Further adventures in the archives
It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Butterflies, bats, fish and flying things
The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open! (Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 29, 2018
- 1 min
Problems with primates
As I tidy my house (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I found a third drawing of the taxidermy cases of Ipswich Museum from back in...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
I ate body!
Last week I mentioned the great auk in Norwich Museum in their Natural History gallery. This week I was reminded of a exercise in writing...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 4, 2016
- 1 min
Bleached blondes of the savannah
I enjoyed a smashing visit to Norwich Castle Museum a couple of weekends ago. I spent much of my time in the Natural History Gallery. As...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 12, 2016
- 1 min
Spin the skull game
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in Dundee is one of many museums on my bucket list to visit. It's not the best, or the most comprehensive...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 8, 2016
- 1 min
Octopuses for sale
Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 2, 2015
- 1 min
Behind the scenes at the Zoology Museum
So sorry for the terrible quality of the photo. But it was on a behind the scenes tour, at night, taken through the door of a freezer....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 24, 2015
- 1 min
The original Bodyworlds
"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 20, 2015
- 1 min
Vroliking good fun
As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 12, 2014
- 1 min
Best candle ever!
Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 18, 2013
- 1 min
More weird and wonderful
Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 4, 2013
- 1 min
Finally off to visit the Walrus!
Years after first hearing about it, the circumstances have come together that, next week, I will finally get to visit the Horniman...
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