150 years of changing attitudes towards zoological collections in a university museum: the case of the Thomas Bell tortoise collection in the Oxford University Museum

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgosia B. Nowak-kemp
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Museum ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Personal Interests

Thomas Bell's collection of tortoises arrived in the Oxford University Museum in 1862 as part of the great benefaction of the Reverend F. W. Hope. The collection's fate, together with the fate of other zoological collections of the University, was closely linked with the research and personal interests of the Heads of Departments in the Museum. The whole collection was at first exhibited in the Museum's Main Court for over thirty years, followed by the removal of most of its specimens to stores, with only a small number left on display. In between, the specimens were the subject of furious custodianship claims, and only in 1956, after nearly a century in Oxford, were the tortoises finally entered in the accession catalogues of the Zoological Collections. The battles and controversies surrounding the collection reflected the changes in teaching and the approach to the natural history collections in the oldest university in the United Kingdom.

Lectotype designations, taxonomic notes and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4624 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
FELIPE VIVALLO
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
Nomen Dubium ◽  
University Museum

In this paper the primary types of Centris described by Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau in 1841 deposited at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France and Hope Entomological Collection, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, United Kingdom were studied. To stabilize the application of some names, lectotypes were designated for C. bimaculata, C. collaris, C. decolorata, C. denudans, C. dorsata, C. ferruginea, C. fuscata, C. maculata (= C. decolorata), C. obsoleta, C. picea, C. poecila, C. trigonoides, C. violacea and C. vittata. Centris picea nomen oblitum is withdrawn from the synonymy of C. lanipes (Fabricius) and proposed as new junior synonym of C. trigonoides nomen protectum. Centris nigrescens is removed from the synonymy of C. vittata and revalidated, proposing C. merrillae Cockerell and C. lanipes ogilviei Cockerell as its new junior synonymies. Lectotypes for this latter species and for C. rubella Smith (= C. ferruginea) were also designated. In addition, due to the impossibility of identifying C. thoracica and the misplacement of its type material, it is proposed to consider it nomen dubium and place it incertae sedis. 

scholarly journals “To Live in Hearts We Leave Behind is Not to Die.” Remembrance Sunday at Pusey House, Oxford University, A Review of Worship at Oxford University

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Peter L. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

<p>In recent years, religious participation by students of all faiths at Universities in the United Kingdom has seen a steady increase in attendance. This brief essay is a case study of worship by members of the University Community at Pusey House at the University of Oxford, which reflects the trend. On a crisp fall, November day, the twenty-third Sunday after Trinity (8th of November 2015) I had the opportunity to attend services at Pusey House, Oxford on Remembrance Sunday while on sabbatical at The University of Oxford (St. Stephen’s House).</p>

African Spilogona Schnabl: morphology of the male terminalia and description of a new species (Diptera: Muscidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4277 (2) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
MÁRCIA S. COURI ◽  
ADRIAN C. PONT
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Museum ◽  
A New Species

Spilogona breviaristata sp. nov. from South Africa is described and the morphology of the male terminalia of seven African Spilogona Schnabl (Diptera, Muscidae) species are described and illustrated: Spilogona biguttata Emden, Spilogona fuscotriangulata Emden, Spilogona natalensis Zielke, Spilogona pertinisetodes Emden, Spilogona quasifasciata Emden, Spilogona semifasciata Emden and Spilogona spinipes (Bigot). The material studied is deposited in the Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, United Kingdom, and paratypes of the new species are also in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, United Kingdom. 

A seventeenth-century warthog skull in Oxford, England

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. d'Huart ◽  
M. Nowak-Kemp ◽  
T. M. Butynski
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
University Museum

There are two widely recognized species of warthog: the Cape warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus ( Pallas, 1766 ), and the common warthog, P. africanus ( Gmelin, 1788 ). On this basis, it has been assumed that the first warthog specimen arrived in Europe in about 1766. This paper documents the discovery of a common warthog skull in the Tradescant Collection at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) that probably reached Europe sometime between 1656 and 1678, and that was listed in the Ashmolean Museum 1685 catalogue. This specimen represents the oldest evidence for a warthog in Europe. The skull pre-dates the 1766 naming of the Cape warthog by more than 80 years, and the 1788 naming of the common warthog by at least 100 years. It is surprising that this skull was never the subject of scientific investigations. This is particularly astonishing as, prior to being transferred to the OUMNH in the 1860s, it was in the Ashmolean Museum from at least 1685.

scholarly journals Collecting Criminology: an Introduction to the Radzinowicz Library of Criminology

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Stone
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Financial Pressures

AbstractThe Radzinowicz Library is the specialist criminology library of the Institute of Criminology, a research and teaching department of the University of Cambridge. As Stuart Stone explains, it is the premier academic criminology collection in the United Kingdom and indeed it is one of the major collections in this subject in the world. The library primarily serves the Institute and the University but also the wider community of criminal justice researchers, many of whom are regular visitors. In common with other libraries, financial pressures are a continuing concern, especially because of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Outreach and engagement with organisations outside academia add to the distinctive characteristics of the library.

Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. LUCAS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Final Disposal ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Horticultural Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
United Kingdom Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Joseph Hooker

Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

CAPITAL MAINTENANCE: A NEGLECTED NOTION

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar S. Gellein
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Capital Maintenance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject

This paper traces in descriptive fashion some of the developments of thought about capital maintenance during this century. The adverse consequences of neglecting the subject are mentioned after a basic review of the concepts. Contrasts among the theories from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Canada, Australia and other countries are also made.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Charity Misconduct

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diarmuid McDonnell ◽  
Alasdair C. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Regulatory Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Dataset ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Scrutiny

Charities in the United Kingdom have been the subject of intense media, political, and public scrutiny in recent times; however, our understanding of the nature, extent, and determinants of charity misconduct is weak. Drawing upon a novel administrative dataset of 25,611 charities for the period 2006-2014 in Scotland, we develop models to predict two dimensions of charity misconduct: regulatory investigation and subsequent action. There have been 2,109 regulatory investigations of 1,566 Scottish charities over the study period, of which 31% resulted in regulatory action being taken. Complaints from members of the public are most likely to trigger an investigation, whereas the most common concerns relate to general governance and misappropriation of assets. Our multivariate analysis reveals a disconnect between the types of charities that are suspected of misconduct and those that are subject to subsequent regulatory action.

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