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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Richard Fortey is a prize-winning science writer, Fellow of the Royal Society and former senior palaeontologist at London’s Natural History Museum. Combining professional learning with a gift for prose that sparkles with wit and literary sensibility, he delves into the feuds, scandals and skulduggery that have punctuated the Museum’s history and brings to life the people and pioneers behind this great institution.

Biography

Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Life was short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1998, Trilobite! was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001, and The Hidden Landscape was awarded the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993. He was Collier Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute of Advanced Studies in 2002 and is now a Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in London.