The Cupboard under the Stairs

By Monique Newberry – 16 May 2016 The Haswell wet lab, where most of our exciting wet specimens are kept could easily be the hidden secret at this university. In a tiny room, underneath the Macleay Museum are thousands of specimens, meticulously organized and tucked away inside compacting shelves. Inside the cupboard under the stairs, …

Meet Brittany and Richard – undergraduate student volunteers

By Brittany Mitchell and Richard Dimon – 5 April 2016 Our roles as part of Project Haswell to date have included summarising information about the major phyla and families found within the collection, and revising the taxonomic names and ranks of all catalogued specimens. We have spent many hours trawling through various databases and literature to …