Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
University geology museum of fossils, rocks and minerals spanning five hundred million years.
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This guide to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge follows the coprolite diggers of Victorian Cambridgeshire, the men who worked flooded trenches for a phosphate fertiliser boom and kept a sideline in fossils for university scholars. It touches their wages, their tools and the pits they worked, and Professor Tom McKenny Hughes, who campaigned for this museum. Best heard standing by the Ice Age displays.
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