Boas used his positions at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History to train and develop multiple generations of students.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

An aardvark skeleton and mounted specimen at the Natural History Museum of Genoa

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

Fragmentary remains of smaller individuals were found alongside " Sue ," the Tyrannosaurus mounted in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and a bonebed in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana contains at least three specimens of Daspletosaurus, preserved alongside several hadrosaurs.

* American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology.

San Diego Natural History Museum.

According to The Natural History " by Pliny the Elder:

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

* Journal of a Tour through North Wales and Part of Shropshire with Observations in Mineralogy and Other Branches of Natural History ( London, 1797 )

* Natural History Magazine Article ( from 1933 ): Floating Gold -- The Romance of Ambergris

The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

However, it is clear he was familiar with the works of Virgil and with Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and his monastery also owned copies of the works of Dionysius Exiguus.

The skull was sent to the Natural History Museum in London for verification.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

However, following the founding of the National Gallery, London in 1824, the proposed Picture Gallery was no longer needed, and the space on the upper floor was given over to the Natural History collections.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

The natural history collections were an integral part of the British Museum until their removal to the new British Museum of Natural History, now the Natural History Museum, in 1887.

It became easier to lend objects, the constitution of the Board of Trustees changed and the Natural History Museum became fully independent.

* Andron, Cosmin ( 2008 ), " Ammonios of Alexandria ", The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, eds.

Natural adhesives are made from organic sources such as vegetable matter, starch ( dextrin ), natural resins or from animals e. g. casein or animal glue.

These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

* Natural gas ( methane ), used by many for home cooking on gas stoves, has a cyan colored flame when burned.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Natural resources: oil shale ( kukersite ), peat, phosphorite, cambrian blue clay, limestone, dolomite, arable land, forest

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

For example, at the time that Darwin first published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), no remains of human ancestors had yet been found.

In his work Foundations of Natural Right ( 1796 ), Fichte argued that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon — an important step and perhaps the first clear step taken in this direction by modern philosophy.

Leslie did propose a hollow Earth in his 1829 Elements of Natural Philosophy ( pp. 449 – 453 ), but does not mention interior suns.

Telecommunications in Ireland, including postal services run by An Post, are regulated to a large extent by the Commission for Communications Regulation ( ComReg ), the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has overall responsibility for national policy and regulation.

They include the Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce and the Natural Resources Development College ( both in Lusaka ), the Northern Technical College at Ndola, the Livingstone Trades Training Institute in Livingstone, and teacher-training colleges.

In succeeding years, he gave series of lectures on “ Ichthyology ” ( 1847 – 48 season ), “ Comparative Embryology ” ( 1848 – 49 ), “ Functions of Life in Lower Animals ” ( 1850 – 51 ), “ Natural History ” ( 1853 – 54 ), “ Methods of Study in Natural History ” ( 1861 – 62 ), “ Glaciers and the Ice Period ” ( 1864 – 65 ), “ Brazil ” ( 1866 – 67 ) and “ Deep Sea Dredging ” ( 1869 – 70 ).

* Sir Ronald A. Fisher developed several basic statistical methods in support of his work The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

Natural gas was also discovered in the 1980s during exploration work, and this is being commercially recovered, beginning in the late 1990s.

In its implications for deism, the Natural History of Religion ( 1757 ) may be Hume's most interesting work.

Pytheas described his travels in a work that has not survived ; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and passages in Diodorus of Sicily's history.

Pipes has written that Locke's work " marked a regression because it rested on the concept of Natural Law " rather than upon Harrington's sociological framework.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

Darwin was hard at work on his " big book " on Natural Selection, when on 18 June 1858 he received a parcel from Wallace, who stayed on the Maluku Islands ( Ternate and Gilolo ).

Natural selection was expected to work very slowly in forming new species, but given the effectiveness of artificial selection, he could " see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection ".

He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy ( also see natural theology ).

It is for such reasons that Paley's writings, Natural Theology included, stand as a notable body of work in the canon of Western thought.

Genetic algorithms in particular became popular through the work of John Holland in the early 1970s, and particularly his book Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems ( 1975 ).

Turner's work reflected the violent times that he lived in and stands in contrast to later works such as Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne that were written in a tranquil era.

A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge ( 1919 ), a pioneering attempt to synthesize the philosophical underpinnings of physics.

Maned sea serpent from Bishop Erik Pontoppidan's 1755 work Natural History of Norway.

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for " Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687.

Darwin used the term twice in the 1859 first edition of his work On the Origin of Species, in Chapter IV: Natural Selection, and in Chapter VI: Difficulties on Theory –

His 1965 monograph Natural deduction: a proof-theoretical study was to become a reference work on natural deduction, and included applications for modal and second-order logic.

Natural arches commonly form where cliffs are subject to erosion from the sea, rivers or weathering ( subaerial processes ); the processes " find " weaknesses in rocks and work on them, making them larger until they break through.

Mann referred to this work as " Natural User Interfaces ", " Direct User Interfaces ", and " Metaphor-Free Computing "

His work on Natural Philosophy ( the Physicus ) contained a theory of the nature of the gods, in which he argued that there were many gods believed in by the people, but only one natural God.

By caring for the built environment, English Heritage complements the work of Natural England which aims to protect the natural environment.

This includes the work of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, and includes Mr. Natural ; Keep on Truckin '; Fritz the Cat ; Fat Freddy's Cat ; Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; the album cover art for Cheap Thrills ; and contributions to International Times, The Village Voice, and Oz magazine.