The 19th Century Fruitland Schoolhouse: Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Technology to Investigate and Document Archaeological Ruins at the Ross Natural History Reservation in Lyon County, Kansas

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alivia J. Allison ◽  
Chris M. Pettit
2021 ◽  
pp. 125-160
Author(s):  
Alfredo Mederos Martín ◽  
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Gabriel Escribano Cobo ◽  

The exhibition of two mummies in the Natural History cabinet in Paris aroused the interest of various scientific expeditions that made a stopover in Tenerife in the first half of the 19th century. Nicolas Baudin’s expedition in 1800 coincided with the discovery of a cave with mummies in El Sauzal and three ended up in the university museums of Montpellier and Göttingen and one in the cabinet of Saviñón. Another mummy was given to von Krusenstern’s Russian expedition of 1803, currently in the museum of Saint Petersburg. A new cave with mummies was discovered ca. 1815 in Tacoronte, which ended up in the scientific cabinet of Megliorini. Another mummy located in Valleseco, Santa Cruz, around 1823, was sold in Puerto de la Cruz to a Swiss merchant for the Geneva museum.


Author(s):  
Klymyshyn O. ◽  
Savytska A.

The history of formation of the bryological herbaria of the State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is considered. Many collectors and scientists-botanists took part in the formation of the main scientific fund of the bryological herbaria, among them A. Lazarenko, K. Ulychna, V. Melnichuk, M. Slobodian and others. The article contains a list of samples of bryophytes, which are included in the Red Book of Ukraine. Rare samples (including doublets and exsiccates) are described from territories of other countries, as well as specimens dating to the end of the 19th century.


Author(s):  
Roman Gural ◽  
Nina Gural-Sverlova

The main stages of the formation of the malakological (conchological) collection of the museum from the 19th century to the present are described. Emphasized its connection with the scientific researches and educational work. A brief description of the current state of the collection, the presence of the typical material and the main goal of its further manning is formulated.


Author(s):  
Hugo Cardoso ◽  
Luisa Marinho

Among the several human skeletal reference collections that have been amassed in Portugal, there is one that has remained in nearly anonymity for its almost entire existence. The collection was initiated by Mendes Correia who collected abandoned skeletal remains from cemeteries of the city of Porto circa 1912-1917. Over the years and for unknown reasons its original documentation was lost and the collection has been treated as an unidentified assemblage of specimens for many years. Two previously unnoticed publications from the 1920’s were found to have published basic biographic data for each individual in the collection, thus restituting some of the lost information. The surviving Mendes Correia Collection is currently located at the Natural History Museum and at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. It is comprised of 99 individuals of known sex, age, and nativity, whose skeletons are found in various states of completeness. They represent a segment of the population of the city of Porto who were born throughout the 19th century. It is hoped that the information gathered and provided here can restore some of the lost research value of the Mendes Correia skeletal reference collection.


ORGANON ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-73
Author(s):  
Cédric Grimoult

Lamarck and Cuvier built opposite theories concerning the origin of living beings, their links and fate. If they could agree on the bases of the animal classification, they drastically differed in their interpretations. Lamarck claimed the reality of the transformation of species, whereas Cuvier challenged and attacked him fiercely. The two naturalists competed strongly for the leading place in natural history at the beginning of the 19th century, dialoguing indirectly through their scientific papers, which need to be reviewed in light of this debate. Their polemical discussion shows some major issues in the emergent science of biology.


Author(s):  
Gillian M. Mapstone

This updated re-description of the prayine siphonophore Rosacea cymbiformis includes figures of all zooids (except larval nectophores) and is based on material held in the collections of the Natural History Museum (NHM), London. Rosacea cymbiformis was originally described in 1830 under the name Physalia cymbiformis, and subsequently reported many times during the 19th Century. However, during the 20th Century it was confused with the closely related species R. plicata, and the two species are still not clearly differentiated. Previous descriptions are reviewed herein, including conflicting interpretations of nectophore designation in R. plicata, and bract orientation in R. cymbiformis and R. plicata. To identify these siphonophores to species level and separate them from other closely related prayines, it is essential to distinguish the first definitive nectophore from the second, and the right paired bracteal canals from the left canals. This becomes critical when only detached siphonophore zooids are available, as for example, in plankton samples collected with nets. A summary of the differences between R. cymbiformi and the five other currently recognized Rosacea species, R. plicata, R. repanda, R. limbata, R. flaccida and R. arabiana, is presented. The full synonymy of R. cymbiformis is too long for inclusion here and is deferred to a later paper.


IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110246
Author(s):  
Nicola Andrews

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture opened the “Pacific Voices” exhibition in 1997, a community-led exhibition of Indigenous cultures throughout the Pacific Rim, including Māori. Twenty years later, Nicola Andrews, a Ngāti Pāoa Māori student at the University of Washington, serendipitously visited the Burke and began collaborating with the museum to reframe taonga (treasure, anything prized) descriptions in its catalogue and physical spaces. The Burke collection also includes 962 Māori photographs spanning the 19th century, which were removed from Aotearoa New Zealand and donated to the museum in 1953. These photographs had been digitized but not published, and the museum had almost no identifying information about their subjects. This article describes what is perhaps the first attempt in over six decades to identify the rangatira (chief, person of high rank) depicted in these images, and ways for the Burke to honor the tūpuna (ancestors) and taonga in its care as it prepared to open a new location in late 2019.


2011 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Fabiano Lemos

From the beginnings of what we now know as our modernity, man has been surprised with his own finitude. The 18th and 19th  century bourgeois needed to formulate complex ways of preserving the past and of linking with it. In the philosophes’ circle, time concept starts to double itself in the idea of origin, that, for them, had become opaque. We just need to think of the broad-range process of structuring museums and restructuring natural history collections in cities such as Paris and Berlin, around the turn to the 19th century, so that we can be convinced that the surprise with that origin that one cannot recognize anymore, that becomes object of popular and scientific interest, leads each and all of the decisions in this process. Museum is just one of the institutions in which man, through a complex series of idealizations of space, show himself the spectacle of a lost time and, thus, of a culture whose educational thrive can only be understood by associating to these institutions. Our task is to investigate – and the case study of the grounding of the Altes Museum in Berlin, between 1822 and 1830, will perform this concretely – which educational policy made the emergence of this new ideological model possible, and , on the opposite way, which conceptual elaborations confirmed or legitimated the new pragmatic topography of time in modernity within the institution that had as aim, precisely, articulate and administrate past and memory.


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