scholarly journals The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection

Collections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-380
Author(s):  
Consuelo Sendino
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
Label Content

This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica.

Metamelanea umbonata new to the British Isles

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
History Museum

During a visit to the Natural History Museum London I examined material of the genus Porocyphus from the British Isles. A collection labelled Porocyphus coccodes [Scotland, Forfar, Caenlochan, on damp, E-facing rock (±basic), 1700 ft, 10 viii 1968, P. James (BM)] turned out to be a well-developed specimen of Metamelanea umbonata Henssen. Another two specimens from Scotland sent to me for identification belong here as well: Mid-Perth, Bread-albana, Creag Mhòr, S-facing cliffs, 700–800 m, 27/39.35, 6 vii 1979, B. Coppins 4573 (E, hb M. Schultz); Angus, Caenlochan Glen (N side), Glasallt Burn, W-facing cliffs, on vertical flushed granite cliff face, 800 m, 37/17, 7 viii 1989, B. Coppins 13383 & O. Gilbert (E, hb M. Schultz).

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.

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.

An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Osmylidae collection (Neuroptera) at the Natural History Museum, London

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4883 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-61
Author(s):  
CALEB CALIFRE MARTINS ◽  
BENJAMIN W. PRICE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Label Information

The Natural History Museum, London, houses of one of the largest insect collections in the world including several hundred specimens of the small lacewing family Osmylidae. Herein we provide the complete label information, specimen condition, locality and habitus pictures of the Osmylidae primary types of the Natural History Museum, with some historical information about the specimens.

Humanistic Constructs: Creating Agency in a Natural History Museum

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062199833
Author(s):  
Patti Wood Finkle ◽  
Valerie Innella Maiers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World

It is every museum’s goal to make a difference in their visitors, whether to make them aware of a situation such as climate change, educate about a time period, or inspire visitors to think, to feel, and to observe the world around them. The Werner Wildlife Museum strives to provide visitors these opportunities for personal growth through humanities programming.

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