A Century of Progress in the Natural Sciences, 1853-1953. Published in Celebration of the Centennial of the California Academy of Sciences.

1956 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-123
Author(s):  
C. P. Swanson
2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Fellers

Rollo Howard Beck (1870–1950) was a professional bird collector who spent most of his career on expeditions to the Channel Islands off southern California, the Galápagos Islands, South America, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean. Some of the expeditions lasted as long as ten years during which time he and his wife, Ida, were often working in primitive conditions on sailing vessels or camps set up on shore. Throughout these expeditions, Beck collected specimens for the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley (California), the American Museum of Natural History, and the Walter Rothschild Museum at Tring, England. Beck was one of the premier collectors of his time and his contributions were recognized by having 17 taxa named becki in his honor. Of these taxa, Beck collected 15 of the type specimens.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. Kalenov

The resources and services provided by the Library for Natural Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences are considered both in open access and to Library for Natural Sciences authorized users — scientists of academic institutions. Library for Natural Sciences heads the Centralized library system, which includes the Central Library and 50 of its branches in the RAS institutions located in Moscow region. The main objective of Library for Natural Sciences RAS is to provide information support for fundamental research conducted in these organizations. The methods used to solve this problem are based on the extensive use of computer and network technologies. The results of Library for Natural Sciences activity in this area are the resources and services provided to users on the Library for Natural Sciences RAS website (http://benran.ru). The article describes basic materials presented on this website, including summary online Library for Natural Sciences RAS Centralized library system catalogues, Central Library image catalogue, system for the remote ordering of books, journals and copies of their fragments; systems of links to network resources “Natural Sciences in the Internet”, supported by Library for Natural Sciences specialists, problem-oriented information systems, formed by the Library for Natural Sciences staff.


Author(s):  
Olga V. Prokudenkova ◽  

The article is devoted to the formation and the development of the academic, creative and organization path of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova – Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Sciences of Higher School. The main stages of the biography and the results of her academic activity are considered in this article. It is shown that Svetlana N. Ikonnikova made the great contribution to the formation of such branch of Humanities as the Sociology of Youth. The separate stage is the creation of the Department of Theory and History, which played an important role in the development of the St. Petersburg School of Cultural Studies as well as the study of problems of theory and history of culture. The author shows the development of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova’s biographical method in Cultural Studies. This method played an important role in the study of personal contribution of creative personalities to the development of culture. The author analyzes the personal contribution of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova to the institutionalization of Cultural Studies as an academic and educational subject.


2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
David Laitin ◽  
Gary King

With assistance of the APSA, the political science members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) held their standing meeting at the annual APSA convention in Chicago. The purposes of these meetings are two-fold: First, as required, to discuss ways that political science can fulfill the NAS mission in providing scientific evidence to address consequential public issues that come from queries posed by various agencies of government; and second, to increase the presence of political scientists in the Academy, where membership from our discipline is, in our view, much lower than political scientists' contributions to the scientific community, and does not adequately recognize the many political scientists who merit election. While we have made some progress toward this second goal, it is a complicated battle: 2,179 members and 437 foreign associates across scientific disciplines have been elected to and currently serve in the NAS, but only 21 are political scientists. Although the science-based mission of NAS does not seek to represent all of the highly pluralistic discipline of political science, far more research relying on methods that are recognized in the natural sciences is produced in our field than is presently represented in the NAS.


2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Sergey F. Sergeev

The summary discusses the history, structure, and areas of activity of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Scientific Council on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The members of the Saint Petersburg branch are focused on practice, which is due to the predominance of researchers in the engineering and natural sciences. According to the author, the Council stimulates work related to interdisciplinary synthesis and convergence of the humanities and natural sciences in solving the problem of artificial intelligence.


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