Swedish Museum of Natural History
August 1, 2005 8:48 PM Subscribe
Some preserved animals. The Museum Adolphi Friderici has a catalogue in progress of the King Adolf Fredrik and Queen Lovisa collections. The collections apparently formed the basis for Carl Linnaeus's knowledge of animals.
Some may find these images macabre or repulsive.
Yep. But also facinating. I wonder how many extinct creatures there are in the collection? We modern people forget, sometimes, I think, of the difficulties faced by those 18th and 19th century men and women who wished to study these sorts of things in the age before refrigeration.
posted by anastasiav at 5:09 AM on August 2, 2005
Yep. But also facinating. I wonder how many extinct creatures there are in the collection? We modern people forget, sometimes, I think, of the difficulties faced by those 18th and 19th century men and women who wished to study these sorts of things in the age before refrigeration.
posted by anastasiav at 5:09 AM on August 2, 2005
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