The Victorian Kindle: Schloss’s Bijou Almanac
In the mid nineteenth-century no handbag was complete without a Schloss Bijou Almanac. Anticipating the portability of kindles and tablets,…
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Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab
Welcome poverty!..Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary! Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! –…
The Little King of Serpents: A Basilisk in the Archives
I stumbled upon these plates from a gorgeous book entitled An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents (1742) and had to share…
Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #3
Article detailing how museums are working to digitize their estimated 3 billion natural history specimens! See also The Peabody Museum’s immense…