House of lost worlds dinosaurs, dynasties, and the story of life on Earth - Conniff, Richard 1951 (New Haven Yale University Press, 2016)
Introduction : hunting for truffles -- A West that was actually wild -- The patriarch -- The education of O.C. Marsh -- The wooing of George Peabody -- Rock render -- A rumor of war -- The Marsh expeditions -- Professor M on the warpath -- The year of enormous dinosaurs -- Fossils, buffalo, and the birth of American conservation -- A building of their own -- In the shadow of O.C. Marsh -- The prince of bone hunters -- Bone wars -- Trilobite magic and cycad obsessions -- Mapping ancient worlds -- A city raised like a chalice -- Teaching evolution -- The rise of modern ecology -- The beauty of the beasts -- The art of being invisible -- Into the unmapped world -- Zoology in the time of geneticists -- The man who saved dinosaurs -- Epilogue -- The Peabody's scientists.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.
Keywords: Peabody Museum of Natural History -- History; Natural history museums -- History. -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Natural history -- History. -- Connecticut -- New Haven