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

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.

scholarly journals ‘Frozen shoulder’ is ill-defined. How can it be described better?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 273-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Abrassart ◽  
Franck Kolo ◽  
Sébastian Piotton ◽  
Joe Chih-Hao Chiu ◽  
Patrick Stirling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Adhesive Capsulitis ◽  
Frozen Shoulder ◽  
The Past ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Limiting Condition

Frozen shoulder, a common and debilitating shoulder complaint, has been the subject of uncertainty within the scientific literature and clinical practice. We performed an electronic PubMed search on all (1559) articles mentioning ‘frozen shoulder’ or ‘adhesive capsulitis’ to understand and qualify the range of naming, classification and natural history of the disease. We identified and reviewed six key thought leadership papers published in the past 10 years and all (24) systematic reviews published on frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis in the past five years. This revealed that, while key thought leaders such as the ISAKOS Upper Extremity Council are unequivocal that ‘adhesive capsulitis’ is an inappropriate term, the long-term and short-term trends showed the literature (63% of systematic reviews assessed) preferred ‘adhesive capsulitis’. The literature was divided as to whether or not to classify the complaint as primary only (9 of 24) or primary and secondary (9 of 24); six did not touch on classification. Furthermore, despite a systematic review in 2016 showing no evidence to support a three-phase self-limiting progression of frozen shoulder, 11 of 12 (92%) systematic reviews that mentioned phasing described a three-phase progression. Eight (33%) described it as ‘self-limiting’, three (13%) described it as self-limiting in ‘nearly all’ or ‘most’ cases, and six (25%) stated that it was not self-limiting; seven (29%) did not touch on disease resolution. We call for a data and patient-oriented approach to the classification and description of the natural history of the disease, and recommend authors and clinicians (1) use the term ‘frozen shoulder’ over ‘adhesive capsulitis’, (2) use an updated definition of the disease which recognizes the often severe pain suffered, and (3) avoid the confusing and potentially harmful repetition of the natural history of the disease as a three-phase, self-limiting condition. Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2020;5:273-279.DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.5.190032

The morphology of Lecithaster musteli sp.nov. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from the intestine of Onos mustelus (L.) and a review of the genus Lecithaster Lühe, 1901

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. P. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Definition Of

Lecithaster musteli sp.nov. from the five-bearded rockling, Onos mustelus (L.), at Mumbles Head, Swansea, is described and compared with other species of the genus.The genus Lecithaster Lühe, 1901 is reviewed. An emended definition of the genus is given with keys, diagnostic features, and brief notes of the nine recognized species. L. gibbosus (Rud.) Lühe, 1901 is briefly redescribed.L. intermedius Szidat, 1954 is considered to be a synonym of L. gibbosus (Rud.) Lühe, 1901.I am deeply indebted to Dr B. L. James for his advice and indispensable assistance throughout the work and the preparation of this paper. I am also grateful to Professor E. W. Knight-Jones for his interest and for providing the working facilities, and to Mr S. Prudhoe, British Museum (Natural History), for his advice, for allowing me to examine slides of L. gibbosus and for the use of the library.

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.

A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) described by F.W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Booth ◽  
R.D. Pope
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
University Museum

AbstractThe type material of Coccinellidae described by F.W. Hope and by E. Mulsant from the collections of F.W. Hope and J.O. Westwood is reviewed. Lectotypes for Hope's species are designated (with a single exception) from material in the British Museum (Natural History). The majority oflectotypes for Mulsant's species described from Hope's and Westwood's material is located in the Hope Entomological Collections, University Museum, Oxford. The identity of a species is discussed where confusion concerning a name has occurred in the past, or where the current interpretation differs from the original description or type material. Brachiacantha bipartita Mulsant is resurrected from synonymy with B. westwoodii Mulsant. The following new synonymies are recorded (valid name first): Ballida brahamae Mulsant = Palaeoeneis aurantiaca Crotch = Eoneda sumatrensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian; Calvia quattuordecimguttata (Linnaeus) = Oenopia dorsonotata Mulsant; Calvia vulnerata (Hope) = C. uniramosa (Hope) = C. flaccida Mulsant = C. vishnu (Crotch) = C. krishna (Crotch) = C. buddha (Crotch); Coelophora saucia (Mulsant) = Lemnia melanota Mulsant; Rodolia sexnotata (Mulsant) = R. guerinii (Crotch); Scymnus nubilus Mulsant = S. curtisii Mulsant = S. lateralis Sicard. The following are new combinations: Afidentula stephensi (Mulsant) (from Epilachna); Horniolus guimeti (Mulsant) (from Scymnus); Rhyzobius waterhousei (Mulsant) (from Scymnus); Rodolia sexnotata (Mulsant) (from Epilachna).

The Geological Age of the Cromer Forest Bed

1951 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Azzaroli
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Faunal Assemblage ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Modern Species ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Primitive Species

The present writer has had recently the opportunity to carry out a revision of the deer of the Cromer Forest Bed series of East Anglia. The entire work is to be published in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). The stratigraphical conclusions will be summarized here.The occurrence of relatively archaic species together with more modern species in the Forest Bed fauna has puzzled many palaeontologists. Whereas the older authors concluded that it was wholly Pliocene (Reid, 1890, with bibliography) or partially or totally derived (Dubois, 1905), more recently a tendency has become prevalent to attribute the whole fauna to the early Pleistocene, and to explain the more archaic species as relics (Osborn, 1922; Zeuner, 1945). It may be shown that all these interpretations are untenable.A Pliocene age is ruled out by the presence of species which immigrated into Europe after the close of the Villafranchian. On the other hand, the older representatives, once attributed to the Pliocene but actually of Upper Villafranchian age, do not constitute isolated relics: an entire faunal assemblage characteristic of that epoch is present. Moreover, primitive species occur in the Forest Bed fauna together with their more advanced descendants, and the fauna is richer in species than in any other locality.

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.

scholarly journals Notes on African blood-sucking midges (Family Chironomidae, Sub-family Ceratopogoninae), with descriptions of new species

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Blood Sucking

The identity of Culicoides habereri, Becker, with C. grahamii, Austen, is conclusively established as the result of a comparison of the typical series of the former with the type and para-types of the latter, which are preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). For the opportunity of making this comparison and thus proving the synonymy given above, the present writer is indebted to Dr. Kurt Lampert, of the Königl. Naturaliensammlung, Stuttgart, where the original material of C. habereri is preserved; with the most obliging courtesy Dr. Lampert not only forwarded for comparison the typical series described by Becker, but also presented three para-types of C. habereri to our National Collection.

scholarly journals NOTES ON WALKER'S TYPES OF SPILOSOMA CONGRUA, AND A FEW OTHER TYPES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

1901 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Henry H. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Hyphantria Cunea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Spilosoma Congrua ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Past Summer

Having arranged for a two months trip to Europe during the past summer, I determined to visit the Natural History Branch oi the British Musenm, to endeavour to clear up the doubt surrounding Walker's spilosoma Congrua, taking with me a number of specimens of S. Antigone, Strecker; a pair of the heavily-spotted Gomin form of Spilosoma, which Dr. Fyles calls Cunea, lent to me by Mr. Winn; a typical female specimen of S. Prima, kindly given to me by Mrs. Slosson; and a small series of Hyphantria Cunea, Drury. I reached London late on the 26th June, but on the morning of the 29th received a cablegram which necessitated my immediate return home. After making my arrangements to sail from Liverpool on the 30th, I found I had a few hours to spare, and so paid a very hurried visit to the Museum, and was shown what was supposed to be the three types of Congrua by sir George Hampson, who kindly remained after the closing hour to accommodate me.

scholarly journals John Strange, F. R. S., 1732 - 1799

1951 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-108 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
National Biography

In the Dictionary of National Biography , John Strange is described as a diplomatist and author, as indeed he was ; for in 1773 he was appointed British Minister Resident at Venice, and he published a number of works, mostly devoted to archaeology and geology. For his contributions to the former of these subjects, he was rewarded by his election to Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries, just as, for the latter, he was elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society.1 It does not appear to be recognized, however, how important and accurate, and how far in advance of their time, were his contributions to Geology, nor should I have known of them had it not been for copies of manuscript unpublished letters of his in the British Museum (Natural History), and for a printed book in my own private collection bearing copious marginal notes by Strange. This is a copy of Description des Montagnes et des Vallées de la Principauté de Neuchatel et Valangin , Neuchatel, 1766, of which the anonymous author was Samuel-Frédéric d’Ostervald, 2 banneret of Neuchâtel. The title-page bears in ink the words ‘ with Mr. Strange’s marginal notes ’, and the flyleaf,‘ Dec. 5, 1856 Presented to me by Professor J. H. Marsden of Great Oakley nr Harwich. A. Sedgwick.’ The notes were clearly written by Strange during the course of a journey made to the places described in the book.

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