Thanks to sleuthing by Oxford University Museum of Natural History researcher Sue Newell, we now know our Dapedium fossil is a Mary Anning specimen 😎🐟

AND! We recently collaborated with Royal Mail to put it on a stamp, modelled here by me & Librarian + Archivist extraordinaire Danielle Czerkaszyn

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What better birthday present could there be for Prof. Buckland born #otd 1784? Fabulous Megalosaurus reconstruction visiting the library ⁦The Geological Society⁩

Thrilled to present my take on ‘The Geological Lecture Room Oxford’ (Buckland teaching in the Old Ashmolean) at the Geological Society last week ⁦The Geological Society⁩ ⁦History of Science Museum⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦Oxford University Museum of Natural History⁩

Delighted to be contributing shortly to the V&A symposium on the S. Ken. Museum(s) on my MA topic, ceramics at the Museum of Practical Geology ⁦⁦Lily Crowther has gone to Bluesky⁩

Still time to sign up! Speakers include Jana Riedel, Mary Clayton-Kastenholz, Neil Carleton, Frances Potts, Susan Newell Dr Susan Newell, surya bowyer and me. DM me for info.

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#otd 1797 was born Mary Morland ⁦⁦natural history artist, researcher, curator. Married to William Buckland, they contributed to the development of geology ⁦Oxford University Museum of Natural History⁩

Thrilled to share that PhD viva passed last week! Heartfelt thanks to supervisors ⁦Jon Topham⁩ Eliza Howlett ⁦Oxford University Museum of Natural History⁩ and ⁦Jim Harris, Parkinformationsanbieter⁩, and friends ⁦HPS Leeds⁩ and ⁦History Of Geology⁩

Unveiling of ⁦Crystal Palace Dinos⁩ fantastic replacement sculpture Palaeotherium magnum today! Thank you everyone who made it possible

Dr Maddie Hewitson is on maternity leave! taking our “Victorian Science and Architecture” group from Oxford Continuing Education around the Ashmolean. Here with John Millais’ portrait of John Ruskin - rich in geological references
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Happy Birthday Prof. Buckland #otd 1784 Oxford University Museum of Natural History Buckland by Buckland in his element - having fun with extinct cave bears 1816 #historyofgeologygroup

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Mobilising Assam’s ‘hargila army’: how 10,000 women saved India’s rarest stork theguardian.com/global-develop…

Some S. London friends in Geology Museum Bologna, models of CP dinos ⁦Crystal Palace Dinos⁩ (tricky to photograph)

Thrilled to spot these casts with due acknowledgement to Mary Anning in Geology Museum of G. Capellini Bologna ⁦MaryAnningRocks⁩

New (for me) type of book pillow , Medieval Museum Bologna c. 1540 Pietro Barilotto

Aldrovandi 500 exhibition Palazzo Poggi University of Bologna- visit if you can History Of Geology Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Buckland Papers Appeal morethanadodo.com/2022/11/17/buc… via Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Yes the crab apples are ready - typical London scene outside my window

Caught my first glimpse of the new displays ⁦Oxford University Museum of Natural History⁩ last week - just stunning!