30th April 2008
On our first day in London we visited the Natural History Museum. The building itself is magnificent in its level of architectural ornamentation. Everywhere you look the animals and plants, ancient and modern, carved into the stone. Inside are treasures of the natural world. I have never seen so many fossils gathered under one roof. The mineral specimens in its Treasury are unbelievably beautiful. Amongst the specimens are collections of rings, including one which dispays 50 or so stones from the one mine in Burma, with a huge range of colours. Mind boggling. The picture is of a cast of volcanic ash which bears the footprints of a family of Australopithicines (related to the ancient ancestors of homo sapiens) who crossed it when it was still wet, some 3.8 million years ago.
Regards
Kevin pictures (top) volcanic ash footprints (bottom) natural history museum
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On our first day in London we visited the Natural History Museum. The building itself is magnificent in its level of architectural ornamentation. Everywhere you look the animals and plants, ancient and modern, carved into the stone. Inside are treasures of the natural world. I have never seen so many fossils gathered under one roof. The mineral specimens in its Treasury are unbelievably beautiful. Amongst the specimens are collections of rings, including one which dispays 50 or so stones from the one mine in Burma, with a huge range of colours. Mind boggling. The picture is of a cast of volcanic ash which bears the footprints of a family of Australopithicines (related to the ancient ancestors of homo sapiens) who crossed it when it was still wet, some 3.8 million years ago.
Regards
Kevin pictures (top) volcanic ash footprints (bottom) natural history museum
http://www.mfwbeadedjewellery.com
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