Hey Chris - Has anyone mentioned the Hunterian Museum
at the Royal College of Surgeons yet? We plan to go
next June - it comes highly recommended by one of my
work colleagues who lives in London:
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums. Not sure where it is
in relation to the British Museum, but everything's
relatively easy to get to in London. Also, the British
Museum has a collection of Roman silver found in a
field in England called the Mildenhall silver - I
could have spent all day looking at it and the Celtic
antiquities. So much to do... and so many great Indian
restaurants to discover!!

Yours in jealousy -

wendy

..........................................................
Wendy Hiller Gee
Director, Art & Design
Krames/StayWell
1100 Grundy Lane
San Bruno, CA  94066
www.krames.com

--- chris gralapp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Geoff and all,
>
> Ever since I saw the book ' Meetings with Remarkable
> Trees' by Thomas
> Pakenham, I have been very interested in
> experiencing some of these notable
> trees.  Many were brought to England by explorers
> expressly for large
> estates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
> and have been growing
> ever since into mammoth beings.  Many are
> incorporated into buildings and
> structures, have Victorian tree houses in them, and
> are so big they have
> rooms inside the trunks.  They are dotted all over
> Britain, but Kew has a
> concentration of remarkable trees, and I must make a
> pilgrimmage to some of
> them, rain or shine!
>
> Thanks for the Kew site!
>
> Best,
>
> Chris
>
> PS< if amyone else has suggestions about London or
> environs--let  me
> know--we will be staying within walking distance of
> the British Museum,
> whatever neighborhood that might be.
>
>
> Chris Gralapp, MA, CMI
> Medical and Scientific Illustration
> 415 454-6567
> [log in to unmask]
> www.biolumina.com
>


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