The Meteoric Stones of Baroti, Punjab, India, and Wittekrantz, South Africa

1913 ◽  
Vol 17 (78) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Village ◽  
Bombay Natural History Society

In 1912 Mr. N. B. Kinnear, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society's Museum, brought to me at the British Museum, for identification, a specimen of a supposed meteorite which had been sent to the Bombay Natural History Society by the late General W. Osborn.General Osborn stated that, in November, 1910, on arrival at his usual winter quarters in the hill station of Kotheir in the Punjab, he visited his friend, the Rajah of Bilaspur, who presented him with a fragment, weighing about a quarter of a pound, of a meteorite which had fallen in daylight at the village of Baroti, in the Bilaspur (Simla) district, one day during the month of September, 1910.

scholarly journals Hymenopteran fauna inhabiting K.T.H.M. College Campus, Nashik, Maharashtra

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin Arjun Gurule ◽  
Tushar Ananda Jadhav ◽  
Jyoti Haribhau Gangurde
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Apis Dorsata ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
Carpenter Bees ◽  
Identification Of Species ◽  
Bombay Natural History Society

Inventory of wasps, bees and carpenter bees belongs to order hymenoptera was prepared by collecting naturally dead specimens from KTHM College campus, Nashik during the July 2015 to February 2016. In the present study 25 species belonging to 19 genus and 11 families of Hymenoptera have been recorded. Of which total 11 species identified upto species level and remaining given morpho-species Genus (sp.) label. The identification of species was done by following keys of existing literature and confirmed by comparing the specimens in collection department of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai. Family apidae and vespidae found to be dominating families. Dominance of four species Apis dorsata, A. cerena indica, Thyrus ramosus, Amegila sp. was observed in terms of population, due to plentiful nector yielding plants in the college campus. The families Xylocopidae and Sphecidae were represented by 3 species each. Families Chrysididae, Ichneumonidae and Braconidae were represented by single Stibum sp., Coelichmeumon sp. and Cremnops sp. respectively.

Miller's Gardeners dictionary and its abridgement

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM T. STEARN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Central America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
The West ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Vegetative Characters ◽  
8Th Edition

SYNOPSIS Philip Miller's Gardeners dictionary abridged, fourth edition (published 28 January 1754) remains nomenclaturally important for its valid publication of numerous pre-Linnaean generic names suppressed by Linnaeus in 1753 but now accepted. Miller's generic concept was derived from Tournefort, who, as he explained in 1700, recognized genera of first rank based on floral and fruiting characters and genera of second rank based on vegetative characters, whereas Linnaeus recognized only first rank genera and hence had a much broader generic concept than Tournefort and Miller, who was much more conservative in outlook. At the age of 77 Miller at last adopted consistent Linnaean binomial nomenclature for species. In his Gardeners dictionary, 8th edition (published 16 April 1768), the first edition with binomial nomenclature, he named many species from Europe, South Africa, Central America, and the West Indies unknown to Linnaeus or not distinguished by him. The following paper deals with the history and purpose of Miller's works and lists many names to be attributed to him. Herbarium material from plants grown in the Chelsea Physic Garden in Miller's time and typifying some of these names is preserved in the British Museum (Natural History), London. From Miller's Dictionary there arose in direct succession a series of encyclopaedic horticultural works culminating in the Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of gardening (1951), of which the history is here summarised.

An Examination of some Plant-Names and Identities in India

1972 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Marr
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Botanical Survey ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bombay Natural History Society

Isaac Burkill, the scholar whose birth-centenary we are commemorating, has excellently surveyed the history of botanical activities in India. His Chapters on the history of botany in India originally appeared as separate articles in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society from December 1953 onwards. More recently, the Botanical Survey of India responded to a general wish by publishing these articles in book form, revised by Burkill himself, his revision being completed in the 93rd year of his long and fruitful life.

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