Can any botanists or planty people out there help me to understand these botanical models? I presume they are different growth stages of a stem or trunk, but I can't find a match on search engines. If that's what they are is it possible to tell what type of plant it represents or what the growth stages are?
These are going on display in a new #NottNatHist museum exhibit about natural history models and I have the task of writing a label for them.
Any help is much appreciated!
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...and here are some pretty shells from the #NottNatHist collection!
This week, Nottingham Trent University lecturer Fred Owen and student Kirsty visited our fossil collections to study our Pleistocene canids.
It helped to have an articulated modern dog skeleton at hand for comparative purposes!
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #skeleton #research #palaeontology
Installation has begun on two new galleries at the #NottNatHist Museum at Wollaton Hall. One gallery - the balcony - will feature a mural painted by @BobNicholls as the backdrop for a display about the history of Wollaton Hall. One half of the mural is already up!
Marine reptile fun! @WitcherClo led an outreach event at Wollaton Hall #NottNatHist Museum a few weeks ago. We challenged visitors to ID the fossil bones of an ichthyosaur and work out where they fit in the skeleton.
#WollatonHall #Fossils #Ichthyosaur #reptile #palaeontology #museum #FossilFriday
A drawer of fossil sea-lilies, or crinoids. One of many drawers of Silurian reef fossils from the UK in the #NottNatHist Museum collections
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I’ve been researching and selecting lots of specimens to go on display in a new gallery I’m working on. The gallery will focus on diversity of natural history collections and will explore the work curators do. Here’s one of many specimens picked out to tell the story of one of my predecessors at the #NottNatHist museum.
Some fossil bivalves collected in 1892 by J W Carr, curator of the Nottingham Natural History Museum at the time. This was decades before the museum moved to Wollaton Hall.
This #FossilFriday palaeontologist Sophie Firth from the University of Sheffield is studying our collection of Pleistocene bones from Creswell Crags. She's looking for cut marks made by prehistoric humans on the bones... and finding some!
#NottNatHist #museum #CreswellCrags #fossil #science #paleontology
Adam S. Smith
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