London
Tuesday 18/10/2011
The weather is bitterly cold but not raining yet. My second day at the Natural History Museum Botany archive. I went through two more boxes of Ferdinand Bauer's botanical paintings and they are are spectacular. I am photographing anything that has the location "Queensland" although some are from the Gulf of Carpentaria. A surprising amount of "tropical" plants were sampled and a lot from Queensland and NT. I have about 30 photos so far but tomorrow I will concentrate on getting photocopies of the relevant pages of the NHM catalogue and notes for the collection.
I got Internet access at the NHM (after a great deal of stuffing around) and downloaded a couple of files to the JCU Postgrad site for backup. I will do that again today for my diary (minus photos to save space). I can only send single files not folders, which is time-consuming!
No comments:
Post a Comment