Additional data on the herpetological collection of Louis Amédée Lantz (1886–1953), with emphasis on specimens in the Natural History Museum, London

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4638 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN INEICH ◽  
IGOR V. DORONIN ◽  
MARC CHEYLAN ◽  
PATRICK D. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
Lacerta Viridis ◽  
The Mediterranean

Several recent papers have reviewed the life and work of French herpetologist Louis Amédée Lantz. They have detailed the composition of his collections deposited in several museums. However, since then, several other important specimens from his collections deposited at the Natural History Museum (NHM, UK) have come to light and we here present all of them in detail. We discovered paralectotypes of Lacerta saxicola obscura Lantz & Cyrén (BMNH 1918.11.21.5–7), syntypes of Lacerta boemica Sukhov (BMNH 1960.1.4.26–30, BMNH 1965.337–342) and Lacerta viridis media Lantz & Cyrén (BMNH 1960.1.4.25, 1966.512). We also identified numerous specimens from the French Mediterranean islands in Lantz’s collection deposited at the NHM, some of which represent the first reported specimens of their species from certain islands. We here provide data on all these specimens. We also place the Mediterranean island specimens from the Lantz collection in their historical context and emphasize the historical and taxonomic value of these collections. 

Ampelisca dalmatinaandA. provincialis(Amphipoda: Gammaridea) in Irish waters

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Myers ◽  
D. McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Gulf Of Guinea ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Portuguese Coast ◽  
The Mediterranean

The distribution ofAmpelisca aequicornisBruzelius is said to extend from Norway southwards to the Gulf of Guinea (Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 1988) and it has been recorded from British and Irish waters (Norman, 1900; Metzger, 1875). There do not appear to be any recent records. A number of specimens in The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) collections, labelledAmpelisca aequicornis, were examined by Lincoln (1979) who reported that only Galway Bay material was referable toA. aequicornisor “at least to theaequicorniscomplex”. This we can confirm from our own study of the NHM material. We have re-examined the Galway Bay specimen referred to by Lincoln (1979) and find it to differ fromA. aequicornisin several ways and to be closest toA. dalmatinaKaraman, previously known only from the Mediterranean and the Portuguese coast (Marques & Bellan-Santini, 1991, 1993). It also closely resemblesA. pusillaSars andA. ambylopsSars, but those two species lack cuticular eyes.Ampelisca aequicornisis therefore not confirmed to occur in the waters of the British Isles.

Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Hodgkinson ◽  
John E. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
History Museum ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT: In spite of his many other interests, Edward Heron-Allen also worked for nearly 50 years as a scientist on minute shelled protists, called foraminifera, much of it in an unpaid, unofficial capacity at The Natural History Museum, London, and notably in collaboration with Arthur Earland. During this career he published more than 70 papers and obtained several fellowships, culminating in 1919 in his election to the Royal Society. Subsequently, he bequeathed his foraminiferal collections and fine library to the Museum, and both are housed today in a room named in his honour. In this paper, for the first time, an assessment of his scientific accomplishments is given, together with a full annotated bibliography of his publications held in the Heron-Allen Library. This is part of a project to produce a bibliography of his complete publications, recently initiated by the Heron-Allen Society.

Some aspects of the work of Robert Brown and the Investigatornaturalists in Madeira during August 1801

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
D. T. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Atlantic Island

Robert Brown is best known for his Australian botanical work of 1801-1805 and for his activity as an early taxonomist and microscopist. However, he made botanical collections and observations on the Atlantic island of Madeira in August 1801 while on his way to Australia on Investigator. As the bicentenary of the voyage is now being celebrated this aspect of Brown's botanical career, and its aftermath, is examined. Some of his Madeiran collection –rass specimens – survive today in the Herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London (BM).

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