Natural history is the study of animals and plants and other living things. Schools regularly bring children to the beach for natural history lessons. the study of plants, animals, and minerals
An obsolescent term: the non-systematic study, description, and classification of animals, plants, minerals, and other natural objects: zoology, botany, mineralogy; with emphasis on study in the field rather than the lab It is not usually applied to astronomy, physics, chemistry
branch of knowledge embracing the study, description, and classification of natural objects
a) a museum in West London which contains objects and information about the history of plants, animals, and minerals, and is famous for its collection of dinosaur bones b) a similar museum in New York City
Major centre of research and education on the natural sciences, established in New York City in 1869. It pioneered in staging field expeditions and creating dioramas and other lifelike exhibits showing natural habitats and their plant and animal life. Its research collections contain tens of millions of specimens, and its fossil and insect collections are among the largest in the world. It conducts research in anthropology, astronomy, entomology, herpetology, ichthyology, invertebrate biology, mammalogy, mineralogy, ornithology, and vertebrate paleontology, and it maintains permanent research stations in The Bahamas and the U.S. states of New York, Florida, and Arizona. It also contains one of the world's largest planetariums