Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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President's Science Advisory Committee - Cotton Insects Reports
Date: 1965Reference: JDW/2/17/19Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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President's Science Advisory Committee - Cotton Insects Report
Date: 1963-1964Reference: JDW/2/17/18Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Snakes and insects (artwork)
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/3/2Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
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Beetles, butterflies, moths, and other insects : a brief introduction to their collection and preservation / by A.W. Kappel and W. Egmont Kirby.
Kappel, A. W. (August Wilhelm)Date: 1893- Pictures
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The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: 1863Reference: 12101iPart of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin