Early Pictures At The British Natural History Museum

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

Came across this on the BBC Science news page (hope these URLs survive):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/magazine_life_through_a_lens0_natural_history_museum_1880_to_1950/html/7.stm

 In Pictures: Life through a lens: Natural History Museum 1880 to 1950

The 13 pictures are quite interesting, and two of them involve dinosaurs.

Picture 4:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/magazine_life_through_a_lens0_natural_history_museum_1880_to_1950/img/4.jpg
 
 Diplodocus, 1905

 Thirty-six crates containing the cast of Diplodocus arrived in London in
 February 1905.

 This photograph was taken just after the official presentation as
 Diplodocus was first displayed in the Reptile Gallery in the west wing,
 now part of the Hall of Human Biology.

(reptile gallery? hmmm)


Picture 7:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/magazine_life_through_a_lens0_natural_history_museum_1880_to_1950/img/7.jpg

 Dinosaur models, 1925

 By the mid 1920s, children visiting the Museum wanted to take home
 souvenir models of the dinosaurs on display.

 Miss Hilda Bather, daughter of Francis Arthur Bather, Keeper of Geology,
 offered this set of seven dinosaur models for sale.

 The models could be purchased for between 6s 6d (33p) and 1 10s (1.50)
 each.


Note one of those models is a rearing sauropod...