I.—The Directorship of the Natural History Museum

1898 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 433-434
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
General Public ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Active Service

The retirement of Sir William Flower from the office of Director of the British Museum of Natural History, which took place on September 30, after fourteen years of extremely efficient and active service, will be viewed with regret by the great majority of naturalists throughout the country. That he achieved the completion of all his plans would be to claim too much in so limited a period of time, but that he succeeded in illustrating how a Natural History Museum may be rendered attractive to the general public and may also be a place of instruction to the student, no one will deny.

scholarly journals Life in two countries but one home land – Béla Lipthay (1892-1974) the entomologist

2014 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
András Bozsik
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Life Time ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
World War ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Agricultural Entomology ◽  
Home Village

Béla Lipthay lepidopterologist, entomologist, museologist, agriculturist, hussar lieutenant, life-saving Roman Catholic, descendant of the historical family Lipthay de Kisfalud et Lubelle did a long way from his home village Lovrin to Szécsény, the one-time land of his ancestors. His life coincided with the disintegration of the historical Hungary, and the most serious trials of the Hungarian society, culture and spirit. These changes affected him as a member of Hungarian aristocracy many times and in fact wanted to destroy him. The fortune of the ancestors have been swept away by the storms of the wars and confiscated but the human strength of character, the consciousness, the talent, the diligence, the sanctuary of faith have remained. All these made him possible to survive, to do his everyday hard creative work, which gained him affection and respect of the people living around him. Lipthay Béla was mainly lepidopterist and dealt with the the species of Hungary. Place of his collection was first his native country, the Banat, and the area of the Southern Carpatian Montain, and after 1944 Nógrád county (Szécsény, Balassagyarmat, Nógrádszakál, Ipolytarnóc, Rimóc, Ludányhalászi etc.). The collected species belonged to Macrolepidoptera but he dealt also with the moths. During his life time he prepared a collection of 60000 individuals and maintained them until his passing away. Great part of this collection can be found at the zoological cabinet of Natural History Museum in Budapest. He discovered many species new for the Hungarian fauna such as e.g. Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829), and described a new species (Chamaesphecia sevenari Lipthay, 1961) which later proved to be a synonym of Chamaesphecia nigrifrons (Le Cerf, 1911). He knew well the most famous collectors and specialists of the age. After the first World War he worked together with Frigyes König, László Diószeghy, Jenő Teleki, Norman D. Riley (leading entomologist of the British Museum at London, secretary of the Royal Entomological Society), Brisbane C. S. Warren ( member of the Royal Entomological Society), Lionel W. Rothschild (the most important private collector) and many excellent lepidopterists. After the second World War he was well known and respected by the Hungarian entomologists and lepidopterists: he was a friend of Lajos Kovács, the distinguished lepidopterist and Zoltán Kaszab, the eminent entomologist. He had a good relationship with such renowned Hungarian zoologists and entomologists like Gyula Éhik, László Gozmány, László Issekutz, László Bezsilla and László Móczár. He colleted also Hymenoptera, Diptera and capricorn beetles to be found in Hungarian and foreign collections Natural History Museum, (London), a Szekler National Museum (Marosvásárhely). He dealt with agricultural entomology because he was an experienced agriculturist as far as he had the opportunity to do that. He painted wonderful agricultural entomology posters and organized expositions e.g. on the pests of industrial crops and hunting at Balassagyarmat and Salgótarján.

VIII.—On a Pygidium of Bronteus from the Devonian of Gerolstein, Eifel, preserved in the Collection of the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Athenæum, Barnstaple.

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 407-410
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Deep Interest

Many years ago the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall, F.G.S., of Pilton, Barnstaple, specially devoted his energies to the geology and palæontology of the Devonian rocks of North Devon, and in addition to a set of fossils acquired from him, now in the British Museum (Natural History), he left a series of local fossils to the Museum in the Athenæum at Barnstaple. This collection has been kindly curated by Mr. J. G. Hamling, F.G.S., of The Close, Barnstaple, North Devon, who takes a deep interest in the geology of the district. Mr. Hamling has called my attention to an interesting specimen in this collection which proves to be a pygidium of Bronteus, collected by the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Devonian rocks of Gerolstein in the Eifel, which country he had visited many years ago in company with the late Mr. John Edward Lee, F.G.S., of Torquay. In remembrance of that excursion Mr. Hall had presented the counterpart of this fossil to Mr. J. E. Lee, and it was supposed to be in this gentleman's collection, but it cannot now be found. There is, I believe, a good cast of the fossil in the Townshend Hall Collection in the Natural History Museum.

scholarly journals Upper Ordovician trilobites of zonal value in south-east Shropshire

1949 ◽  
Vol 136 (883) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Related Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Section

The following descriptions of Shropshire trilobites, mostly collected from urchison’s (1839) type section of the Caradoc Series, are from Bancroft manu-sripts which will ultimately be deposited in the British Museum (Natural History), here the Bancroft Collection of fossils is housed. As far as possible the original xt has been preserved, apart from material necessary to bring it up to date and tsertion of references to various publications. Since in Bancroft’s paper on ryptolithinae (1929) the illustrations were reproduced from drawings, it has been bought well, as suggested by Richter (1930, pp. 556 - 557), to refigure some of the species from photographs. A few of Bancroft’s unpublished trilobites have been ealt with by Reed (1932) and Shirley (1936). In these cases only a minimum of reference is now given, but Bancroft’s illustrations have been retained. A recent paper by Harper (1947) describes some related species from the Lower Longvillian if Caernarvonshire. It may be added that Dr C. J. Stubblefield has given help with the text of the present publication. He, Mr R. Baker and Mr W. H. C. Ramsbottom searched for the type specimens in the Natural History Museum. Thanks to their co-operation, most of the figured examples have now been identified with the photographs.

scholarly journals Taxonomic key to the snakes (Squamata: Ophidia) species of the Itajaí Valley, Santa Catarina, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. e20216120
Author(s):  
Camilla Spengler Waltrick ◽  
Luís Olímpio Menta Giasson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
General Public ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Snake Species ◽  
Identification Keys ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Coloration Patterns

Snakes represent the richest Reptile group in Brazil, amounting to 412 species and 40% of them are endemic for the country. This great richness combined with the poor taxonomic knowledge makes the identification a difficult process. To correctly identify a specimen, guides, taxonomic revisions, identification keys, and consulting specialists are the most used methods. Identification keys are based on separation and segregation of characters, where the chosen paths lead to the appropriate taxa. These tools are normally used by students and non-taxonomists. Also, they can be very helpful with the general public, where they can identify the species with simple characters. This study aims to develop keys for the snakes from the State of Santa Catarina state, Brazil, focusing on the Itajaí Valley species. We surveyed 351 specimens deposited in Universidade Regional de Blumenau Zoological Collection (CZFURB), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (CHUFSC), and Natural History Museum of Capão da Imbuia (MHNCI) herpetological collections. Characters including pholidosis, dentition, and coloration patterns were examined from the 46 snake species registered from Itajaí Valley.

Confirmation of the identity of the type host of the louse Halipeurus fallacis (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
RICARDO L. PALMA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Host ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
A New Species

Alexander (1954: 489) recorded a petrel (Aves: Procellariiformes) captured alive on board a ship in the Indian Ocean by Mr W.W.A. Phillips who, after removing some lice, liberated it the following morning. Alexander (1954) identified that petrel as the species “Pterodroma aterrima Bonaparte”, now placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. The lice were kept in the collection of the then British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum, London, England. Jouanin (1955) published a new species of petrel from the Indian Ocean as Bulweria fallax. Jouanin (1957: 19) discussed the identity of the petrel identified by Alexander (1954) as Pterodroma aterrima, stating that the descriptive data given by Alexander (1954) did not clearly fit either P. aterrima or B. fallax. However, considering the geographical coordinates where the bird was captured, Jouanin (1957) believed it was more likely Bulweria fallax. 

The internal features of the Rhynchonellid brachiopod Propriopugnus Brunton, 1984, from the lower Carboniferous of England

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman M. Savage ◽  
Risa M. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
History Museum

As part of the preparation for reviewing the Paleozoic rhynchonellids for the revised brachiopod treatise, one of us (NMS) requested help from Dr. Howard Brunton, of the Natural History Museum (British Museum, London) in obtaining type material of Propriopugnus pugnus (Martin) to further investigate the internal features. Dr. Brunton kindly sent a Natural History Museum specimen that he considers to be close to the lectotype. This specimen has been photographed and sectioned, and it is described below.

scholarly journals A survey of Hebeloma (Hymenogastraceae) in Greenland

MycoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 17-118
Author(s):  
Ursula Eberhardt ◽  
Henry J. Beker ◽  
Torbjørn Borgen ◽  
Henning Knudsen ◽  
Nicole Schütz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The World

This is the first study exclusively dedicated to the study of Hebeloma in Greenland. It is based on almost 400 collections, the great majority of which were collected by three of the co-authors over a period of 40 years and were lodged in the fungarium of the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen. The material was identified using molecular and morphological methods. In total, 28 species were recognized, 27 belonging to three sections, H. sects Hebeloma, Denudata and Velutipes. One species sampled was new to science and is here described as H. arcticum. For all species, a description, a distribution map within Greenland and macro and microphotographs are presented. A key is provided for the 28 species. The distribution of species within Greenland is discussed. The findings are placed in the context of studies of arctic and alpine Hebeloma from other parts of the world where comparable data exist. Notably, H. grandisporum, H. louiseae and H. islandicum, previously only known from Romania, Svalbard, Iceland or Norway, respectively, have been found in Greenland. The latter is also the only species encountered that does not belong to any of the above sections. Hebeloma excedens and H. colvinii – for the latter we here publish the first modern description – are to date only known from continental North America and now Greenland.

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