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Natural history librarian and archivist. History lover, bookworm, bicycle rider, museumgoer and tourist extraordinaire. Views my own. She/her

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Maria Sybilla Merian's 'Insects of Surinam' (1705) was a particular hit with this morning's tour group for International Copyright-Literacy Event of 's Library and Archive.

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2022-09-09

Day 25 of 'Fashion'

holds the enormous collection of papers, drawings and insects of John O. Westwood, the first Hope Professor of Zoology. This includes some of his work equipment and teaching aides as well as his fashionable spectacles and shoes.

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2020-04-25

Day 10 of 'Food & drink'

's 1705 copy of ‘Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium’ by Maria Sibylla Merian illustrates the life cycle of insects and includes the plants that would be a source of food to the species. Her favourite was the pineapple.

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2020-04-10

Day 7 of 'Famous archives'

The dodo is an iconic specimen , but it is believed that Lewis Carroll, author of 'Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland,' was actually inspired by Jan Savery's 1651 painting of the infamous extinct species displayed in the Museum

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2020-04-07

Day 2 of 'Favourite item'

In 1841 Thomas Sopwith produced these models to teach geology- the study of the Earth. The various types of wood represent different geological formations. models were personally gifted to Oxford geologist William Buckland.

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2020-04-02

Day 29 of ‘Exhibition’

The current exhibition explores the first animals; new life forms that evolved in the sea over half a billion years ago and laid the foundations for the body plans of all subsequent animal life

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2019-11-29

Day 17 of ‘Unique Object’

While the archive has an abundance of papers related to research on the natural world, the archive preserves only one pair of shoes which belonged to John Obadiah Westwood, the first Hope Professor of Zoology

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2019-11-18

Day 8 of ‘Shadow’

A stag beetle and its shadow courtesy of

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2019-11-08

Top 4 from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. Because all the cool kids who work in a natural history museum visit other natural history museums on holiday 🤓🦖

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2019-06-07

And summer is over. Starting year 2 of distance learning Library & ISM MA today. At least I have a packet of Lego to ease me back into it...

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2018-09-24