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.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

Picture taken at the San Diego Natural History Museum

* British Caenozoic Fossils, 1975, The Natural History Museum, London.

There is a Natural History Museum operating under the direction of the University of Crete and two aquariums-Aquaworld in Hersonissos and Cretaquarium displaying sea creatures common in Cretan waters.

About the time he was six or seven, he and a close friend took trips to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

** The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics, by Mark Murphy, 2002.

' Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon ', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 ( 2002 ), 433-55.

( 2002 ): North American Owls: Biology and Natural History, 2nd ed.

F., 2002: Defining Natural Sciences, Behaviorology Today, 5 ( 1 ), 34-36.

* Chinese ( complex characters ) edition of Natural Capitalism ( 2002, CommonWealth, Taipei ) ISBN 957-0395-61-3

* A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts ( 1807, republished 2002 by Thoemmes Press ).

GIS mapping data from Queensland Department of Natural Resources ( 2002 ) showed an area of 3, 240 hectares, of which about 2, 100 hectares are estuarine mangroves, with the remainder being swamp forests dominated by Melaleuca and specialist Eucalypt species.

* Ian Henderson ' There are French Novels and there are French Novels ': Charles Reade and the ' Other ' Sources of Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life JASAL 1 ( 2002 )

After many years of decline a survey was commissioned by Natural England in 2002.

The exhibit opened at the Washington, D. C. museum complex in 1997 and later went on a national tour which lasted until 2002 and visited various museums, including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

* Ajith Kumar, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, India, Ravi Chellam, B. C. Choudhury, Divya Mudappa, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, N. M. Ishwar, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun, India, Barry Noon, Department of Fish and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U. S. A. ( 2002 ) " Impact of Rainforest Fragmentation on Small Mammals and Herpetofauna in the Western Ghats, South India ", Final Report, pp. 146, illus.

Between 1989 and 1993 90 birds were released in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and by 2002, 139 pairs were breeding in the area.

Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries, including one on Richard Wagner, of whose music he is a notable fan, and two on Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca for BBC Two ( 2002 ), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series ( 2006 )-Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.

* The Natural Order and Other Texts by Asger Jorn ( Translated by Peter Shield ), Ashgate ( 2002 )

* The Natural Order and Other Texts by Asger Jorn ( Translated by Peter Shield ), Ashgate ( 2002 )

* The Eye In The Thicket ( Natural History Essays ) Thistledown Books 2002.

* The Natural History ( 2002 ) ECW

The university had received more than $ 20 million in funding from different branches of the National Institutes of Health as of 2002 The university's Department of Physiology and the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention received $ 8 million from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) to establish the first research center in the U. S. specializing in natural preventive medicine for minorities.

* Natural disaster: French undertakers state that 10, 000 more French people died during the early August summer heatwave than the first two weeks of August in 2002.

He also served as Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs ( 1997 – 2002 ), Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources ( 2002 – 04 ), Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 2004 – 08 ) and Minister for Justice and Law Reform ( 2008 – 11 ).

Following the return of the government at the 2002 general election Ahern was appointed Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.

Dempsey has also served as Minister for Environment and Local Government ( 1997 – 2002 ), Minister for Education and Science ( 2002 – 04 ), Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources ( 2004 – 07 ) and Minister for Transport ( 2007 – 11 ).