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A detailed oil painting shows various prehistoric marine reptiles swimming in water and resting on a lush, palm-lined shoreline.

Life in the Jurassic Sea, Robert Farren c1850, Sedgwick Museum Cambridge

Gonville and Caius library (Geological Museum), Senate House Passage

History of the Geological Museum

1861 Geological and Mineralogical Museum

Robert Farren, 29, curator of geological museum, b Cambridge

Anne Wakelym Farren, 30, b Cambridge

Ernest William, 8, b Cambridge

Kate, 7, b Cambridge

Mary Ann, 5, b Cambridge

Anne, 4, b Cambridge

Jessie, 3, b Cambridge

Alice, 1, b Cambridge

Amy, 2 month,  b Cambridge

In 1881 the Farren family were in Hills Road.


1885

A detailed 1885 Ordnance Survey map section showing the Woodwardian Geological Museum building and surrounding streets.

Cambridge OS 1885

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