Bwanji!

In May and June of 2007, 13 undergraduate students from Northern Michigan University are taking a field course in Zambia. Most of the students are majors in the Biology department, and all of them will be doing short field studies of their own design while on the ground in Zambia. The group will be making a stop in London on the way, spending four days seeing Zambia/Africa-related British sites (Burton's tomb, Livingstone's artefacts at the Royal Geographic Society, the British Museum of Natural History, etc.) and adjusting to the time change. The course is being led by me, Dr. Alec Lindsay, a professor in the Department of Biology at NMU, and Dr. Jackie Bird - a parasitologist in our department. We have made this blog so students can hopefully post notes thoughts, pictures and discoveries to the world. This should allow classmates, teachers, family and friends to share in their insights and keep track of their travels. Not only that, but viewers of the blog can add comments to posts - please do! We would love to hear your thoughts. Zikomo!

29 March 2007

British Museum


I was just checking into getting us a tour of the British Museum of Natural History. It turns out they have behind the scenes tours, but you cannot preregister. The maximum group size is seven (7) so we might have to split into two or three groups. However, you will get to see specimens that Darwin collected on the Beagle trip! No kidding. Check it out here. Only bummer is that it appears the mammal room will be closed during our visit for cleaning. Who cares? Mammals, schmamals.
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3 comments:

Julian Rowe Dupuis said...

This looks like a must see!

29 March, 2007 19:28
Annie B. said...

Hey! Mammals Rock!

29 March, 2007 21:51
Anonymous said...

I just hope we have the whole day here! I'll never see it all

24 April, 2007 15:39

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