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Nature's Museums Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display. Carla Yanni. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2000. 215 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-6326-0.
Yanni provides an extensively illustrated account of changing and conflicted roles of the central institutions of Victorian science museums built to house and display the diverse natural world.