Natural History

Another visit to the sibling museums, the Natural History and Pitt River Museums. Worth narrowing your visit down and concentrating on something specific. This time, in the Natural History, it was birds. 

Reference to Australia in the olden days never fails to shock.

There are a number of living creatures, including bees and these large cockroaches.

Over in the Pitt Rivers we started with the shrunken heads.

I was reminded of an old Arthur Lyman record cover:

The hair on this one is rather distressing.

 Leaving and back through the Natural History Museum, there is an exhibition about the Wytham Woods, part of the University, where Robert Macfarlane has written a book relating to the Geoffrey Household (great name, sadly not yet a household one) novel Rogue Male, which I've been interested to read.