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The 'Maison Deyrolle' is a Parisian shop that, since opening in 1831, has dealt in natural history specimens and models, often sourcing items from collectors and selling them to researchers and museums. This model of a dissected, pregnant frog is one object within Deyrolle's multimedia, mail-order museum designed to illustrate the wondrous variety of the animal world. It also produced scores of models and posters for teaching students. The French natural-historical dealership 'Maison Deyrolle' helped link specimen collectors with scientific experts. Digital resources, which we will call CyberFrogs, reflect a new, digital approach to scientific training that stands in stark contrast to those represented in our collection.

Biology instruction today has many more resources than those made of plastic, plaster, and paper.

They embody the visual sensibilities encouraged by anatomical study.

Teaching tools from the Cambridge Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Department offer a glimpse into the objects used, and even made, by educators here in Cambridge.

Our Deyrolle Model reflects the visual and non-textual focus of secondary school biology in 19th century France, and underscores the mimetic purpose of models as alternatives to live frog specimens.

The Whipple Museum possesses many examples of such teaching tools from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some of which are explored below: Posters and models have the advantages of being reusable, predictable, and large enough for sharing by a large class of students.

Though frog dissection became an increasingly common practice in secondary and university education during the 20th century, the practical demands of teaching and the often limited availability of live frogs demanded alternate resources. Frogs and biology classrooms have entwined histories.