So much has happened in just one week! The highlight had to be Friday, when Jon Clatworthy the Director of the Lapworth took me on a tour of the store rooms. What a treasure trove of thousands of specimens hidden away safely tucked into, drawers, cabinets, boxes….I could and did get lost in this labyrinth.
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been looking at corals and they had some beautiful specimens which I was allowed to handle. I took plenty of photographs and spent the afternoon sketching them; I always feel drawing allows you to study things more acutely than observation alone.
I’m going back next time I’ll be taken to the bio store, obviously my idea of heaven! There I’ll be able to see lots of pickled specimens in jars, I think I’ll focus on snakes. After that, who knows maybe primates as I’m still keen to include a squirrel monkey and something Jon said has got me thinking about the connection between wood lice and trace fossils.
