scholarly journals Georeferencing the Natural History Museum's Chinese type collection: of plateaus, pagodas and plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Lohonya ◽  
Laurence Livermore ◽  
Malcolm Penn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Type Collection ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Botanical Collection ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Locality Information

The digitising efforts of herbaria aim to increase access to and impact of scientific collections, by making the data digitally accessible to the global community. Digitising the NHMUK’s botanical collection of around 5.1 million specimens is an ongoing process, but the majority of the type collections have already been imaged. The Chinese type collection has also been transcribed; however, during the recent georeferencing process, we realised that much of the data had been transcribed incorrectly, particularly the locality information in which 80% of the collection contained errors. We discovered 154 specimens that were mistakenly filed in China. We corrected the mistakes from the previous transcription and georeferenced the collection which consists of 3,736 records. In this paper, we discuss the problems and errors we encountered during the georeferencing process, detailing why there were mistakes, what made the transcription harder than expected and what could have led to errors. We also give a short description about the Chinese language and its difference from European languages, leading to complex problems for georeferencing. We provide a brief guide on how to georeference a Chinese collection, avoiding errors and making the georeferencing process easier and faster.

scholarly journals A Study on the Europeanization of the Chinese Language in Sci-Tech Translation Based on Skopos Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Chen Xiangyue ◽  
Lu Junyu ◽  
He Rui ◽  
Zhang Ru
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Skopos Theory ◽  
Sentence Patterns

As a bridge of scientific and technological communication between China and other countries, sci-tech translation is of great significance in promoting the social development of China in the current situation. Europeanization, particularly in sci-tech translation, refers to the general name of new expressions and sentence patterns emerged under the influence of European languages, especially English. From the perspective of Skopos theory and its core element (paying attention to the target addressees), this paper attempts to analyze Europeanization in sci-tech translation and to predict its future development and application, so that translators could get a better understanding of its present situation and prospect, and thus produce more idiomatic and faithful translations that achieve communicative goals better. This will finally contribute to the development of both theoretical research and practice of sci-tech translation.

Taxonomy and distribution of the Brazilian species of Thylamys (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) / La taxonomie et la distribution des espèces brésiliennes du genre Thylamys (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae)

Mammalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Carmignotto ◽  
Talitha Monfort
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Skull Morphology ◽  
Geographic Variations ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
New Information ◽  
Capture Method ◽  
Scientific Collections

AbstractThe recent increase in mammal inventories and the widespread use of pitfall traps as a major capture method in Brazil have increased the number of non-volant small mammal specimens in scientific collections, providing new information on natural history, geographical range, and taxonomic status of many marsupials and rodents. To date, however, little is known about the Brazilian species of the marsupial genus Thylamys : the number of species in the country is disputed, as are their names and geographic distribution. Thus, the aim of this study was to define the Brazilian species of the genus, delimiting their taxonomic status and distributional range. We provide qualitative and quantitative data on external and skull morphology for specimens housed in scientific collections. A study of the material available allowed us to recognize the occurrence of three species in Brazil: Thylamys karimii (Petter, 1968), T. macrurus (Olfers, 1818) and T. velutinus (Wagner, 1842). For each of these we provide redescriptions, a discussion of local and geographic variations, geographic distribution, taxonomy, age class differentiation, sexual dimorphism, and natural history.

scholarly journals A subfossil half-mandible of a Grey Seal

1995 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-256
Author(s):  
P.J.H. van Bree ◽  
D.P. Bosscha Erdbrink
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Short Description ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Grey Seal ◽  
Fossil Material

The fortuitous discovery, in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden, of a probably subfossil right half-mandible of a Grey Seal is reported. A short description of the piece is given and it is compared with some other recent, subfossil and fossil material.

scholarly journals History of the publishing activity of the State Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
O. Klymyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Publishing Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Collections

The publishing activity of the museum for the whole period of its existence is analyzed, starting from the first published in the museum by V. Didushitsky in 1880 and up to 2018 inclusive. Approximately this work is about 3.5 thousand publications, among which 84 monographs; 35 issues of the scientific miscellany "Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum"; 5 issues of the book series "Scientific Collections of the State Natural History Museum"; more than 50 catalogs of museum collections, thematic miscellanies, qualifiers, dictionaries and guides; about 2.2 thousand scientific articles; about 1 thousand materials and abstracts of reports of scientific conferences, as well as dozens of popular scientific articles, brochures and booklets.

scholarly journals A contribution to knowledge on the terrestrial malacofauna of the Kastellorizo (Megisti) island group (SE Greece)

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moisis Mylonas ◽  
Katerina Vardinoyannis ◽  
Nikos Poulakakis
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Snail Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Island Group ◽  
Scientific Collections

Abstract Background The Kastellorizo island group (in the Dodecanese, Greece) is situated in the southeast corner of the Aegean Archipelago. It consists of twenty islets, of which the three largest (Kastellorizo, Ro and Strongyli) and seven smaller ones belong to Greece. Knowledge of the malacofauna on the islands is relatively poor. Only eight species were known prior to the present study, all from the islet of Kastellorizo. Results Here, using the scientific collections at the Natural History Museum of Crete collected mainly by the authors and also by several researchers since 1976, we reappraise the malacofauna of the island group. Thirty-one species were found in total (23 from Kastellorizo, 19 from Ro, 15 from Strongyli, 10 from Agios Georgios, 14 from Agrielia, 6 from Psomi and 10 from Psoradia). Conclusions The fact that there are no endemic snail species in the islands can be accounted for by their proximity to the Turkish coast, their common paleogeography with Turkey until the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, and the influence of humans. All but two species, Mastus etuberculatus and Vitrea riedeliana, are known from the adjacent Turkish coasts. Together with the subfossil species found on the smaller islets, the predominance of different species on each islet suggests a continuous substitution from the source areas of Turkey and the Aegean.

Designation of a lectotype for Notiomystis cincta hautura Mathews, 1935 (Aves: Passeriformes: Meliphagidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2754 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE R. ANGEHR
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Label Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Notiomystis Cincta ◽  
Locality Information

Mathews (1935) described the population of the New Zealand endemic hihi, or stitchbird Notiomystis cincta (Du Bus) from Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) as the subspecies hautura, distinct from the nominate subspecies on the mainland of the North Island. Mathews based his description on a series in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, but did not designate a type specimen. The AMNH specimens vary in the quality of the label data associated with them, and the locality information on some is somewhat uncertain.

Taxonomy and distribution of the Brazilian species of Thylamys (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) / La taxonomie et la distribution des espèces brésiliennes du genre Thylamys (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae)

Mammalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Carmignotto ◽  
Talitha Monfort
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Skull Morphology ◽  
Geographic Variations ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
New Information ◽  
Capture Method ◽  
Scientific Collections

AbstractThe recent increase in mammal inventories and the widespread use of pitfall traps as a major capture method in Brazil have increased the number of non-volant small mammal specimens in scientific collections, providing new information on natural history, geographical range, and taxonomic status of many marsupials and rodents. To date, however, little is known about the Brazilian species of the marsupial genus Thylamys : the number of species in the country is disputed, as are their names and geographic distribution. Thus, the aim of this study was to define the Brazilian species of the genus, delimiting their taxonomic status and distributional range. We provide qualitative and quantitative data on external and skull morphology for specimens housed in scientific collections. A study of the material available allowed us to recognize the occurrence of three species in Brazil: Thylamys karimii (Petter, 1968), T. macrurus (Olfers, 1818) and T. velutinus (Wagner, 1842). For each of these we provide redescriptions, a discussion of local and geographic variations, geographic distribution, taxonomy, age class differentiation, sexual dimorphism, and natural history.

The Catalogue of Checkered Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleridae) from the Scientific Collections of “Grigore Antipa” National Museum Of Natural History Of Bucharest

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kazimir Kurzeluk
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Scientific Collections

Abstract This catalogue presents data on ten Western - Palaearctic Cleridae species of the subfamilies Tillinae and Clerinae preserved in the collections of “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History of Bucharest.

scholarly journals General Collections Policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen ◽  
Risto Väinölä ◽  
Henry Väre ◽  
Gunilla Ståhls-Mäkelä ◽  
Pasi Sihvonen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
The University

As part of its quality management and goal-driven strategic development, the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus drafts policy documents to guide its operational sectors. The purpose of such policies is to define the content and procedures of the Museum’s activities. They answer the questions “what”, “why”, “who” and “for whom” about the activities they discuss, which is to say that they define and delimit the scope of the operational sector, provide the operations with a purpose and determine their content, describe the allocation of responsibilities in the sector under the Luomus organisation and identify the target groups. The policies provide general objectives and thus form the basis for target programmes and any action plans which in turn answer the question “How can we reach the designated goals?”. Policies are not tied to a schedule, unlike target programmes, even though they must be dynamic and updated periodically to better serve the organisation. The core activities at Luomus are: (1) maintenance of the scientific collections, (2) research and (3) expert services. The General Collections Policy sets guidelines for the maintenance of the scientific collections based on the mission of the University of Helsinki and Luomus.

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