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The Rarest of the Rare by Nancy Pick, Photographs by Mark Sloan HarperCollins, November, 2004. Hardcover, 178 pages. ISBN: 0060537183 Ordering information: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk 
This compelling book contains detailed text and
stunning photographs of some of the most
interesting and unusual exhibits at the Harvard
Museum of Natural History. Readers will discover
curiosities like the Harvard mastodon, a papier-mâché
model of a giant squid, a rare fossil butterfly, shipworms
that ate the Titanic, an elephant bird egg and a pallasite, a
meteorite containing translucent crystals.
Many of the exhibit entries also have historical significance,
like the fossil sand dollar found
by Charles Darwin in 1834, Captain Cook's mamo and
two pheasants that once belonged to George Washington.
Other exhibits show extinct animals like the Cape Verde skink, which
went extinct sometime in the early 1900s and the
skeleton of a dodo bird which went extinct in the 1600s
when humans introduced pigs and monkeys onto their relatively
predator-free island. The Rarest of the Rare is a
wonderful way to peek inside the Harvard Museum of Natural
History without ever leaving home. The perfect coffee table
book, it would make a delightful holiday gift.
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