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SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Natural History Museums - The Birth of Natural History

Natural history museums were a fad at the time. The idea of looking at things from other people's lives, or other animals that they maybe hadn't been exposed to in their natural day to day life. It was very saryn to get very popular for people to keep mounted animals in their parlors. Some would be like their personal family pets, but some also collected, like exotic birds.

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