George Victor Du Noyer’s large format paintings: Nineteenth-century lecture slides

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Alastair Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Large Format ◽  
Ordnance Survey ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
Public Lecture

ABSTRACT The National Museum of Ireland’s natural history collections include a range of large format artworks, many of paleontological subjects, which were painted by George Victor Du Noyer, the celebrated nineteenth-century geologist, antiquarian, and artist who worked for both the Ordnance Survey of Ireland and the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI). Letterbook references in the archives of GSI indicate that most, if not all of these, were commissioned by Joseph Beete Jukes, director of the GSI, for different public lecture series. The artistic qualities of the work suggest they were done at speed. However, they also are designed to be seen from a distance within a lecture hall, so an apparently crude technique is appropriate to the purpose. In effect, the watercolor paintings in this series are the PowerPoint presentation of the 1850s.

Correspondence between Adolphe Brongniart and Robert Schomburgk: trading natural history collections for honours

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-336
Author(s):  
PIOTR DASZKIEWICZ ◽  
MICHEL JEGU
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
German Naturalist

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses some correspondence between Robert Schomburgk (1804–1865) and Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876). Four letters survive, containing information about the history of Schomburgk's collection of fishes and plants from British Guiana, and his herbarium specimens from Dominican Republic and southeast Asia. A study of these letters has enabled us to confirm that Schomburgk supplied the collection of fishes from Guiana now in the Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The letters of the German naturalist are an interesting source of information concerning the practice of sale and exchange of natural history collections in the nineteenth century in return for honours.

Fossil invertebrate collections moved from National Museum

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
J. Thomas Dutro ◽  
Thomas W. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Regional Centers ◽  
The U.S

Paleontological investigations have played a critical role in the research of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its founding in 1879. From about 1950 until recently, the bulk of these fossil materials collected by USGS field geologists was housed in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C, under the control of the Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the USGS. Large biostratigraphic sets of USGS collections also resided in Denver, Colorado, and Menlo Park, California, at the USGS regional centers.

scholarly journals When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Coote ◽  
Alison Haynes ◽  
Jude Philp ◽  
Simon Ville
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Global History ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Business Logistics ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

AbstractNatural history products formed an important, but little studied, component of the globalization of trade in the mid nineteenth century. The trade, specifically in zoology, occurred in the face of considerable challenges. It penetrated some of the more remote areas of the globe; its products were heterogeneous and difficult to price; and exchange occurred among scientists, commercial traders, and collectors, each of whom had their own particular practices and mores. This article charts the dimensions of this trade and offers explanations about the ways in which its complexities were addressed through major developments in taxidermy, taxonomy, transport and business logistics, alternative forms of exchange, and trust-based networks. More broadly, our work speaks to current developments in global history, imperial networks, and the history of scientific collecting.

V.—The Fossils Found on the Site of the Torquay Museum

1914 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 311-318
Author(s):  
A. J. Jukes-Browne ◽  
R. B. Newton
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Devonian Age

The fossils which form the subject of this notice were obtained from the slates exposed in the excavations for the foundations of the “Pengelly” Lecture Hall, which was added to the Museum of the Torquay Natural History Society in 1894. They were collected by Mr. W. J. Else, the late Curator of the Museum, and were examined by the late Rev. G. F. Whidborne, who published some account of them in the Geological Magazine for 1901, p. 533.When Mr. Whidborne's paper was published I was not specially interested in the details of the geological structure of Torquay, but since then I have paid much attention to these local details and have collected fossils from all existing exposures. I was consequently surprised to find on reference to the note published by Mr. Whidborne that he had regarded these fossils as a Lower Devonian assemblage, in spite of the fact that the Museum is in close contiguity to a tract of Middle Devonian Limestone, as shown on the map of the Geological Survey published in 1898. Moreover, he quoted a statement made by the late Mr. A. Somervail regarding the stratigraphical position of the slates which is entirely incorrect. It is not true that in ascending the Torwood valley from The Strand one passes over a descending series of rocks. The beds underlying The Strand are shaly slates, which dip northward under limestone, and the same slates run up the valley to and a little beyond the Museum; they are then succeeded by limestone which crosses the valley in a south-east direction, and about 100 yards higher up this is faulted against slates which are believed to be of Lower Devonian age.

scholarly journals DEPICTING THE INVISIBLE: WELWITSCH'S MAP OF TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA ALBUQUERQUE ◽  
SILVIA FIGUEIRÔA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
Scientific Networks ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Invisible

ABSTRACT This paper addresses a nineteenth century African manuscript map which has hitherto remained ‘invisible’. This manuscript was produced by Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872), an Austrian botanist in the service of the Portuguese government, and held by the National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon Museums/Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Museus da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (MUHNAC). This historical document contains names of several travellers, many of them ‘invisible’ explorers, located in different parts of the African continent, depicting the relationships in both a visual and geographical way with notes and relevant historical observations. Welwitsch, as so many contemporary fellow botanists, was in contact with many scientists, exchanging not only correspondence but knowledge and collections. This map is a key document, a true hub of Welwitsch's network of knowledge in which the scientific networks, the types of actors, interactions, methodologies and practices of botany are revealed, providing insights into the botanical exchanges that contributed to the making of Welwitsch's African collections.

Palliseria (Middle Ordovician Gastropoda) from east-central Alaska and its stratigraphic and biogeographic significance

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 674-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Rohr ◽  
Robert B. Blodgett
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Shell Material ◽  
East Central ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Genus One ◽  
The U.S

Several unsilicified gastropod specimens were collected by John B. Mertie, Jr., on July 13, 1941, during a boat traverse along the Porcupine River of east-central Alaska. The specimens were originally deposited in the Ulrich (Cambrian and Ordovician) stratigraphic collections of the U.S. Geological Survey at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The collection contains one specimen of Palliseria and three specimens of Maclurites, all of which are broken from the limestone. Despite the lack of much of the shell material, they are easily identified as to genus. One specimen identified as Palliseria is particularly significant.

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