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, 20181 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20131 min read
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, 20131 min read
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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