La Biblioteca del Museo Martorell y los orígenes del coleccionismo zoológico en Barcelona

Abstract

This paper studies the library of one of the two scientific institutions that turned into museum of sciences in the last third of 19th-Century Barcelona. The analysis of the library of the so-called Martorell Museum, which was the Barcelona public museum of science, shows significant features regarding how natural history consolidated alongside some specific areas such as malacology