I'd driven past it many times when living in Lee Green, but had never
been inside; over Christmas I remedied this. Images follow:
cc-by-sa on
everything.
We started with the Natural History room, a pleasingly
old-fashioned "things in cases" display.
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Some of the many beetles that the Lord loves.
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A fine nacreous shell.
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Marmoset, for reference during my current GURPS demo adventure.
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Brain shapes of various animals, scaled to show relative lobe size.
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The skull of a proto-elephant - though if one came across this, might
one not reasonably think "one-eyed giant"?
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Golded-headed Trogon with iridescent feathers.
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There's something about the crest and glass eye that remind me of
a certain political figure.
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Alas, the glossy starlings occur south of the Sahara, and the Lovely
Cotinga in central America.
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The merman. (I think they should put it next to the duck-billed
platypus.)
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Rattus, in a display on animal defences. Apparently feeding out of
sight is a defence…
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A variety of shells. (The entire point of the pangolin is to curl up
like that, I reckon.)
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Because it can glide 300× its own length, that's why.
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The Infamous Walrus.
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Yes, chevrotains (also "mouse-deer") are a real thing.
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The main gallery from above.
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Lots of fossil-finding information on the balcony.
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And an entirely new (to me) sort of arthropod. (More usually now known
as chitons or loricates.)
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Do not mess with beetle.
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More pangolin. Love those scales.
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Lunch. (Did not taste of walrus, I am informed.)
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After lunch, the Music Gallery, which seems to be trying to have one
of every form of sound production. This is an early organ.
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And a virginal.
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Decorated viol.
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A serpent. I particularly like the transition from vaguely sensible
product of technological civilisation, at the top, to deep and
barely-restrained wildness at the bottom.
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A variety of clarinet forms.
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Various horns. (Ah, so that's why so many jazzmen are also steam
locomotive enthusiasts.)
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Fanfare trumpet, which looks as if it should have a tripod mount.
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This was described as a "mélodéon", but it's nothing like the
instrument usually known by that name. I think the tiny white keys
above open the valves below…
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Giant display tuba. (With a little extra support where one feels they
weren't quite sure of their brasswork.)
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Various bassoon-ish woodwinds.
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And of course the pipes.
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Glass armonica.
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Do not take your tuba down Trumpeters' Row.
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And there's a not-bad pub nearby.
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