А.В. MISSUNA: SUBJECTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND THEIR RESULTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
I. A. Starodubtseva
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
New Species ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Woman Teacher ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Paleontological Society ◽  
Mineralogical Society

A.B. Missuna (1869—1922) was one of the first Russian women geologists. The most part of her scientific works were devoted to Quaternary glacial deposits, which she studied in the basins of Viliy, Dvina, Neman at the territory of Belarus and Litva. She designed the method of the terminal moraines studying and discovered new parts of its distribution. Missuna researched magmatic rocks of the Crimea. She was also the author of the works on fossils: Jurassic corals (13 new species), Carboniferous fishes (1 new species) and Miocene diatoms (2 new genuses and 18 new species). She created Geological cabinet at the Moscow Higher Women's Courses and taught there such subjects as petrography, general geology, paleontology, historiacal geology. She organized and conducted with women students the geological excursions in Moscow region, in Crimea, Urals. She was the first woman teacher of geological subjects in Russian Higher School. A.B.Missuna was a full member of the Imperial Moscow Society of Naturalists, St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society, Geological department of Imperial Society of Nature, Anthropology and Ethnography, as well as the member-founder of Russian Paleontological Society (nowadays Paleontological society at the RAS).

Objectivity of Scientific Research as an Ethical and Political Position (Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Zapesotsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The West ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Nonfiction Essays ◽  
The Impact

Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. - 592 pp. ISBN 978-5-7621-0973-4This author discusses the problem of scientific objectivity and reviews a book written by the medievalist-historian P.P. Tolochko, full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), honorable director of the NASU Institute of Archaeology. The book was published by the Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences in the autumn of 2018. The book presents a collection of articles and reports devoted to processes in Ukraine and, first of all, in Ukrainian historical science, which, at the moment, is experiencing an era of serious reformation of its interpretative models. The author of the book shows that these models are being reformed to suit the requirements of the new ideology, with an obvious disregard for the conduct of objective scientific research. In this regard, the problem of objectivity of scientific research becomes the subject of this review because the requirement of objectivity can be viewed not only as a methodological requirement but also as a moral and political position, opposing the rigor of scientific research to the impact of ideological, political and moral systems and judgments. It is concluded that in this sense the position of P.P. Tolochko can be considered as the act of profound ethical choice.

On a Remarkable New Species of Porocephalus (P. pomeroyi, sp. n.) from the Fore-gut of a Nigerian Cobra

Parasitology ◽  
1920 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. N. F. Woodland
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Present Specimen ◽  
The Third ◽  
Narrow Neck ◽  
Text Figure ◽  
External Form

In August, 1920, Dr Andrew Balfour, C.B., C.M.G., Director of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, received from Mr A. Pomeroy, F.E.S., Official Entomologist in South Nigeria, a tube containing some parasites from the “fore-gut” of a Cobra (Naia nigricollis Reinh.) from Ilaro, South Nigeria. Dr Balfour kindly handed these specimens to me for examination. The specimens were few in number, comprising only ten Nematodes and the two examples of Porocephalus described in the present Note. One of these examples at once attracted my attention by reason of its remarkable external form (Text-figure 1, A). I have consulted most of the available literature dealing with Porocephalus and the figure which, so far as I have discovered, most nearly approaches that of the present specimen is that of P. annulatus Baird, supplied by Shipley (his Text-figure 5, p. 59) in his memoir on the Linguatulidae. From my reproduction of Shipley's figure (Text-figure 1, C) it will be seen that Porocephalus annulatus, like the new species nowto be described, has a very narrow “neck,” but whereas in P. annulatus this neck is very short, in the new species it is comparatively very long; moreover, whereas in P. annulatus the cephalo-thorax (prosoma) is not longer than broad (or only slightly so in some specimens) and the first annulus of the “abdomen” (opisthosoma) is certainly no larger than succeeding annuli, in the new species the prosoma is roughly three times longer than it is broad and the first annulus is at least twice the size of the third at any succeeding annulus.

Entoloma piceinum, a new lignicolous species of Entolomataceae (Agaricales) from the European Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. V. Morozova ◽  
E. Yu. Voronina ◽  
S. N. Arslanov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Picea Abies ◽  
European Russia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Saint Petersburg

The new species Entoloma piceinum O. V. Morozova, Voronina et Arslanov of the section Fernandae (subgenus Nolanea), found at two sites of the European Russia (Saint Petersburg and Moscow Region), is described. As a member of the section Fernandae it is characterized by the presence of the intracellular pigment in form of dark brown clots combined with the dark encrusting pigment, and by the clampless hyphae. New species differs from the other members of this section by the combination of the subtomentose to distinctly squamulose pileus with inhabiting Picea abies wood. ITS sequences of both studied specimens have shown their conspecificity in spite of some differences in basidiomata morphology.

History of zoological research in the Crimean Nature Reserve: vertebrates

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-200
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Kostin ◽  
A. I. Dulitsky ◽  
A. A. Sirotkina
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
International Projects ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Nature

The present work is a historical and biographical sketch of the formation and development of research in one of the first nature reserves in Russia. The article describes the main milestones in the study of vertebrates in the past and the stages of scientific research in the Crimean Nature Reserve in the XX-XXI centuries. It is shown that by 1925 the vertebrate fauna of the mountain Crimea was poorly studied, and the formation and operation of the biological station in the Crimean Reserve marked the beginning of comprehensive research not only in the mountains, but also in the steppe. The reorganization of the Reserve into a hunting Reserve in 1957 did not affect the level and scale of scientific research. In 1964-1968, a comprehensive theme on beechwood forests was completed, and in 1970-1974, a theme on birds and mammals of the Crimea was conducted as well. In 1974-1976 the work of the zoological group went to the international level in connection with the inclusion of Swan Islands in the number of the Ramsar Sites of the USSR. Since 1983, scientific research has been conducted under the program "Nature Records" within the boundaries of the reserve. In 1991, the institution was returned to the status of a nature reserve. Zoological research is carried out by full-time employees with the participation of scientists from various research centers working on international projects. After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia in 2014, the Crimean Reserve is undergoing a period of reorganization. And in September 2018 its mountain and forest part gets the status of a National Park. The “Swan Islands” ornithological branch becomes an independent nature reserve.

A new species of the dual-mouthed paracrinoid Bistomiacystis and a redescription of the Edrioasteroid edrioaster priscus from the Upper Ordovician Curdsville Member of the Lexington Limestone

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin D. Sumrall ◽  
Bradley Deline
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Lexington Limestone ◽  
New Material ◽  
Paleontological Society ◽  
Size And Morphology ◽  
A New Species

Echinoderms are important faunal components in the Curdsville Member of the Lexington Limestone. Numerous clades are represented, including Crinoidea (Springer, 1911; Parsley, 1981), Paracrinoidea (Parsley and Mintz, 1975; Parsley, 1981), Cyclocystoidea (undescribed), Edrioasteroidea (Miller and Gurley, 1894; Bell, 1976, 1979), and Stylophora (Parsley, 1981, 1991). Although some of these taxa are well preserved (Springer, 1911), most have been recovered from residues of acidized samples. These later specimens are poorly preserved, obscuring much of the information. Here we describe well preserved specimens recently collected by members of the Kentucky Paleontological Society (Lexington) of two species that add significantly to our understanding of lesser known components of the Curdsville Fauna. Bistomiacystis schrantzi n. sp. is a large paracrinoid bearing two separate ambu1acral systems that lead to two peristomial openings. Our research suggests that this unusual arrangement is consistent with oral areas of other derived blastozoans bearing oral plates. Edrioaster priscus (Miller and Gurley) is a poorly known large edrioasterid edrioasteroid previously known only from specimens preserved in coarse beekite. The new material of this taxon allows for a thorough characterization of this poorly known edrioasteroid and shows that previous assessments of its size and morphology need revision.

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