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Skeive Sjøfolk, Bergens Sjøfartsmuseum (28. oktober 2022 – haust 2024)
Norsk Museumstidsskrift, 2023 Vidar Fagerheim Kalsås
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Charles W. Peach, palaeobotany and Scotland
, 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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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The ray‐finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic knowledge of ray‐finned fishes between paleontologists working on extinct animals and neontologists studying extant species has obscured the ...
Jack Stack
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Between looters and private collectors: The tragic fate of Lebanese antiquities
, 2012 [No abstract available][Anonymous], 1991, ARCHEOLOGIA JUL; [Anonymous], 1999, CULTURE MEDIA SPORT, V1; Atwood R., 2008, ARCHEOLOGICAL I AM; Boardman J, 2009, WHOSE CULTURE: THE PROMISE OF MUSEUMS AND THE DEBATE OVER ANTIQUITIES, P107; Chehab M ...
Sader H.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Softshell turtles (Pan‐Trionychidae) are an early branching clade of hidden‐necked turtles (Cryptodira) with a rich fossil record extending back to the Early Cretaceous. The evolutionary history of softshell turtles is still unresolved because of their conservative morphology combined with high levels of polymorphism related to morphological ...
Léa C. Girard, Walter G. Joyce
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Volunteer-run Museums in English Market Towns and Villages
Volunteer-run museums in English market towns and villages have been largely over-looked by scholars examining the history and development of museums in England, and work on contemporary museum volunteering or the relations of museums to their ...
Yates, Bridget E
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, 1997 This study is an attempt firstly, to explain the phenomenal increase both in the activity of collecting and the range of material that is now collected in Britain. It dose this by exploring the contexts of change over the last twenty years. This change
Paul Kenneth. Martin (7686992)
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The green iguana (Iguana iguana) is an iguanine lizard with herbivorous and arboreal habits, whose distribution spans through South America, Central America to the south of North America. Although the genus Iguana is well‐known, the species still lacks a comprehensive and up‐to‐date anatomical study, particularly addressing the axial skeleton,
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He knows me...but not at the museum: women, natural history collecting and museums, 1880-1914
, 2012 This article examines women collectors of natural history during the period 1880-1914, their natural history practices, and their relationships with museums. It suggests that for women natural history collections could be used to create and modify gender
Kate Hill (17159869)
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