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No regular session this month, but some members attended a 2-day lecture and workshop on "The Local and the Global in History of Science," Dec. 3rd - Dec. 4th in Philadelphia, PA, featuring guest speaker and participant Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris). The lecture and workshop were organized by Projit Mukharji and co-sponsored by the South Asia Center at UPenn, as well as the Consortium for HSTM. Read more here.

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Skinned, Stuffed and Mounted: The History, Culture and How-to of Taxidermy

Beth Beverly discusses and demonstrates taxidermy while surrounded by 19th century specimens at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Philadelphia, April 2013.