III.—On Jurassic Ammonites

1889 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 200-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Buckman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Body Chamber ◽  
Ventral Area

In a former communication (Geol. Mag. Dec. III. Vol. IV. No. 9, p. 396, 1887), when pointing out how Reinecke's Amm. serpentinus had been misunderstood, I gave as a synonym, but with a query, Sowerby's Amm. Strangewaysi. As I have, since then, examined the type-specimen of the latter species contained in the collection of the Natural History Museum, and as Mr. E. Walford kindly forwarded me for my determination a capital specimen from Byfield, I have been able to satisfactorily settle the identity of these forms. Except being evolute carinate Ammonites, the two species have hardly a feature in common.Discoidal, compressed, hollow-carinate. Whorls flattened, ornamented with genuine sickle-shaped ribs, which, though less conspicuous in size on the body-chamber, are there more distinctly bent. Ventral area marked by the prolonged forward sweep of the ribs, and surmounted by a well-marked hollow-carina.

The discreditation of oboyerite and a note on the crystal structure of plumbotellurite

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 791-797
Author(s):  
Owen P. Missen ◽  
Michael S. Rumsey ◽  
Anthony R. Kampf ◽  
Stuart J. Mills ◽  
Malcolm E. Back ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Synthetic Compound ◽  
History Museum ◽  
X Ray ◽  
International Mineralogical Association

AbstractThe mineral ‘oboyerite’, first described in 1979 from the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA, has been re-examined. The type specimen from the Natural History Museum, London and a specimen from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (traceable to S. A Williams, who first described ‘oboyerite’) were analysed in this study. The discreditation of ‘oboyerite’ as a valid mineral species has been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association (Proposal 19-D). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, electron probe microanalysis and scanning electron microscopy were all employed to show that ‘oboyerite’ is formed of at least two distinct phases, including the lead–tellurium oxysalt minerals ottoite and plumbotellurite. During the course of the discreditation, plumbotellurite was confirmed to be identical to the synthetic compound α-Pb2+Te4+O3. Previously, in some mineralogical literature plumbotellurite was described as orthorhombic with no known crystal structure.

The type of the enigmatic creeping water bug Naucoris sumatranus FIEBER, 1851 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2981 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
HERBERT ZETTEL
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Water Bugs

In the Malesian faunal region the Naucoridae or creeping water bugs comprise 79 described species, which have been mostly subject to recent reviews and revisions (see checklist and references in Chen et al. 2005; and Zettel 2007, Polhemus & Polhemus 2008, Polhemus et al. 2008, Sites & Suputa 2008, Sites & Vitheepradit 2011). However, an exception, Naucoris sumatranus remained untreated for 160 years, since its short original description by Fieber in 1851. To fill this gap the type specimen in the Natural History Museum Vienna is redescribed and the species identity is discussed.

Some poorly known Asterocheres species (Siphonostomatoida: Asterocheridae) deposited in the Natural History Museum of London

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Bandera ◽  
Conradi Mercedes
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
General Shape ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mandibular Palp ◽  
First Time

A total of seven poorly known species of the genus Asterocheres, the largest genus of the family Asterocheridae, are redescribed based on material deposited in the Natural History Museum of London. Among the material available, there were specimens of both sexes of A. bulbosus, A. ellisi and A. rotundus; the dissected holotypes for A. hongkongensis, A. indicus and A. ovalis which have no other specimens; and only cotype of A. micheli, turned out to be lost. Some taxonomically important appendages of these species are described and illustrated for the first time. Furthermore, discrepancies have been observed in: (1) the general shape of the body; (2) the antennule segmentation; (3) the omission of some elements in various oral appendages; and (4) the segmentation of the mandibular palp. These redescribed species were then compared with their closest congeners.

Two new nematode genera (Rhabditida: Drilonematoidea) from earthworms

Nematology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-436
Author(s):  
Elena S. Ivanova ◽  
W. Duane Hope
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Nerve Ring ◽  
Excretory Duct ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Sensory Organs ◽  
Coelomic Cavity ◽  
History Museum

Abstract Two new genera of Drilonematoidea from earthworms deposited in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum are described. Acanthungella africana gen. n., sp. n. (Ungellidae) was found parasitic in the coelomic cavity of Millsonia nigra Beddard, 1894 and Araguanema venezuelae gen. n., sp. n. (Drilonematidae) was found in the coelomic cavity of Rhinodrilus sp. Acanthungella africana gen. n., sp. n. is closely related to Ungella Cobb, 1928, but distinguished from it and the rest of the ungellid genera by having a series of numerous sublateral sensilla through the length of the body. Araguanema venezuelae gen. n., sp. n. is similar to two other monotypic drilonematid genera, namely Diceloides Timm, 1967 and Mbanema Spiridonov, 1992, in having vesicular sensory organs. Araguanema gen. n. can be distinguished from Diceloides by the number and position of lateral fimbriate and vesicular sensory organs; the nerve ring located around the isthmus of the pharynx vs at the pharyngo-intestinal junction; a single ovum in the uterus vs more than 100 ova; presence vs absence of an excretory duct; long fibres protruding from the anal aperture vs the absence of such fibres; and by the absence vs presence of a spermatheca. Araguanema gen. n. differs from Mbanema in having a cylindrical vs a clavate pharynx, and by the presence of anterior and caudal fimbriate organs vs caudal only.

scholarly journals Project Paleo: Citizen Curation and Community Science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25980
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ellwood ◽  
Kathryn Estes-Smargiassi ◽  
Noel Graham ◽  
Gary Takeuchi ◽  
Austin Hendy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Background Information ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Identification Guide ◽  
Rancho La Brea

The School and Teacher Programs of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have partnered with the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum (LBTPM) and the Invertebrate Paleontology (LACMIP) collection to create two “citizen curation” exercises dubbed “Project Paleo”. Classroom kits were created with unsorted fossils from either LBPTM or from a local invertebrate paleontological field site, to be sorted and identified by local elementary and middle school students and then returned to the museum for curation, analysis, and research purposes. Each kit contains background information about the project and fossils, and an identification guide to assist the students and teachers. The “Project Paleo: Rancho La Brea” kit contains three tablespoons of unsorted fossil matrix from LBTPM’s Project 23. Groups of students learn about past and present food webs of the Los Angeles Basin, then sort the matrix into several categories (bones, plants, other fossils, and rocks) using a guide with drawn examples of each. An online iNaturalist (inaturalist.org) project also serves as an identification resource as well as a platform by which students can contribute photos for identification by staff researchers. This project is aimed at middle schoolers and over 700 students have used the sorting kits. Results will help to recreate past ecosystems of Southern California and help to inform a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project, “A Mouse’s Eye View of Rancho La Brea”. The “Project Paleo: Marine Invertebrates of Southern California” kit produced by LACMIP, contains approximately two cups of washed but unsorted coarse fossil matrix from a salvaged (now destroyed) construction site. This kit is aimed at 5th grade Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms and homeschooling families. Students are asked to sort fossils by species and use included identification cards to identify the sorted fossils to the best of their ability. Results of this project will be included in an NSF funded digitization project and will contribute to research on the paleoecology of Pleistocene Southern California. Early evaluation of both kits has shown positive feedback from students and educators, as well as some room to improve instructions to students. These kits are designed to conform to Next Generation Science Standards while generating useful data for museum scientists. Collections staff are able to outsource the curation of critical data to students who get the experience of handling real museum fossils and contributing to the body of paleontological research.

Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Hodgkinson ◽  
John E. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
History Museum ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT: In spite of his many other interests, Edward Heron-Allen also worked for nearly 50 years as a scientist on minute shelled protists, called foraminifera, much of it in an unpaid, unofficial capacity at The Natural History Museum, London, and notably in collaboration with Arthur Earland. During this career he published more than 70 papers and obtained several fellowships, culminating in 1919 in his election to the Royal Society. Subsequently, he bequeathed his foraminiferal collections and fine library to the Museum, and both are housed today in a room named in his honour. In this paper, for the first time, an assessment of his scientific accomplishments is given, together with a full annotated bibliography of his publications held in the Heron-Allen Library. This is part of a project to produce a bibliography of his complete publications, recently initiated by the Heron-Allen Society.

Some aspects of the work of Robert Brown and the Investigatornaturalists in Madeira during August 1801

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
D. T. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Atlantic Island

Robert Brown is best known for his Australian botanical work of 1801-1805 and for his activity as an early taxonomist and microscopist. However, he made botanical collections and observations on the Atlantic island of Madeira in August 1801 while on his way to Australia on Investigator. As the bicentenary of the voyage is now being celebrated this aspect of Brown's botanical career, and its aftermath, is examined. Some of his Madeiran collection –rass specimens – survive today in the Herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London (BM).

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