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
Jan 2, 20172 min read
Make no bones about it
Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 19, 20161 min read
Getting wet at OUMNH
After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...
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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
Aug 7, 20151 min read
A jar of moles
I love the Grant's Museum. And I love their blog. And this week, I love their specimen of the week. A jar of moles. I looked up the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 11, 20131 min read
The weird and wonderful
I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...
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