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The “Lady Adventurer”

17 April 2014 adharris Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Grace Thompson Seton was many things, a feminist, a suffragette, a poet, a mother, a designer, a crack shot, and most relevant to this post a travel writer.  She was married to Ernest Thompson Seton who Read More

Whodunit and howdunit?

3 April 2014 adharris Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Alexandre Lacassagne was a French physician and criminologist in the 19th-century.  He founded the Lacassagne School of Criminology which was based in Lyon, France and focused on medical jurisprudence and criminal anthropology.  He quite famously gave Read More

Superb specimens

20 March 2014 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Herbarium for pharmaceutical students was produced by Alban Edward Lomax, a 19th-century pharmacist that hailed from Liverpool, England.  An herbarium is essentially a collection of preserved plant specimens typically arranged by a specific nomenclature and classification.  Read More

Fuzz against Junk

6 March 2014 adharris Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Most likely we have all heard the slang of the word “fuzz” to describe a police officer.  There appears to be little reliable information to back up the supposition that people indeed used the word during Read More

Not suitable for snuggling

11 February 2014 adharris Uncategorized

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. These oddities, from fancy drawn, May surely raise the question, Will DARWIN say- by Chance they’re formed, Or ‘Natural Selection?’ Edward William Cooke originally published Grotesque Animals : invented, drawn, and described in 1872, this version Read More

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