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These dinosaur eggs from The Hunterian collection date to the Upper Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, like other reptiles, hatched from eggs and many dinosaur eggs have identical shells to modern-day birds’ eggshells.

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2021-02-03

This wonderful self portrait by artist Michael Kidd (1977) was donated to The Hunterian in 2004 by poet Edwin Morgan and currently features in our online exhibition ‘Edwin Morgan: An Eardley on My Wall’. https://t.co/dPxgYy3Oqt

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2020-11-27

Detail: Textile design “Rose and Teardrop”. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1920.
Image: Hunterian

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2020-11-18

Design for a four-poster bed. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900.
Image: Hunterian

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2020-11-15

Today's shows ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ dressed as Flora Macdonald’s Irish servant woman, Betty Burke. In this disguise he avoided capture by Hanoverian troops searching for him. Produced c1746 by John M. Williams. GLAHA:44498

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2020-10-09

Before his death, Scottish writer/artist Alasdair Gray generously donated a number of his original drawings for illustrations of his novels to The Hunterian. ‘Portrait of Bella Caledonia’ for ‘Poor Things’ is this week’s GLAHA:51830

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2020-09-25

Detail: Textile design “Rose and Teardrop”. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1920.
Image: Hunterian

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2020-07-26

A new Sunday feature, works from 'The Hunterian Poems' online exhibition and the artwork which inspired it. ‘The Dancers' by Alan Riach, inspired by 'Les Eus' (1910) by JD Fergusson, one of our most popular works. Read the poem https://t.co/uDYSG1hpxI
©Image The Fergusson Gallery

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2020-07-12

This specimen from The Hunterian collection is the first example of Goliath beetle ever recorded. As one of the largest beetles known at the time, it was one of the earliest and most significant additions to Hunter’s insect cabinet!

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2020-04-02

Try role playing as Ebutius on this digital resource from our colleagues at the Hunterian Museum : https://t.co/QqZKllpjOV

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2020-04-01

Detail: "Cuckoo Flower, Chiddingstone". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1910.
Image: Hunterian

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2020-03-29

‘Exploration’ closes today. 😢😢 Last chance to see this fascinating exhibition about expedition triumph and tragedy! Hunterian Museum . Open from 11.00am – 4.00pm. Admission free.

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2020-03-15

Sir Richard Owen, English anatomist (he coined the term ‘dinosaur’) and Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, was first to recognize the parathyroid gland as a unique structure, while dissecting a rhino from the London Zoo who died in a fight with an elephant!

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2020-03-05

Design for a four-poster bed. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900.
Image: Hunterian

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2020-01-18

On this day in 1779, Jean-Siméon Chardin died. This lovely pair of works by the French painter are on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery and come from our founder Dr William Hunter's original collection.

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2019-12-06

partially thrombotic & calcifie L ICA bifurcation aneurysm!

Patient received high-flow extracranial ICA-M2 bypass & Hunterian ligation of the ICA distal to the anterior choroidal artery.

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2019-10-23

A special event with artist Ilana Halperin tonight speaking to the Hunterian Friends about stories and gemstones in her exhibition, 'Minerals of New York'. See the exhibition, open now in the Hunterian Art Gallery, free. Join the Friends next time 👉🏼 https://t.co/ss2AaESi6f

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2019-08-28

Spring (c. 1900-05) by Frances MacDonald (Scotland, 1873-1921). Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Watercolour.

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2019-08-23

Detail: Textile design “Rose and Teardrop”. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1920.
Image: Hunterian

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2019-08-11

Spring in Glasgow
John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961)
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

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2019-05-02