Puffing Adder
Would you care for a Puffing Adder? – Puffing adder in hand, Crow Wing County, August 1939 (From the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)…
May 2014
Tuesday Tweet: Hanging in there…
Posts on Exploring have been short and sweet lately. That is because like this Black-billed Cuckoo, Exploring project staff are hanging in there. We are clamoring down and racing to the finish. Another collection was added to the UMedia Archives…
Monday Mystery: Lightning
It is raining with lightning and thunder in Minneapolis today. Taking my cue from the weather, I’ll share another mysterious “M” numbered negative from the Bell Museum of Natural History records: – Stub of Pine tree splintered by lightning, Itasca…
Minnesota Museums Month
May is Minnesota Museums Month! Have you visited a museum yet? Why not make a visit to the Bell Museum of Natural History? Marie Godfrey visited the museum in 1921 (when it was known as the Zoological Museum and housed…
Wild Animal Wednesday: Croakers
– Common toad croaking, 1937, Minneapolis – Swamp tree frog croaking, 1937, New Brighton – Swamp tree frog croaking, 1937, New Brighton (From the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records)…
Mounted Monday: Roosevelt Ostrich
– Roosevelt Ostrich in the National Museum, Washington D.C., undated. The Smithsonian Institution Archives has a record of a glass plate negative taken of the ostrich family collected by Theodore Roosevelt on his African expedition circa 1910. However, on…
Tuesday Tweet: Celebrating 99 years
On page xv in Annals of the Museum of Natural History 1872-1839, Thomas Sadler Roberts, museum director and author of the publication, printed the following entry in the Log of the Museum for the year 1915: May 6 – Thomas…
Monday Mystery: The Stillwell baby – solved!
It is time once again to share images from the “M” numbered, or “Mystery,” negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records. This installment is about three images from the negatives in drawers 51-56 of the 6,918 glass plate…
Friday Flora: Viola pedata
We’re not sharing any images on the UThink Exploring blog for the Friday Flora this week, and it’s for a good reason. We are excited to report that the 2, 273 mounted print photographs of botanical specimens and regional landscapes…
You are invited!
Join us on Friday, May 2, at 12:00p.m., when the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History project staff present the program for the University Libraries’ “First Fridays” series at Andersen Library. Arcana of Nature: Natural Desire at the University of Minnesota…