Most people who know me well know that I have great enthusiasm for Henry David Thoreau. When I started here at the Bruce Museum I was quite excited to find out that we had a few items in the collection related to Thoreau. One such item is a letter penned by Thoreau to Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lidian.
Read MoreA 52 million year old fish fossil, a large predatory fish, Phareodus encaustis from the Green River Formation, was excavated in a Wyoming quarry and brought back to the Field Museum for fossil preparation in 2015. This fossil would eventually end up as a centerpiece of the Bruce Museum's Secrets of Fossil Lake exhibition, but first it needed to be prepared!
Read MoreOne of the highlights of my time thus far at the Bruce Museum has been caring for a specimen collected by our first curator, Paul Griswold Howes. The specimen is a mud wasp (Trigonopsis howesii) nest from Guyana.
Read MoreOne of the missions of any natural history museum is to catalog its collections. Each specimen needs to be properly identified so it can be recorded and thus available to researchers in search of that particular species, or mineral, or trace fossil, etc. This is a continuing task. As new knowledge emerges, identifications may change.
Read MoreStories about animals and artifacts by scientists at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT
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