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George Gustav Heye and the National Museum of the American Indian - Collecting the Collector
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012 On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened its doors to the public. This essay will look at the institution's history, especially its collector, George Gustav Heye, and his representation inside the museum walls. Oscillating between honored patron and greedy businessman, the labels and objects explore his personality
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Charles W. Peach, palaeobotany and Scotland [PDF]
, 2008 The move south from Wick to the city of Edinburgh in 1865, some four years after retirement from the Customs service, provided Charles W. Peach with new opportunities for fossil-collecting and scientific networking.
Anderson, Lyall I, Taylor, Michael A
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Clade‐wide morphological and functional variation of the sauropsid columella
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The columella (=stapes) is the middle ear bone of reptiles that transmits vibrations from the environment to the inner ear. It has been shown to exhibit extensive interspecific morphological disparity in several clades; however, its morphological variation and associated functional consequences remain poorly described.
John Peacock +4 more
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Art Collecting: The Motivation of Czech Female Art Collectors in Purchase of Art Works
, 2023 The Bachelor's thesis focuses on art collecting with an emphasis on female private collectors and their motivation to purchase art works. The objective of this work is to investigate the motivation, goals, values, and specific decision-making processes ...
Makovská, Aneta
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, 2019 This thesis is a study of contemporary collecting practices at museums of cultural history in Sweden. The study takes off from two questions: How is this practice of collecting understood at museums of cultural history today, and how are these modes of ...
Nystrand von Unge, Elin
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Tracing the evolutionary history of the morpho‐anatomy of baculum in primates
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Animal morphology reflects both evolutionary history and present‐day adaptation. Male mammal copulatory structures such as the baculum (penile bone) are ideal for studying these processes because of their complexity and high interspecific variability. In primates, however, research has focused mostly on baculum length.
Federica Spani +3 more
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Museum & Society, 2010 In a Science article published in 1953, Alan Boyden, a zoologist from Rutgers University and a pioneer in systematic serology, gave precise instructions on how to sample animal blood for the tissue collection that he housed in the Serological Museum. His
Priska Gisler
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Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The axial skeleton serves as the primary structural support in all vertebrates and is subdivided into five distinct regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal. Relaxation of constraints acting on the terminal end of the axial skeleton has led to remarkable variation in caudal vertebrae number across Squamata.
Olivia Binfield +2 more
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On the boundaries and partial connections between amateurs and professionals
Museum & Society, 2008 This paper explores the boundaries and partial connections between amateurs and professionals in the context of a museum of natural history. It examines how these boundaries are made and unmade, paying particular attention to their materiality and their ...
Morgan Meyer
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the distinctly different shapes of their tongues, the tongue gross anatomy of Saimaa ringed seal closely resembled that of Baltic ringed seal. There were no differences in the extrinsic and intrinsic tongue muscles or their associated vascularization and innervation between Saimaa and Baltic ringed seals.
Juha Laakkonen, Heini Nihtilä
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