The Challenger expedition of 1872-1876 travelled nearly 70,000 nautical mile around the globe and is considered a key milestone in the beginnings of modern oceanography.… Read More »December 13 – The Challenger expedition
A St Andrews calendar on the theme of oceans wouldn’t be complete without mention of the Gatty Marine Lab. The original timber building was built… Read More »December 12 – Gatty Marine Laboratory
The papers of William Carmichael McIntosh document his professional career as Professor of Natural History at St Andrews and his work on marine biology. The… Read More »December 11 – McIntosh Albums
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor of Biology at University College, Dundee from 1884 and Professor of Natural History at St Andrews from 1917, served as Scientific… Read More »December 10 – Seals, Pribilof Islands
Unable to pick just one of these beautiful illustrations, today we have a series of images from manuscripts in the D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson papers. The… Read More »December 9 – Drawings of jellyfish and sea anemones
A Voyage round Great Britain is the work of writer Richard Ayton and artist William Daniell. The eight volume work documents their travels around the… Read More »December 8 – A voyage round Great Britain, 1815
This cute fella is from Salviani’s Aquatilium animalium historiae. Hippolito Salviani (1514-1572) published Aquatilium animalium historiae in Rome in 1554. Salviani’s work describes species of… Read More »December 7 – Aquatilium animalium historiae, 1554
The Rock and Spindle, a well-known rock formation at the eastern edge of the St Andrews bay and a feature of the local coastline, was… Read More »December 6 – Rock and Spindle, c.1860
The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833 and 1843 by Edinburgh based printers,… Read More »December 5 – The natural history of the amphibious carnivora, 1839
Margaret Scott Gatty, a children’s author and writer on marine biology, published British Sea Weeds in 1863. In the Libraries and Museums collections are some… Read More »December 4 – Margaret Scott Gatty, Seaweed, c.1850-1880
From the G. Allan Little Scottish Photographic Collection, an image of gulls on the Isle of May, c.1970 (ID: GAL-2-49-B). The Isle of May in… Read More »December 3- Isle of May
Georg Eberhard Rumphius, or Rumpf, was a German-born botanist born in 1627. He was employed by the Dutch East India Company and sent to the… Read More »December 2 – D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, 1705
