scholarly journals 4. On some Congenital Deformities of the Human Skull

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 444-449
Author(s):  
Wm. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Human Skull ◽  
Congenital Deformities ◽  
Premature Closure ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Living Person

1st, Scaphocephalus.—After making reference to his previous papers, more especially to that in which he had described several specimens of the scaphocephalic skull, in which he had discussed the influence exercised on the production of deformities of the cranium, by a premature closure or obliteration of the sutures, and to the recent memoirs of Professor von Düben of Stockholm,† and Dr John Thurnam, the author proceeded to relate two additional cases of scaphocephalus to those he had already recorded. He had met with one of these in the head of a living person, the other in a skull in the Natural History Museum of the University of Edinburgh.

The Lorisoid GenusArctocebus: Observations Based on the Type Material

1946 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Osman Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Museum ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Primate Anatomy ◽  
The University ◽  
A New Species

Instudying the literature relating to that little-known prosimian, the Angwántibo—with a view to incorporating the main facts known about it in a comprehensive work on primate anatomy at present in preparation—I had occasion to consult the original description of the species by J. A. Smith (1860). I there discovered that the type was a spirit specimen (an “adult” male) which was received in Edinburgh, along with a second male, from Old Calabar. There is some confusion in the literature as to the fate of these specimens and this should, I think, be cleared up. Both specimens were procured in 1859 by Rev. A. Robb, one being sent, indirectly, to Smith and the other to Andrew Murray. Smith recognized in his specimen something new and accordingly described it as a new species of Potto, placing it in Bennett's genusPerodicticusasP. calabarensis. He gave an assurance of his intention of depositing the type in the Natural History Museum of the University of Edinburgh, but later sent it to his friend Carruthers at the British Museum for comparison with Bennett's type ofPerodicticus potto. Some useful observations were made upon it by Carruthers and incorporated as an addendum to Smith's paper. The specimen was evidently returned to Edinburgh and found its way to the University, but in 1860 it was transferred, with other material, to the Edinburgh Industrial Museum (since 1904 the Royal Scottish Museum).With the kind assistance of Professor J. Ritchie I have succeeded in tracing it, and with the permission of Dr D. A. Allan, Director of the Museum, and the helpful co-operation of Dr A. C. Stephen, Keeper of Natural History, I have had the privilege of studying it.

Ralph Tate, his Natural History Museum at the University of Adelaide and the ‘Tate Museum'

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kidman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The University

Many of Ralph Tate's achievements as the University of Adelaide's foundation Professor of Natural Science arewell known.The focus here is on the quite remarkable, but almost forgotten, natural history museum that he built at the University and that after his death was named the Tate Museum. The paper outlines and explains the difficulties that Tate encountered in establishing the museum, the strictly geological focus of his successors and the gradual dispersal of Tate's main collections.

From sponges to primates: emendation of 30 species nomina dedicated to the Swedish zoologist Einar Lönnberg

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2201 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
STEFAN KOERBER
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In 1891 Axel Johan Einar Lönnberg became a Doctor of Science and a Fellow of Zoology at the University of Uppsala. From 1904 to 1933, he served as head of the Vertebrate Department of the Royal Natural History Museum of Stockholm where after his expeditions around the world he worked the collected material himself. Although he was specialized in ornithology and the fauna of his homecountry Sweden, Lönnberg worked on so many different zoological groups “that since the days of Linnaeus hardly anyone has known so much about so many branches in zoology as Lönnberg” (Anonymous 1943). One of his special interests was to educate his Swedish countrymen about their native animals and he accomplished this during many years as editor and multiple author of the journal Fauna och Flora.

A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 3. Natural History Museum, Oslo (NHM)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2465 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Line Drawings

This paper presents redescriptions of 14 species of the genus Metopa (Stenothoidae) based on the type-collections at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. Type (syntype/holotype) material of Metopa aequicornis, M.borealis, M.leptocarpa, M.palmata, M. propinqua, M. pusilla, M. robusta and M. tenuimana was dissected and examined morphologically. Material from the original authors of M. affinis, M. boeckii, M. invalida, M. longicornis and M. sinuata was also examined morphologically, in addition to Sars’ material of M. alderi, including his type material of the later synonymized M. spectabilis. All species are redescribed using line drawings, and comparisons with the original texts and figures. For the species M. invalida, M. palmata, M. robusta and M. sinuata there are morphologic characters that indicate that they in fact do not belong to the Metopa s str, but any possible changes in classification are postponed pending a phylogenetic analysis of the genera Metopa and Stenula has been performed. A summary of the other species having earlier been designed to Metopa in the Oslo collections is given, with a list of their present taxonomic placing.

scholarly journals Reste eines Elasmosauriers aus der Oberkreide von Schleswig-Holstein in der Sammlung des Naturkunde-Museums Bielefeld

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Caudal Vertebrae ◽  
The University ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Upper Campanian

In 2016, the Natural History Museum Bielefeld received fragmentary remains of an elasmosaurid plesiosaurian from the upper Campanian of Kronsmoor (Steinburg district) in Schleswig-Holstein (northern Germany). The material includes incomplete vertebrae, phalanges and unidentifiable fragments. Additional parts of the same skeleton (a tooth, cervical-, dorsal- and caudal vertebrae, limb elements and 110 gastroliths) are housed at the Institute for Geology of the University of Hamburg and in private collections.

The Reverend Thomas Hincks FRS (1818–1899): taxonomist of Bryozoa and Hydrozoa

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Calder
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Thomas Hincks was born 15 July 1818 in Exeter, England. He attended Manchester New College, York, from 1833 to 1839, and received a B.A. from the University of London in 1840. In 1839 he commenced a 30-year career as a cleric, and served with distinction at Unitarian chapels in Ireland and England. Meanwhile, he enthusiastically pursued interests in natural history. A breakdown in his health and permanent voice impairment during 1867–68 while at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, forced him reluctantly to resign from active ministry in 1869. He moved to Taunton and later to Clifton, and devoted much of the rest of his life to natural history. Hincks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1872 for noteworthy contributions to natural history. Foremost among his publications in science were A history of the British hydroid zoophytes (1868) and A history of the British marine Polyzoa (1880). Hincks named 24 families, 52 genera and 360 species and subspecies of invertebrates, mostly Bryozoa and Hydrozoa. Hincks died 25 January 1899 in Clifton, and was buried in Leeds. His important bryozoan and hydroid collections are in the Natural History Museum, London. At least six genera and 13 species of invertebrates are named in his honour.

THE CATALOG OF THE MINERALOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE EMPEROR LEOPOLD II (1747–1792): COLLECTING AND LEARNING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNARITA FRANZA ◽  
ROSANNA FABOZZI ◽  
LETIZIA VEZZOSI ◽  
LUCIANA FANTONI ◽  
GIOVANNI PRATESI
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Metal Content ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT The Collectio Mineralium (1765) currently preserved at the Historical Archive of the Natural History Museum of the University of Firenze, is the unpublished catalog of the mineralogical collection that belonged to Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792). The catalog is a 110-page register, with the golden emblem of the House of Habsburg at the center of the binding, containing information about 242 mineralogical samples. Each specimen is carefully described (i.e., habit, metal content, product value) and its locality given. The interpretation of the text has also returned information on most of the mining deposits in the Austro-Hungarian territories in the eighteenth century. Therefore, the interpretation of this catalog—that on the basis of the literature appears to be the first catalog of a collection belonged to a Habsburg emperor—represents an important step toward enhancing our understanding of Habsburg natural history collections and reflected the transition from wonder-rooms to commodity collecting. Leopold's private collection was no longer an ‘instrument of wonder’ but it became representative of scientific collecting characterized by the establishment of systematic mineralogy, and by a careful economic evaluation of the mineralogical samples collected as a symbol of the power of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Conodont collections formerly housed at the University of Southampton, U.K.

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-535
Author(s):  
C. Giles Miller ◽  
Ronald L. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
The University

In 1994 an extensive collection of mainly Carboniferous conodonts was transferred from the Department of Geology, University of Southampton, England, to The Natural History Museum, London, on the retirement of R. L. Austin. The collection consists of approximately 2,000 slides of type/figured specimens and picked residue slides, which complement material previously deposited at The Natural History Museum, London. The following is a very brief resumé of figured material in the collection.

scholarly journals Lost and then found: The Mendes Correia Collection of identified human skeletons curated at the University of Porto, Portugal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Cardoso ◽  
Luisa Marinho
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

Among the several human skeletal reference collections that have been amassed in Portugal, there is one that has remained in nearly anonymity for its almost entire existence. The collection was initiated by Mendes Correia who collected abandoned skeletal remains from cemeteries of the city of Porto circa 1912-1917. Over the years and for unknown reasons its original documentation was lost and the collection has been treated as an unidentified assemblage of specimens for many years. Two previously unnoticed publications from the 1920’s were found to have published basic biographic data for each individual in the collection, thus restituting some of the lost information. The surviving Mendes Correia Collection is currently located at the Natural History Museum and at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. It is comprised of 99 individuals of known sex, age, and nativity, whose skeletons are found in various states of completeness. They represent a segment of the population of the city of Porto who were born throughout the 19th century. It is hoped that the information gathered and provided here can restore some of the lost research value of the Mendes Correia skeletal reference collection.

The Non-Cartesian Way

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Sebastian Vogt ◽  
Annika Maschwitz
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Seamless Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Magazine Articles

Based on the seamless learning approach (Wong, 2012), this paper illustrates how media competence can be developed, what didactic design is necessary, and what features this design possesses for teaching media competence at university. The ‘Natural History Museum Berlin project' is considered as an example of this. In this project, during the 2009 summer term, students at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) in cooperation with the Natural History Museum Berlin (Germany) developed and produced media products (magazine articles, audio and video podcasts) in which they explored and reflected on the topic of knowledge transfer in terms of constructivism in an authentic context. The closeness to research activities at the university, especially in the Department of Continuing Education, is one of the essential aspects.

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