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Birds, Bones, and Beetles - The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker (Hardcover)
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Birds, Bones, and Beetles - The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker (Hardcover)
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Every day, in natural history museums all across the country,
colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh
off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museum's specimen
collection. That time-saving process was developed and perfected at
the University of Kansas Natural History Museum by Charles D.
Bunker, a lowly assistant taxidermist who would rise to become the
curator of recent vertebrates and who made an indelible mark on his
field. That innovative breakthrough serves as a testament to the
tenacity of a quietly determined naturalist. Bunker was part of the
small team of men who constructed and installed the famous Panorama
of North American Mammals, the centerpiece exhibit of the KU
Natural History Museum located in Dyche Hall. That iconic building
on the KU campus was expressly built to house the collection of
mounted animals that impressed the world a decade earlier at the
1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and World's Fair. Once the
panorama was completed, Bunker turned his attention to field
collecting. Bunker's field notes provide an accurate, authentic
account of several expeditions to collect such specimens as well as
a rare view of the extreme hardships of fieldwork in those early
days. Perhaps most notable is “Bunk's” 1911 expedition to
western Kansas, where he discovered the fossil remains of a
forty-five-foot-long sea serpent—later identified as Tylosaurus
proriger, an aquatic reptile from the mosasaur genus and the
largest example of the species found in North America. In 2014,
Tylosaurus was named the marine fossil of the state of Kansas.
Birds, Bones, and Beetles tells the story of a man whose passion
for learning led to remarkable discoveries, extraordinary exhibits,
and the prestigious careers of many students he mentored in the
natural sciences.
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