Day 2 at the NHM

Though I won't give daily updates on my research at the Natural History Museum, today was a historic day. I was able to examine the type specimen for the first treeshrew genus (Tupaia) ever described. This description was published in 1821, so the specimen is almost 200 years old.

I also got to go running for the first time since I got here. I wasn't able to enter Hyde Park, but I managed to weave my way through the London streets. It was about 45 degrees and raining, so I couldn't run very fast. The rain clearly affected my GPS, as I'm quite certain I never got up to 34 mph...