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Glacial Errata, No. 13
Five Things for the Week of April 7, 2025.
One: Naturhistoriches Museum Wien
Some spectacular alligators from the Vienna Natural History Museum.

Photo by Colin Dickey
Two: University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
In 2017 I drove across country researching my book The Unidentified, and before reaching Zion, Illinois, a town founded by Flat Earthers, I stopped in Iowa City.
Photo by Colin Dickey
Three: Musée de Minéralogie
There are so many amazing museums of natural history throughout Paris, but this one is sometimes overlooked and is filled with amazing geologic specimens.

Photo by Colin Dickey
Four: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
There is no way to convey, in a single photograph, how many jars of fish are in this room. Trust me. So, so many jars of fish.

Photo by Colin Dickey
Five: Olive Gunnison Collection at the Akin Free Library, Pawling, New York
A supremely overlooked gem in the middle of nowhere, New York.
Photo by Colin Dickey