This haori presents a strikingly modern pattern on a rust-colored background with bold aquatic plant motifs created using kata-yuzen. Early Showa period (1926-1940), Japan
Nice fibrous cover on Living and Fossil Brachiopods.
Beowulf swimming in Gendel's eerie mere (from Wilhelm
Wagner’s Deutsche Heldensagen: erzählt für Jugend
und Volk). Hey...is that a Pterichthys? If so, I guess Beowulf is set in the Devonian period.
🎉Exciting news! My new article, 'The ‘fancy of the private collector’: Walter Rothschild’s global animal procurement network and collaboration in the animal trade' has been published in BJHS Themes as FirstView and is available OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #naturalhistory #animaltrade
In the spirit of exciting Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins x pterodactyl news, here's an unusually detailed account of a late (1879) Hawkins lecture in Pendleton on 'The Age of Dragons'. For some reason, I didn't cite it in my article on Hawkins's lecturing: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv....
I'll be speaking at the Cabinet of Natural History seminar at @hpscambridge.bsky.social on 15 June from 1-2pm in the Gonville and Caius Fellows' Garden, the first day of my @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowship ✨
#envhist #envhums #collections #histsci
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Only saw them briefly, but if I understood correctly these elegant @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social objects are plaster models made by Martin Rudwick c. the late 1950s to examine the functional morphology of brachiopods. Check out that Eospirifer! #FossilFriday