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Walter Potter (2 July 1835 – 21 May 1918) [1] [2] was an English taxidermist noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring mounted animals mimicking human life, which he displayed at his museum in Bramber, Sussex, England.
Bullock began as a goldsmith and jeweller in Birmingham. By 1795, Bullock was in Liverpool, where he founded a Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street.While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801, he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armoury, objects of natural history, and other curiosities in the collection, some of which had been brought back by ...
Dozmary Pool is situated 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the inn, while a branch of the river Fowey is 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 metres) west. [9] Spread over 3 ⁄ 4 acre (0.3 hectares) of land, [ 10 ] the Jamaica Inn has been refurbished and functions as an exclusive bed and breakfast establishment, with a pub, a museum and a gift shop.
The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...
No. 2124 was originally constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1924 as an I-10sa class 2-8-0 "Consolidation", and it was originally numbered 2024. [1] [2] Beginning in 1945, Reading Company (RDG) began rebuilding thirty of their I-10sa's at their Reading, Pennsylvania shops and converted them into T-1 class 4-8-4 "Northerns", and they were renumbered as the 2100 series. [2]
The Reading Room, I told Parker, was a temple to the deification of Bibliology. [20] The writer Bernard Falk (1882–1960) quotes the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) as having declared that the Reading Room of the British Museum was a convenient asylum for imbeciles whose friends wished them out of mischief's way. [21]
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American Dime Museum, [17] Baltimore, museum of curiosities [18] [19] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore, closed in 2012 [20] Bagpipe Museum, Ellicott City [21] Brannock Maritime Museum, Cambridge - collections merged with Richardson Maritime Museum in 2004 [22] Christian Heritage Museum, Hagerstown [23] Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, closed in ...