scholarly journals Meteorites as a Scientific Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annarita Franza ◽  
Giovanni Pratesi
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Central Institute ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
The University ◽  
Private Collections

This paper investigates the importance of meteorites as a scientific heritage. While the significance of meteorites as natural heritage is relatively easy to establish, the implication of their meaning as scientific heritage may be more difficult to define. With this aim in mind, in this paper, we present the catalogue standards for meteorite specimens, preserved either in natural history museums or in private collections, proposed by the Italian Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione–ICCD (Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation). This work outlines the structure of the catalogue card that describes the meteorite specimen along with other information related to the sample (e.g., archival documentation on collectors and traders, museum catalogues and inventories, general bibliography). This essay concludes discussing the cataloguing, according to ICCD standards, of two Renazzo meteorite specimens, which fell in the eponymous Italian village in 1824 and are now preserved at the Natural History Museum of the University of Firenze.

Juan Cristóbal Gundlach's contributions to the knowledge of Puerto Rican birds and his influence on the development of natural history in Puerto Rico

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley ◽  
Sylke Frahnert ◽  
Rafaela Aguilera Román ◽  
Pascal Eckhoff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
German Naturalist

The German naturalist, Juan Cristóbal Gundlach (1810–1896), resided in Cuba for the last 57 years of his life, except for two expeditions to Puerto Rico in 1873 and 1875–1876, when he explored the southwestern, western, and northeastern regions. Gundlach made representative collections of the island's fauna, which formed the nucleus of the first natural history museum in Puerto Rico. He substantially increased the number of species known from the island, and was the first naturalist to make meticulous observations and produce detailed reports of the island's natural history. Gundlach greatly influenced other naturalists in the island, so that a period of concerted advancement in knowledge of natural history occurred in the 1870s. That development coincided with the establishment of the first higher education institutions in the island, including the first natural history museum. The natural history museums eventually closed, and only a few of their specimens were passed to other institutions, including foreign museums. None of Gundlach's and few of his contemporaries’ specimens have survived in Puerto Rico.

scholarly journals Reste eines Elasmosauriers aus der Oberkreide von Schleswig-Holstein in der Sammlung des Naturkunde-Museums Bielefeld

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Caudal Vertebrae ◽  
The University ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Upper Campanian

In 2016, the Natural History Museum Bielefeld received fragmentary remains of an elasmosaurid plesiosaurian from the upper Campanian of Kronsmoor (Steinburg district) in Schleswig-Holstein (northern Germany). The material includes incomplete vertebrae, phalanges and unidentifiable fragments. Additional parts of the same skeleton (a tooth, cervical-, dorsal- and caudal vertebrae, limb elements and 110 gastroliths) are housed at the Institute for Geology of the University of Hamburg and in private collections.

On the Species of Philonthus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini: Philonthina) in the Collections of Romanian Natural History Museums

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-276
Author(s):  
Melania Stan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
History Museums ◽  
History Of

Abstract 57 species of the genus Philonthus were identified in the collections of four museums of Romania: Brukenthal National Museum, “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Museum of Natural History of Iaşi and Museum of Oltenia, Craiova. Philonthus wuesthoffi Bernhauer, an alien species from East Palaearctic Region, is a new record for the Romanian fauna. Except for Philonthus pyrenaeus Kiesenwetter, the species treated here are in the Romanian fauna and presented with their distribution maps. An identification key for Romanian Philonthus species found in the studied collections is also provided.

scholarly journals Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding

2005 ◽  
Vol 360 (1462) ◽  
pp. 1805-1811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Savolainen ◽  
Robyn S Cowan ◽  
Alfried P Vogler ◽  
George K Roderick ◽  
Richard Lane
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
Species Identification ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Diagnostic Technique ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories

An international consortium of major natural history museums, herbaria and other organizations has launched an ambitious project, the ‘Barcode of Life Initiative’, to promote a process enabling the rapid and inexpensive identification of the estimated 10 million species on Earth. DNA barcoding is a diagnostic technique in which short DNA sequence(s) can be used for species identification. The first international scientific conference on Barcoding of Life was held at the Natural History Museum in London in February 2005, and here we review the scientific challenges discussed during this conference and in previous publications. Although still controversial, the scientific benefits of DNA barcoding include: (i) enabling species identification, including any life stage or fragment, (ii) facilitating species discoveries based on cluster analyses of gene sequences (e.g. cox1 = CO1 , in animals), (iii) promoting development of handheld DNA sequencing technology that can be applied in the field for biodiversity inventories and (iv) providing insight into the diversity of life.

scholarly journals DESCRIBING THE EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS: AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Gkouskou ◽  
Dimitrios Koliopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Educational Role

This study presents a tool for description and potential analysis of the educational role of the Science and Technology museum. This tool has been constructed from the point of view of formal education and it is proposed as a framework for the approach of the science/technology museum from the teachers and education administrators. More specifically, the tool is, at first, described in terms of structure, content and functionality and, afterwards, examples are provided for cases of international, national and local natural history museums (Natural History Museum in Paris, Goulandris Natural History Museum in Athens and University of Patras Zoology Museum accordingly). Finally, there is a discussion regarding the suitability of this tool to inform, instruct and train future and in-service teachers in aspects of museum education. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0720/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Science and the Language of Natural History Museum Architecture: Problems of Interpretation

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-361
Author(s):  
John Robert Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Museum Architecture ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Scientific Ideas

The historicist styles and decorative schemas of natural history museums built from the 1850s to the 1930s provide a unique opportunity to study the architectural expression of scientific ideas. At the same time, the significance of individual buildings varies widely. Drawing on examples from Britain, Ireland, Canada and continental Europe, this article explores three specific problems that arise in the interpretation of the architectural language of natural history museums. Firstly, the same motifs can convey very different meanings in different places. Secondly, the same governing idea can be communicated through different architectural styles which in turn inflect the idea itself. Finally, it is often hard to reconstruct the exact roles of the different actors in creating a museum building. The most complex museums, and the most challenging and rewarding to analyse, are those with the greatest number of scientists and artists working together to create them.

scholarly journals Java Man and the Politics of Natural History

2021 ◽  
Vol 177 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 290-311
Author(s):  
Caroline Drieënhuizen ◽  
Fenneke Sysling
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Homo Erectus ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Geological Information

Abstract Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were and are usually presented as part of the natural world, containing only biological or geological information. However, their collections, like those of other museums, are rooted in colonial practices and thinking. In this article, we sketch a political and decolonial biography of ‘Java Man’, the fossilized remains of a Homo erectus specimen, housed in Naturalis, the Natural History Museum, in the Netherlands. We describe the context of Dutch colonialism and the role of indigenous knowledge and activity in the discovery of Java Man. We also follow Java Man to the Netherlands, where it became a contested specimen and part of a discussion about repatriation. This article argues that the fossils of Java Man and their meanings are products of ‘creolized’ knowledge systems produced by Empire and sites of competing national and disciplinary histories and identities.

Basics of the external communication of State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Arkhipova Kh. ◽  
Danylyuk K.
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
External Communication ◽  
History Museums ◽  
The World

The main tendencies of development of communication strategies of the leading natural history museums of the world are considered. Based on the Strategy for the Development of State Natural History Museum NAS of Ukraine, the main goals, tasks and channels of communication with the main segments of the audience of the museum are developed.

scholarly journals The Classic: The natural history museum

1970 ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Albert Eide Parr
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Dead Material

1939: «- if we do recognize that one of the main research missions of a natural history museum lies in the ecological types of investigation, we must obviously also admit the perfect appropriateness of handling live, as well as dead material, in the museum to the extent that the observations on the living individuals may tend to confirm or to explain the conclusions arrived at by the study of the preserved samples of natural populations.» 1950: «The side of nature which concerns society most of all is not undisturbed nature, but nature as the environment of man, and that is the field in which the educational efforts of the natural history museums could make their greatest contribution to human thought, welfare, and progress today.» 1980: «- it seems clear that museums, at least in the larger cities, may be more important as independently explorable additions to the environment itself than in the simple role of didactic interpreters of experiences gained from other sources.» 

scholarly journals Portugal in the European Network of Marine Science Heritage and Outreach (19th–20th Centuries)

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Inês Amorim ◽  
Bruno Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Maritime Museum ◽  
Collection Point

The gradual consciousness of the scientific and economic riches of marine life is rooted in the legacy of some pillars of scientific production and dissemination in institutions such as natural history museums, aquariums, and maritime stations. Nowadays, one of the biggest issues of these scientific collections of species (marine or others) is their contextual interpretation which demands its original collection point, collectors, and original aims. The current research focuses on the origin of collections of marine specimens in Portugal as well as their historical evolution. In this particular approach, we assess the connection of the Portuguese natural history museums, universities and aquariums to similar European institutions since the mid-19th century, crossing primary sources from different archives. It was possible to reconstruct connections with the Zoological Station of the bay of Naples (Italy), the Maritime Museum of Monaco, and Aquariums of Monaco, France, and England. We identify both informers and the circulation of zoological specimens that underpin Museums and Aquariums collections that are today important scientific heritage repositories for a larger understanding of marine biodiversity and its threats, and core places of aesthetic contemplation and of philosophical discussion about the evolution of scientific knowledge.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document