Dry Store Room No 1; the secret life of the Natural History Museum – Richard Fortey

I went to the utterly glorious Natural History Museum countless times as a schoolboy, so I was interested in this personal history by a long-time staff member and trilobite specialist. It’s less a formal record than a highly personal collection of scientific anecdotes, reminiscences and scurrilous gossip.

It is impossible to resist comparing the reading experience to a visit to the place itself; enlightening, rambling, too much to take in and a little bit boring in the geology section.