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Developing a Master Preservation Plan for Collections at the Museum of History and Art [PDF]
, 2014 The museum's staff requests a planning grant to engage representative city officials and a team of three consultants--a conservator, environmental management specialist, and historic preservation architect--to develop a Master Preservation Plan for ...
Theresa E. Hanley, Theresa E. Hanley
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Predicting ecology and hearing sensitivities in Parapontoporia—An extinct long‐snouted dolphin
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Analyses of the cetacean (whale and dolphin) inner ear provide glimpses into the ecology and evolution of extinct and extant groups. The paleoecology of the long‐snouted odontocete (toothed whale) group, Parapontoporia, is primarily marine with its depositional context also suggesting freshwater tolerance.
Joyce Sanks, Rachel Racicot
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1999 The aims of the project “Organization and Management of Brazilian prehistoric collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/University of São Paulo” were: define a methodology to apply to this kind of collections, organize the field and lab ...
Marisa Coutinho Afonso +2 more
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Disparity of turbinal bones in placental mammals
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Turbinals are key bony elements of the mammalian nasal cavity, involved in heat and moisture conservation as well as olfaction. While turbinals are well known in some groups, their diversity is poorly understood at the scale of placental mammals, which span 21 orders.
Quentin Martinez +11 more
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Sealed up tight : the endurance of low priority collections : a case study of the Laing Seal Collection at Otago Museum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Studies at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis is a case study examining a collection of Victorian era glass seal matrix casts, titled the Laing Seal Collection. Held by Otago Museum (OM), these glass casts make up what this research terms a “low-priority collection”: a collection that ...
Andrewartha, Isobel Claire
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UPDATED GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF MICHIGAN HERPETOFAUNA:: A SYNTHESIS OF OLD AND NEW SOURCES [PDF]
, 2016 Recently a comprehensive overview of reptiles and amphibians in Michigan was published. Unfortunately, the distributions of the species represented were compiled before widespread accessibility to technological tools providing greater access to museum ...
Phillips, John G.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Bioimaging of the sense organs and brain of fishes and reptiles. Left panel: 3D reconstruction of the head and brain of the deep‐sea viperfish Chauliodus sloani following diceCT. Right panel: A 3D reconstruction of a 70‐day‐old embryo head of the bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps following diceCT, showing the position of the segmented brain within the ...
Shaun P. Collin +9 more
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European Journal of TaxonomySpiders of the genus Aname L. Koch, 1873, commonly referred to as wishbone spiders, are a ubiquitous and extremely diverse component of the Australian mygalomorph fauna.
Jeremy D. Wilson +3 more
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New and Little-Known Agromyzidae from Michigan (Diptera: Acalyptratae) [PDF]
, 2017 The latest major work on North American Agromyzidae, The Agromyzidae of Canada and Alaska (Spencer, 1969), lists 290 regional species. Of that number, half (147) are new species and 23 are previously described species newly recorded for the continent. It
Steyskal, George C.
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Poaching Museum Collections using Digital 3D Technologies
, 2015 This paper investigates the creative engagement with digital 3D models of museum artefacts and gives insight into new uses of museum collections enabled by digital scanning, editing and 3D printing technologies.
Sarah Younan
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