About the Author

Andrea Hart is Head of Library Special Collections at the Natural History Museum where she has worked for over 20 years. Andrea has wide experience of all of the subject collections in the library, having worked on their curation, research, conservation, development and outreach. Paul Martyn Cooper is the Special Collections Librarian at the Natural History Museum. In a long career at the Museum, Paul has focussed on curating the Library's historic collections, promoting knowledge of them and enhancing access to them. He is the author of The Bauer brothers (2015) in the Images of Nature series.