Drawing Shadows to Stone

Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples (1897-1902). American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 14, 1997- March 1, 1998.
Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall. Barbara Mathé. and Thomas Ross Miller. with Stanley A. Freed. Ruth S. Freed. and Laila Williamson. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1997, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 112 pp., 97 illust.     

Pacific Voices

Pacific Voices: Worlds within Our Community. Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Seattle, Washington, permanent installation.     

Constructing Cultures Then and Now

Constructing Cultures Then and Now:. Centenary Conference Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1997. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 13-17 1997.     

FILM REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Lucy in Disguise . 1980. Written, produced and codirected by David Smeltzer in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
The First Family . 1980. Produced by WVIZ in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.     

Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Stylopoma Levinsen, 1909 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida)

Twenty-one species of Stylopoma Levinsen, 1909 are described and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. S. spongites (Pallas, 1766), the type species, is redescribed from the neotype specimen and included here for completeness. A neotype specimen for S. duboisii (Audouin, 1826) and a lectotype specimen for S. viride (Thornely, 1905) are designated and 14 new species of Stylopoma are described from Indo-West Pacific material in the Recent bryozoan collections of the Natural History Museum, London.     

Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902

Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall. Barbara Mathé. and Thomas Ross Miller. with Stanley A. Freed. Ruth S. Freed. and Laila Williamson. New York, 1997. American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. 112 pp., 97 illustrations.     

From birds to hydroids: Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858–1927) of the University of Iowa,USA

Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858–1927) began his academic career at the University of Iowa, and at the Natural History Museum of the university, in 1886. A naturalist with a bent for ornithology, he became interested in cnidarians, and especially hydroids and alcyonarians, as an outcome of expeditions to the Bahamas in 1888 and 1893. Most noteworthy among his works on Cnidaria were three classic volumes on American hydroids, dealing respectively with Plumulariidae (1900), Sertulariidae (1904), and Campanulariidae and Bonneviellidae (1915). Other papers dealt with hydroids from Britain, Alaska and Puget Sound, Woods Hole and vicinity, Hawaii, and the Philippine region. He founded two new families, seven new genera, and 175 new species of Hydrozoa, ranking him among the top three authors of species names in the group. Nutting also described 206 new nominal species of Alcyonaria. Important among his works on alcyonarians were monographs on Indonesian material from the Siboga expedition, and on ’Albatross’ collections from Hawaii, Japan, and elsewhere in the northwest Pacific. While birds and later hydroids were Nutting’s primary research interests, much of his 41-year professional career was devoted to academic duties at the University of Iowa and to advancement of its Natural History Museum. As museum Director, he significantly expanded the collections, organized exhibits and public programs, and petitioned for satisfactory facilities and funding. Under his leadership, in whole or in part, expeditions to collect specimens for research, teaching, and exhibition were carried out to the Bay of Fundy (1890), Manitoba (1891), the Bahamas and vicinity (1893), Barbados and Antigua (1918), and Fiji and New Zealand (1922). In tribute to Nutting and his contributions to biology, one genus and more than 30 species are named in his honor.     

Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People

Ainu: Spirit of. Northern People. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 30,1999-January 2, 2000.
Ainu: Spirit of. Northern People. William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil. eds. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with University of Washington Press, 1999. 415 pp.     

Re-examination of the trypanorhynch cestode collections of A.E. Shipley,J. Hornell and T. Southwell,with the erection of a new genus,Trygonicola, and redescriptions of seven species

Systematic Parasitology - Cestodes named by A.E. Shipley, J. Hornell and T. Southwell in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History) and the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, are...     

东北地区草本植物1个新记录科和3个新记录属

东北地区位于我国东北部,共有维管束植物164科928属3 103种。根据野外调查结果及相关资料,报道了东北地区草本植物1个新记录科—粟米草科(Molluginaceae)和3个新记录属—粟米草属(Mollugo L.)、牛膝属(Achyranthes L.)和秃疮花属(Dicranostigma Hook. f. et Thoms.),以及对应的3个新纪录种—粟米草(Mollugo stricta L.)、牛膝(Achyranthes bidentata Blume)和秃疮花[Dicranostigma leptopodum(Maxim.) Fedde]。新记录种凭证标本保存于大连自然博物馆植物标本室。这些新记录草本植物的发现,对东北地区生物多样性的研究具有重要意义,为其在我国的地理分布研究提供了新资料。     

Baseball as America/Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game.

Baseball as America. National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum and Library, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. March 16-August 18, 2002, traveling exhibition.
Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. National Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 330 pp.     

On the nomenclature and types of Chamaecytisus proliferus (L.f.) Link (Fabaceae: Genisteae), a fodder shrub from the Canary Islands

The name Cytisus proliferus L.f. is here considered perfectly acceptable and should not be replaced by Cytisus prolifer L.f. One specimen from The Natural History Museum, London is confirmed as the lectotype of Cytisus proliferus L.f. Two specimens from the collection of the Swiss botanist Hermann Christ from the Main Herbarium of the Zurich Botanical Garden were selected as lectotypes for Cytisus proliferus L.f. var. canariae H. Christ and Cytisus proliferus L.f. var. palmensis H. Christ. The name Cytisus proliferus Kit. is typified and a specimen from Paul Kitaibel's collection at the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum is assigned as its lectotype.     

蚜科长管蚜亚科戏蚜属和蓼蚜属的分类地位订正（同翅目：蚜科， 长管蚜亚科）

从形态学角度研究了蚜科Aphididae长管蚜亚科Macrosiphidinae戏蚜Sportaphis sporta Zhang和扁蓄蓼蚜Polygonaphis aciculansucta Zhang的分类地位。结果表明：戏蚜为静细长蚜Tenuilongiaphis stata Zhang and Zhong的同物异名,扁蓄蓼蚜为扁蓄童盾蚜Aspidaphis adjuvas (Walker)的同物异名; 戏蚜属Sportaphis Zhang为细长蚜属Tenuilongiaphis Zhang的同物异名,蓼蚜属Polygonaphis Zhang为盾蚜属Aspidaphis Gillette的同物异名。研究标本保存在中国科学院动物研究所动物标本馆、美国伊利诺伊大学 Illinois Natural History Survey（INHS）和法国自然历史博物馆（NHMF）。     

昆虫数字化博物馆科普功能分析

为了进一步完善昆虫数字化博物馆的建设,我们于2006年至2008年对北京自然博物馆昆虫数字化博物馆的浏览情况进行了调查,并对观众的特点和观众对昆虫数字化博物馆的评价进行了分析。从昆虫数字化博物馆的科普对象、科普手段及功能实现等方面分析了昆虫数字化博物馆的优势和不足,并对不足之处提出改进措施。     

Higher taxa: Reply to cartmill

Ian Tattersall is a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History. He has worked on lemur systematics and ecology as well as paleoanthropology, where his special interest is in hominid diversity and cognitive evolution.     

Where Is "Africa"? Re-Viewing Art and Artifact in the Age of Globalization

The Sainsbury African Galleries. The British Museum, London. Long-term exhibition, opened March 2001.
African Worlds. The Horniman Museum and Gardens, London. Long-term exhibition, opened April 1999.
African Voices. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Long-term exhibition, opened December 1999.     

Darwin��s Busts and Public Evolutionary Outreach and Education

For the 1909 Darwin Centennial, the New York Academy of Sciences gave a large bronze bust of Charles Darwin to the American Museum of Natural History. Created by the well-known sculptor, William Couper, the bust was placed on its tall granite pedestal at the entrance at the newly designated exhibition hall, the Charles Darwin Hall of Invertebrate Zoology. Later that year, the American Museum ordered a bronze copy of the bust and presented it to Christ’s College, in Cambridge, England at the British Darwinian celebration. In 1935, Victor Von Hagen requested a plaster copy of the bust for a monument he was erecting on San Cristóbal in the Galapagos Islands to celebrate Darwin’s arrival in the Galapagos. During 1960, the American Museum of Natural History returned the original bronze bust to the New York Academy of Science, where it is now on display at its headquarters in New York City. To celebrate the Darwin bicentennial, the National Academy of Sciences recreated the bust in a computer-generated copy for display at their Washington, DC headquarters.     

The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species

Using published records and original data from recent field work and revision of Iranian material of certain species deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum Basel, the Zoological Museum Berlin, and Natural History Museum Vienna, a checklist of the freshwater gastropod fauna of Iran was compiled. This checklist contains 73 species from 34 genera and 14 families of freshwater snails; 27 of these species (37%) are endemic to Iran. Two new genera, Kaskakia and Sarkhia, and eight species, i.e., Bithynia forcarti, Bithynia starmuehlneri, Bithynia mazandaranensis, Pseudamnicola georgievi, Kaskakia khorrasanensis, Sarkhia sarabensis, Valvata nowsharensis and Acroloxus pseudolacustris are described as new to science; Ecrobia grimmi (Clessin & Dybowski, 1888), Heleobia dalmatica (Radoman, 1974) and Hippeutis complanatus (Linnaeus, 1758) are reported for the first time from Iran. Additional field work is highly desirable for a more appropriate evaluation of the extant freshwater snail biodiversity in Iran.     

A taxonomic database and linked iconograph for diatoms

Hydrobiologia - The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum are collaborating to establish a database and linked iconograph, wherever possible using TDWG (Taxonomic Databases...