Geometrid Moths of the World

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
MJ Scoble
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Taxonomic Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Card Index

The Geometridae is one of the most species-rich families of Lepidoptera. This book is the first comprehensive catalogue of the 35 000 names of these insects. The primary purpose of the work is to provide a substantial body of taxonomic information, much of it previously unpublished, on the available names of the Geometridae. The catalogue is based on the most complete world classification of the geometrids, the card index to genera and species in The Natural History Museum, London. The two volumes include information on type specimens, type localities and, where possible, larval foodplants. A CD-ROM listing all species referred to in the two text volumes is included with the package and will be of great value to verify valid names and to check spelling.

Notes on the diatom collection of the Natural History Museum, London (BM) II–IV. Some type specimens in the genus Aulacodiscus Ehrenberg and nomenclatural notes on Thumia Cleve ex F.B. Taylor 

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 480 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-162
Author(s):  
DAVID M. WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Glass Slides ◽  
Card Index

The diatom collection at the Natural History Museum, London (BM) is in the process of reviewing the card index that is the primary guide. The cards direct the user to the glass slides in the collection that are supposed to include specimens of the particular species indicated. The cards indicate which slides contain type specimens. Not all the types have been discovered. Occasionally, a card will refer to a name that has never been published, effectively a manuscript or herbarium name. This series of notes has been created to clarify some of those names and, where necessary, validly publish the names (part I was published earlier, Williams 2020).

The historical relics in Chongqing Natural History Museum: An annotated checklist of original materials for 37 names of Chinese seed plants

Phytotaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 530 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
FENG CHEN ◽  
HAI HE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Seed Plants ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Annotated Checklist

A catalogue of type specimens deposited at the herbarium of Chongqing Natural History Museum (CQNM) is carried out. A total of 62 specimens belonging to 56 gatherings concerning 37 valid published names in 23 families of Chinese seed plants are documented as original materials. They include seven isotypes, 21 syntypes, of which 16 of them are isolectotypes and 34 paratypes. A checklist of the 37 names is presented with annotations on the typification, authorship citation, type localities and other taxonomic issues. Eight names were lectotypified, and one name’s second-step lectotype is proposed. Additionally, Distylium lanceolatum Chun, which is invalid pending for further study, and which has long been treated as a synonym of D. dunnianum H.Lév., is listed after the 37 names.

Gessner’s fossil crab

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-430
Author(s):  
Walter Etter ◽  
Olivier Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Sense

Abstract Nearly 450 years ago, the Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner was the first to use illustrations in a systematic manner in a book devoted to the subject of fossils. In his treatise De rerum fossilium . . . liber (1565), around 200 single objects are illustrated, of which almost fifty are fossils in the modern sense. Most of the figures were illustrations of pieces from Gessner’s private collection. Against all odds, some of these have survived to the present day in the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. These remains form the oldest palaeontological reference collection in the world. Among them is the crab that figured prominently in Gessner’s book and became an icon of the early palaeontological literature.

Notes on the genus Allotrichosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Greenideinae), with the description of one new species from Hong Kong, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEXIA QIAO ◽  
LIYUN JIANG ◽  
JON H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
One New Species

The aphid genus Allotrichosiphum is reviewed here. Allotrichosiphum cyclobalanopsidis sp. nov. from Cyclobalanopsis neglecta in Hong Kong, China is described. Keys to the species of Allotrichosiphum worldwide are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

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.

Silent Legacy: The Story of Vasily Konovalenko's Gem-Carving Sculptures

Collections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Nash ◽  
Frances Alley Kruger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The World

During a career that spanned four decades, Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko (1929–1989) produced more than 70 sculptures carved from gems, minerals, and other raw materials. As unorthodox, compelling, and masterful as Konovalenko's sculptures are, they had been poorly published and poorly known. They are on permanent display at only two museums in the world: the small and obscure State Gems Museum (Samotsvety) in Moscow, Russia, and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), a major natural history museum in Colorado, the United States. This article examines Konovalenko's life and work, as well as the unusual circumstances that led to the two exhibitions, their role in Konovalenko's relative obscurity, and a recent resurgence of interest.

Discovery and redescription of type material of Nausithoe simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890), comb. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Coronatae: Nausithoidae) from the North Atlantic

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3320 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ C. MORANDINI ◽  
GERHARD JARMS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

With discovery and examination of type specimens in the Natural History Museum, London, UK, we reassign Stephanoscyph-istoma simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890) to the genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853, as Nausithoe simplex, comb. nov., and designate alectotype for the species. Use of morphometric measurements is considered important in coronate systematics, but key featuresalso include the unique whorl of internal cusps and the shape of these cusps. All previous records of N. simplex must be re-evaluated, taking into consideration the morphology of these internal cusps.

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