scholarly journals Rediscovery of Chamisso’s type specimens of Hawaiian Psychotria (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae) in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, Vienna

PhytoKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Andreas Berger
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
World War ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Subsequent Revision ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Second World

Between 1815 and 1818, Count Nikolai Romanzoff funded an expedition of the Russian brigRurik. Besides their primary goal to discover the Northeast Passage, their aim was to collect scientific specimens, for which the botanist Adelbert von Chamisso and the entomologist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz were commissioned. On the Hawaiian Islands, they collected two unknown endemic species that Chamisso and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal later described asCoffeakaduanaandC.mariniana, both now assigned to the large and complex genusPsychotria(Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae). The private herbarium of Chamisso is now preserved at the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg (LE). In the late 1930s, their type collections ofPsychotriakaduanaandP.marinianawere sent out on loan for study, but got lost in transit during the aftermath of the Second World War. No extant original material was found during a subsequent revision of HawaiianPsychotriaand both species were consequently neotypified. These neotypes are superseded by the here-reported rediscovery of original material in the herbarium of Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher preserved at the Natural History Museum, Vienna (W) and these specimens are here designated as lectotypes. As both are rather fragmentary, the former neotypes are additionally designated as epitypes. In addition, some peculiarities and details of the expedition and its collections are noted.

Critical revision of Stemonitis and Symphytocarpus (Myxomycetes) at the Natural History Museum London (BM)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 458 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-280
Author(s):  
G. MORENO ◽  
A. CASTILLO ◽  
H. THÜS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Critical Revision

Light- and scanning electron microscopy are applied to re-assess diagnostic characters of type specimens and critical specimens of species in the genera Stemonitis and Symphytocarpus (Stemonitales, Myxomycetes) from the collections of the Natural History Museum London (BM). The results are used to discuss published data and the type status for specimens of Stemonitis ferruginea, S. flavogenita, S. herbatica, S. inconspicua, S. morganii, S. pallida, S. smithii, S. uvifera, S. virginiensis, S. webberi, Symphytocarpus amaurochaetoides, S. confluens, S. flaccidus and S. herbaticus. Due to severe shortcomings of the original description and the absence of preserved original material we regard S. axifera (Bull.) Macbride as a nomen ambiguum and propose to re-adopt the use of S. ferruginea as the valid name for the common taxon S. axifera auct. (non (Bull.) T.Macbr.). SEM characters support the treatment of Stemonitis smithii as a synonym of S. ferruginea. Stemonitis webberi instead is shown to be well separated from S. splendens by several independent characters. The importance of SEM characters for the correct identification of critical specimens of Stemonitis ferruginea, S.pallida and S. webberi is highlighted and accurate spore measurements based on SEM images are provided for all species.

scholarly journals Life in two countries but one home land – Béla Lipthay (1892-1974) the entomologist

2014 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
András Bozsik
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Life Time ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
World War ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Agricultural Entomology ◽  
Home Village

Béla Lipthay lepidopterologist, entomologist, museologist, agriculturist, hussar lieutenant, life-saving Roman Catholic, descendant of the historical family Lipthay de Kisfalud et Lubelle did a long way from his home village Lovrin to Szécsény, the one-time land of his ancestors. His life coincided with the disintegration of the historical Hungary, and the most serious trials of the Hungarian society, culture and spirit. These changes affected him as a member of Hungarian aristocracy many times and in fact wanted to destroy him. The fortune of the ancestors have been swept away by the storms of the wars and confiscated but the human strength of character, the consciousness, the talent, the diligence, the sanctuary of faith have remained. All these made him possible to survive, to do his everyday hard creative work, which gained him affection and respect of the people living around him. Lipthay Béla was mainly lepidopterist and dealt with the the species of Hungary. Place of his collection was first his native country, the Banat, and the area of the Southern Carpatian Montain, and after 1944 Nógrád county (Szécsény, Balassagyarmat, Nógrádszakál, Ipolytarnóc, Rimóc, Ludányhalászi etc.). The collected species belonged to Macrolepidoptera but he dealt also with the moths. During his life time he prepared a collection of 60000 individuals and maintained them until his passing away. Great part of this collection can be found at the zoological cabinet of Natural History Museum in Budapest. He discovered many species new for the Hungarian fauna such as e.g. Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829), and described a new species (Chamaesphecia sevenari Lipthay, 1961) which later proved to be a synonym of Chamaesphecia nigrifrons (Le Cerf, 1911). He knew well the most famous collectors and specialists of the age. After the first World War he worked together with Frigyes König, László Diószeghy, Jenő Teleki, Norman D. Riley (leading entomologist of the British Museum at London, secretary of the Royal Entomological Society), Brisbane C. S. Warren ( member of the Royal Entomological Society), Lionel W. Rothschild (the most important private collector) and many excellent lepidopterists. After the second World War he was well known and respected by the Hungarian entomologists and lepidopterists: he was a friend of Lajos Kovács, the distinguished lepidopterist and Zoltán Kaszab, the eminent entomologist. He had a good relationship with such renowned Hungarian zoologists and entomologists like Gyula Éhik, László Gozmány, László Issekutz, László Bezsilla and László Móczár. He colleted also Hymenoptera, Diptera and capricorn beetles to be found in Hungarian and foreign collections Natural History Museum, (London), a Szekler National Museum (Marosvásárhely). He dealt with agricultural entomology because he was an experienced agriculturist as far as he had the opportunity to do that. He painted wonderful agricultural entomology posters and organized expositions e.g. on the pests of industrial crops and hunting at Balassagyarmat and Salgótarján.

The historical relics in Chongqing Natural History Museum: An annotated checklist of original materials for 37 names of Chinese seed plants

Phytotaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 530 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
FENG CHEN ◽  
HAI HE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Seed Plants ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Annotated Checklist

A catalogue of type specimens deposited at the herbarium of Chongqing Natural History Museum (CQNM) is carried out. A total of 62 specimens belonging to 56 gatherings concerning 37 valid published names in 23 families of Chinese seed plants are documented as original materials. They include seven isotypes, 21 syntypes, of which 16 of them are isolectotypes and 34 paratypes. A checklist of the 37 names is presented with annotations on the typification, authorship citation, type localities and other taxonomic issues. Eight names were lectotypified, and one name’s second-step lectotype is proposed. Additionally, Distylium lanceolatum Chun, which is invalid pending for further study, and which has long been treated as a synonym of D. dunnianum H.Lév., is listed after the 37 names.

Notes on the genus Allotrichosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Greenideinae), with the description of one new species from Hong Kong, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEXIA QIAO ◽  
LIYUN JIANG ◽  
JON H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
One New Species

The aphid genus Allotrichosiphum is reviewed here. Allotrichosiphum cyclobalanopsidis sp. nov. from Cyclobalanopsis neglecta in Hong Kong, China is described. Keys to the species of Allotrichosiphum worldwide are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

Type designation of the name of the conifer Araâr-tree Tetraclinis articulata (Cupressaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 348 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
P. PABLO FERRER-GALLEGO ◽  
FERNANDO BOISSET
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Tetraclinis Articulata

The typification of the name Tetraclinis articulata (Cupressaceae) is discussed. Previous type designation is considered ineffective. Original material conserved in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at C is designated as the lectotype.

Discovery and redescription of type material of Nausithoe simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890), comb. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Coronatae: Nausithoidae) from the North Atlantic

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3320 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ C. MORANDINI ◽  
GERHARD JARMS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

With discovery and examination of type specimens in the Natural History Museum, London, UK, we reassign Stephanoscyph-istoma simplex (Kirkpatrick, 1890) to the genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853, as Nausithoe simplex, comb. nov., and designate alectotype for the species. Use of morphometric measurements is considered important in coronate systematics, but key featuresalso include the unique whorl of internal cusps and the shape of these cusps. All previous records of N. simplex must be re-evaluated, taking into consideration the morphology of these internal cusps.

Knightjonesia, a new genus (Polychaeta: Spirorbidae) with a winged opercular peduncle, and its taxonomy

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2059 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
T. GOTTFRIED PILLAI
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum

It had hitherto been assumed in publications on serpulimorph systematics that spirorbids are characterized by an operculum borne on a wingless peduncle. However, while examining various spirorbid collections in the Natural History Museum, London, it was found that the type specimens of Helicosiphon platyspira Knight-Jones, 1978 possess a winged opercular peduncle, a character that had hitherto been used to distinguish between other serpulimorph genera. Accordingly, Helicosiphon platyspira is transferred to a new genus, Knightjonesia, in which the opercular peduncle is winged, in contrast with Helicosiphon in which it is wingless.

West End Royalty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Original Material ◽  
World War ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
Second World

Ivor Novello represents the stylistic bridge between Edwardian operetta and post-Second World War British musical comedy. This essay charts the development of British operetta, which was dominated by Novello, in the context of changing public attitudes, artistic influences, and world events. Consideration will be given to how Novello and his contemporaries were obliged to adapt their style to compete with the changes in British musical theatre in the late 1940s, what kind of legacy their works have left, why the pieces are seldom performed today, and why much of British musical theatre of this period has been forgotten. Whilst some of the contemporary neglect of English operetta may be attributed to the loss of some of the original material (such as libretti, sheet music, and orchestrations) and the lack of adequate recordings, the question will be considered whether the work of Novello and his fellow writers is actually worth reviving.

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