scholarly journals Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, 1870-1934

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time

Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, the son of William Henry Kitchin, was born at Whitehaven on December 13, 1870. He was educated at St. Bees School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he spent four years (1890-1894), the last year being devoted entirely to the study of Geology and Palaeontology. Soon after leaving Cambridge he proceeded to the University of Munich, where he commenced research in palaeontology under the direction of Zittel, and graduated Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1897. In after years Kitchin valued equally the broad outlook which he gained in Cambridge and the more specialized training which he received in Munich. After working for a short time unofficially in the British Museum (Natural History) he was appointed Assistant Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey in 1898, and in 1905 he succeeded the late E. T. Newton as Palaeontologist—a post previously held by Edward Forbes, T. H. Huxley, J. W. Salter, and R. Etheridge.

I.—Notes on the Palæontology of Western Australia

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey

A Part of the fossils described in the accompanying paper were presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the late Mr. Edward T. Hardman, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.I, in December, 1886; having been collected by him during his exploration of the Kimberley District of Western Australia, in 1883. Some additional specimens, forming a part of this collection, have been obligingly forwarded to me by Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland; having been found, since Mr. Hardman's death, in the Survey Office, Dublin.

STUDIES IN NEW WORLD PLECIA (DIPTERA, BIBIONIDAE) PART II

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
D. Elmo Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New World ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
State College ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
The University

The species discussed below have been received from the United States National Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cornell University, Michigan State College, British Museum of Natural History, and Deutsches Entomologisches Institute, or are in the Snow Entomological Collection at the University of Kansas. The writer is very grateful to these institutions for the privilege of studying this material. These species will be keyed and figured in a forthcoming revision of the New World Plecia.

IV.—A Contribution to the Petrography of the South Shetland Islands, the Palmer Archipelago, and the Danco Land Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica

1922 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
The University ◽  
Foregoing Paper ◽  
Rock Specimens

The following work is based upon the magnificent collection of rock specimens made by Mr D. Ferguson during the expedition described in the foregoing paper. The number of these specimens is 210; and as many were collected in quadruplicate, it has been found possible to make up sets which have been presented to the British Museum (Natural History), the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, and the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. The most complete set is retained in the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow.

Richard Bradley's Relationship With Sir Hans Sloane

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Good Picture ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) is remembered more for his activities in the spheres of science and medicine than for his original contributions to these fields. His large treatise on the natural history of Jamaica (2 vols., 1707- 1725) and other writings were useful additions to the scientific literature, but they were overshadowed by his activities as President of both the Royal Society (1727-1741) and the Royal College of Physicians (1719-1735) and by his having provided the collections which became the foundation of the British Museum. There is no definitive study on him, but the two recent biographies by De Beer and Brooks provide a good picture of his life and work (1). Sloane carried on a voluminous correspondence, and most of the letters written to him are preserved in the British Museum—largely unpublished (2). Among them are a dozen letters from Richard Bradley (1688?—5 November 1732), which throw somewhat more light on Bradley than on Sloane. They also illustrate the adverse conditions under which men without wealth have sometimes worked when pursuing scientific activities. Bradley was a prolific author of books on agriculture, horticulture, biology, and medicine. As will appear from his letters, he was often the pawn of booksellers, and John Martyn (1699-1768), his malicious rival, commented shortly after his death that ‘The booksellers have lost a good easy pad’ (3). Bradley was at times only a popularizer or a hack, but he also produced writings having scientific merit (4). Furthermore, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. His correspondence with Sloane is therefore of interest for adding to our knowledge of both men and the scientific activities of their time.

scholarly journals 1. Exhibition of Three Skulls of the Gorilla, received from M. Du Chaillu, with Observations relative to their Anatomical Features

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Burt ◽  
W. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
The People ◽  
Short Time

After placing on the table a series of three crania of the gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla), which he had a short time ago received from M. Du Chaillu, Dr Burt proceeded to relate to the Society several facts, recently come to light, in support of various of the statements of that traveller which had been called in question. He alluded to the doubts which had been cast on several of the statements of M. Du Chaillu, and to the uncourteous treatment he had received at the hands of some of his detractors, and enumerated some of the proofs since produced by that gentleman, which are now to be found in the British Museum, and in the possession of men of distinction in science, illustrative of the natural history and the habits of the people of Equatorial Africa, which confirmed the veracity of that gentleman's observations. The last letters received from M. Du Chaillu were written from Fernand Vaz previous to his departure for the interior.

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.

On some Type-specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art

1897 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 326-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Percy Hall Grimshaw
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Histoire Naturelle ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The paper dealt with fifty-two species of butterflies and nineteen of beetles, the type-specimens of which had been discovered by the author in a collection purchased by the University of Edinburgh from M. Dufresne of Paris in the year 1819, and afterwards transferred to the Museum of Science and Art. In the case of the butterflies, the species referred to were described by Godart in the Encyclopédie Méthodique, while the beetles belonged to species described by Olivier in the same work, and also in his Histoire Naturelle des Insectes—Coléoptères, published about the same time. By the comparison of these original specimens with others in the Natural History Collections at the British Museum the author has been enabled to clear up many points in synonymy, etc., which have for nearly eighty years remained doubtful and obscure. The most important results of the investigations may be summarised as follows:—One of the beetles has been found by Mr Gahan, of the British Museum, to be the type of a new genus, which is characterised in the present paper, while the specimen upon which it is founded is probably unique; it has been found necessary to rename one species of butterfly and one beetle; errors in synonymy have been corrected in the case of nineteen species; and eight species hitherto wrongly placed have been referred to their proper genera.

scholarly journals I.—On some New Zealand Graptolites

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel M. R. Shakespear
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Mining Engineer

The New Zealand graptolites which are dealt with in this paper were collected by Mr. E. Douglas Isaacson, mining engineer, New Zealand, for the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., very kindly gave me the opportunity of examining this interesting collection, which was sent to me in the Autumn of 1907. Shortly after its receipt Dr. Woodward forwarded me a copy of the New Zealand Geological Survey publication entitled “The Geology of the Parapara Subdivision, Karamea, Nelson,” by James Mackintosh Bell, Director, 1907, which contains brief descriptions and figures of graptolites collected from the same locality as that from which Mr. Isaacson collected his specimens. Since, however, the records of graptolites from New Zealand are very limited in number, and since Mr. Isaacson's collection contains a greater variety of forms than that of any previous observer, it seems advisable to publish the identifications that I have found it possible to make from an examination of his collection.

scholarly journals Notes on the Nests and Prey of Six Species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)

1980 ◽  
Vol 87 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard E. Evans ◽  
Robert W. Matthews ◽  
Allan Hook
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Trap Nests ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
The University ◽  
Ground Nesting

In the course of studies on the behavior of ground-nesting Sphecidae in Australia, we have occasionally made observations on species that make free mud nests or that accept wooden trap nests (see Krombein, 1967, for technique). Chief among these are species of the genus Pison, which is abundantly represented in Australia. We report here on six species, four of which have not previously been studied (rufipes Shuckard, westwoodi Shuckard, marginatum Smith, and a species near tibiale Smith). Data on two additional species (ignavum Turner and spinolae Shuckard) confirm and enlarge upon previously published reports. Our specimens have been compared with identified material in the British Museum (Natural History), including the types of Smith's and Turner's species. Voucher specimens have been deposited in the Australian National Insect Collections, Canberra, and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Some of these observations were made by Evans and Matthews during the summer of I969–70, others by Evans and Hook during the summer of 1979–80.

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