Notices of Books - Description d'un Atlas Sino-Corèen, Manuscrit du British Museum. Par Henri Cordier, Vice-President de la Commission Centrale de la Société de Geographie, Professeur à l'École des Langues Orientales vivantes. (Paris, 1896.)

1896 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-640
Author(s):  
T. W.
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President

IV. Observations on the Seal of Ethilwald Bishop of Dunwich, lately discovered at Eye, in Suffolk: by Hudson Gurney, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. Vice-President. In a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary.

Archaeologia ◽  
1824 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 479-483
Author(s):  
Hudson Gurney
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President

By the kindness of Mr. Fenner, of Eye, I have now the pleasure of sending you the Seal, of which I before forwarded you the impression, for the inspection of the Society.It appears to have been the Seal of Ethilwald Bishop of Dunwich, of whom the “Profession of Faith,” addressed to Celnoth Archbishop of Canterbury from A.D. 830 to 870, is referred to by Wharton in the Appendix to the Anglia Sacra, vol. I. p. 801, as existing in the Cottonian MS. Cleopatra, E. 1. in the British Museum.

VI.—Researches at Rickmansworth: Report on Excavations made in 1914 on behalf of the British Museum

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 195-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Smith ◽  
Henry Dewey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Leave Of Absence ◽  
High Terrace ◽  
Made In ◽  
At Home

After two short seasons spent in investigating the high terrace of the lower Thames, it was considered desirable to examine the gravel of a tributary, in order to equate if possible the various deposits in the two valleys, and to confirm or correct the sequence deduced from former excavatións at home and abroad. Two sites near Rickmansworth, at and just below the junction of the Gade and Colne rivers, have been known for years as productive of palaeoliths, and every facility was readily afforded for examining the gravel in pits at Croxley Green and Mill End by the respective owners, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Lord Rendlesham, and the lessees, the RickmansworthGravel Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Horwood Bros. Leave of absence was granted by the Trustees of the British Museum, and nine days were devoted to the work in October, the means being provided from a fund under the control of our Vice-President, Sir Hercules Read, Keeper of the Department concerned. Assistance from the geological side was given unofficially by Mr. Dewey, of H.M. Geological Survey, who has read through the paper in manuscript, and contributes an appendix dealing with some of the geological problems involved.

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.

The Principals and Their Part

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Weiner ◽  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Previous Evidence ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Merit

The objective evidence for the deception at Piltdown was overwhelming. The frauds extended to every aspect of the discovery—geological, archaeological, anatomical, and chemical—so that proof could be adduced three or four times over. Moreover, every time a new line of investigation was applied, it confirmed, as we have seen, what all previous evidence had established. The two Piltdown ‘men’ were forgeries, the tools were falsifications, the animal remains had been planted. The skill of the deception should not be underestimated, and it is not at all difficult to understand why forty years should have elapsed before the exposure; for it needed all the new discoveries of palaeontology to arouse suspicion, and completely new chemical and X-ray techniques to prove the suspicion justified. Professor Le Gros Clark, Dr. Oakley, and I wrote in our report that ‘Those who took part in the excavation at Piltdown had been the victims of an elaborate and inexplicable deception’. Inexplicable, indeed, for the principals were known to us as men of acknowledged distinction and highly experienced in palaeontological investigation. Woodward, in 1912, was a man of established reputation. Dawson enjoyed a solid esteem. Teilhard de Chardin was, of course, only at the beginning of his palaeontological career. Knowing their place in the world of science, we felt sure that these investigators, whose integrity there was not the slightest reason to question, had been victims—like the scientific world at large—of the deception. Arthur Smith Woodward (who was of an age with Dawson) at the time of the discovery had been Keeper of the Department of Geology at the British Museum since 1901, the year of his election to the Royal Society, and had scores of papers of very great merit to his credit. His work on fossil reptiles and fishes was on a monumental scale, and he had also made discoveries in mammalian palaeontology. He was without doubt the leading authority in his own field. His position was abundantly recognized by many awards and by appointment to many high offices—for example, Secretary, and in the Piltdown years successively Vice-President and President, of the Geological Society.

scholarly journals XXIII. Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Nájera to England, in the year 1543-4; written by his Secretary, Pedro de Gante: Communicated in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, Esq. M.P., Vice President S.A. by Frederic Madden, Esq. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1831 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 344-357
Author(s):  
Frederic Madden
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Private Information ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Council Of State

I Venture to offer to the notice of the Society, through your hands, an account of the visit made by Don Manriquez de Lara, Duke of Najera, to England, in the year 1543-4. All contemporary narratives of this nature are interesting, more especially when written, as in the present instance, for private information only; and in this respect the relation in question possesses perhaps a superior claim to those of Paulo Jovio, Micheli, Perlin, and Hentzner, already before the public. It is extracted from a folio MS. volume, recently acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum, which is stated to have been procured from the library of Thomas Iriarte, the well known Spanish poet, and Archiviste of the Council of State. This volume consists of copies of a variety of valuable documents in the form of correspondence, narratives, and diplomatic instruments, from the year 1520 to the commencement of the sixteenth century, chiefly illustrative of the history of Spain during that period, but embracing also the transactions in Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Africa.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom: Report of the Council for 1944–45

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-450
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Laboratory Staff ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Distinguished Member ◽  
Made In

By the death of Lord Moyne, assassinated in Cairo on 6 November 1944, the Association has lost a very distinguished member who had contributed generously to improvements at the Plymouth laboratory and had himself made important contributions to Marine Biology. Lord Moyne had been a Governor since 1929; he was President of the Association from 1930 to 1939 and was a Vice-President at the time of his death. During the past year the Association has also suffered by the loss of Mr J. R. Norman of the staff of the British Museum, who had served on a number of occasions as a member of Council.Four ordinary meetings of Council were held during the year, two in the rooms of the Royal Society in London, one in the Zoological Laboratory at Cambridge and one at Plymouth. At these the average attendance was II. The Association is indebted to the President and Council of the Royal Society and to Prof. Gray for their kindness in providing accommodation for three of the meetings.The Plymouth LaboratoryDuring the year considerable progress has been made in the restoration of the laboratory buildings. When it became evident that enemy raids on Plymouth had ended repairs to the asphalt roofing of the buildings were carried out and the lantern light in the library was renovated, while extensive work was undertaken by the laboratory staff. Included in the latter was the replacement of numerous panes of glass in the main laboratory, the reglazing and complete internal redecoration of the library, and repairs to the constant temperature rooms.

scholarly journals Conservation in Sweden—problems and progress

Oryx ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Curry-Lindahl
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
National Parks ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Small Population ◽  
International Level ◽  
Ideal Position ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Lecture

Sweden, with its small population and its wealth, is in an ideal position to practise sound conservation. Indeed, it was the first European country to enact legislation making provision for national parks. But, as is true of anywhere else in the world, there have been, and still are, conflicts between conservationists and those who exploit natural resources without thought for the future. Professor Kai Curry-Lindahl, an ffPS Vice-President, has been involved with conservation in Sweden for many years as well as being extremely active at an international level. In July 1983, the British Museum (Natural History) invited him to give a public lecture on the progress of conservation in his country and its attendant problems. Here we publish a shortened version of his talk.

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