23 June 2003 – 31 December 2004
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730–1860, on view at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia through December 2004, explores the cultural assumptions that shaped natural history practice on the North American continent. By focusing on the study of living beings—the plant and animal kingdoms—the exhibition considers how and why Euro-Americans of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods went about seeking knowledge of the natural world in the way they did.
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