scholarly journals Gondwanan or global? A commentary on: ‘Fossil evidence from South America for the diversification of Cunoniaceae by the earliest Palaeocene’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond J Carpenter ◽  
Andrew C Rozefelds
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Fossil Evidence

Past Colonization of South America by Trionychid Turtles: Fossil Evidence from the Neogene of Margarita Island, Venezuela

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason J. Head ◽  
Orangel A. Aguilera ◽  
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Fossil Evidence

Animal taxa named for Rollo H. Beck

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Fellers
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South America ◽  
Southern California ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Vertebrate Zoology ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

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.

Robert E. Grant's later views on organic development: the Swiney lectures on “Palaeozoology”, 1853–1857

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIAN DESMOND
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Fossil Evidence

SUMMARY R. E. Grant's advocacy of transmutation is considered in relation to the scientific climate of the 1850s. To understand the palaeontological framework of his development theory, the unpublished “Palaeozoology” lectures, delivered in 1853–7, are analysed and his sources tabulated. The lectures are shown to contain the following additional themes: (1) a refutation of Lyell's steady-state geology, (2) support for serial development, (3) use of metamorphic effacement to explain the lack of pre-Silurian fossils, and (4) nebular hypothesis. The difficulty of supporting serial development using fossil evidence at this late date is discussed, and this difficulty is deemed to have contributed to the failure of Grant's theory of species “generation”.

Charles Waterton (1782–1865) and wourali

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Padfield
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
History Of

Charles Waterton was the eccentric “Lord of Walton Hall” near Wakefield in Yorkshire. His Wanderings in South America was first published in 1826; translated into French, German and Spanish, it was a best seller. He brought back wourali used by the Macoushi natives of British Guiana (now Guyana) for killing prey; there is a piece of it in the Wakefield Museum. This paper traces the history of wourali which paralyses its victims; its attempted medical use for rabies and tetanus and, though different from curare, its belated use in modern anaesthesia.

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