scholarly journals The Collection of Type Fossils of the Natural Science Museum of the University of Zaragoza (Spain)

Geoheritage ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Ignacio Canudo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The Meteorite Collection in the Natural Science Museum of Turin

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-265
Author(s):  
E. Costa ◽  
L. M. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Ideal Tool ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe Natural Science Museum of Turin is the owner of a small but nice collection of meteorites, partly obtained by means of direct acquisition during the last 30 years, and partly inherited from the rather old collection of the University of Turin. This collection was partially forgotten for the last 50 years, and after 1936 the collection became almost invisible. In the last 30 years the meteorite samples were tightly packaged and retained in the basement of the museum building. Currently a new listing of the meteorite collection is in progress and almost finished, in which every sample is described, measured and weighed. For each sample the authors acquired high resolution images and examined historical documentations. Images were acquired with a desktop scanner, which was found to be an ideal tool for this purpose. A classification based on most famous meteorite catalogues is coupled to each description. About eighty samples (and probably a new meteorite, not described until now) will be depicted in the new catalogue, which hopefully will be published during 2009. The authors want to inform the international community that Turin the Museum holds an important collection containing almost all of the Piedmont meteorites (e.g. MOTTA DI CONTI, CERESETO, ALESSANDRIA), some Italian meteorites of considerable historical importance (TRONZANO, ALFIANELLO, ASSISI, SIENA), together with a selection of American and Eastern European samples.

Henry Crozier Plummer, 1875-1946

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 778-789
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer ◽  
Attention To Detail

Henry Crozier Plummer was born at Oxford on 24 October 1875. He was the eldest son of William Edward Plummer, who was then Senior Assistant at the Oxford University Observatory under the directorship of Pritchard and who was subsequently (1892) appointed Director of the Observatory of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and Reader in Astronomy at the University of Liverpool. Plummer was educated at St Edmund’s School, Oxford, from whence he proceeded to Hertford College where he held a scholarship. He took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and Finals, and a second class in the Final Honours School of Natural Science (Physics). After a year as Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Owens College, Manchester, and another year as Assistant Demonstrator in the Clarendon Laboratory, he accepted, in 1901, the position of Second Assistant in the University Observatory under the directorship of H. H. Turner. The salary of this post was not attractive, but Plummer wished to devote his energies to astronomy, a subject to which he had already made contributions in the form of papers published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ; he had been elected a Fellow of that Society in 1899. His career as a professional astronomer lasted until 1921. During that period his published papers (most of which appeared in the Monthly Notices ) covered a wide field of topics and included several well-defined series which represented substantial contributions to natural knowledge. He always approached a problem critically and with careful attention to detail; thoroughness and solidity were the characteristics of his work.

A new species of the genus Toleria Walker, 1865 [“1864”] from Vietnam, with a catalogue of Asian Cissuvorini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4802 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-360
Author(s):  
OLEG G. GORBUNOV ◽  
YUTAKA ARITA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
National Park ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Clearwing Moth ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
A New Species

A new clearwing moth species, Toleria vietnamica sp. nov. from Ba Bể National Park, Bẳc Kan Province, North Vietnam is described and illustrated. An annotated catalogue of Asian members of the tribe Cissuvorini is added to this paper. The catalogue contains the following information: the references to the original descriptions, information on name-bearing types, complete bibliographies of the presented taxa, distribution and available data on host plants. The type series of the new species is deposited in the collection of National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (formerly Natural Science Museum Tokyo). 

Ralph Tate, his Natural History Museum at the University of Adelaide and the ‘Tate Museum'

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kidman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The University

Many of Ralph Tate's achievements as the University of Adelaide's foundation Professor of Natural Science arewell known.The focus here is on the quite remarkable, but almost forgotten, natural history museum that he built at the University and that after his death was named the Tate Museum. The paper outlines and explains the difficulties that Tate encountered in establishing the museum, the strictly geological focus of his successors and the gradual dispersal of Tate's main collections.

The phrenological collection of Gama Machado in the Science Museum, University of Coimbra

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Helena Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Scientific Context ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
The University ◽  
Plaster Casts

Abstract José Joaquim da Gama Machado was a devotee of the doctrine of phrenology. The theory, formulated by the physician Franz Gall c.1792–93, postulated a biological basis for human behaviour, locating the different mental faculties within the cerebral cortex. Machado was among the founders of the Phrenological Society of Paris. In order to conduct his investigations, he gathered an extensive collection of plaster casts moulded from heads, which he bequeathed to the University of Coimbra in 1861. After more than a century and a half, we investigate what is known about its founder, the man and the collector; the historical and scientific context in which the collection originated; and the paths it travelled within the university. In tracing the life of the collection, we identify also the fortuitous and idiosyncratic nature of its long journey from its formation to the present day.

scholarly journals Natural Science at the University of Cambridge

Nature ◽  
1870 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 451-452
Author(s):  
T. G. BONNEY
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University
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