• The Rossetti Archive which facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator. Contains a slew of his artworks. Above: a detail from Death of a Wombat, 1869.
• Enjoy the The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana.
• What is more deserving of tribute in the form of a Tom Waits song or a Wallace Stevens poem than two Circus trains colliding? Great Circus Train Wrecks and the resultant symbolism of elephants with down-turned trunks.
• He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe an exhibition of books which have survived Fire, the Sword, and the Censors. (Scroll down for navigation.)
• Joseph Leidy Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology and The Bone Wars.
• Decameron Web: A growing hypermedia archive of materials dedicated to Boccaccio’s masterpiece, presented by the of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University. Impressive.
I read about the Bone Wars in some Stephen Jay Gould book years and years ago. When I went to the American Museum of Natural History, if I recall correctly, there were a fair number of specimens from Cope and Marsh.