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We are mobilising the @NHM_London collections to help people and the planet thrive. See the #DigitalCollections on the Data Portal: https://t.co/apAKppKn7x
Natural History Museum, London
Joined September 2015
#OnThisDay in 1881 the Natural History Museum opened its doors to the public for the First time. 🌿 Head on over to @nhm_digitise on Instagram where you can find out more about the ceiling panels in Hintze and their counterparts in the collection:.
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We have recently digitised some of Daphne and Ethelwynn’s specimens from their 1932 collecting trip so that their work can be shared more widely. And Daphne now has her own Wikipedia page: #womeninSTEM 🪰.
en.wikipedia.org
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The answer is that Daphne got married! - until 1946, the Museum had a marriage bar for women. In 1935 Daphne married Mark Dineley and was obliged to resign from her role. Daphne even had to hand over work for her unfinished book on the fly family Calliphoridae to her successor.
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After a distinguished career, Ethelwynn is remembered as an accomplished zoologist, but Daphne is less prominent: until recently she was a Wikipedia "Woman in Red" – known to be a significant scientist but without her own page. What had happened to make Daphne less well-known?.
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This newspaper clipping from the Ethel K. Pearce collection @morethanadodo shows NHM scientists Daphne Aubertin (1902-1970) and Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900-1993) working with their discoveries from the Tatra Mountains at the Natural History Museum in 1932.
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Alfred Waterhouse #DiedOnThisDay in 1905 leaving behind a legacy buildings in London and Manchester 🌿. These original drawings from the planning stage of the museum are now stored in our archives ✨. Do you have a favourite architectural feature from the Waterhouse building?
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🩷On Wednesdays we wear pink, Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? This unusual pink hue is the result of a genetic condition called erythrism. This condition causes an overproduction of red pigment, leading to a pink or reddish appearance. #Digitisation #Grasshopper #Erythrism
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RT @NHM_London: Our South Kensington Museum, including our gardens, will be closed on 3 October 2025 as we are hosting a charity gala. 🦖….
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🐝 And would would we do without the humble honeybee? . You can support your local pollinators by planting native flowers and shrubs in your garden. Thank you for joining us, have a safe flight! ✈️
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🪲 A greater stag beetle? Says who?? . This species is rarely seen further north in the UK and tends to be found more in southern England.
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🦋 We caught some butterflies! They often flutter by! . This butterfly house has some beautiful species from our collections, which ones have you seen out and about during the big butterfly count?
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Here we are, the final week of our stamp rally in honour of @animalcrossing arriving at @london_aquarium 🥲 . To round it all off we left our personal favourite until last: insects 🎉
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Collected on this day in 1892 from Worcestershire, Epipactis palustris also known as the marsh helleborine, is a species of orchid native to Europe and Asia
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RT @NHM_Science: Did you know that our collection has been used to develop AI technologies that could one day enable border forces to ident….
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🐚 Whilst digitising mollusca, we found this specimen that was used to create the Malacological Society of London’s logo. Art imitates life!
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🌲 Our archives hold many documents and art, including illustrations that can be matched up with our collections. Here we have an illustration of pine next to a specimen digitised by curators.
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🦇 Alfred Waterhouse’s architectural designs reveal all kinds of hidden wonders across the museum. Here we have some bats, two designed by Alfred, the other digitised from the collections
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Welcome to week 3 of our stamp rally in honour of Animal Crossing: New Horizons arriving at Sealife London 🎉 . This week we’re exploring the wonderful world of art. We picked out some specimens we thought you would enjoy!
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Tag us in your story with a fish-themed specimen from your own collection or something you love from a museum, and we'll send you a certificate certifying your participation in the 2025 nhm_digitise stamp rally ✨. We'll see you next week for another round… 🖼️
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🪸 We couldn’t kelp ourselves, we had to include some of our favourite Brown Algae specimens from one of our current digitisation projects. Providing both food and habitat in the water, it’s easy to see(weed) why we gave it a place on our stamp rally!
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💡This anglerfish came as a two for one deal - the larger specimen is female, and the smaller one hanging on is a male. They were roommates? …jarmates?
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