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Jan van Kessel 1. insects and Reptiles c. 1660

All the painted together in a abstract fashion. Anyone wanna guess what the creature in the middle is?

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2022-12-07

The rather wonderful Pasquale Ciliberti, who manages the collection at has a soft spot for the smaller flies. And I mean small...can you see the flies on the pin? It’s Culicoides pungens - a tiny fluffy biting midge

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2020-01-24

There is much chatter about this display of cow and horse teeth display

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2020-01-19

I’ve just muttered ‘oh my’ at this botany display- it’s just lovely 😊 ferns and horsetails can reach 24m in height! Check out the spores on the model

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2020-01-19

I keep coming across work whilst on and let’s be honest, that’s not really a problem! The Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium was published in 1705 and is still a fantastic book showing insect life cycles

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2020-01-18

Willem Jameson Blaeu (Dutch) map from 1619 of the Americans, along with drawings of people who lived there. Having been to the bottom of Chile I’m not sure I would have been so bravely attired...

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2020-01-18

This was in a chemists shop window in - now idea why but it’s definitely appealing to the coleopterists

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2020-01-18

Museum specimen or my new cushion? Either way it’s got my ‘seal’ of approval

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2020-01-18

That young man made us wait to the train started moving before we could snack. We are here now and enjoyings UK gins! Hurrah

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2020-01-17