scholarly journals FURTHER NOTES ON TYPES AND OTHER SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

1905 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Henry. H. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Mediterranean

Having planned a trip to Europe for the early part of last spring, I was anxious to utlize the opportunity to compare some specimens with types in the British Museum, but as I was sailing to the Mediterranean and going tospend most of my time in Italy, it was impossible to take more than a very few specimens, as I had to carry them everywhere, and did not dare to intrust the box to anyone else to carry for me. I there for restirced myself to cigar-box full, chiefly Gortynas, two of them Appassionata and Harrssii, kindly lent me by Mr. Bird, and the rest from my own collection.

First record of the Levantine species Scoloplos haasi (Orbiniidae: Scolecida: Annelida) from the Mediterranean coast of Spain

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 1051-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo López
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
British Museum ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Polychaete Species ◽  
The Mediterranean

During an investigation devoted to characterize all the Orbiniidae polychaete species present in the Iberian Peninsula, several individuals previously identified as Scoloplos armiger showed to actually belong to Scoloplos haasi, a species to date considered endemic from Israel. The comparison with the holotype deposited in the British Museum of Natural History confirmed the identification. This record of S. haasi is not only a new one for the western Mediterranean but also the first one out of its original locality, extending largely westwards the geographical range of the species.

scholarly journals A Key for Determining the African Species of Anopheles (Sensu Lato)

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
New Records ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
African Species ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Specific Rank ◽  
The Mediterranean

The compilation of the following key has been a matter of no little difficulty, mainly owing to the close connection of the species in some of the groups, which sometimes makes it almost impossible to assign specific limits. The difficulty has in some cases been increased through the paucity of material, which prevents any adequate conception of the range of variability being obtained. This is particularly the case with some of the species coming from the Mediterranean region, which are very closely allied, and of which, as a rule, the British Museum possesses very few specimens. Names have only been sunk here as synonyms in those cases where there appeared to be no reasonable doubt, either after a comparison of the types, or of the descriptions, when these were sufficiently detailed. Eventually, therefore, it may be found that some forms which are here given specific rank will have to be regarded at most as varieties. Since so many figures of Anopheline wings, etc., have already appeared, it is not deemed necessary to add to their number. Some new records have been included, but on the other hand some old ones, which appeared to be questionable, have been omitted. As with the writer's previous papers, this key is merely intended to supplement the detailed descriptions which will be found in other works.

Donald John Wiseman 1918–2010

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN MILLARD
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Second World ◽  
Intelligence Officer

Donald Wiseman, a leading assyriologist, had a distinguished service in the RAF during the Second World War under Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park and later in the Mediterranean as Chief Intelligence Officer. After time working at the British Museum on thousands of cuneiform tablets and as a member of Mallowan's team excavating Nimrud, he took up the Chair of Assyriology at SOAS in 1961. Wiseman, who was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1969, worked to advance archaeological work in the Near East.

Enhanced seasonality of precipitation in the Mediterranean during the early part of the Last Interglacial

Geology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 919-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Milner ◽  
Richard E.L. Collier ◽  
Katherine H. Roucoux ◽  
Ulrich C. Müller ◽  
Jörg Pross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Last Interglacial ◽  
The Mediterranean

The Manuscript Versions of Harrington's Oceana

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other

In 1964, Mr Peter Laslett drew attention to a discovery of some importance to Harrington scholars. Professor Gilbert Gilchrist, according to Laslett's report, had found ‘a manuscript version of an early part of Oceana… which may have been written well before the book appeared in 1656; indeed before the Commonwealth began’. The manuscript lay in the British Museum. Since Gilchrist's original discovery – really rediscovery, for the staff of the museum had indexed the manuscript under ‘Harrington’ – two more manuscript versions of Oceana have been unearthed, one of them in the British Museum, the other in the Bodleian. All three manuscripts are very much the same, and all seem candidates for Laslett's description as manuscript versions of Oceana written well before the publication of Harrington's printed book in 1656. Unfortunately Mr Laslett's understandable optimism is almost certainly misplaced, for the manuscripts seem much more likely to have been subsequent extracts from Oceana, taken probably in the 1690s. So much for our hopes of observing Harrington's mind working at early drafts of Oceana. But something, too, is gained. The striking differences which gave Laslett his grounds for thinking Gilchrist's manuscript to be an early version of Oceana turn out, in fact, to represent a fascinating exercise in late seventeenth-century domestication of Harrington by his interpreters. The manuscripts show how Harrington, a supporter of revolution, was made a conservative.

The Occurrence of British Aplysia

1949 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula M. Grigg
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
West Coast ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
The West ◽  
Sea Hare ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
History Books

On 13 November 1947 a specimen of the sea hare, Aplysia depilans L., which had been trawled in Babbacombe Bay, was sent to the Plymouth Laboratory. When it was realized that the animal was not the common A. punctata Cuv., collecting trips to likely places were undertaken in the hope of finding more. No others were found, but on one of the expeditions Dr D. P. Wilson picked up a specimen of A. limacina L.Both A. depilans and A. limacina are found in the Mediterranean and on the west coast of Europe: A. depilans has been found in British seas before, but so far as is known A. limacina has not.These occurrences provide the main reason for publishing this study. The paper also includes an account of the distribution of aplysiids in British waters and a review of the controversy over the identity of large specimens. As the animals are not usually described in natural history books, notes on the field characters are added.I would like to thank the Director of the Plymouth Laboratory for affording me laboratory and collecting facilities and for his interest in the work. I am most grateful to Dr G. Bacci, who went to much trouble to send me specimens from Naples; to Dr W. J. Rees, who arranged for me to have access to the British Museum collection; to Dr D. P. Wilson, who has provided the photographs of A. punctata (Pl. I) and A. limacina (Pl. II); and to D. J. Slinn, who prepared the map.

2. Observations on a New Species of British Gurnard, and on a Species of Sole new to Science

1845 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Richard Parnell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Free Margin ◽  
Pectoral Fins ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Dark Blue ◽  
A New Species

The author obtained, in the early part of last September, at Brixham, in Devonshire, seven specimens of a species of Gurnard, which has been known for thirty years past to the fishermen there under the name of Finned Captains. This he ascertained to be the Trigla lucerna of Brunner. The species is known as an inhabitant of the Mediterranean, where it was first noticed by Rondeletius, but mistaken by him for the T. cuculus of Linnæus. Since then, Brunner noticed it at Marseilles, Risso at Nice, Leach at Malta, and Cuvier at Naples; but it had not been previously observed by any naturalist on the British coasts. The largest specimen obtained by the author is 10½ inches long. The back is light red, the pectoral fins dark blue, the sides marked by a silvery band from the gill-cover to the tail; the lateral line smooth, and formed by numerous semicircular plates, beautifully radiated at their free margin ; the scales thin, large, and entire; the second ray of the first dorsal fin very long, so as to reach, when folded down, beyond the sixth ray of the second dorsal fin. (See Plate.)

The haunting

Antiquity ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (219) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Lukas ◽  
Ellen Lukas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Early Winter

In the early winter of 1953, just after the debunking of the Piltdown fossil forgery perpetrated in the early part of this century near Uckfield, Sussex, a blizzard of correspondence descended on the British Museum (Natural History). Among the letters was a fairly ominous one addressed to Kenneth Oakley. Purporting to be a message from one 'Elihu Progwhistle', a professional medium whose seances were being monopolized by a spirit 'identifying itself as the solicitor Charles Dawson', the note angrily denounced the whole investigation. It relayed the ghost's warning that it would take violent extra-legal action against the Piltdown detectives unless they gave up the search.

Bloomsbury

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Battershill
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
Lytton Strachey ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The University

Bloomsbury is an area of Central London located in the Borough of Camden between Euston Road and Holborn. The neighborhood is home to the British Museum and the University of London as well as a number of Georgian residential buildings arranged around manicured squares and gardens. In the context of modernist literature, art, and culture, Bloomsbury is associated with a loosely defined social circle known as "the Bloomsbury Group," "the Bloomsbury Set," or simply "Bloomsbury," a gathering of writers, artists, and intellectuals who lived and worked in the area in the early part of the twentieth century. There is some critical disagreement about exactly who belonged to the group, but some of its key figures included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey, and Duncan Grant. Members of the group contributed to various aspects of modernist thought and culture including feminism, analytic philosophy, psychoanalysis, macroeconomics, progressive domestic arrangements, left-oriented politics, Post-Impressionist art, and literary experimentation.

2. Observations on a New Species of British Gurnard, and on a Species of Sole new to Science

1845 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 157-157
Author(s):  
Richard Parnell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Free Margin ◽  
Pectoral Fins ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Dark Blue ◽  
A New Species

The author obtained, in the early part of last September, at Brixham, in Devonshire, seven specimens of a species of Gurnard, which has been known for thirty years past to the fishermen there under the name of Finned Captains. This he ascertained to be the Trigla lucerna of Brunner. The species is known as an inhabitant of the Mediterranean, where it was first noticed by Rondeletius, but mistaken by him for the T. cuculus of Linnæus. Since then, Brunner noticed it at Marseilles, Risso at Nice, Leach at Malta, and Cuvier at Naples ; but it had not been previously observed by any naturalist on the British coasts. The largest specimen obtained by the author is 10½ inches long. The back is light red, the pectoral fins dark blue, the sides marked by a silvery band from the gill-cover to the tail; the lateral line smooth, and formed by numerous semicircular plates, beautifully radiated at their free margin ; the scales thin, large, and entire; the second ray of the first dorsal fin very long, so as to reach, when folded down, beyond the sixth ray of the second dorsal fin. (See Plate).

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