#hunterian

[scotianostra]

Alexander Bain was born on the outskirts of Wick in 1810. He invented the electric clock and designed an electromagnetic means of transmitting images. If you have ever been to Wick you will no doubt know the local Wetherspoons is named after him.

[slaughterhousescreams]

[thesilicontribesman]

Preserved Roman Sandals (Male, Female and Child), Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

[saveugoodmadam]

wait omg so you know how dr jekyll's house in the original novella is supposedly based off the house of john hunter?

I'm pretty sure the society for arcane sciences is based off the hunterian museum, named after the same man!!!

here's some art of the museum interior in 1842 for reference:

and a ss of the outside from google maps:

compared with these frames from tgs:

idk if it's been confirmed but if the hunterian inspired the society that's like god tier meta for location inspiration bc if so then the same guy inspired locations for the novella and the comic! :D

[miamaimania]

"The Boulders" (c.1925) by Charles Rennie MacKintosh

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This iconic silver coin was minted to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC.

The daggers represent those used to kill Caesar and the date of his assassination (‘EID MAR’) appears below.

The specimen is from the collection of The Hunterian.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Nelson Monument Struck by Lightning, John Knox, 1810s

[exquisitevision]

Hunterian Museum

[scotianostra]

The Antonine Wall: Rome's Final Frontier'

The entrance gallery in The Hunterian has an interesting exhibition on The Antonine Wall. Having stayed a stones throw from a section of the wall I really enjoyed visiting this, I have posted about sections of the wall, and Roman finds a number of times, the most recent being The Cramond Lioness in Te National Museum.

Built around AD 142 in the reign of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, the Antonine Wall ran coast-to-coast across Scotland from the Clyde to the Firth of Forth. This permanent gallery at the Hunterian Museum showcases the collection of spectacular monumental sculpture and other Roman artefacts recovered from the Wall, including richly sculptured distance slabs, unique to the frontiers of the Roman Empire.

'The Antonine Wall: Rome's Final Frontier' explores the biography of this important Roman monument and through The Hunterian's rich collections investigates four key themes: The building of the Wall, its architecture and impact on the landscape; the role of the Roman army on the frontier, the life and lifestyle of its soldiers; the cultural interaction between Roman and indigenous peoples, and evidence for local resistance; and the abandonment of the Wall and the story of its rediscovery over the last 350 years.

The display also reflects the story of over three centuries of collecting and research by the University of Glasgow on the World Heritage Site.

[i-am-countess-olivia]

The Hunterian Museum today for the first time in ten years. Nattered for ages with the older gentleman in the gift shop, discussing Irish giants and the famous member of that group who once occupied the museum’s gallery (no longer), against his wishes to be buried at sea. I ask: was he, in the end? No, he wasn’t. Is he still in the building somewhere? No, he isn’t.

Later, talked long about books and Virginia Woolf to a shopkeeper at the Gilded Acorn bookshop. She gives me pointers for other shops to try for books on polar exploration. Now off to cowork (read: write fic) before my play tonight.

[thesilicontribesman]

Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161)

ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TRP COS III The Emperor Antoninus Pius, Father of his Country with Tribunician Power, Consul for the third time.

Antoninus was adopted by the Emperor Hadrian. Despite a lack of experience in government, he proved to be an efficient and respected emperor. The extension of the frontier into Scotland gave Antoninus valuable military prestige and gained him an Imperial Acclamation, commemorated on a coin with the words IMPERATOR II.

Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

[kxowledge]

London, April 2024

[deadnaturalhistories]

15 May 2023 / We interrupt your usually-scheduled Oxford-themed program with a photo from the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England! I got to see the Museum today before it opens to the public as part of a very nice preview day for museum professionals and volunteers. It was amazing - since it was still closed, all of the glass was pristine and fingerprint-free, and all of the touch screen interactives were working perfectly.

Since my last post, I’ve taken notes on the E. Ray Lankester biography, read all of History by Numbers, and got to work organizing both a new research-only notebook and my plans for statistics stuff! I also worked on a couple of things for the current side project collaboration. And the thing I started for the university museum last week.

Tomorrow, I need to take notes on History by Numbers, get started reading and taking notes on Causal Inference: The Mixtape (since it’s available as a website, I’ll take notes as I go instead of tabbing things), and maybe finish up the thing for the museum. I also need to revise my Official Complaint - my sister very kindly gave me her opinion as a psychologist on some of it.

So far, I’m enjoying listening to The Left Hand of Darkness way better than I liked listening to Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

King James IV of Scotland (1473-1513) handled this very coin when he personally distributed it as part of a Royal Maundy ceremony in 1512.

This specimen, 1 of just 3 in existence, is from the Lord Stewartby Collection at The Hunterian.

[tragediambulante]

Miss Nelly O'Brien, Joshua Reynolds, 1768

[talesofstorms]