Inter-Regional Ties in Costa Rican Prehistory: Papers presented at a symposium at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, April 27, 1983

1984 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Carnegie Museum

Costa Rican Natural History

Ecology ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 1023
Author(s):  
Alan P. Smith ◽  
Daniel H. Janzen
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Costa Rican

Three new genera and ten new species of the subfamily Lecithocerinae (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from Cameroon, Africa, based on material collected in 1913–18

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4415 (3) ◽  
pp. 561 ◽  
Author(s):  
KYU-TEK PARK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Carnegie Museum

Based on material collected in Cameroon, Africa in 1913–18 and deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA, three new genera and 10 new species of Lecithocerinae (Lecithoderidae) are described and illustrated. The new genera are Paniculata gen. nov., Furcalis gen. nov., and Notioseus gen. nov. The new species are Homaloxestis rawlinsi sp. nov., Lecithocera afrotella sp. nov., L. dysmica sp. nov., L. cyclisca sp. nov., Paniculata weberi sp. nov., Notioseus cupripennis sp. nov., N. acidodes sp. nov., Furcalis efulenica sp. nov., F. triodonta sp. nov., and Lacuniola noda sp. nov. Adults and their labels, and the genitalia of all the species treated herein are illustrated.

The Carnegie Series on Egypt. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh, 1990. Ancient Egyptian Society

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Susan Tower Hollis ◽  
David O'Connor ◽  
James F. Romano ◽  
James F. Romano ◽  
David P. Silverman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
Ancient Egyptian

A distinctive new species of Euglyphis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) from Costa Rica, with a checklist of the Euglyphis known from Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3020 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ JOAQUÍN MONTERO-RAMÍREZ ◽  
DANIEL H. JANZEN ◽  
WINNIE HALLWACHS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Male And Female

Euglyphis jessiehillae Montero, new species, is described from Costa Rican rain forest. Photographs of the adult, larva and cocoon, as well as male and female genitalia, are provided. In addition to its description and natural history, we include a checklist for the described members of the genus Euglyphis known from Costa Rica.

Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago's Field Columbian Museum, 1893—1898

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL D. BRINKMAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Vertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Extensive Body

By the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of the costly, far-flung, labor-intensive, and specimen-centered nature of the discipline, American vertebrate paleontology had become centralized at large collections maintained by a few universities and major natural history museums. Foremost among the latter group were the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; the American Museum of Natural History, New York; the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. There is an extensive body of popular and historical literature reviewing the establishment and early development of the vertebrate paleontology programs at most of these institutions, especially the American Museum. The Field Columbian Museum, however, has received relatively little attention in this literature. The present paper begins to redress this imbalance by reviewing the establishment of vertebrate paleontology at the Field Columbian Museum from the museum's foundation in 1893, through the end of 1898, when the museum added a vertebrate paleontologist to its curatorial staff. An account of the Field Columbian Museum's first expedition for fossil vertebrates in the summer of 1898 is included.

Collectors and Entrepreneurs: Hatcher, Wortman, and the Structure of American Vertebrate Paleontology Circa 1900

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Rainger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Vertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
Peabody Museum ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Henry Fairfield Osborn

John Bell Hatcher (1861-1904) and Jacob L. Wortman (1856-1926) were two of the most prominent figures in late nineteenth-century American vertebrate paleontology. Working at leading centers for the science, including Yale's Peabody Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, each was responsible for significant discoveries of fossil vertebrates and notable contributions to taxonomy and biostratigraphy. Yet both had itinerant and, by their own admissions, highly frustrating careers. Traditionally their problems have been explained in terms of personality, as a result of their sensitive, volatile temperaments. Yet their careers and difficulties also reflect the structure of American vertebrate paleontology at the time, a discipline centered in museums and under the direction of wealthy, powerful entrepreneurs. Men such as Othniel Charles Marsh and Henry Fairfield Osborn financed and helped to promote work in vertebrate paleontology, but the context within which such work was conducted also limited opportunities for Hatcher, Wortman, and others.

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