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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.
* 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.
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.
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 )
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.
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.
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" The only scientific writing of hers published in her lifetime appeared in the Magazine of Natural History in 1839, an extract from a letter that Anning had written to the magazine's editor questioning one of its claims.
" As time passed, Anning's confidence in her knowledge grew, and in 1839 she wrote to the Magazine of Natural History to question the claim made in an article, that a recently discovered fossil of the prehistoric shark Hybodus represented a new genus, as an error since she had discovered the existence of fossil sharks with both straight and hooked teeth many years ago.
( Jan F. Simek, Joseph C. Douglas, and Amy Wallace, " Ancient Cave Art at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area ", Tennessee Conservationist Magazine, September / October 2007, pages 24 – 26 ).
Twice named Magazine Photographer of the Year and in 1988 Wildlife Photographer of the Year by Great Britain's Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife.
Accounts of his work in New Zealand will be found in Hooker's Companion to the Botanical Magazine, 1836, and Annals of Natural History, 1838 and 1839.
He was author likewise of ornithological memoirs communicated to the Zoological Society, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the British Association.
* Hunter Lovins ' 72, president and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and named “ Hero of the Planet ” by Time Magazine
* Oakley, Dr. Theresa & Woodcock, Dr. Alex, " The Romanesque Corbel Table at St John's, Devizes and its Sheela na gig ", Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Vol 99 ( 2006 )
* Regan, C. T. ( 1908 ) " A revision of the British and Irish fishes of the genus Coregonus " Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2, 482-490
Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist working in Borneo, had a paper on the " introduction " of species published in Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
He published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History as well as catalogues published by the Indian Museum.
He initially studied marine organisms based on dredging off the coast of Scotland and published notes in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
In 1833 he made a tour in Norway, the botanical results of which were published in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History for 1835 – 1836.
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