The Natural History Museum
Yesterday was Christine's first tutorial at Keble College (not Trinity as I had said before). Keble is across from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, so while Christine was discussing the Bronte's views of marriage, I was looking at dinosaurs.
The museum has the largest dinosaur collection outside of London and features several fossils that were found in Oxfordshire. A picture of the Tyrannosaurus Rex display in the main hall was featured in a dinosaur book I had as a child, so I got to see something I'd been looking at in a book for 20 years. Exciting stuff.
Several displays were about Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which many of you may know is one of my favorite books. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll) was a math lecturer at Christ Church College and a friend of the dean's daughter, Alice Liddell. Much of the story is based on sites in Oxford, including the Natural History Museum.
Upstairs the museum features several live insect displays, which are hideous, but of course I can't resist walking by to freak myself out.
In the evening, we studied at the Bodleian Library.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
The museum has the largest dinosaur collection outside of London and features several fossils that were found in Oxfordshire. A picture of the Tyrannosaurus Rex display in the main hall was featured in a dinosaur book I had as a child, so I got to see something I'd been looking at in a book for 20 years. Exciting stuff.
Several displays were about Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which many of you may know is one of my favorite books. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll) was a math lecturer at Christ Church College and a friend of the dean's daughter, Alice Liddell. Much of the story is based on sites in Oxford, including the Natural History Museum.
Upstairs the museum features several live insect displays, which are hideous, but of course I can't resist walking by to freak myself out.
In the evening, we studied at the Bodleian Library.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
posted by Unknown @ 1/20/2005 03:49:00 am
1 Comments:
At 3:06 pm,
Ryan said…
Hey Buddy, great to see that you guys are doing groovy and all that. mandy tells me to tell you both hello, but i don't feel like it. by the way, i'm about halfway through "Wicked" right now, and i really like it. in other news, we're well on our way to becoming happy homeowners. nothing's definite, but the process is well underway and it could be very soon that we start placing offers. exciting, exhilarating, expensive. your story of the first day you guys were there had me laughing really hard in the library, where i received several "you're naughty" looks for laughing outloud. i'll talk w/ you guys soon, keep the posts coming.
Ryan
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