Van Drivers!

Information for getting a license to drive college vans can be obtained at http://www.evergreen.edu/facilities/motorpool/usepermit.htm

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Resources for Essay 2 (due on Wednesday of week 3)

Send us the link if you find a great source to add to this list of resources!

ARTSTOR (We will show you some tricks for searching during the Thursday lecture of week 2.)

 

Aberdeen bestiary:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/intro.hti

Conrad Gesner, Historia Animalium

http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/gesner/gesner.html

The Book of Beasts, T.H. White (translator), Putnam (1960)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Bestiary

Website of bestiary exhibit at Bibliothèque nationale de France:

http://expositions.bnf.fr/bestiaire/expo/index.htm

Library Resources: Six volumes of A Cultural History of Animals (reserve)

David Freedberge, Eye of the Lynx (e-book via Evergreen library website)

Brian Ogilvie, The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (e-book via Evergreen library website)

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Access to Natural History Collections

Natural History Collection Fellows email addresses

skiter18@evergreen.edu
bowwes05@evergreen.edu
watfri12@evergreen.edu
boubre18@evergreen.edu

We suggest you address your email all four of the Fellows, describe what specimens you are interested in drawing – either specifically (salamander, cat skeleton, etc.) or generally (“wet” specimen, skeleton) and what times you would be able to visit the Collections.

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Evergreen Gallery Hours for Week 1 and Week 2

The Art in Science:  Annual Exhibit of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
http://www.gnsi.science-art.com/2011WA/exhibits/slideshow.swf

Tuesday Sep. 27,  11 am – 2 pm
Tuesday Oct. 4,  11:30 am – 4 pm
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First Day of Class

Our first class meeting is Monday, September 26th, 12 pm (noon) – 3 pm.  We will meet in Seminar 2, B1107. We look forward to seeing you there!

(On-time attendance the first day of class is mandatory for taking the program. If you are a no-show at the beginning of the first day of class, we will release your seat to someone on the wait list.)

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Program Updates

Welcome to the home page for Animal Morphology, Motion and Mind, a full-time academic program that will run from fall through winter quarter, 2011-2012.  Check in here for updates as we finalize details of the syllabus and post information for enrolled students.
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