In winter, nature is a cabinet of curiosities, full of dried specimens, in their natural order and position. The meadows and forests are a hortus siccus.

冬日里，大自然就像一个天然的大橱柜，被塞满了各种干枯的标本，它们还保持着原来的样子和位置。

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The company's charter required the establishment of a museum "to house the natural and artificial curiosities" brought back by member ships.

BBC: Historical day trips from Boston

Mr Rushby's account of the saintly John Tradescant's museum in 17th-century London, with its collection of natural wonders and curiosities from the newly discovered worlds of East and West, is gripping.

ECONOMIST: Heaven on earth

Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.

WSJ: Ghosts in the Machine | New Museum | Beyond Human | By Kristin M. Jones