FORTHCOMING FRIENDS’ EVENTS February 2014 Unless otherwise stated, events will be held in the Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge, usually opened at 6.15pm for tea etc., with the talk starting promptly at 7.00pm (please try not to be late because the door has to be locked!). Cars may be parked on the Site near the Department during these events. The Site can be entered from Tennis Court Road using the “Visitors” barrier gate, and left by pressing the exit button by the barrier at the Downing College end of the Site.

* Experimental Geology Lab Session (“Hands-on Geology”) Tuesday 4thFebruary 2014, 6.15 for 7.00pm Venue: Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences. Another of Dr. Mike Tukes’ remarkable and popular lab classes, this time on the dating of geological events. Lab space is limited, so please book at least a week ahead, by telephoning Mike on 01480- 457068. Also note his new website, described later in this Trilobite, and also note that he is giving a Course in Madingley Hall.

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ

Opening hours: Monday – Friday 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 5 pm Saturday 10 am – 4 pm Telephone: (01223) 333456 Fax: (01223) 333450 Email: sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Website: www.sedgwickmuseum.org Friends of the Sedgwick Museum Web: www.friendsofsedgwickmuseum.com

Registered Charity (No. 1091393)

Editor: Peter Friend Sub Editor: Alison O'Reilly

Dr Mike Tuke

Please note that events with a star * need to be pre-booked. Please use the standard booking form which is separate to this Newsletter and is also on our website

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FORTHCOMING FRIENDS’ EVENTS February – April 2014

Talk on “Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry” Tuesday 18th February 2014, 6.15 for 7.00 pm Venue: Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences. Joanna Kerr and India Weidle, are both second-year graduate students in the Department of Earth Sciences.

Talk on “What are Ophiolites? Bits of ocean-floor – but not from the oceans we thought they were” Tuesday 4th March 2014, 6.15 pm for 7.00 pm. Venue: Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences. Dr Alan Smith (University of Cambridge) * Sedgwick Anniversary Dinner, Downing College, Cambridge Thursday 20th March, 2014, 7.00 for 7.30 pm In recent years, very successful Sedgwick Anniversary celebration Dinners have been held in the beautiful medieval halls of Christ’s and Queens’ Colleges. However we believe that our members are keen to see something of the insides of different Cambridge Colleges, so we are happy, this year, to accept the kind invitation of our Museum Director, Dr Ken McNamara, to dine in Downing College. Last year we offered a three-course menu for £38(soft drinks) and £45(with wines), and we are pleased to say that the costs this year will be less than this. Dr David Norman, former Sedgwick Museum Director) has agreed to be our speaker. Our Registrar for this event is: Marjorie Veale, 176 Green Drift, Royston, Herts, SGB 5BL Please register by post with her as soon as possible, and not later than 10th March. Please send her, at the same time, your cheque made out to the “Friends of the Sedgwick Museum” (£45/head, with wines) and (£36/head, with soft drinks), and using the standard booking form. Please indicate particular dietary requirements and parking needs on the form. You will be sent ticket(s), parking information etc. We will not be able to accept cancellations after 10th March.

* Week-long Visit to Almeria, South-eastern Spain Tuesday 1st April – Tuesday 8th April Paul Rutter and Peter Friend have completed initial bookings for 28 Friends to fly to and from Murcia in south-eastern Spain. Overall leadership will be by Peter Friend we will be based at the Holiday Property Bond, recently completed, holiday village at Alfaix, inland from Mojacar. This will make an ideal centre for the exploration of an area of fascinating cultural and geological history. A spectacular landscape of mountain Sierras and coasts has been formed by earth-movements and climate changes generated by dramatic episodes in the history of the western Mediterranean as Western Europe and Africa came together. The deadline for booking has now passed. Final payments are now required by the end of January. Any queries should be addressed to Paul (prutter@hpb.co.uk) Committee Meeting Tuesday 22nd April 2014, 6 pm Department of Earth Sciences

Dr Alan Smith

Joanna Kerr India Weidle

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FRIENDS’ FORTHCOMING EVENTS May – September 2014

* Intriguing Building Stones of Central Cambridge Sunday afternoon walk on 18th May 2014 starting at 2 pm from the Sedgwick Museum Outside Steps. Total maximum walking distance of about 2.5 km, but many short cuts, and stopping places are available, provided you inform your leader before you leave the main party. Members may park cars in the Downing Site for the walk (car access by pressing the button on the “Visitors” barrier next Tennis Court Road, opposite the rear gate of Pembroke College. After the walk, cars must leave the Downing Site, using the barrier at the Downing College end of the site, where the4 barrier will rise simply on pressing the button). Depending on the numbers of people, one or two alternative routes will be taken around the streets of central Cambridge, in each case using copies of the “Cambridge Geology Trail” that can be purchased on the spot, as guides or in the Museum shop during Museum opening hours. Guidance will be provided by Drs Nigel Woodcock and Peter Friend, and diversions from the main route in the guide will depend on latest discoveries by the leaders. Please register that you are planning to join one of the groups with Peter Franklin (peter@franklin08.orangehome.co.uk or, by post; to “Friends, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3 EQ, by 10th May at the latest. The Geology Trail booklet costs £3.50 per copy.

* Midsummer Evening Visit to the Cambridge North-West Cambridge Development Site to explore the early history of the Cam River Valley Tuesday 17th June 2014, 6 pm There are two possible car parks for this Midsummer gathering: A) near the Brighton Building, Madingley Rise (Bullard Laboratories) off the Madingley Road, B) in the “Travellers Rest” Pub car-park off the Huntingdon Road. From either car park, make your way on foot to the Brighton Building, where tea/coffee will be available. Brief talks will then be given i) on Museum archive evidence on the 19th Century collections made by Sedgwick, McKenny-Hughes, Marr and other scientists from the Pleistocene gravels of the Travellers Rest and other Pits, ii)) to the recent archaeological work carried out on the NW Cambridge Development Site, iii) to recent interpretations of the geomorphological evolution of the area (Dr Steve Boreham). This will be followed by a brief visit to the Travellers Rest Pit led by Dr Steve Boreham, and then followed further by supper in the Travellers Rest Pub for those that want it. Please register with Peter Cox (peter@moonpython.com or by post to “Friends, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3EQ) by 1 May at the latest. You will be sent a map and given details so that you can book to eat at the Travellers Rest pub for supper. Friends Review Evening and Annual General Meeting Tuesday 24th June 2014, 6-7.30 pm. Local friends, please try to attend this meeting, when we review our activities and our plans, and elect our new Committee.

* Visit to the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales Friday, 19th – Sunday 21st September. Dr Steve Howe (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff) has kindly agreed to lead this weekend visit for us, and we are still working out our detailed locality plan and considering accommodation arrangements. We shall plan to start registration on 1 June (Registrar, Margaret Sanderson on margaretsanderson@hotmail.com The exposures of the Glamorgan coast from Ogmore-by-sea to Lavernock are remarkably continuous and accessible, providing beautiful examples of only lightly deformed Carboniferous to Triassic sediments and fossils. Details of the Friday evening initial meeting, possibilities for accommodation and details of the group Dinner on the Saturday will be circulated to those who register.

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FRIENDS’ FORTHCOMING EVENTS October– December 2014

Talk on “Why do we eat what we eat? tracing our plant foods back to their roots” Tuesday, 28th October, 6.15 for 7.00 pm Venue: Harker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences. Professor Martin Jones (Cambridge Department of Archaeological Research). Talk on “River patterns at the Permian-Triassic boundary, recent detective work in Siberia and Australia” Tuesday 11th November, 6.15 – 7.00 pm Venue: Harker 1 Dept of Earth Sciences. Dr Neil Davies (Cambridge Earth Sciences)

* Friends Christmas Party with student talks Tuesday 2nd December, 6-8 pm Varied buffet supper with a background of lively student talks and a raffle (please bring contributions). Please register ahead (Registrar Carol Franklin on s_carol_f@yahoo.co.uk by 17th November by sending a cheque (for £7) to help us estimate Numbers and buy the refreshments etc., Otherwise arrive at the door with a cheque for £9.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE GEOLOGY CLUB FORTHCOMING EVENTS The Club meets at the Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB. Lectures start at 7.30 pm and doors open at 7.00 pm. Visitors and Members are welcome.

Monday 10th February 2014: Dr. Niko Kampman, Department of Earth Sciences, Universtiy of Cambridge “Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage: insights from natural CO2 reservoirs” Monday 10th March 2014: Kerrie Taylor-Jones, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Provisional title- “Subduction metamorphim”, with a display of rock materials. Monday 14th April 2014: Dr Judith Bunbury, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge “Geoarchaeology in Egypt and Sudan” Monday, 12th May 2014: Dr. Alex Liu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge “Edicaran biota and the evolution of animal life” Monday 9th June 2014: Oliver Shorttle – Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge “Glacial pumping of volcanism: a look at how the Earth’s climate affects processes in the deep mantle” Monday 8th September 2014: Dr Sambuddha Misra, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Provisional Title, “Chemical Evolution of Cenozoic sea-water” Saturday 13th September 2014: One-day seminar at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Title to be announced. Monday, 13th October 2014: Dr. Liz Harper, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Provisional Title, “Evolutionary processes in bivalves and brachiopods” Monday 10th November 2014 & Monday 8th December 2014 Titles to be announced

Club Programme Secretary: Franziska Norman, Tel 01223-479236 Mobile 0796 3039198

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Mrs Hughes Goes West …

Lyall I. Anderson & Sandra J. Marsh

The Archive of the Sedgwick Museum has recently divulged another treasure! This partial travelogue was written by the wife of Prof. Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832 – 1917) during autumn 1891. Mary Caroline (known as Clara) Hughes (1863 – 1916) and her husband attended the 5th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Washington D.C, USA. After the meeting, a group of 81 gentlemen and 9 ladies travelled by specially commissioned train to various places of geological interest in the Western United States. The 23 hand written sheets provide an account alongside that of Alfred Harker who accompanied the Hughes on the journey. Harker’s relevant notebooks in the Archive are HRKR 2/1/18, HRKR 2/1/19 and HRKR 2/5/2. We combine excerpts from Clara’s notes with Harker’s sketches. The party of international geologists set off promptly on the morning of Wednesday 2 September. Their train was equipped with sleeping cars, a luggage car, a dining car and a composite car containing library, reading room and a smoking room. This well-equipped field vehicle also boasted bathrooms and a barber’s shop (Figure 1). Whenever the train made a scheduled stop, the passengers got out to stretch their legs. But their freedom was short-lived with a whistle blast and a shout of “All Aboard!” After a first night’s sleep in their Pullman coach named ‘Greylocke’, the Hughes woke to an early morning experience of hydrocarbon production in the Ohio gas fields. These wells needed no ‘fracking’ to divulge their contents. Clara wrote: “At 6 o’ clock.....we were awakened by the stopping of the train at Bloomdale. This is in the centre of the dry-gas territory where the wells when first opened yield between 3,000,000 & 4,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. When such wells are allowed to flow unrestricted, the gas ceases to rise after this & is succeeded by oil & the oil by salt water. On raising our blinds we saw a few of the most energetic of the party gathered around an iron pipe which stood up out of the ground about 6ft. A wheel over the top turned and an enormous jet of gas erupted out of the pipe with a booming noise. This only a few yards from our car & soon the whole place was filled with a horrible smell. One of our leaders took a piece of burning paper & held it near the opening of the pipe. Instantly, the gas became a column of flame 30ft high roaring and hissing as it burned in the air. It was difficult to believe that such a body of gas could be controlled and we were considerably astonished & relieved to see the whole mass of flame put out by a few turns of the wheel with as much ease as if it had been an ordinary domestic gas burner. Harker also recorded the Bloomdale stop on Thursday 3 September. But he was more interested in the gas pressure (“290 pounds per square inch”) and origin (“the gas arose from the Trenton Limestone“) than the spectacle which delighted Clara. We suspect that Harker may have been one of the crowd around the drill pipe.

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After a good breakfast in the Dining Car, which included a fresh cantaloupe and oatmeal muesli, Clara wrote: “All the morning we passed through the heart of the oil and gas region. Through Ohio and Indiana the tall wooden scaffolds which supported the well bores resembled one of multitudes of tiny Eifel Towers.” Later in the journey, the train rolled through a very different landscape: “Badlands” topography (Figure 3). ... the country became more & more wild & strange & at Sully Springs, the train Stopped & a walk was made to the

nearest Buttes. We plunged over the sandy ground & for the first time saw cactus growing in small patches. Before us, rising out of the plain were lines of low hills ... carved by the weather sometimes into fantastic outlines, sometimes into smooth cones. The colouring of those nearest to us was a soft grey pink veined with bands of grey & fawn colour as thin continuous bands of lignite – the beautiful pink colouring is due to the baking of the rocks by the spontaneous combustion of the lignite. We were told that some of these beds were still on fire – whilst some of them were burnt out long ago... ... We were upon the coal-bearing strata of the Great Plains & of the Rocky Mountain region – known as the Laramie – of Cretaceous age but not like any of our English Chalk rocks. The journey continued, and the Hughes woke early eager to see what new vistas awaited them. At 6.15 (Sept. the 6th) we drew up our blinds and had our first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains. Blue peaks in the distance, then grand rugged outlines standing out faintly against the clear sky. Nearby hills rising out of the valley and wild with firs. Brushes in the foreground & a perfect blaze of sunflowers. Sadly, Clara’s notes end just at disembarkment from the train at Livingstone, Montana, Here they boarded the stagecoaches, which were to take them on and into the newly established Yellowstone National Park. However Harker’s notebooks cover this excursion in detail, but that is a story for another time! Clara accompanied Thomas to IGC meetings in Zurich (1894) and Russia (1897). She kept scrapbooks (now very fragile) recording their travels and adventures on both occasions. These are also stored in the Sedgwick Museum and include watercolours and photographs. She was a remarkable equal and companion to the Woodwardian Professor.

Figure Legends Figure 1: The train for the “Western Excursion” (HRKR 2/5/2). Figure 2: “A good find” - The geologists on the train (HRKR 2/5/2). Figure 3: “Bad Lands Scenery near Sully Springs, 6 September 1891” HRKR 2/5/2, p.15, sketch 17.

Figure 3

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STUDENT PLACEMENTS IN 2013 In our previous “Trilobite” Newsletter, Issue 27, we reported on the success of the annual scheme run by the Museum and funded by the Friends. For some summers now, prizes of four weeks of support (£900 per student in 2013) have been offered for work by undergraduate geologists who have applied to carry out projects devised and supervised by members of our Museum staff. In the summer of 2013, David Arnold worked with the Sedgwick and Zoology Museums Education teams. He ran a joint “Beach at the Sedgwick Museum” event in August, designed a “Beech Fossils” trail in the Museum, made a new “Dinosaur Loan Box” for schools, and contributed a meteorites blog article to the University of Cambridge Museum website.

The second prize this summer, was awarded to Sarah Sjorsten, and she concentrated on producing a comprehensive data-base of the Education Handling Collection, including photographs and identification information about all the objects. This now allows our Public Programme team to make the most of this fantastic resource of real rock’s and fossils, so that our schools loan boxes and gallery activities can be further developed. So successful is this scheme proving,

that the Committee of the Friends will consider at its next meeting on 22 April 2014, whether it might offer support for three prize projects in summer 2014.

EXPLORING LANDSCAPES BOOKLET

This month (January, 2014) we are expecting the printing of a batch of copies of the first of the “Exploring Landscapes” series, to be published by the Friends of the Sedgwick Museum. Entitled “St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, and the Great Ouse valley”, the booklet will be some 20 A5-size pages, all printed with colour for the many maps, diagrams and photos. The booklet will be on sale to the general public at £4.50 per copy. After printing costs have been met, any money from sales in the Museum shop will be divided between the Friends and the shop, in both cases supporting the Museum. The book will be available to Friends for £4.00 during our Friends Sedgwick Anniversary Dinner on 20 March. Other sales outlets are being discussed.

Sarah Sjorsten

David Arnold

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SEDGWICK MUSEUM VISITORS GUIDE MATERIAL

Dr Douglas Palmer has joined the staff of the Museum, with special responsibility for planning new materials to be made available to Museum visitors. The first production is planned to provide a guide to help visitors get the most out of the materials and objects on display. Over the years many people have volunteered to provide guidance to visitors as well as giving them a warm welcome. Douglas would be particularly grateful if volunteers could make contact with him and tell him what materials and objects they found helped most to raise general interest effectively. Please E-mail Douglas (douglaspalmer@compuserve.com), with any thoughts you have on this.

DR MIKE TUKE’S GEOLOGY AND TEACHING We are fortunate to have Dr Mike Tuke living locally and actively involved as Vice- President of the Friends. After graduating from the University of Oxford in Geology, Mike obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. His research topic was the stratigraphy and geological structure of the northern tip of Newfoundland. He also spent a season mapping in the Canadian Arctic, before working as a geologist in Malaysiaand Zambia, exploring for cement materials and zinc and copper ores. For the last forty years Mike has taught A- and degree-level courses and other courses specifically for adults. His main interest has been in teaching Geology and developing experiments, demonstrations and visual aids for this teaching. He has been active in running the Earth Science Teachers’ Association. He has written a book and a CD of geological experiments and has a new website called “earth science activities and demonstrations” which has over a thousand visual aids, demonstrations, activities and experiments for teaching geology. The web address is “www. earth-science-activities.co.uk”. Mike contributes greatly to many of the Friends’ activities. These have ranged from leading a visit to Grafham Water, to initiating the recent very successful visit to the Greek island volcanic centre of Santorini. He has also been providing a remarkable series of Experimental Geology sessions for the Friends each year. On 4th February (see FRIENDS EVENTS, pg1.), Mike will be presenting the next of his Experimental Geology sessions, this time on the dating of geological events. Lab-space will be limited, so please book with Mike, at least a week ahead, by phoning him on 01480-457068. Mike is also offering a course entitled “Geological Hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides” on the weekend of 21 to 23 February as part of the programme advertised by the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall. To book ring 01223 746232

Peter Friend - January 2014

Dr Mike Tuke

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RECENT EXCURSION, HEREFORD AND MALVERN

The last Issue (No 27) of Trilobite briefly reported on the great success of the Friends visit in June 2013 to the Greek island volcanic centre of Santorini. Sun-baked photographs show most of the party swimming in the sea, and perched together high on the volcanic caldera rim, looking out over the unique scenery. We suggested in the last Issue, that we might return in this number of Trilobite to show further photographs, but have decided to comment instead on the contrasting weekend trip arranged by our President, Jean Currie, in early October to Hereford and Malvern in the Borderland with Wales. We want to contrast the two trips, demonstrating the broad-brush approach we are keen to adopt in the work of the Friends. Of course, the contrast between the two

reflects partly the contrast between the Eastern Mediterranean climate of early June and the Welsh Borderland climate of early October, but there are other differences that added greatly to the richness of both visits. One feature of our Welsh Borderland visit was the links we wished to establish and develop with the community of local field enthusiasts, represented by the local Woolhope Club. This Club carried out pioneer studies on the landscape, geology, natural and human history of the area starting in the 19th Century, and continuing to develop, with publication and original research, up to the present. We were delighted and grateful to enjoy the company and guidance of several members of the Club, particularly the overall introduction and leadership of Dr. Paul Olver.

The importance and enjoyment of this local support was a key feature of the excursion. We learnt a great deal about recent research on the history of the Malvern structure which showed how much the understanding of this classic Borderland feature has been modified by new discoveries and thinking.

Peter Friend - January 2014

Paul Olver picks out detailed structures in the stones of the Cathedral

Wet conditions looking at the Silurian of the Woolhope Dome

Wet conditions on the pre-Cambrian volcanics of the Malvern Hills

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SEDGWICK MUSEUM EVENT DETAILS

Where pre-booking is requested, please use 01223-333400 (Department Reception)

Twilight at the Museums – An event for all the family between 4.30-8.30 pm on Wednesday Feb 19th

As night time falls set out to explore the extraordinary world of Cambridge museums after dark. It might be difficult to miss our dinosaurs and the Ice Age hippo even in the dark. But can you find the biggest trilobite in Britain or the rock from the top of the world?

Explore the world of minerals and fossils in a different light in the Sedgwick Museum. For further details visit http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/events/twilight-at-the-museums

Note to Friends – this event has proved very popular in the past and has attracted large numbers of people. As only a limited number can safely be admitted to the Museum at any one time, queues can form

outside the Museum. Cambridge Science Festival 10th to 23rd of March Full details see www.cam.ac.uk/science-festival and the online programme The Sedgwick Museum has a number of events in this year’s Festival: Thursday March 13th (and Thursday March 20 th) 10.30 am – 11.00 am, 11.30 am – 12.00 am, 2.30 pm – 3.00 pm, 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Rough and Rocky guides to Structures and patterns in the history of life. A series of short-guided tours (30 minutes each) through the Sedgwick Museum offers a special opportunity to interpret structures and patterns in the history of life. Event: 36, Map: 64, Ages 8+ Pre book

Saturday 15th March 10.30am - 3.30pm Time Truck at the Sedgwick Museum Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Watson Gallery Travel in time with Time Truck! Investigate rocks and minerals, discover dinosaurs and explore earthquake science with hands on activities and demonstrations. Event: 97, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, All ages

7-8pm, Wednesday 19th March Painting with the Earth Tilley Lecture theatre, Department of Earth Sciences. Dr Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist at the Hamilton Kerr Institute of the Fitzwilliam Museum combines his expertise in chemistry and the history of art to investigate artist’s materials and methods. He mainly works on Old Master paintings but also works with some contemporary artists. His talk will focus on the colours that artists extracted from the earth and continue to use today. Event: 172, Map: 64, Talk 14+, Pre book

Dr Spike Bucklow

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SEDGWICK MUSEUM EVENT DETAILS

Thursday March 20th 10.30 am – 11.00 am, 11.30 am – 12.00 am, 2.30 pm – 3.00 pm, 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Rough and Rocky guides to Structures and patterns in the history of life. A series of short guided tours (30 minutes each) through the Sedgwick Museum’s displays, presented by members of staff. Guided talk, Ages 8+

8-9 pm Friday 21st March What’s the point of palaeontology? Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane Join zoologist Nick Crumpton and a panel of palaeontologists to learn how palaeontology has developed into a cornerstone of biology: important not only for increasing our understanding of the past but also helping decipher the world today. From teasing apart evolution to learning how animals react to climate change, find out what place vertebrate palaeobiology has in the 21st century. Event: 193, Map: 30, Talk, Ages 15+, Pre book NB this is not a Museum generated event but one that you may well be interested in.

10.30 am – 12.30, 2.30 - 3.30 Saturday 22nd March Rocks make Pictures Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Watson Gallery Make and take away your own mineral picture using natural mineral pigments, just as our ancestors did thousands of years ago. And, learn about the minerals which have provided artists with these pigments for millennia. Event: 221, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 8+ 10.30 am – 3.30 pm, Saturday 22nd March What on Earth is it? - Antiques Rock Show Sedgwick Museum of Earth science, Watson Gallery Bring along your geological specimens – rocks, minerals and fossils for our experts to help you identify them. Event: 222, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, All Ages Saturday 22nd March Two separate tour sessions 12noon-1pm, 2.30pm-3.30pm Minerals, Fossils and Meteorites are more fragile than you might think. Geological Conservation Unit, A.G.Brighton Building, Madingley Road, Madingley Rise, CB3 0EZ Although most minerals, fossils and meteorites and are made of rock hard material, their preparation and conservation for the purposes of research and museum display requires careful handling and considerable skill. Find out from the experts the ‘do’s’ and ‘don’t’s’ of specimen preparation and conservation, so that your precious geological collection stands a chance of survival once the specimens have left their protective rock surroundings. Each of the two workshop sessions will consist of 30minutes in the laboratory and a 30 minute tour of the store facility. Event: 196, Map: 68, Age: 15+, Pre book

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CONTACT DETAILS

The Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Downing Street Cambridge, CB2 3EQ

Department reception:

01223 – 333400 Chairman e-mail: pff1000@cam.ac.uk Event leaders may be contacted before and during events on the events mobile: 07754 592439

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SEDGWICK MUSEUM BLOG

http://sedgwickmuseum.org.uk/blog/

CAMBRIDGESHIRE GEOLOGY CLUB http://www.cambridgeshiregeologyclub.

org.uk/

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students, unemployed or over 60s) Membership is for one year and expires on 31st March. Members joining after 31st December will have the last quarter’s membership included in the following year. o I attach a cheque for £…………… made payable to The Friends of the Sedgwick Museum. Signed…………………………Date…………………. Gift Aid Scheme. Because the Friends is a registered Charity (No. 1091393) we can claim an additional amount on any subscription or donation, provided that you are a UK tax payer. Your signature below will allow us to increase the value of each payment you make for the benefit of the Friends. Gift Aid Declaration. I am a UK tax payer. I would like the Friends of the Sedgwick Museum to treat all membership fees and donations as Gift aid donations from the date of this declaration until I notify otherwise. Signed…………………………Date………………….

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