Rain stopped play so off to the museum for the day

[silky fox]

Another weekend of Rain so i decided to go to the Natural History Museum and Three of the things(Of which there are many)that i found interesting were...A Fossilised Tree Stump formed millions of years ago the colouring is from its mineral content...Beautiful! Wasps are another thing we are familliar with and these three Wasps nests are from different countries,all created by wasps chewing up wood to form pulp and moulding these paper creations...and newer to the museum,s collection..Carl von hagen,s "Camel disection" ....A great place on a rainy day..Left the museum via the Lambourghini Showroom over the road but couldn,t decide on which colour

[silky fox]

One more for the grain junkies...amazing how the rings have been replaced with minerals...

[David Humphries]

Looks like a good day of interest was had.

 

Did the boffs have any idea of species for the stump .

 

 

 

 

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[silky fox]

it didn,t say only that it was VERY old...they also have a Giant Sequoia slice on the wall and a new instalation of an entire 200 year old Oak tree crosssection inlaid into a ceiling!

[David Humphries]

  silky fox said:

they also have a new instalation of an entire 200 year old Oak tree crosssection inlaid into a ceiling!

 

 

One of the members here was involved in the sectioning down of that oak.

 

Really interesting job

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/3449-tree-nhm.html

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/6498-tree-ceiling-natural-history-museum-installed.html

 

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[silky fox]

WOW!...that,s right up my street!....great link David:thumbup:

[Dan Curtis]

I paid a fleeting visit to the NHM a month or so ago, I'm gutted, I completely missed the ceiling piece. Oh well, I'll have to go back next time I'm that way