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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Not many people know this, but there was a plan, in the nineteen-fifties, to sheathe the American Museum of Natural History in aluminum--a city block putting on the foil, in the name of progress. Visitors to the neighborhood will note that this scheme did not get far. Still, change has come to the old museum over the years, as it does to all things. A spiffy planetarium, a bluer whale, a proliferation of gift shops: for better and for worse, science's curatorial preferences evolve, and wonderful enterprises and exhibits get moved aside, thrown out, covered up.
The latest casualty is an outfit called Micropaleontology Press, or Micro Press, which, in various incarnations, has been a...
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