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Fun With Fluids
So, this week I am attending an excellent course in fluid preservation of natural history specimens run by Simon Moore. Handily, it is also being held at the Horniman this time round, so I don’t even...
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Fun With Fluids: Day Two
Today began with us checking our specimens in their baths of Decon-90. My harbour crabs were declared done and ready for fixation, but the tree frog was still rather stiff and unresponsive, so he went...
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Fun With Fluids: Days Three & Four
Yesterday was a slightly slower day than intended, but I did manage to finish preserving both the frog and lizard and get them into their final solution of 80% IMS, and then mounted the frog on his...
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A World in White
Real snow is something of a rarity in London. So when it does come, it always seems to come as a surprise. It has been snowing steadily all day; small, fine flakes that don’t loook like much, but that,...
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It’s like 10,000 spoons…
…OK, 10,000 might be a bit of an exaggeration, but we do have a LOT of spoons in our collection! And over the past several weeks I’ve seen most of them. We are currently reviewing the anthropology...
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Mutants and Mongrels
On Saturday I spent a sunny morning with the lovely folk of the London Bird Group (part of the LNHS) out at Walthamstow reservoirs, looking at female ducks. Why female ducks, specifically? Because they...
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The March of Progress
The review of the museum’s Anthropology collections continues apace. We have seen many thousands of objects already, and this week we finished one room of the store* *Ahem. That is, we finished the...
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Showing Off
It seems I’m a glutton for punishment! Despite my general dread and fear of public speaking, I’ve signed myself up for next’s week’s Museums Showoff event in Camden- an evening of comedy and wonder in...
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Adjusting to Anthropology
It’s been quite an adjustment over the past year, as a zoologist, to suddenly find myself working in an anthropology collection. I’d be the first to admit that I know next to nothing about the various...
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Documentation > All
I’ve spent the last two days at the MIMSY UK User Group meeting, a gathering of people from different museums who use the collections management database MIMSY XG, learning more about the system and...
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