-century natural history museum lists and registers. A must-read for historians interested in museums, science, bureaucracy, and the public as they codeveloped in the crucial but underresearched era before 1850.--Lynn K. Nyhart, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison Today, our interactions with museum exhibits are mediated through labels, catalogs, archival records, and endless reams of correspondence. In Nature on Paper, Anne Greenwood MacKinney offers readers a captivating and masterful guided tour of natural history in nineteenth-century Berlin to explain how these mundane paper technologies came to play such a key role in the modern museum experience.--Daniel Margocsy, University of Cambridge

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Anne Greenwood MacKinney is a historian of science and museums. Her research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultures of natural history and collecting is based on extensive practical experience working in museums, including the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the Centrum für Naturkunde in Hamburg, and the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar.

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