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Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

OMG!!! Episodes 1 and 3 of The Daleks’ Master Plan have been found!!!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two portraits of an Inuit man and woman by the Elizabeth artist John White, superimposed on a map of Baffin Bay.

Elizabethan artist John White drew the first pictures of Inuit people that Europeans had ever seen. But scholars debate how he did it. Some say White merely painted the Inuit in England, after they arrived as captives in 1577.

Here’s why I believe White was actually in the Arctic … 1/15

Went and checked out the Giants exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. Truly awesome, in the traditional sense! #paleontology #museums #extinction

grainy black and white photo. Three naval reserve lads atop the Hylaeosaurus

From a letter in COUNTRY LIFE magazine, 13/02/1915:

“SIr, The saying that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy“ appears to have been taken seriously to heart by the lads of the Naval Brigade, now in training at the Crystal Palace..

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(the Palace was closed to the public during WW1)

Portrait of Mary Anning in February 1842. She wears a long green cloak and a straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon. She holds a hammer and carries a basket. AT her feet are some fossils and her dog.

Palaeontologist #MaryAnning was a legend in her lifetime. From 1821 to 1846 she's mentioned in at least 250 newspapers, magazines, popular books and scientific papers & books. Hundreds of geologists and tourists went to Lyme Regis to meet 'the celebrated Mary Anning'.
#InternationalWomensDay

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

A damning report on the continued retention of human remains, especially from colonial contexts (nb Ireland virtually never included in these lists), in British museums. Rather amazed to see the 6th largest collection is in ‘Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon’?!? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Today is International Women's Day and we're celebrating Mary Buckland! Buckland was a naturalist and illustrator who's work is being celebrated in our current special exhibition, Breaking Ground.

This photo is one of our most recent acquisitions and was donated by a descendant of the Bucklands.

Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!

Cover of Harold W. Clark, Fossils, Flood, and Fire (1968). Painting of a sauropod and tyrannosaurs fleeing the Flood, while a volcano erupts in the background.

I've not seen many artistic representations of dinosaurs trying to escape the Genesis Deluge, or rather not many that weren't produced very, very recently. The image below is from an ebay auction (shorturl.at/Tg1TH). Harold W. Clark, Fossils, Flood, and Fire (1968). Watch out behind you, T. rex!

Art c/o "THE DR WHO COLOURING BOOK" (1973).
#DrWho #DoctorWho #scifi #1970s #sciencefiction #scifiart #kaiju

Just finished reading @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's FANTASTIC "Ghosts Behind Glass". A really insightful read that dives into the different approaches to extinction in museums. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in natural history museums or extinction studies!

Close up of a handwritten label on a fossil specimen: 'This Fossil is the first I ever obtained. It was purchased from Mary Anning in July 1824. It then wanted the point of the nose. This was found 3 years after rolled on the sands & she sent it to me to Oxford – Enniskillen'

#FossilFriday: A curator's dream label. Doesn't get much better than this: 'This Fossil is the first I ever obtained. It was purchased from Mary Anning in July 1824. It then wanted the point of the nose. This was found 3 years after rolled on the sands & she sent it to me to Oxford – Enniskillen'

Today I finished cataloguing the #Scoresby boxes at Whitby #Archives! I've measured, researched and recorded over 240 letters, prints, maps, scientific diagrams and bits of paper cut into the shape of whales. The last thing I catalogued? A massive map of the North-West Passage.

I'm very fond of Scoresby's use of a water spout to indicate blowhole positions on #cetacean species. Here are two 'unicorns' illustrated in his 1810 #Arctic whaling journal.

Unfortunately Scoresby's sperm whale only exists as an outline. Still, it's been drawn onto a very nice sheet of floral wallpaper!

A gorgeous and huge paper fin #whale drawn by William #Scoresby Junior and stitched to a roll of wallpaper. The whale possibly as a visual aid for a lecture delivered in Scoresby's later years.

Annotated sketch by George Cumberland of a skeleton of Plesiosaurus showing its long neck, small head and four paddle-like limbs, and emphasising a scatter of vertebrae at the base of the neck.

About 24 February 1824 Bristol fossil collector George Cumberland sent his drawing (copied from one by #MaryAnning) of Plesiosaurus to Charles Konig at the British Museum asking if he thought the bones all belonged to one animal. Konig had seen the fossil and replied that it was 'perfectly genuine'.

Art by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1850s. It shows two individuals of Megalosaurus in the original interpretation of them as quadrupedal animals with crocodile-like heads. One of them is standing up and the other asleep. In the background is a rocky outcrop with a flock of pterosaurs on.

"As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill."

'Bleak House', Charles Dickens, 1852 #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

This is a #broadsheet announcing the #stranding of a whale in Ireland in 1692. It is said that 20 men could fit in its mouth. What a lovely, scaly dragon #whale!
#histwhale #oceanspast
www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0...

The Piltdown forgery extended to other fossils supposedly from the site (but probably planted) that Dawson stained brown. My personal favourites being 'The Piltdown Clams'! Two specimens of Upper Cretaceous inoceramid bivalve derived from the #Chalk.

Unfortunately not! There are only two lists I could find of the specimens Scoresby donated, one in the annual reports of the Whitby Lit & Phil and another in Scoresby's original bequest. The best we get is "20 birds in 18 glass cases"! He does mention that all his birds were #Arctic species.

Only a handful of specimens verifiably collected by Scoresby survive today. The Gyrfalcon is likely the only surviving bird specimen. At least 2 of the Narwhal tusks displayed in the Explorer's Wing are Scoresby's, one of which is considered one of the largest in a British collection.

I've also found a photo of some possibly Scoresby-collected #Arctic bird specimens in the museum's Scoresby display case, c.1920s.

Species Left to right: Eider, Arctic Skua, Gyrfalcon, Ivory Gull (definitely not a Scoresby specimen), Arctic Tern, Ptarmigan and Arctic Hare.

Been attempting to track down the #Arctic natural #history specimens donated to the Whitby #Museum by William Scoresby Jr using old catalogues and photos. I've finally found a photo of his long-lost "sea-horse heads"! I've never seen walrus stuffed in this way. Also note the Ichthyosaur at the back!

My friend sent me the list animals until failure game and I had to stop at 150 because I immediately realized this was going to be a problem and I have work to do today, but maybe you don't

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Been spotting lots of smooth newts at (not so) sunny Whitby Abbey recently. Here's a couple that were kind enough to pose for me

Although I found this all fascinating, it didn't explain what Scoresby's map represented... Luckily I found this in the Oct 13 1849 issue of the Illustrated London News! Scoresby seems to have copied out a diagram of Erebus and Terror drawn by an indigenous Arctic person.

Interestingly the article goes on to describe the visions observed by Emma "the seeress of Bolton", who aided the search for Franklin in 1849. I wonder what Scoresby thought of this?

It's unclear what Scoresby's illustration is supposed to represent. He certainly spoke with Lady Jane Franklin about Captain Parker's discovery, and in a letter dated 24/10/1849, Lady Franklin wrote to Scoresby that she was disappointed that Parker hadn't written to her.

Unrolled this rather basic illustration of four ships today when cataloguing Scoresby papers at Whitby #Museum. A note at the bottom reads "from the Illustrated London News of Oct 6 1849". Checking this issue, I found a rather interesting article about the search for John Franklin...