Oct 26, 2022
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Fossils.
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A few more from the OUMNH, including a plaque regarding the aforementioned debate.
I was, you may have surmised, rather taken with the skeleton parade.
You recall I said I’ve only seen two female Irish elk? Here’s the other one. The museum - as you can see - does have several skulls of males, but the female is the only complete skeleton they have on display.
My main reason for going out to Oxford was a different museum, the descriptively named Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Because of course it was. This isn’t nearly as big as its cousin back in London, but is nonetheless a pretty important museum. For one, it was the location of the famous debate over evolution between the bishop Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley (also known by the nickname ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’); for another, it houses the only known surviving soft tissue specimens from a dodo, though unfortunately they’re too fragile to be displayed.
The T. rex is a cast of the fossil nicknamed ‘Stan’. A lot of casts of this fossil have been made.
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Visiting the insects at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History!
I went to Oxford to meet the Head of Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and the Head of Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera Collections. I wanted to talk about the Wildlife Recording project I run in West Wales, and to hear more about their techniques for identifying tricky taxonomic groups.
The staff have given me some fantastic identification materials that I will share with the participants on the Nature of our Village Project and I have promised to explore a new area: Dung Beetles! Darren Mann runs the National Recording Scheme for this group, and noted that Ceredigion is a “black hole for data”, so there is definitely some work to be done!
I am very grateful to the staff for our meeting, and the chance to go back stage at the Museum of Natural History was a privilege. The pinned insect collections are a superb resource for identification and show a depth of scholarship that was deeply impressive. I look forward to my first Dung Beetle Hunt!
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
A great Oxford museum to visit for free.
Founded in 1860 as the centre for scientific study at the University of Oxford, the Museum of Natural History now holds the University’s internationally significant collections of geological and zoological specimens. Housed in a stunning example of neo-Gothic architecture, the Museum’s growing collections underpin a broad programme of natural environment research, teaching and public engagement. Among its most famous features are the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the Dodo, and the swifts in the tower.