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Longhorn beetle project finale | Trainee Biological Curator
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Twelve months in the life of a trainee biological curator. Living Worlds/ Nature’s Library volunteer handling collection →. Longhorn beetle project finale. March 8, 2013. Figure 1: The unidentified South African species went in the ‘undetermined foreign cerambycidae drawer’, along with many other fantastic specimens! So I’ve finally completed my longhorn beetle. Project. All the data, including recently added locality (where the insects were collected) data has been added onto KE-EMu. View all posts by T...
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Working on Nature’s Library | Trainee Biological Curator
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Twelve months in the life of a trainee biological curator. Final couple of days at the Leeds Discovery Centre. American Museum of Natural History →. Working on Nature’s Library. October 25, 2012. Figure 1: Can you guess what these ‘under wraps’ animals are that are going to be found in the mammal’s case in the new Nature’s Library gallery? Answers at the bottom of the blog post! Figure 2: Measuring the mystery animal! Figure 3: Which way would you display this flying lemur; hanging down or ventral facing?
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March | 2014 | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. Monthly Archives: March 2014. March 9, 2014. Sorry about not updating this blog for a few months. The reason for this has been that I was offered a job in December 2013 as one of two Curatorial […]. Read Article →. British-Belizean curator currently working at the OUMNH on the Lepidoptera Project. This blog documents my thoughts about museums and collections and is not necessarily the opinion of my employer. Perfect https:/ t.co/Y6IUalUybP. RT @ sonof Slam.
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Hoax or Joke? | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. April 12, 2014. I had a great day today training volunteers to work with digital and library sources to help them identify butterfly species they will come across when transcribing and digitizing information in the Jones Icones as part of the HLF funded Flying Icons. The illustration was based on a butterfly sent by William Charlton to to James Petiver in 1702, who wrote: “It exactly resembles our English Brimstone Butterfly (R. Rhamni), were it not for those bla...In 1793...
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Moved to Oxford | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. March 9, 2014. Sorry about not updating this blog for a few months. The reason for this has been that I was offered a job in December 2013 as one of two Curatorial Assistants at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and I’ve been working on the Lepidoptera collections. There since then, mainly on the moth collections in the Swinhoe room, though in the evenings I work on the butterfly collections, specifically the collections of Henry Walter Bates. Jeannette huij ...
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November | 2013 | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. Monthly Archives: November 2013. November 20, 2013. I’ve just come to the end of my time working as a volunteer on the “Skin Deep” Project at Leeds Museums Discovery Centre. The project involves the rearrangement and documentation […]. Read Article →. British-Belizean curator currently working at the OUMNH on the Lepidoptera Project. This blog documents my thoughts about museums and collections and is not necessarily the opinion of my employer. Jeannette huij on Skin Deep.
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July | 2014 | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. Monthly Archives: July 2014. July 20, 2014. Last Friday I travelled to London to attend “Taxidermy: curation, care, context and creativity”, a day devoted to short lectures about taxidermy from a multidisciplinary approach. Speakers included taxidermists, curators, […]. Read Article →. Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. Jeannette huij on Skin Deep. 11 Questions to a museum blogger. Alessandro at the NHM. Beetles in the Bush.
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October | 2013 | Biology Curator
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Obsessed With Wonderful Things. Monthly Archives: October 2013. All hands on deck! October 17, 2013. So unfortunately the Herbarium suffered from a flood last week. We were really lucky that damage to the specimens was minimal, though some things still need sorting out. The flood […]. Read Article →. October 15, 2013. Read Article →. Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. Jeannette huij on Skin Deep. 11 Questions to a museum blogger. Alessandro at the NHM.
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Nature’s Library progress | Trainee Biological Curator
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Twelve months in the life of a trainee biological curator. Last day of traineeship…. New blog- put thy feet up →. Nature’s Library progress. April 4, 2013. Figure 1: Something fishy is going on in this cabinet…. Last Thursday I returned to Manchester to help with the new Nature’s Library gallery. How exciting! And we could accurately map out the footprint of the objects. Figure 2: The cases are looking brilliant; I’m particularly impressed by the lighting (as evident here! Last day of traineeship…. Fill ...