Oxford University Museum of Natural History
150th Anniversary events update, for anyone interested
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100525.html Do note that lecture bookings won't be opening until September.
Having finally read Gould's 'Wonderful Life' on the Burgess Shale last year (only a few decades late) I got more out of the 'Chengjiang: Extraordinary Fossils from the Cambrian of China' exhibition than I might otherwise have done. I spent a while earlier this year trying to work out the palaeographical background of Sydney after an image-free book introduction left me intrigued but floundering and so was very pleased by the continental map showing exactly how and where what became Australia is thought to have joined up to what is now China, as well as the Southern hemisphere fragments which later formed bits of the UK.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100525.html Do note that lecture bookings won't be opening until September.
Having finally read Gould's 'Wonderful Life' on the Burgess Shale last year (only a few decades late) I got more out of the 'Chengjiang: Extraordinary Fossils from the Cambrian of China' exhibition than I might otherwise have done. I spent a while earlier this year trying to work out the palaeographical background of Sydney after an image-free book introduction left me intrigued but floundering and so was very pleased by the continental map showing exactly how and where what became Australia is thought to have joined up to what is now China, as well as the Southern hemisphere fragments which later formed bits of the UK.