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Curator of Micropalaeontology's blog

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Giles Miller
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Last year our 100-year-old microfossil Christmas cards were featured in The Independent newspaper and on the Science Focus website. On 30 December I am presenting a Nature Live on the microfossil Christmas cards at 12.30 and 14.30 so if you are in the area, please do pop in and say hello.

 

If you don't live near London then follow us on @NHM_Micropalaeo as we are tweeting an image of one of our beautiful Christmas microfossil slides each day of December until Christmas.

 

This year, the Museum has decided to follow a microfossil theme with its own e-Christmas card featuring the Blaschka radiolarian that is currently on display in the Treasures Gallery. To read more see my post about putting radiolarians on display.

 

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The Museum 2013 e-Christmas card

 

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The Blaschka radiolarian model of Hexacontium asteracanthion currently featured in the Treasures Gallery, otherwise affectionately known as 'the red one', is magnified about 500 times. A CT-scan image of this has also appeared on the cover of the NHM Science Review 2011-2012.

 

Finally I would like to thank all my readers for their support over the past year and wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy new year!

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Giles Miller

Giles Miller

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This is Giles Miller's Curator of Micropalaeontology blog. I make the Museum micropalaeontology collections available to visitors from all over the world, publish articles on the collections, give public talks and occasionally make collections myself.

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