Rosi Crane
@rosicrane.bsky.social
Honorary curator history of science, Otago Museum
19C New Zealand natural history
Tenor City Choir Dunedin
Book sorter for the Regent Theatre annual book sale
Appreciator of turn-of-the-century printmaking
19C New Zealand natural history
Tenor City Choir Dunedin
Book sorter for the Regent Theatre annual book sale
Appreciator of turn-of-the-century printmaking
This Falkland Island Wolf arrived in Dunedin, NZ, in 1875, just a year before it went extinct in the wild. Tuhura Otago Museum's taxidermist, Edwinn Jennings mounted it.
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This Falkland Island Wolf arrived in Dunedin, NZ, in 1875, just a year before it went extinct in the wild. Tuhura Otago Museum's taxidermist, Edwinn Jennings mounted it.
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
This beauty gets in my face when I empty my mail-box.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
August 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This beauty gets in my face when I empty my mail-box.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
Somehow fitting that the latest book in my collection brings the total to 3,000.
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Somehow fitting that the latest book in my collection brings the total to 3,000.
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Framed my latest #etching, bought at a local auction by Andrew F. Affleck (1874/7-1936), British etcher known for large-sized prints European townscapes, this is Dordrecht.
July 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Framed my latest #etching, bought at a local auction by Andrew F. Affleck (1874/7-1936), British etcher known for large-sized prints European townscapes, this is Dordrecht.
Very honoured to be part of DSO Chorus!
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Very honoured to be part of DSO Chorus!
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
Pleased to announce publication of my article on how the museum acquired its large critters in late-19C & still mostly on display in Animal Attic, everyone's fave gallery.
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
May 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Pleased to announce publication of my article on how the museum acquired its large critters in late-19C & still mostly on display in Animal Attic, everyone's fave gallery.
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
They are going to be old specimens. Wholesale deportation occurred thru late 19C. Coincidentally(!?) Jamrach's the animal dealer in London advertised living or preserved tutes in any number. Full protection came with the 1907 Animals Protection Act.
March 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Bought at a local auction for a pittance, considering it's an excellent #etching of Toledo Bridge by Edward Millington Synge (1860-1913). An Irish #printmaker, his work featured in a National Gallery of Ireland exhibition 'Making Their Mark' in 2019. Wish I had a time machine. The catalogue is good.
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Bought at a local auction for a pittance, considering it's an excellent #etching of Toledo Bridge by Edward Millington Synge (1860-1913). An Irish #printmaker, his work featured in a National Gallery of Ireland exhibition 'Making Their Mark' in 2019. Wish I had a time machine. The catalogue is good.
Picked up a very neat copy of 'Glaucus:The Wonders of the Shore' by Rev Charles Kingsley for a song from local op-shop.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
February 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Picked up a very neat copy of 'Glaucus:The Wonders of the Shore' by Rev Charles Kingsley for a song from local op-shop.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
With a superabundance of Oamaru limestone, which has stood the test of time, the Oamaru War Memorial choice was marble (probably imported), curious.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
With a superabundance of Oamaru limestone, which has stood the test of time, the Oamaru War Memorial choice was marble (probably imported), curious.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
A half-hearted decorative effort, seen in a waiting room, but my sentiments are not half-hearted, Season's Greetings.
December 24, 2024 at 6:04 AM
A half-hearted decorative effort, seen in a waiting room, but my sentiments are not half-hearted, Season's Greetings.
Utterly delightful find in local bookshop. V&A reprinted this small volume on High Street shops, illust Eric Ravillious. Originally published 1938 as an AtoZ of shops. Gill Saunders essay provides context of this lost pre-WWII world.
#illustrators #bookhistory
#illustrators #bookhistory
December 11, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Utterly delightful find in local bookshop. V&A reprinted this small volume on High Street shops, illust Eric Ravillious. Originally published 1938 as an AtoZ of shops. Gill Saunders essay provides context of this lost pre-WWII world.
#illustrators #bookhistory
#illustrators #bookhistory
Nice to see Parker & Haswell, publ 1897, still in use although much revised, of course!
#bookhistory #HistSTM #textbooks
#bookhistory #HistSTM #textbooks
The post by @jillwhitelock.bsky.social about Hans Gadow got me thinking about various 19th & early 20th century zoological works, including textbooks, which made me remember Parker & Haswell’s A Textbook of Zoology, about which @rosicrane.bsky.social has written: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Creating Parker & Haswell's A Textbook of Zoology
PDF | On Jan 1, 2015, Rosi Crane published Creating Parker & Haswell's A Textbook of Zoology | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net
December 3, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Nice to see Parker & Haswell, publ 1897, still in use although much revised, of course!
#bookhistory #HistSTM #textbooks
#bookhistory #HistSTM #textbooks
Reposted by Rosi Crane
Welcome to #WikiAdvent Calendar #Day1! Today's "window" is a proper NZ rabbithole. Let's go! 🧵
1st Dec marks the start of Advent, and also the beginning of #Whamageddon, which my kids take very seriously. Last year I heard Wham’s Last Christmas in the pharmacy on the 1st. Straight to Whamhalla!
1st Dec marks the start of Advent, and also the beginning of #Whamageddon, which my kids take very seriously. Last year I heard Wham’s Last Christmas in the pharmacy on the 1st. Straight to Whamhalla!
November 30, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Welcome to #WikiAdvent Calendar #Day1! Today's "window" is a proper NZ rabbithole. Let's go! 🧵
1st Dec marks the start of Advent, and also the beginning of #Whamageddon, which my kids take very seriously. Last year I heard Wham’s Last Christmas in the pharmacy on the 1st. Straight to Whamhalla!
1st Dec marks the start of Advent, and also the beginning of #Whamageddon, which my kids take very seriously. Last year I heard Wham’s Last Christmas in the pharmacy on the 1st. Straight to Whamhalla!
Front cover of December issue of ISIS, Journal history of science society, features eruption of Krakatoa.
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Front cover of December issue of ISIS, Journal history of science society, features eruption of Krakatoa.
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Mood!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Mood!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
"The creation of the world in [Paul] Nash’s Genesis is a jerky, frightening cataclysm — the miracle being not what God made, but that something was made at all. ... This artist lived in close proximity to the empty maw."
Image: "Man and Woman" woodcut. 1924
publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
Image: "Man and Woman" woodcut. 1924
publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
Woodcuts inspired by the biblical Genesis, which depict the creation of the world as a jerky, frightening cataclysm.
publicdomainreview.org
November 13, 2024 at 10:34 PM
"The creation of the world in [Paul] Nash’s Genesis is a jerky, frightening cataclysm — the miracle being not what God made, but that something was made at all. ... This artist lived in close proximity to the empty maw."
Image: "Man and Woman" woodcut. 1924
publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
Image: "Man and Woman" woodcut. 1924
publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
Reposted by Rosi Crane
Yall I saw the unofficial fish of bluesky. A 1000 pound mola mola just munching down on velella velella. Can't wait to get on a smaller boat and get some underwater shots of these perfect creatures this summer. 🦑
April 28, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Yall I saw the unofficial fish of bluesky. A 1000 pound mola mola just munching down on velella velella. Can't wait to get on a smaller boat and get some underwater shots of these perfect creatures this summer. 🦑
Escapism for a wet afternoon.
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
November 1, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Escapism for a wet afternoon.
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
Of course, this should have read, "even though it's not earth-shattering it *is* original research."
I've been keeping my head down and busy recently. Must admit to a certain pride at seeing my name in print, even though it's not earth-shattering original research.
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
Women naturalists in Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin
| The Journal of New Zealand Studies
ojs.victoria.ac.nz
October 25, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Of course, this should have read, "even though it's not earth-shattering it *is* original research."
I've been keeping my head down and busy recently. Must admit to a certain pride at seeing my name in print, even though it's not earth-shattering original research.
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
Women naturalists in Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin
| The Journal of New Zealand Studies
ojs.victoria.ac.nz
October 23, 2024 at 11:12 PM
I've been keeping my head down and busy recently. Must admit to a certain pride at seeing my name in print, even though it's not earth-shattering original research.
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
Women I've grown to know a bit get an airing.
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article...
Open Access.
#HistSTM #Museums
This is what documentary film-making was all about.
Not a single shot out of place and all cut to the exact right length. Each shot moves the narrative onwards, with only minimal voice-over.
Depicting a world long gone, of course.
Not a single shot out of place and all cut to the exact right length. Each shot moves the narrative onwards, with only minimal voice-over.
Depicting a world long gone, of course.
An unabridged version of the utterly brilliant documentary “Night Mail” (1936), complete with Auden reading a famous poem written for the occasion 🗃️ #skystorians: youtu.be/KTEZ25sQGmc?...
Night Mail 1936 (UNABRIDGED FULL DOCUMENTARY)
At long last, the famous and beloved classic is finally here! Until now, only remixes of the rap from the end were on YT, so I took it upon myself to upload ...
youtu.be
March 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM
This is what documentary film-making was all about.
Not a single shot out of place and all cut to the exact right length. Each shot moves the narrative onwards, with only minimal voice-over.
Depicting a world long gone, of course.
Not a single shot out of place and all cut to the exact right length. Each shot moves the narrative onwards, with only minimal voice-over.
Depicting a world long gone, of course.
After some ugly pruning (aka hacking) a couple or three years ago the not-my-tree at the end of my driveway has slowly revealed a face. It's an uncanny resemblance to Frederick Douglass the abolitionist IMHO.
March 1, 2024 at 6:27 AM
After some ugly pruning (aka hacking) a couple or three years ago the not-my-tree at the end of my driveway has slowly revealed a face. It's an uncanny resemblance to Frederick Douglass the abolitionist IMHO.