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History of Geology. Researching the lives and work of nineteenth-century "bone cave" explorers.
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On the Ice Age theme, I love the nonverbal stories told by these NMNH displays.
A woolly mammoth clears snow off the grass with its curved tusks, a family of humans is startled by a stalking saber tooth…
#FossilFriday
A woolly mammoth clears snow off the grass with its curved tusks, a family of humans is startled by a stalking saber tooth…
#FossilFriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
On the Ice Age theme, I love the nonverbal stories told by these NMNH displays.
A woolly mammoth clears snow off the grass with its curved tusks, a family of humans is startled by a stalking saber tooth…
#FossilFriday
A woolly mammoth clears snow off the grass with its curved tusks, a family of humans is startled by a stalking saber tooth…
#FossilFriday
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Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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L is for... Lithograph! A lithograph is a stone with an image drawn out in a greasy material, and the surrounding stone is etched out to create a water-receptive surface. The ink will only adhere to the drawing, allowing for printing of an image, as shown here in Breaking Ground.
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
L is for... Lithograph! A lithograph is a stone with an image drawn out in a greasy material, and the surrounding stone is etched out to create a water-receptive surface. The ink will only adhere to the drawing, allowing for printing of an image, as shown here in Breaking Ground.
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This Weds 19th, join us for a 1920s lecture on our Dynamic Earth!
Prof. Charles Lapworth will explore earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides & Museum objects. Then a panel of experts will discuss the historical & scientific context of the talk.
Free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...
Prof. Charles Lapworth will explore earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides & Museum objects. Then a panel of experts will discuss the historical & scientific context of the talk.
Free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This Weds 19th, join us for a 1920s lecture on our Dynamic Earth!
Prof. Charles Lapworth will explore earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides & Museum objects. Then a panel of experts will discuss the historical & scientific context of the talk.
Free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...
Prof. Charles Lapworth will explore earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides & Museum objects. Then a panel of experts will discuss the historical & scientific context of the talk.
Free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...
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Orra WHITE HITCHCOK
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November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I gathered some mammoth-relevant materials together for my Tet Zoo Woolly mammoth article, here... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11...
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I gathered some mammoth-relevant materials together for my Tet Zoo Woolly mammoth article, here... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11...
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Step back in time with us... to learn all about peculiar #palaentology!
Hear from Prof. Lapworth himself on the weird and wonderful world of early 1900s palaeontology, then from modern-day experts on how science has evolved our understanding of fossils.
📅 Mon 6 Oct, 18:30
peculiar-palaeontolo...
Hear from Prof. Lapworth himself on the weird and wonderful world of early 1900s palaeontology, then from modern-day experts on how science has evolved our understanding of fossils.
📅 Mon 6 Oct, 18:30
peculiar-palaeontolo...
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Step back in time with us... to learn all about peculiar #palaentology!
Hear from Prof. Lapworth himself on the weird and wonderful world of early 1900s palaeontology, then from modern-day experts on how science has evolved our understanding of fossils.
📅 Mon 6 Oct, 18:30
peculiar-palaeontolo...
Hear from Prof. Lapworth himself on the weird and wonderful world of early 1900s palaeontology, then from modern-day experts on how science has evolved our understanding of fossils.
📅 Mon 6 Oct, 18:30
peculiar-palaeontolo...
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Please help @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social conserve these important watercolour albums by Philip Crocker, with their exquisite paintings of Bronze Age finds from barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. They're looking to crowd-fund £2730 (bargain!): www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/crocker-wate...
Crocker watercolour albums Crowdfunder - Wiltshire Museum
We need your help to conserve two albums of watercolours by Philip Crocker. Crocker recorded the finds excavated by William Cunnington from Bronze Age barrows across Wiltshire, including the famous Bu...
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Please help @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social conserve these important watercolour albums by Philip Crocker, with their exquisite paintings of Bronze Age finds from barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. They're looking to crowd-fund £2730 (bargain!): www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/crocker-wate...
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Hey literature and science people: betcha didn't know that Richard Owen illustrated Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Great article here by @linneansociety.bsky.social archivist Alex Milne: www.linnean.org/news/2025/01...
"The Night-mare Life-In-Death was she": Nautical Drawings in the…
Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.
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July 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hey literature and science people: betcha didn't know that Richard Owen illustrated Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Great article here by @linneansociety.bsky.social archivist Alex Milne: www.linnean.org/news/2025/01...
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Here is the contemporary caricature illustrating Buckland entering the Cavern. It accompanied a humorous verse by W.D. Conybeare describing Buckland's cave 'adventure'. It is annotated as drawn by H.T. de la Beche - but was he the artist? Answers on a post, please.
July 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Here is the contemporary caricature illustrating Buckland entering the Cavern. It accompanied a humorous verse by W.D. Conybeare describing Buckland's cave 'adventure'. It is annotated as drawn by H.T. de la Beche - but was he the artist? Answers on a post, please.
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'HOGG Field Meeting 'Caves, Coves & Controversies' (South Devon) DAY1. A very full & fascinating day with Dr Christine Farmer concerning the work of John McEnery (1796-1841) in excavating caves around Torbay & his legacy via WIlliam Pengelly (1812–1894).
June 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
'HOGG Field Meeting 'Caves, Coves & Controversies' (South Devon) DAY1. A very full & fascinating day with Dr Christine Farmer concerning the work of John McEnery (1796-1841) in excavating caves around Torbay & his legacy via WIlliam Pengelly (1812–1894).
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Memorable visit to Torquay Museum, Brixham cave and Kent’s Cavern thanks to Christinefarmer.bsky.social and @hoggroup.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Memorable visit to Torquay Museum, Brixham cave and Kent’s Cavern thanks to Christinefarmer.bsky.social and @hoggroup.bsky.social
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How does place shape life-writing? Jenny Uglow examines such questions in “A Year with Gilbert White”. Join OCLW for our collaboration with Arts of Place
on 17 June at University of Birmingham.
Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi
on 17 June at University of Birmingham.
Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi
Weinrebe Lecture: Jenny Uglow, ‘A Year with Gilbert White’
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April 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
How does place shape life-writing? Jenny Uglow examines such questions in “A Year with Gilbert White”. Join OCLW for our collaboration with Arts of Place
on 17 June at University of Birmingham.
Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi
on 17 June at University of Birmingham.
Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi
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So @oxfordunipress.bsky.social have made the first main chapter of my new book open access for a month. If evangelical geology, epic poetry, surprise Swedenborgian conversions, and complicated interpretations of the word 'day' are your thing, please check it out: academic.oup.com/book/59688/c...
April 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So @oxfordunipress.bsky.social have made the first main chapter of my new book open access for a month. If evangelical geology, epic poetry, surprise Swedenborgian conversions, and complicated interpretations of the word 'day' are your thing, please check it out: academic.oup.com/book/59688/c...
On the evening of 18th February, 1841, Rev. John McEnery, excavator of Kents Cavern, died at Torre Abbey "quietly in his chair" aged 45. His gravestone at Tor Church reads: "He inspired respect as a scholar by the vigor of his understanding is polished taste and varied learning” (cont. in ALT)
February 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
On the evening of 18th February, 1841, Rev. John McEnery, excavator of Kents Cavern, died at Torre Abbey "quietly in his chair" aged 45. His gravestone at Tor Church reads: "He inspired respect as a scholar by the vigor of his understanding is polished taste and varied learning” (cont. in ALT)
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And some other views of Scharf’s work in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social - the huge megatherium that he painted for Richard Owen, and an enthralling predatory scene from the Jurassic based on a painting by Henry de la Beche that reconstructed Mary Anning’s fossil finds
December 13, 2024 at 7:08 PM
And some other views of Scharf’s work in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social - the huge megatherium that he painted for Richard Owen, and an enthralling predatory scene from the Jurassic based on a painting by Henry de la Beche that reconstructed Mary Anning’s fossil finds
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Love the energy on this. Watercolour depicting Richard Owen (seated) and the mineralogist Bryce Wright, by Ernest Grisetca (V&A Collections) ca. 1873
January 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Love the energy on this. Watercolour depicting Richard Owen (seated) and the mineralogist Bryce Wright, by Ernest Grisetca (V&A Collections) ca. 1873
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Killer Smiles: Why Saber-Toothed Teeth Were Evolution’s Masterpiece scitechdaily.com/killer-smile...
Killer Smiles: Why Saber-Toothed Teeth Were Evolution’s Masterpiece
Researchers have uncovered why the formidable teeth of saber-toothed predators like Smilodon were evolutionarily advantageous, using innovative techniques like 3D-printed tooth replicas and computer s...
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January 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Killer Smiles: Why Saber-Toothed Teeth Were Evolution’s Masterpiece scitechdaily.com/killer-smile...
Christmas Eve with a blackbird singing
December 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Christmas Eve with a blackbird singing
Somewhat overcrowded, and the mammoth is up to his knees in icing, but Merry Christmas!
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Somewhat overcrowded, and the mammoth is up to his knees in icing, but Merry Christmas!
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Recommending ‘Breaking Ground’ great new exhibition @morethanadodo.bsky.social based around my favourite early geologists William and Mary Buckland
December 10, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Recommending ‘Breaking Ground’ great new exhibition @morethanadodo.bsky.social based around my favourite early geologists William and Mary Buckland
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The cutest historical depiction of prehistoric animals? Where "chibi-fied" Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur, Megalosaur and Pterodactyl scrutinise reconstruction of a human. Made for Natural History Museum London by Thomas De la Ruei, 19th century.
December 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM
The cutest historical depiction of prehistoric animals? Where "chibi-fied" Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur, Megalosaur and Pterodactyl scrutinise reconstruction of a human. Made for Natural History Museum London by Thomas De la Ruei, 19th century.
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Exciting upcoming conference - Female Foundations: The Lives and Legacies of Women in Earth Sciences
Proposals for papers that celebrate individual or collective women’s contributions to science. Abstracts to anne@pastparticipate.co.uk #science #archaeology #geology #EarthSciences #palaeontology
Proposals for papers that celebrate individual or collective women’s contributions to science. Abstracts to anne@pastparticipate.co.uk #science #archaeology #geology #EarthSciences #palaeontology
November 28, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Exciting upcoming conference - Female Foundations: The Lives and Legacies of Women in Earth Sciences
Proposals for papers that celebrate individual or collective women’s contributions to science. Abstracts to anne@pastparticipate.co.uk #science #archaeology #geology #EarthSciences #palaeontology
Proposals for papers that celebrate individual or collective women’s contributions to science. Abstracts to anne@pastparticipate.co.uk #science #archaeology #geology #EarthSciences #palaeontology
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It's weird to think I've spent 20% of my life at the NHM London. My very first day at the museum involved moving around drawers of woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) teeth from Kent's Cavern in Devon, England #FossilFriday #fossils #museums 📜⚒️
November 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
It's weird to think I've spent 20% of my life at the NHM London. My very first day at the museum involved moving around drawers of woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) teeth from Kent's Cavern in Devon, England #FossilFriday #fossils #museums 📜⚒️
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Since we can now pin posts, I see no reason not to revive my recent Public Domain Review article, 'Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature': publicdomainreview.org/essay/richar.... Featuring some of the imagined adventures of the Natural History Museum's founder.
Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature
Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-...
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October 14, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Since we can now pin posts, I see no reason not to revive my recent Public Domain Review article, 'Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature': publicdomainreview.org/essay/richar.... Featuring some of the imagined adventures of the Natural History Museum's founder.