The Calcutta Indian Museum

The Indian Museum in Calcutta had a remarkable collection of ancient statuary and a few sad cultural displays, but most exciting was the natural history wing. There were rooms of antique wooden cabinets filled with carefully labeled minerals and fossils. There were jars with pickled specimens of everything from cobras to a human infant! And then there were the dinosaurs! They also had the skeletons of all sorts of animals, including a whale, a giraffe, elephants and a Rhino family. It called for rather a lot of picture taking....