A shell collection featuring specimens gathered during Captain Cook's ill-fated third and final voyage has come to light after being rescued from a skip 40 years ago. The enormous collection was ...
AN extraordinary collection of sea shells from around the world, gathered together by an 18th century Cumbrian woman who never left the country, is to go on public display for the first time in more ...
An 18th century shell collection from Captain James Cook’s third voyage, thought lost for more than 40 years, has been returned to English Heritage after being saved from a skip in “nothing short of a ...
The collection, containing more than 200 specimens including an extinct species, is to go on public display for the first time in more than 100 years. Shells from Captain Cook’s third voyage, which ...
In the 1980s, a trove of rare shells—some of which had been collected on a famed 18th-century voyager’s doomed final expedition—was tossed in a dumpster at Newcastle University in England during an ...
Beautiful shells collected during an ill-fated Captain Cook voyage are to go on display in Northumberland where visitors can view them for the first time in 100 years and learn of their remarkable ...
An 18th-century shell collection from Captain James Cook’s third voyage thought lost for more than 40 years, has been returned to English Heritage after being saved from a skip in “nothing short of a ...
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