![]() Many of the academy’s most unassuming yet impactful treasures are filed away on its second floor, in an office space crowded with hulking cabinets and microscopes. Among the 19 million or so specimens housed here are plants procured on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, blue marlin reeled in by Ernest Hemingway, and America’s first mounted dinosaur skeleton. As the oldest natural science institution in the western hemisphere, the academy has accumulated a trove of remarkable specimens. Its neoclassical facade is covered in natural motifs-doorways flanked by ammonites, handrails that curl into ferns, bronze door handles shaped like ibis skulls. ![]() Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University emanates the aura of a sprawling cabinet of curiosities. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. This article is also available in audio format. Stream or download audio For this article Septem| 2,500 words, about 12 minutes Share this article ![]() Wayback archive archive#Wilson/Minden Pictures Philadelphia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine A cache of phytoplankton held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping to reconstruct historical coastlines. ![]() It may not have the flash of the macroflora and fauna typical of most natural history museums, but the massive collection of diatoms held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an archive of past environments. ![]()
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