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Post by nomad on Aug 10, 2016 11:11:31 GMT
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Post by nomad on Aug 10, 2016 14:26:58 GMT
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 10, 2016 18:40:48 GMT
Beautiful cabinets, but which museum?
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Aug 11, 2016 7:33:03 GMT
This is the British insect collections room at Oxford University NHM. The front of this room has glass doors which is adjacent to a small public gallery where visitors can see on one side, a live bee set up and on the other an interesting display of old entomological equipment. Nearly all the people that enter the small gallery try the doors to the collections room that are locked. When I was near the public gallery, Chinese tourists of which there are lots in Oxford today, tapped on the glass doors wanting photos of me holding a cabinet drawer.
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 12, 2016 5:39:05 GMT
Now that's the kind of furniture every collector worth his salt would love to have in his office / bug room ! Beautiful handiwork.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:10:23 GMT
Both sides of the British room and one of the sections of Hill's Cabinets.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:20:47 GMT
Some of the Oxford museum's Entomological collections. Part of the Top room. In this room are some of the World collection and the European collections. An old picture of how this room used to look before a floor was put in to make it into two. It then housed the the Hope Library. In was in this room that the great Darwin debate took place with Huxley and Wilberforce during 1860. The debate took place before the collections or library were installed.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:27:55 GMT
One of the most valuable collections in the Oxford Museum. The Dalean Collection. Containing many early British historic specimens with many unique aberrations that were collected by James Charles Dale and those that were added by his son, Charles William Dale who bequeathed it to the Oxford.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:31:43 GMT
A large Part of Oxford's World collection including the large Papilionidae collection is now kept in metal cabinets. Nice to see that they kept a couple of the large original study desks.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:37:44 GMT
The Hope Entomology Department is World Renown, visited by scientists and researches from all parts of the globe. In the cabinets in the main department are some of the most valuable specimens including types.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:40:17 GMT
One of the Hope Department's entomologists sorting and studying Coleoptera.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:45:44 GMT
Old Entomological equipment and things.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:54:16 GMT
Hymenoptera drawer that includes some of Russel Wallace's type specimens from the Malay Archipelago including his giant and very rare type specimen of Megachile pluto... a giant species of leafcutter bee. Shown in better detail below in a one of the museum's images.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 18:58:27 GMT
Some of Darwin's specimens sent to Hope. In the little box bottom right, is a specimen sent by David Livingstone from Africa.
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Post by nomad on Aug 12, 2016 19:01:59 GMT
A visiting researcher was working on these. The last batch of my images taken at Oxford by me were from previous visits to the museum.
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