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The Role of Extinction in Evolution. Extinktion ‹ bezeichnet heutzutage das Ende evolutionärer Stammlinien durch den Tod aller Nachkommen. Nach Charles Darwin handelt sich um einen Prozess, der allmählich und andauernd in der Geschichte... more
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      History of Paleontology, History of Natural History, History of Science, Evolution
Natural history museums preserve a considerable, yet often unacknowledged part of the world's colonial heritage. Their identity, collections, exhibitions and, importantly, much of their research activities are based on objects which... more
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      History of Museums, Decolonization, Natural history collections, Politics of Natural History
Based on research undertaken for WAAS and Museums Worcestershire's Lost Landscapes project, this talk traces the history of our understanding of the archaeology, geology, and natural history of the Ice Age, and presents the fascinating... more
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      History of Natural History, History of Museums, Natural history collections, Archaeological Collections Management
A 12-metre long juvenile fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus 1758)) skeleton, named Driggsby, was installed in the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in January 2018. The specimen was washed up on the West Cumbrian coast in... more
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      Museum Studies, Osteology, Museums and Exhibition Design, Natural history collections
Abstract Helmis Natural History Museum is located in Zakynthos, in the village of Agia Marina Fagia, only twenty minutes distance from the centre of the city of Zakynthos. The enlargement of the private collection of Panagiotis Helmis, a... more
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      Heritage Conservation, Museology, Natural history collections
This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces... more
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      Zoology, Entomology, Early Modern History, History of Natural History
Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the... more
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      History of Natural History, Natural History, Animals & Society studies, Animals in Culture
De nombreuses et nombreux scientifiques travaillent au quotidien, bénévolement ou non, pour collecter ces informations naturalistes. Elles sont par la suite stockées dans les musées ou dans les associations, attendant qu’un spécialiste... more
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      Museum Studies, History of Museums, Natural history collections, Conservation of Natural History Collections
Article de l'ouvrage Penser/classer les collections des Sociétés savantes.
Actes des journées d'étude organisées par la Société des Arts de Genève. Palais de l'Athénée, 24 et 25 novembre 2016. Edition Slatkine
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      Histoire Des Sciences, Natural history collections, Nantes, Conservation of Natural History Collections
ISIS—Volume 109, Number 3, September 2018, pp. 616-17
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      History of Natural History, History of Museums, History of Collections, Collecting and Collections
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      Ornithology, History of Natural History, American art/ Art of the United States, Old Master drawings
One of France's colonial enterprises in the eighteenth century was to acclimatize nutmeg, native to the Maluku islands, in the French colony of Isle de France (today's Mauritius). Exploring the acclimatization of nutmeg as a practice,... more
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      History of Science, Global History, French Empire, Mauritius & the Mascarene Islands
Crocodilians show a wide range of maximum Total Length (TL) and Crocodylus porosus is considered one of the largest crocodilian species with some individuals attaining more than 6 m in length. Remains of such exceptionally large... more
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      Singapore, Natural History, Natural history collections, Crocodilians
As a periodic assessment of the mammal collection resource, the Systematic Collections Committee (SCC) of the American Society of Mammalogists undertakes decadal surveys of the collections held in the Western Hemisphere. The SCC surveyed... more
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      Museum Studies, Natural History, Mammalogy, Biodiversity
Talk during the PFC Meeting 2018, about the Preservation of Natural History wet collections: Feedback and prospects, December 5,6,7, 2018. National History Museum, Paris.
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      Pathology, Human Anatomy (Biological Anthropology), Anatomy, Natural history collections
This one-day workshop aims to foster this debate and to bring museum professionals, academics and other stakeholders together. In the workshop we explore questions around natural history museums and their colonial legacy. Which natural... more
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      Museum Studies, History of Natural History, Colonialism, History of Collecting
Series editors: Vittoria Feola, University of Padova J.D. Fleming, Simon Fraser University Cassie Gorman, Anglia Ruskin University Stefano Gulizia, New Europe College, Bucharest Steven Matthews, University of Minnesota, Duluth Richard... more
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      Renaissance History, Early Modern History, History of Natural History, History of Science
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      History of Natural History, Bird (Ornithology), American Art History, Birds
A fundamental communication gap exists between taxidermy and conservation. The future of taxider-my conservation will rely on improved links being forged between these two specialisms. This should include sharing and fostering knowledge... more
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      Cultural Heritage Conservation, Heritage Conservation, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Taxidermy
"To see and know God in the natural world: the scientific interests of San Juan de Ribera (1532-1611) and his paintings" This article analyzes the scientific collection owned by San Juan de Ribera, Archbishop of Valencia between 1569 and... more
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      Genre Painting, Collecting and Collections, History of Collecting, Natural history collections