Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
Richard Fallon
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2/2 Encore! More diagonal thrills from Rachel Ruysch, now in 1726. Great flower painter, celebrating her birthday today.
Found an old House of the Dead II Hotwheels car at my parents'. Now that's culture.
Something hoppy to put alongside the bottles of Roy Porter and Gillian Beer.
I admire a certain perverse need some people have to reiterate that the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social are not accurate by the standards of current (or 1970s) science, no matter the context.
For those interested in the tradition of geological Gesamtkunstwerk in natural history museums, check out Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel's recent article: shttps://valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678. Not sure I'd actually noticed the pterodactyls on the columns of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.
It’s my birthday tomorrow - seeing Conway Hall reach its Crowdfunder target would be an amazing gift! Please share widely, and donate if you can ❤️
Nice to see the latest print issue of BJHS arrive in the post. It includes my article on 'A family moss craze: learning, reading and skill development in a botanical and domestic network', and lots of other interesting work
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Hazel Heald was also guided to weird fiction by Lovecraft; almost all of her published stories are assumed to have been ghostwritten by Lovecraft, with the one exception obscure and considered fairly inferior. HPL could have simply told them to stop wasting their time.
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Reconstruction of the 1932 Grobler/Johanson case: the original ‘Kassaisaurus’ report including photographs and its later transformation into the pop-cultural ‘Kasai Rex’ motif. Review of Schomburgk’s ‘Chimpekwe’ accounts in context. globsterblobsandmore.com/more/kassais...
2/2 Creepy little fetal skeletons weep over their own lack of life & death of everything in general. Diorama from home museum of physician Frederick Ruysch. A miracle that his daughter Rachel became a great painter.
Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel shows us natural history museum buildings which make deep time visible in stone and space.
I have a manuscript that almost beats yours. This is “In the Gulfs of N’Logh” by Hazel Heald. Besides that I’ve got an old poem of Lovecraft’s and another Hazel Heald story. The first story by Heal…
In July 1932, the South African Franz Grobler reported in the Cape Argus on his investigations in Central Africa concerning a creature referred to by local populations as the ‘Chepekwé’ or ‘water lion...
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