Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2427 Sonia ([-])
It was one o'clock in the afternoon when the female naturalist came to Lingao Natural History Museum.Although the museum has been completed, the interior decoration and exhibition work is progressing very slowly.There are many exhibition professionals in the Senate, but it is not easy for anyone to set up the exhibition under such crude conditions. Moreover, the Senate is currently in a quasi-wartime state, and many veterans are either busy with their jobs or on business trips.A system project has stopped and stopped, and the delay is still a semi-finished product, and the development is nowhere in sight. We can only do some simple science popularization activities.

Because it has not yet officially opened, the main entrance is closed.Sonia entered through the side entrance exclusively for staff.Walk through an interior corridor to the atrium.

The atrium is the center of the entire Natural History Museum, a full-height open space topped by a transparent dome inlaid with glass.Under the dome was originally a skeleton of a mosasaur or plesiosaur.The current proposal is a gray whale skeleton plus several shark skeletons.Hanging in mid-air in a dynamic posture, the visual impact is also shocking enough.

However, the skeleton of the gray whale is still in Japan at this moment, and the elders in charge of the exhibition only hung several ropes and markers of different lengths from the dome to determine the location of the gray whale skeleton.In order to speculate about the relationship between the approximate effect and the surrounding decorations.

In the center of the atrium is a granite stone platform. The long-term plan here is to place a large carnivorous dinosaur—such as a Tyrannosaurus or Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton.The current plan is the skeleton of an elephant -- it would be better if the skeleton of a mammoth can be obtained from Siberia, but if not, the skeleton of an Asian elephant is still easy to come by.

Every time Sonia goes to the atrium, she will be overwhelmed by the bold and imaginative design of the elder.Museum collections and exhibitions were not the first initiative of the Senate. Since the Renaissance, there has been an upsurge of museum collections in Europe.The tyrants of the Italian states were the best of them.Soon, kings and emperors also caught up with the fashion with the great geographical discovery.Exotic plant and animal specimens are popular, and those grotesque deformed fetuses and human specimens are the most favored by them.One of the harvests of Russia's Peter the Great traveling and studying in Western Europe was that he brought back a large number of natural history collections—of course, in the opinion of the elders, most of his collections were curious, and the scientific content was really limited.

When Sonia was in Portugal, he visited many small-scale museum collections. In terms of the number and types of collections alone, the collections of the Senate are not particularly rich, but in terms of breadth and depth, they are obviously better than the Collections for "curiosity hunting" purposes are much stronger.What's more, most natural history collections are just simple displays, and it would be tedious to read too much.

This is what science should be like.Sonia thought about walking all the way through the atrium.She is very disgusted with the novelty-seeking mentality of dignitaries and dignitaries.However, the collections of "surprise hunting" can win their favor the most, and thus get a lot of sponsorship.For this reason, many people do not hesitate to fake.She has personally seen a "water monkey" transported from afar and soaked in high-concentration brandy: although she can see that it is made of monkeys and some unknown amphibian's webbed feet, it is still against her will remained silent.Because she herself sometimes has to fake "finds" to get sponsorships.

In the atrium, in the corridor, in the exhibition hall...everywhere are piled up with building materials for decoration and packing boxes of different sizes."Handle with care" is written all over the boxes. Some exhibits are wrapped in oilcloth and reed mats, and the specific appearance cannot be seen.

The naturalized civilian workers and students along the way greeted her one after another.Sonia is a very conspicuous existence in the museum, not to mention her striking exotic appearance, her title alone: ​​"Third-level researcher" is enough to make the naturalized civilian workers respect: this ghost girl He is a third-level researcher at a young age!
"Hello." She greeted people with a smile all the way, walked through the exhibition hall, went up two floors of marble stairs, and came to the third floor.Most of the third floor is closed research area.As a "third-level researcher", Sonia occupies an office here.

As the only naturalist among the naturalized people, it was only natural for Sonia to have this treatment.Contrary to what she imagined, the elders value her not only because of her beauty, but also because Sonia is actually very useful to the Senate—she is a naturalist.

The independent subject of "natural history" no longer exists in the modern scientific system.The elders came from the old time and space of the 21st century, whether it is China, the United States, Venezuela or Equatorial Guinea.There is no natural history in any university or research institution.It can even be said that this discipline did not exist in the time of the grandparents of the elders.

Natural history in modern history is roughly equivalent to the collection of zoology, entomology, botany, paleontology, mineralogy, meteorology, astronomy, geography, anthropology, ecology, etc. in modern history.Naturalists not only take into account the abilities of botanists, zoologists, geologists, mineralogists... and other disciplines, but also have rich field investigation capabilities and experience.Almost every naturalist is an explorer.The most famous naturalist is the famous Sir Charles Robert Darwin.

The 19th century was the golden age of natural history. Naturalists were active in every corner of the earth, exploring the secrets of nature.However, with the progress and development of science, this subject gradually disappeared.In the 21st century, the classification of animals, plants, and minerals has been done hundreds of years ago.Natural history is broken down into many more detailed disciplines.Schools don’t know how to train them, and society doesn’t need them, so the veterans don’t have the ability at all.

But the Senate, like the great powers of the nineteenth century, desperately needed people to do these things.It is true that there are maps and general distributions of various animals, plants and minerals in the materials of the large library, but the materials cannot be detailed enough to find what the Senate urgently needs in which corner of a hill.This kind of thing can still only be sent to the field to investigate and record.This work is not too complicated, but if only a few veterans of the long-distance exploration team do it, 19 years or 50 years will not be able to complete the world's investigation work.Therefore, it is reasonable and realistic to let Sonia receive modern academic training, then let her accumulate relevant inspection experience, and then train batches of naturalized inspection team members.

Soon after Sonia came to Lin Hanlong's side, she was arranged to "study" - all foreign female slaves were required to go, but Sonia's learning content was more complicated. In addition to Chinese, she also had to learn from the elders. Study the various modern branches under Natural History.Sonia swam in the ocean of knowledge, eager to learn, even when she was pregnant and about to give birth, she still read a lot of books at home.

Sonia was unaware of this, and she felt a little "flattered" by the treatment she enjoyed, thinking that the master had exerted his influence.After all, in this era, knowledge is still an out-and-out "wealth", and the owner will not easily pass it on to others.Books recording this knowledge are also very rare.

The third floor of the Natural History Museum is very quiet. There is no suspended ceiling here, and you can see the exposed trusses and structural panels of the roof when you look up.Rows of vaulted glass windows let in a lot of light, illuminating the entire space extremely brightly.As soon as you walk in, you feel energetic.

She took out the key and opened the door of the office with "Third-level Researcher" and her own nameplate on it.Sonia loves this "treatment".This fully reflects that she is a "status" and "respected" person-she values ​​​​this very much.

Her office is more than 30 square meters—bigger than the offices of many veterans.Such a large office is naturally not used for a desk.It is also Sonia's studio.In the center of the room was a huge work table, on which stood a microscope specially made by Lin Hanlong just for her.Against the wall are many storage racks for storing various specimens and materials.Most of the storage shelves are still empty now. A set of "Encyclopedia of the Song Dynasty 1635 Edition" approved by the Office of Truth, printed by the Great Library Printing Factory, and bound by European craftsmen in calfskin stands on the shelf, very conspicuous.

There are three desks in the room, one of which is hers, and the other two are the "graduate students" of the remote exploration department who help her.Of course, in the education system of the Senate, not to mention graduate students, there is not even a college student.In fact, they were employees who were assigned to work in the Remote Exploration Department after graduating from high school. Now they are sent to study with Sonia, and they are regarded as apprentices.

The two "apprentices", a man and a woman, are not in the office at the moment - they are both cleaning specimens.

There are a large number of specimens and exhibits gathered from all over.The departments that handed over the specimens include not only the natural specimen room of Fangcaodi Academy, but also the specimen room of the Remote Exploration Department and the specimen room of Lingao General Hospital——some human specimens produced in the early days were also transferred to the museum according to Doctor Shi’s order— - There is almost no room in the warehouse of the teaching department.

These specimens, which are stuffed in their respective herbariums, are only a drop in the bucket when transferred to the 2000-square-meter exhibition hall.Although the number is small, when sorting out and transferring specimens, it was found that many early specimens were corrupted, infested with insects, shrunk, broken, etc. question.In particular, early insect and animal specimens were severely damaged.

The immediate job of the entire Natural History Museum staff is to "organize specimens."Organize, evaluate, classify and register the specimens gathered from various places.

(End of this chapter)