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The picture of a ‘pony in pajamas’ is used to construct the backstory of a deadly animal disease in three parts. First, by focusing on the figure of the ‘author’ of the cloth depicted in the picture, Scottish veterinarian Robert John Stordy, one can examine the repercussions of transhumant biographical itineraries. Second, a focus on regional epizootics helps alter scales defining the local versus the global. Third, the global circulation of mules and the medicines used to cure them illustrate displacement of objects and knowledge that shaped the understanding of sickness and its remedies. Thus, the remedies and horse-clothes used in Uganda not only speak of things and beings that linked distant geographies and contexts, they also mark the multiple hubs where these connections did occur, propelled in part by commercial interests, biographical itineraries and, of course, randomness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the author talks about the topics discussed within the issue including establishment of general museums in Mexico, types of evidence refining the narratives resulting from self-validation. and bibliography on the history of museums.

There is one genre of museums that remains little understood - travelling collections. These museums put on display natural history collections, anatomical specimens, and ethnographical models in wax. Maintained by itinerate charlatans and impresarios, their exhibits were displayed and interpreted in ever changing varieties. Travelling museums appealed to both the general public and the scientific community. As is evident from the reviews in newspapers and the catalogues that spread information about the specimens on display, travelling museums blurred the boundaries between science, commerce, and entertainment. Based on the analysis of sources dispersed across several repositories and archives in South America and Europe, and focusing on travelling museums that passed through Buenos Aires in the 1880s, this paper sheds new light on the manifold social and cultural practices involved in the circulation of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the reliability of evidence to the reported ruins found at different sites across the Spanish empire. It is inferred that the drawings, plans and comments by the military engineers in the discovered ruins in Naples remained unpublished. Details regarding the competition between different individuals and networks for the possession of antiquity and objects of the ruins is presented.