Tues || 9.4: In-class meeting
□ Overview: Scientists' Images and Images of the Public
□ Science in the American vernacular: Natural History as Modern Science
□ Seeing the prehistoric world for the first time
□ Flying Fish, Platypuses, and Mermaids: Nature "gone troppo"

week 3 reading
□ Standish, The Hollow Earth, Chapters 4 and 6,pp. 110-141 and pp. 186-238 / chapters 5 and 7 optional
□ For an overview of some of the issues: Blog Post, "Hollow Heads? Science, Fantasy and What's as Plain as the Earth Beneath our Feet" by Katherine Pandora

□ Edgar Allan Poe, “Ms. Found in a Bottle" (1833) read pp. 169- 182 and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”(1841), pp. 38-63
• Sarah Zielinski, “The Great Moon Hoax of 1835,” SmithsonianMagazine (July 2015) and Rebekah Higgitt, “The Great Moon Hoax and the Christian Philosopher,” The Guardian (February 2015)
• P.T. Barnum’s American Museum and The Feejee Mermaid / 1850 Illustrated Guidebook / Background
• Paul Semonin, “Barnum and Science in the Antebellum Period” at The Lost Museum
• Excerpt from Jane R. Goodall, Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order [handout]

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online lab session || upload a blog post by 10 p.m. on Mon 9.10
□ Online Assignment #3: Natural History Museums and Celebrity Species
□ Instructions

Note: If you aren't able to get to the Exhibit in person at OU's Natural History Museum, click here and you will go to a page with links you can use as a substitute "virtual visit" / you can still use the questions in the handout below (you may need to adapt them slightly).

Megalodon at the OU Museum of Natural History Visit | Instructions Handout (This is the basis for your blog post on 9.10)

□ The Megalodon Exhibit at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History [exhibit originator, The Florida Museum of Natural History and the NSF]

□ Visit Info: Free to OU Students with valid ID
Mon - Sat 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The museum is located at 2401 Chautauqua Ave, on the southwest part of the OU campus [between the Law School and L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park, and to the west of the OU Softball Complex] There is free parking lot at the entrance.

□ OU Bus Route Information from the CART Access System
NOTE: There is a CART App (for apple & google) you can search by address and bus stop, watch your bus in real time, and more

□ [map and complete visitor info page at the SNOMNH site]