Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend. Edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Martin T. Nweeia. Hanover (New Hampshire): IPI Press and Washington (DC): Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution); distributed by the University Press of New England, Lebanon (New Hampshire). $35.00. xxviii + 233 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-9967480-1-8. [This book is the companion to the exhibit Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.] 2017.

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-297
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The University

An annotated catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1022 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
STANISLAV P. ABADJIEV
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
New Synonym

A catalog of the type material of 59 taxa of Neotropical Pierinae housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, is presented. Each entry includes the species-group name, the original combination quoted from the original publication, the type locality, the type specimens with their labels, and notes about current taxonomic status. One new synonym has been established, Euterpe dysoni Doubleday, 1847 = Leodonta marginata Schaus, 1902. Lectotypes are designated for 5 species group taxa: Archonias intermedia Schaus, 1913, Hesperocharis jaliscana Schaus, 1898, H. paranensis Schaus, 1898, Pieris sublineata Schaus, 1902, and P. limona Schaus, 1913.

scholarly journals Eulogy for Kristian Fauchald (1 July 1935 – 4 April 2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Active Researcher

Karen Osborn and Linda Ward launched an initiative to establish International Polychaete Day on 1st of July to celebrate Kristian’s 80th birthday. This took place in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, where he spent his last 35 years as an active researcher. This was a magnificent idea that will help remember him and to encourage the interest for studying polychaetes. The wish is that a similar celebration be done as well in many other institutions and countries.

scholarly journals Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 510 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. BROWN ◽  
DAVID ADAMSKI ◽  
RONALD W. HODGES ◽  
STEPHEN M. BAHR
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Label Data ◽  
Available Information

The collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., is second only to that of The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum of Natural History), London, in the number of type specimens of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). The Smithsonian houses 1,375 gelechioid types: 1,249 holotypes, 48 lectotypes, 1 neotype, 69 species represented by one or more syntypes, and 8 species represented by one or more pseudotypes (i.e., specimens identified as type by an accompanying label that are unlikely to be the type). Three former curators are responsible for the vast majority of the type specimens: August Busck, J. F. Gates Clarke, and Ronald W. Hodges. We present a list of the species for which a type is deposited in the USNM, organized alphabetically. For each species we provide an abbreviated reference to the original description and label data. This list represents the second contribution to a larger effort to make available information on the Lepidoptera type holdings of the USNM.

scholarly journals Belminus santosmalletae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae): New Species from Panama, with an Updated Key for Belminus Stål, 1859 Species

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 686
Author(s):  
Carolina Dale ◽  
Silvia Justi ◽  
Cleber Galvão
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
The Body ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Triatomine Species ◽  
A New Species

Belminus santosmalletae, a new triatomine species, is described based on a specimen from Panama, deposited in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. Attempts failed to identify this specimen using the keys by Lent and Wygodzinsky (1979) and Sandoval et al. (2007). A comparison was made with specimens of Belminus Stål, 1859 specimens deposited at the Triatominae collection at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CTIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and with previous descriptions of Belminus species. These comparisons showed the specimen represents a new species, described in the present paper. It differs from other species of the genus mainly by the grainy tegument, scarce pilosity along the body, and the number of tubercles observed on the pronotum.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, ed. Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, 312 pp., many colored ill. and maps.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Art ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Associate Director

This catalog accompanies a fascinating and innovative exhibition documenting the art in medieval Saharan Africa, first shown at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, from Jan. 26 to July 21, 2019, then at The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, from Sept. 21 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, and finally at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 8 to Nov. 29, 2020. To bring all those very valuable objects together and to organize this exhibit, represents a major task involving many people. Here I want to concentrate only on the catalog itself, magisterially edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art.

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