Search Results for "Musaeum Regalis Societatis"

Dead as a dodo

history of science
Jon Bushell
12 November 2024
6 mins

What became of the 'leg of the dodo' mentioned in the Royal Society's seventeenth-century museum catalogue? Jon Bushell investigates.

Object lessons

history of science
Ellen Embleton
25 May 2020
4 mins

Discover the fascinating stories behind some of the Royal Society's museum objects, recently returned to us after more than 80 years on loan to the Science Museum.

Unwrapping Norfolk's mummy

history of science
Jon Bushell
17 March 2020
6 mins

Read more about the story of a mummy that was once part of the Royal Society’s museum.

Back catalogues

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
28 January 2020
5 mins

Read more about the launch of two Turning the Pages digital reconstructions of catalogues of the specimens and instruments kept in the Royal Society Repository.

Karma chameleons

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
22 April 2019
7 mins

Did an Egyptian chameleon, painted by Richard Waller and supposedly owned by Robert Boyle, ever find its way into the Repository of the Royal Society? Louisiane Ferlier looks at the tangled evidence in the archives.