Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

Showing posts with label Museums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museums. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 March 2014

Grant Museum at University College, London: a Must-See Museum of a Museum

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We managed a short visit to the Grant Museum of Zoology on a trip to London in February. The museum can only be described as excellent becau...
Monday, 20 January 2014

The Afterlives of Animals: Musing on Museology. Why Did Zoology Museums Decline?

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I am reading The Afterlife of Animals *, a book about iconic specimens in natural history museums. Essentially a sociological book on museol...
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Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.
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