It was one o'clock in the afternoon when the female naturalist arrived at the Lingao Natural History Museum. Although the museum had been completed, the internal decoration and exhibition work was progressing very slowly. There were many exhibition professionals in the Senate, but under such simple conditions
It is not easy for anyone to set up the exhibition - besides, the Senate is currently in a quasi-war state, and many senators are either busy with their own jobs or on business trips. A system project has been delayed and delayed until now, and it is still a semi-finished product.
The implementation is still far away, so we can only make do with simple things and organize some simple science popularization activities.
Because the museum has not officially opened yet, the main entrance is closed. Sonia entered through the side entrance exclusively for staff. She walked through an internal corridor and came to the atrium.
The atrium is the center of the entire natural history museum, a full-height open space with a transparent dome inlaid with glass on top. The dome was originally prepared for the skeleton of a mosasaurus or plesiosaur. The current plan is for a gray whale
The skeleton plus several shark skeletons are suspended in mid-air in a dynamic posture, and the visual impact is shocking enough.
However, the skeleton of the gray whale is still in Japan at the moment. The veteran in charge of the exhibition only hung a few ropes and markers of different lengths from the dome to determine the position of the gray whale skeleton. In order to speculate on the general effect and the relationship between the surrounding decorations
relationship between.
In the center of the atrium is a granite stone platform. The long-term plan here is to place a large carnivorous dinosaur skeleton - such as Tyrannosaurus Rex or Tyrannosaurus Rex. The current plan is to place an elephant skeleton - if mammoths can be obtained from Siberia
Of course, the skeleton of an elephant is better, but if not, the skeleton of an Asian elephant is still easy to get.
Every time Sonia walked to the atrium, she would be impressed by the bold and imaginative designs of the senators. Museum collections and exhibitions were not the first creation of the Senate. Since the Renaissance, there has been a craze for museum collections in Europe. Various Italian states
The tyrants were the best among them. Soon, kings and emperors also caught up with this fashion with the great geographical discoveries. Specimens of exotic plants and animals were very popular, and those strangely deformed fetuses and human specimens were the most popular.
They won their favor. One of the gains of Peter the Great of Russia from his study tour in Western Europe was that he brought back a large collection of natural history. Of course, in the opinion of the senators, his collections were mostly for curiosity, and their scientific content was really limited.
When Sonia was in Portugal, she visited many small-scale museum collections. In terms of the number and types of collections, the Senate's collection was not particularly rich, but in terms of breadth and depth, it was obviously better than just the collections.
Collections for the purpose of "curiosity" are much stronger. What's more, most natural history collections are just simple displays, which may seem tedious if you look at them too much.
This is what science should be like. Sonia thought about walking all the way through the atrium. She was very disgusted with the curiosity-seeking mentality of the dignitaries. However, "curious" collections were the most favored by them, and thus received a lot of sponsorship.
For this reason, many people do not hesitate to make lies. She has personally seen "water monkeys" brought from afar and soaked in high-concentration brandy: although she can tell at a glance that they are made from monkeys and some unknown amphibians.
Made of spliced webbed palms, she still kept silent against her will, because she herself sometimes had to forge "discoveries" to obtain sponsorship.
The atrium, corridors, exhibition halls...everywhere is filled with building materials for decoration and packaging boxes of different sizes. The boxes all have "Handle with Care" written on them. Some exhibits are wrapped in oilcloth and reed mats.
, can’t see the specific appearance.
The naturalized workers and students along the way greeted her one after another. Sonia was a very conspicuous presence in the museum, not to mention her eye-catching exotic appearance, just her title: "Level 3 Researcher"
It was enough to make the naturalized workers stand in awe: This ghost girl is already a third-level researcher at such a young age!
"Hello." She smiled and greeted people all the way, walked through the exhibition hall, climbed two floors of marble stairs, and arrived at the third floor. Most of the area on the third floor is a closed research area. Sonia, as a "third-level
Researcher", who occupies an office here.
As the only naturalist among the naturalized people, it was natural for Sonia to receive this treatment. Unlike what she imagined, the senators valued her not just because of her beauty and body, but more because of Sonia's respect for the senators.
The hospital is actually very useful - she is a naturalist.
There is no longer an independent discipline of "natural history" in the modern scientific system. In the old time and space of the century when the patriarchs came from, no matter it was China, the United States, Venezuela or Equatorial Guinea, it was not taught in any university or research institution.
Natural history. It can even be said that this subject did not exist at the time of the grandfathers of the senators.
Natural history in modern history is roughly equivalent to the collection of zoology, entomology, botany, paleontology, mineralogy, meteorology, astronomy, geography, anthropology, ecology, etc. in modern history. Naturalists are not only one
He has the ability to combine botanists, zoologists, geologists, mineralogists, etc., and has rich field investigation capabilities and experience. Almost every naturalist is an explorer. The most well-known to the world
Naturalist, the famous Sir Charles Robert Darwin.
The 19th century was the golden age of natural history. Naturalists were active in every corner of the earth, exploring the secrets of nature. However, with the advancement and development of science, this discipline gradually disappeared. By the century, animals and plants,
The classification of minerals has been completed hundreds of years ago. Natural history has been broken down into many more detailed subjects. Schools cannot cultivate it, and society does not need it, so the elders do not have this ability at all.
But the Senate, like the great powers in the 19th century, desperately needs people to do these things. The information in the Great Library contains maps and rough distributions of various animals, plants and minerals, but the information cannot be so detailed that it can be found anywhere.
In which corner of the mountain can we find something urgently needed by the Senate? This kind of thing can still only be done by sending people to conduct field inspections and records. This work is not too complicated, but if only a few veterans of the remote exploration team can do it, fifty
It is impossible to complete the world's inspection work in a hundred years. Therefore, it is reasonable to let Sonia receive modern academic training, then let her accumulate relevant inspection experience, and then train batches of naturalized citizen inspection team members.
method.
Soon after Sonia arrived at Lin Hanlong's side, she was arranged to "study" - all foreign female slaves were required to go, but Sonia's learning content was more complicated. In addition to Chinese, she also had to study under the elders in a systematic way.
Studying various modern branches under "Natural History". Sonia swam in the ocean of knowledge and studied eagerly. Even when she was pregnant and about to give birth, she was still reading large books at home.
Sonia was completely unaware of this. She felt a little "flattered" by the treatment she enjoyed, thinking that the master had exerted his influence. After all, in this era, knowledge is still an out-and-out "wealth".
One will not easily teach it to others. Books recording this knowledge are also very rare.
The third floor of the Museum of Natural History is very quiet. There is no suspended ceiling here. When you look up, you can see the exposed trusses and structural panels of the roof. Rows of vaulted glass windows let in a lot of light, making the entire space extremely bright.
When you walk in, you feel energetic.
She took out her key and opened the office door with the name "Researcher III" and her name on it. Sonia liked this kind of "treatment". This fully demonstrated that she was a "status and respected" person - she was very
Pay attention to this.
Her office is more than thirty square meters - larger than the offices of many elders. Such a large office is naturally not used to place a desk. It is also Sonia's studio. In the center of the room is a
Standing on a large work table, a microscope handmade by Lin Hanlong specially for her. Against the wall are many storage racks used to store various specimens and information. Most of the storage racks are still empty now.
, a set of "Encyclopedia of the Song Dynasty 1635 Edition" approved by the Office of Truth, printed by the Great Library Printing House, and bound in calfskin by European craftsmen, stands on the shelf, very conspicuous.
There are three desks in the room, one of which belongs to her, and the other two belong to the "graduate students" of the Remote Exploration Department who helped her. Of course, in the education system of the Senate, not to mention graduate students, there is not even a single undergraduate. In fact,
He was an employee who was assigned to work in the remote exploration department after graduating from high school. Now he is assigned to study with Sonia as an apprentice.
The two "apprentices", a man and a woman, are not in the office at the moment - they have gone to clean the specimens.
There are a large number of specimens and exhibits collected from all over the world. The departments that handed over the specimens include not only the natural herbarium of Yerba Buena Academy, but also the herbarium of the Remote Exploration Department and the herbarium of Lingao General Hospital - some early human specimens.
The specimens were also transferred to the museum according to Doctor Shi's order - there was almost no room in the warehouse of the Teaching Department.
These specimens, which were filled to the brim in their respective herbariums, were only a drop in the bucket when they were transferred to the 2,000-square-meter exhibition hall. Although the number was small, when sorting out the transferred specimens, it was found that many early specimens were due to lax production procedures or
Quality issues with the chemicals used, coupled with relatively poor storage conditions, led to problems such as corruption, insect infestation, shrinkage, and fragmentation. Especially early insect and animal specimens were particularly damaged.
The current job of the entire staff of the Natural History Museum is to "organize specimens". Organize, evaluate, classify, and register specimens gathered from various places.