Climate Change & Endangered Plants
B.C. is home to more than 3,000 flowering plant species; the richest flora in Canada. This botanical exuberance is our legacy of a […]
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Walked away with another new record.
Just tripped across this fish while sorting out odd records in the RBCM fish database. 999-00114-001 – unidentified fish – Family Triglidae (Searobins, […]
Women on the Canning Line (ca. 1945)
The BC Packers film Salmon for Food (1945), directed by Oscar C. Burritt for Vancouver Motion Pictures Ltd., includes wonderful footage of female cannery […]
The Bison of Beacon Hill Park
A very interesting specimen is recorded in the catalogue of the Vertebrate Zoology Collection of the Royal B.C. Museum for April 19th, 1932. […]
Francis Drake on the Northwest Coast of America. Introductory Notes. Part 1.
Introduction The Purpose of this article is to provide a background for those individuals who wish to understand more about the controversy regarding […]
Diversity on a different Scale
I took these photos of Royal BC Museum lizard specimens with my iPhone 4 through the eyepiece of the old dissecting microscope in […]