The Rationale for Public Funding of a National Museum

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) introduced into New Zealand in the 183Os, has consistently flourished in Central Otago, the upper Waitaki, and inland Marlborough, all areas of mediterranean climate. It has proved difficult to manage in these habitats. The 'rabbit problem' is largely confined to 105,000 ha of low producing land mostly in semi arid areas of Central Otago. No field scale modifications of the natural habitat have been successful in limiting rabbit numbers. The costs of control exceed the revenue from the land and continued public funding for control operations appears necessary. A system for classifying land according to the degree of rabbit proneness is described. Soil survey and land classification information for Central Otago is related to the distribution and density of rabbits. This intormation can be used as a basis for defining rabbit carrying capacity and consequent land use constraints and management needs. It is concluded that the natural rabbit carrying capacity of land can be defined by reference to soil survey information and cultural modification to the natural vegetation. Classification of land according to rabbit proneness is proposed as a means of identifying the need for, and allocation of, public funding tor rabbit management. Keywords: Rabbit habitat, rabbit proneness, use of rabbit prone land.

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JOHN R. KENYON, 1982. The Willoughby Gardner Library. A collection of early printed books on natural history. National Museum of Wales. ISBN 0 7200 0266 4. £4.50 (plus 30p post). Pp. 54.

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1984.11.3.527 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 527-527

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

National Museum ◽

Printed Books

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Five Years and Count(er)ing: Memoir after Memoir

CounterText ◽

10.3366/count.2020.0180 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 26-32

Author(s):

Norbert Bugeja

Keyword(s):

Guest Editor ◽

Arab Countries ◽

National Museum ◽

Terror Attack ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Past ◽

Personal Perspectives ◽

The Moment ◽

Ongoing Project

In this retrospective piece, the Guest Editor of the first number of CounterText (a special issue titled Postcolonial Springs) looks back at the past five years from various scholarly and personal perspectives. He places particular focus on an event that took place mid-way between the 2011 uprisings across a number of Arab countries and the moment of writing: the March 2015 terror attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, which killed twenty-two people and had a profound effect on Tunisian popular consciousness and that of the post-2011 Arab nations. In this context, the author argues for a renewed perspective on memoir as at once a memorial practice and a political gesture in writing, one that exceeds concerns of genre and form to encompass an ongoing project of political re-cognition following events that continue to remap the agenda for the region. The piece makes a brief final pitch for Europe's need to re-cognise, within those modes of ‘articulacy-in-difficulty’ active on its southern borders, specific answers to its own present quandaries.

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King William and the Brecc Bennach in 1211: reliquary or holy banner?

The Innes Review ◽

10.3366/inr.2015.0096 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 163-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Sharpe

Keyword(s):

Good Reason ◽

National Museum ◽

The Real ◽

Real Nature

In his Rhind Lectures of 1879 Joseph Anderson argued for identifying the Monymusk Reliquary, now in the National Museum of Scotland, with the Brecc Bennach, something whose custody was granted to Arbroath abbey by King William in 1211. In 2001 David H. Caldwell called this into question with good reason. Part of the argument relied on different interpretations of the word uexillum, ‘banner’, taken for a portable shrine by William Reeves and for a reliquary used as battle-standard by Anderson. It is argued here that none of this is relevant to the question. The Brecc Bennach is called a banner only as a guess at its long-forgotten nature in two late deeds. The word brecc, however, is used in the name of an extant reliquary, Brecc Máedóc, and Anderson was correct to think this provided a clue to the real nature of the Brecc Bennach. It was almost certainly a small portable reliquary, of unknown provenance but associated with St Columba. The king granted custody to the monks of Arbroath at a time when he was facing a rebellion in Ross, posing intriguing questions about his intentions towards this old Gaelic object of veneration.

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The Public Funding of Vocational Education and Training in Scotland

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.1999.0054 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 29 (First Serie (1) ◽

pp. 84-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John Fairley ◽

Andy McArthur

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

Public Funding ◽

Education And Training ◽

Vocational Education And Training ◽

The Public ◽

And Training

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James Oliver Horton, 1943–2017

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v5i1.208 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Melani McAlister

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

American History ◽

African American History ◽

National Museum ◽

Us History ◽

Local Branch ◽

Gathering Place

In October 2017, hundreds of faculty, friends, and former students gathered at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to remember James Oliver “Jim” Horton. It was a fitting gathering place. As the museum’s director, Lonnie Bunch, commented, Jim’s legacy is everywhere at the museum, from the fact that several of his former doctoral students are now curators to the foundational commitment of the museum itself: that African American history is not a local branch of US history but integral to its core. Jim always insisted in his lectures and classes and on his many TV appearances and public engagements that “American history is African American history.”

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