Friday Fungi: Buellia
For the Friday feature this week, why don’t we focus on a specific genus of fungi? It’s Friday the 13th, a day of superstition and fear of weird occurrences. The best that I can do in that department is to…
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The General Museum
In addition to mandating an exhaustive study of the geological, botanical, and zoological phenomena of the state, the March 1, 1872 law that created the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey under the authority of the Board of Regents of…
Tuesday Tweet: Cormorants
– Young Cormorants in nest, Lake of the Woods, July 1915…
Friday Flora: Cypripedium Study
– White Cypripedium section – White Cypripedium, Cypripedium candidum (Small White Lady’s-slipper) – Yellow Cypripedium…
Bieber… I mean beaver.
Ever since I came across the newspaper clippings and annual reports that made reference to two live beavers that occupied a small pool outside of the Animal Biology building on the University of Minnesota campus from 1917-1924, I have been…
Something to fawn over…
Encountering images of cute animals is an endless occupational task in implementing the Exploring project. Here is an image of a baby deer, a fawn, drinking milk from a bottle at Itasca State Park in 1917. Judging by the…
Tuesday Tweet: The Tern takes a turn…
In June of 1917, Thomas Sadler Roberts had a close encounter with a Black Tern. The Tern, who was resting upon a nest of eggs, became the subject of a series of photographs taken by Roberts. These photographs, of which…
Friday Flora: Something sketchy…
If you have been a regular follower of the Exploring blog, you likely have noticed the black and white color scheme apparent throughout the posts, indicative of the archival materials and the time period we are dealing with. Though the…
H.J. Jager’s flock
Though I have yet to make it to the Minnesota State Fair this year, of course, it is the lead story on every local news broadcast and newspaper headline, so I am well aware of the proceedings thus far (low…
Minnesota Seaside Station: Part II
Yesterday, I shared photographs of the Minnesota Seaside Station from the collection of the Department of Botany. But I didn’t share them all… The Minnesota Seaside Station, located near Port Renfrew off of the coast of British Columbia in the…