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Class Size & Instructors Classes are limited to 20 children. Staff ratios: 6:1 for 5 year olds, 8:1 for 6 to 7 year olds and 10:1 for children 8 and older. Instructors hold a degree from a post secondary institution and have professional experience, including teaching experience. Assistants

Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition

Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition

The ROM Library has recently acquired an edition of E. A. Séguy’s Insects, published in the 1920s. The book contains highly coloured and detailed full-page illustrations of insects, executed in the expensive pochoir printing technique favoured at this time.    The scientific study of insects

ROM Green Plant Herbarium Accessions STRATA

Recently, the ROM Green Plant Herbarium accessioned a copy of the artwork STRATA into its collection. This might seem unusual, since our herbarium is the depository for over half a million scientific specimens of green plants, from algae through mosses and liverworts to all the different kinds of

Arti Chandaria (1960-2015)

Arti Chandaria, long-time ROM friend, volunteer, and supporter passed away on Friday January 23, 2015. She lived each day with vigor and enthusiasm, never letting cancer impede her from a life of discovery.  As a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and friend, she inspired with her passion,

The Anatomy of a Book: Saving The Naturalist's Library

The Anatomy of a Book: Saving The Naturalist's Library

Books are remarkably durable. Fragments have survived from ancient times, while others have traversed the centuries in near perfect condition. One such example is the St Cuthbert Gospel from the 7th century, the earliest intact European book. But despite the robust structure of the book, the

Cooking up History: Historical Recipe Books

Cooking up History: Historical Recipe Books

The cookbooks of the past provide information about diet and habits, as well as telling us which foods were expensive treats, and which were commonly available. Many of the foods that appear regularly through the centuries are not often eaten today, like pickled eel, fried lamprey, and cow-heel

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Hermatite By: Ian Nicklin Hematite is a common ore of iron that was extensively mined in northern England in the 19th century. The miners referrred to globular aggregates of hematite, such as this, as "kidney-ore" since it reminded them of the organ. We call this shape

Pompeii Saga: Last Day

Pompeii Saga: Last Day

The horrors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption were buried under volcanic ash. Thankfully one scholarly young man wrote the story of his own survival. By: Douglas Thomson       On the day  Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it spewed ash and pumice kilometres into the atmosphere. Small hail-sized pebbles

Introducing Wendiceratops: A remarkable new horned dinosaur

Life reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornenis. Credit: Danielle Dufault. Reconstruction of the skeleton of Wendiceratops pinhornenis Credit: Danielle Dufault Reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornenis skeleton showing the bones that have been found to date in blue. Credit: Danielle Dufault.