scholarly journals A Model of Peloneustes philarchus

1922 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-310
Author(s):  
H. Neville Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

Plate XIV shows two photographs of a model I have recently made in order to show the outward aspect of Peloneustes philarchus, a pliosaur from the Oxford Clay. It is based on the complete mounted skeleton now in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, a part of the well-known Leeds collection. This skeleton has a length of 10 ft. 6 in., and my model is 23 in. long, so the scale is roughly about 1:5. No other museum possesses a mounted skeleton of this genus, the nearest thing to which is the Trinacromerum, described as a Cretaceous plesiosaur by Dr. S. W. Williston in his work on Water Reptiles of the Past and Present, Chicago, 1915, where a restoration is shown on p. 89, fig. 42. The specimen is in the Museum of the University of Kansas. This same Leeds collection has given us two fine mounted skeletons of the genus Cryptoclidus, of the family Elasmosauridæ, and now we have also this fine mounted skeleton of Peloneustes, which belongs to the Pliosauridae. Hence it is now possible for geologists to see at a glance the chief characteristics of these two families, and my hope is that this model may be of some use to students of Palæontology. In making the model I have had the advantage of much valuable assistance from my friend, Mr. E. Godwin, an accomplished sculptor, without whose assistance I doubt if it could ever have been completed; for when I attempted to model the head I found a task that was beyond my power to accomplish properly, not having had any training in the art of sculpture.

STUDIES IN NEW WORLD PLECIA (DIPTERA, BIBIONIDAE) PART II

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
D. Elmo Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New World ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
State College ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
The University

The species discussed below have been received from the United States National Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cornell University, Michigan State College, British Museum of Natural History, and Deutsches Entomologisches Institute, or are in the Snow Entomological Collection at the University of Kansas. The writer is very grateful to these institutions for the privilege of studying this material. These species will be keyed and figured in a forthcoming revision of the New World Plecia.

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir William Bragg, O.M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1939

1939 ◽  
Vol 173 (954) ◽  
pp. 286-312
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Early Age ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The University

It is my first duty to refer to Fellows who have recently passed away. George Albert Boulenger was a student of the University of Brussels, his native city. He began at a very early age the study of reptiles, batrachians and fishes in the Natural History Museum at Brussels, and in 1880 became assistant naturalist there. In 1882, he was appointed a first class assistant in the Department of Zoology in the British Museum; he held this position until he retired in 1920. He has been described as a man of tremendous energy, an extremely methodical mind, and an amazing memory. These qualities were the foundation of the vast amount of work which he accomplished. He was one of the most distinguished of the descriptive biologists who have brought fame to the British Museum during the past hundred years. His most important contributions to science were the series of elaborate and detailed monographs, mostly published by the Museum. These still remain the basis of modern systematic work. They dealt with the groups of life which had interested him from the beginning, the batrachians, fishes, lizards, snakes and so forth. Thanks to his energy as a collector and as a stimulator of collectors, the Museum is rich in its possessions of these types; for example, it possesses an unparalleled collection of fresh water fishes. Boulenger was elected a Fellow in 1894 and served on the Council from 1903 to 1905. He was for some years a Vice-president of the Zoological Society and received many honours at home and abroad. He was naturalized in this country. Towards the end of his long life he forsook his reptiles and for twenty years devoted himself to the study of roses.

Recent Advances in Nutrition

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 752-752
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

This book is divided into 3 portions corresponding to the 3 Porter Lectures given by Dr. Cannon at the University of Kansas. The work described was done by a research team at the University of Chicago. In an interesting and easily understood manner the author discusses new advances made in the field of nutrition over the past 2 decades. The first portion of the monograph is devoted to a brief discussion of earlier data gathered by other investigative groups which contributed to the present work.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir William Bragg, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, 30 November 1939

1939 ◽  
Vol 128 (850) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Early Age ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

George Albert Boulenger was a student of the University of Brussels, his native city. He began at a very early age the study of reptiles, batrachians and fishes in the Natural History Museum at Brussels, and in 1880 became assistant naturalist there. In 1882, he was appointed a first class assistant in the Department of Zoology in the Britis Museum; he held this position until he retired in 1920. He has been described as a man of tremendous energy, an extremely methodical mind, and an amazing memory. These qualities were the foundation of the vast amount of work which he accomplished. He was one of the most distinguished of the descriptive biologists who have brought fame to the British Museum during the past hundred years. His most important contributions to science were the series of elaborate and detailed monographs, mostly published by the Museum. These still remain the basis of modern systematic work. They dealt with the groups of life which had interested him from the beginning, the batrachians, fishes, lizards, snakes and so forth. Thanks to his energy as a collector and as a stimulator of collectors, the Museum is rich in its possessions of these types; for example, it possesses an unparalleled collection of fresh water fishes.

IV.—On the Fossil Sirenia in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W.

1885 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 412-425
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Past

Among the vast additions which, during the past five years, have been made to the palæontological collections in the British Museum (Natural History), none probably possess greater interest to the naturalist and comparative anatomist than the remains of the very remarkable group of aquatic phytophagous mammals known as the Sirenia, of which the “Manatee” and the “Dugong” are the living representatives.

III.—A Synopsis of the Remains of Ganoid Fishes from the Cambridge Greensand

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Smith Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Definition Of

The remains of fishes discovered in the Cambridge Greensand are all very fragmentary, and have not hitherto been subjected to the detailed comparison with other Cretaceous Ichthyolites which their interesting stratigraphical position renders desirable. Many specimens, however, are capable of at least generic determination, while many others are sufficiently characteristic fragments for the definition of the species. The present writer has thus been much interested during the past few years in studying collections of these fossils, and the following notes embody some of the results in reference to the ganoid fishes. The British Museum (Natural History) having recently acquired the collection made from the Cambridge Greensand by Mr. Thomas Jesson, F.G.S., nearly all the known species are now represented here; but the writer has also availed himself of the privilege of making use of the fine series in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, and the Philosophical Society's Museum, York, thanks to the kindness of Professor McKenny Hughes, Mr. Henry Woods, and Mr. H. M. Platnauer. Mr. James Carter, M.R.C.S., has also kindly lent some Pycnodont jaws from his private collection

William Bulloch, 1868 - 1941

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 819-852
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Past ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

William Bulloch, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London and Consulting Bacteriologist to the London Hospital since his retirement in 1934, died on n February 1941, in his old hospital, following a small operation for which he had been admitted three days before. By his death a quite unique personality is lost to medicine, and to bacteriology an exponent whose work throughout the past fifty years in many fields, but particularly in the history of his subject, has gained for him wide repute. Bulloch was born on 19 August 1868 in Aberdeen, being the younger son of John Bulloch (1837-1913) and his wife Mary Malcolm (1835-1899) in a family of two sons and two daughters. His brother, John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A., LL.D. (1867-1938), was a well-known journalist and literary critic in London, whose love for his adopted city and its hurry and scurry was equalled only by his passionate devotion to the city of his birth and its ancient university. On the family gravestone he is described as Critic, Poet, Historian, and indeed he was all three, for the main interest of his life outside his profession of literary critic was antiquarian, genealogical and historical research, while in his earlier days he was a facile and clever fashioner of verse and one of the founders of the ever popular Scottish Students’ Song Book .

Third Annual Report from the American Committee for Irish Studies, 1969-70

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (66) ◽  
pp. 271-272
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Curran
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Business Meeting ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Personal Bias ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

The eighth annual conference of the American Committee for Irish Studies was held at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, from 30 April to 2 May 1970, with Professor Thomas Kinsella supervising local arrangements. The theme of the conference was ‘The roots of Ulster’, and representatives from both the Republic and Northern Ireland, as well as regular members of ACIS attended (Appendix A). At the business meeting Professor Harold Orel, of the University of Kansas, officially succeeded Professor John Kelleher of Harvard University as chairman of the executive committee, while Professor Maurice Harmon, of University College, Dublin, was named Irish representative on the executive committee. The business meeting also made the decision to accept the bid of the College of William and Mary for the 1971 conference. Professor J. C. Beckett, of Queen’s University, Belfast, delivered the banquet address. He spoke of the need for scholarly detachment and integrity on the part of the historian, who must strive to overcome personal bias and ‘represent times past as they were indeed’ Professor Beckett made a plea for more ‘popular history’, solidly grounded on historical evidence, but written in such a way that people will read it for pleasure as well as instruction. He explained the efforts being made in Northern Ireland to promote and popularize Irish studies, giving special emphasis to Queen’s University’s Institute of Irish Studies, which was attempting to coordinate work in the various fields of Irish studies.

The Meyrick Types of Scopariinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in the British Museum (Natural History), Exclusive of Hawaiian Species

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 891-897
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Hawaiian Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Made In

The purposes of this paper are: (1) to validate a considerable number of lectotype selections made in the course of a revisional study of the Scopariinae, and (2) to give, for the convenience of students, a list of Meyrick holotypes and lectotypes in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), which now contains the types of all but five of the large number of species described by Meyrick in this group. The Hawaiian species have been omitted as volume 8 of Zimmerman's Insects of Hawaii gives full particulars of the type material of Hawaiian Scopariinae, including Zimmerman's lectotype selections.

HYDROPTILIDAE (TRICHOPTERA) FROM SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

1947 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Denning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caddis Flies ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

During the past several years a number of interesting collections of Hydroptilidae were made in the southern states, particularly in Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. These collections have now been examined and found to contain several new species and new distributional records of this little known family of “micro” caddis flies.Unless designated otherwise types of new species described herein are in the author's collection at the University of Wyoming.

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