After my visit to The National History Museum, I went to The Grant Museum of Zoology. This was a good opportunity to get close up to thousands of animal specimens. It is the last remaining university zoology museum in London and covers the whole animal kingdom.
Robert Grant (1793-1874) established the museum in 1828 as a resource for students taking him zoology and comparative anatomy lectures. Grant taught about the origins of life and relations between animals, using ideas of evolution long before Darwin's (1859) origins of species. The museum is packed full of skeletons, mounted animals and specimens preserved in fluid.
I found this visit every interesting, being able to see specimens up close like this was very interesting and nothing like I have ever seen before. Although the museum was very small, it was full of information and specimens to observe.
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| Monkey Skeleton |
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| Embryos- Microscopic |
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| Section of various Embryo's |
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