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15 Jul 2024: Search site. Other unusual bivalves. Apart from the Ship worm (Teredo), a few other bivalves have highly modified shells that look nothing like a typical bivalve. The ‘watering pot’ shell of Brechites sp. Some of the most peculiar belong to the

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge Histology Collection. Histologically sectioned animal specimens at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. To visualize specimens in the Cambridge Histology Collection, we have the following equipment:. with USB output to

15 Jul 2024: Zoology is the study of animals, and the Museum’s new exhibits explore stories of conservation, extinction, survival, evolution and discovery.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Bivalve Collection of the Museum of Zoology. Historical Significance of the Bivalve Collection of the University Museum of Zoology. Specimen of Pecten jacobaeus and a reproduction of the plate from Lovell Reeve’s Conchologia Iconica

15 Jul 2024: Search site. clouded yellow & pale clouded yellow. Pictured: clouded yellow, Colias croceus. Notes from Jenyns: Two specimens of this insect occurred to me in Sept. 1826. The first on the Cambridge road near Teversham Hedges, the second at Bottisham

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Colonial Histories of Australian Mammal Collections in Cambridge. Colonial Histories of Australian Mammal Collections in Cambridge. We have been researching the origins of our Australian mammal collections, looking into the collectors

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Butterflies Through Time Exhibition March - Sept 2022. Butterflies Through Time Exhibition March - Sept 2022. Our Butterflies Through Time exhibition has now finished - it ran from Tuesday March 15th 2022 to Sunday18th September 2022.

15 Jul 2024: 2019) New decapod crustacean (Brachyura, Raninoida) from the Lower Cretaceous Hudspeth Formation of Oregon, USA. ... 2018) A new Cretaceous dercetid fish (Neoteleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Turonian of Colombia.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Things You Can Do. Welcome to Butterflies Through Time - our exhibition runs from Tuesday 15th March 2022 to Sunday 18th September 2022. Things You Can Do. Over the last two years the Butterflies Through Time Project has aimed to engage

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Crevice dwelling and nestling bivalves. Some bivalves, especially small species, can occupy holes vacated by various boring organisms. Some are small enough to take residence in empty barnacles where they may secrete miniature byssal

15 Jul 2024: Sir John Young – Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and subsequently Governor of New South Wales – was a signatory at their wedding. ... Sir George subsequently became Governor of New Zealand (1868-1873), Victoria (1873-1879), Mauritius

15 Jul 2024: It is now recognised as a subspecies: Thylogale stigmatica wilcoxi. The specimen Wilcox sent to Cambridge was from the same location - Richmond River, New South Wales. ... He then settled in New South Wales in natural historical pursuits.

15 Jul 2024: Around 470 birds from eastern and north-eastern Australia, New Guinea and the islands of the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, plus four marsupials (two greater bilbies and two brushtail ... in number, including nearly all the known birds of Australia

15 Jul 2024: Princeton University Press, New Jersey. 2017. TA Clay, RA Phillips, A. ... ed.). Science Publishers Inc., New Hampshire. (TLF Martins, MdeL Brooke, G Hilton, S Farnsworth, J Gould & D Pain) Costing eradications of alien mammals from islands.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Robert Humphrey Marten (1867-1933). Robert Humphrey Marten (1867-1933). When did it arrive? 1904, 1907 and 1912. What do we know about the specimens in Cambridge? The numbat, particularly, represents an important record of Australian

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Amschel Schwarzschild (1815-1896) & Co. Amschel Schwarzschild (1815-1896) & Co. What’s in the collection? A thylacine, platypus, wombat and two echidnas. A short-beaked echidna skeleton purchased from Schwarzschild. (Tachyglossus

15 Jul 2024: Further reading. ‘Swainson, William, 1789–1855', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. ... H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

15 Jul 2024: His first, and last, overseas collecting expedition in 1900-1901 was intended to build on that knowledge by traveling to Australia and New Zealand and then on to as many Pacific ... A letter he sent from New Zealand evidences how these collections and

15 Jul 2024: The Horn Expedition and the subsequent supply of specimens from Charlotte Waters resulted in the description of new species by Spencer, including the kowari, which Spencer named Dasyuroides byrnei in ... new species (Peragale minor) in 1896 (i.e., it is

15 Jul 2024: He subsequently collected in Guatemala (in 1908, collecting live animals for the Zoological Society of London); New Guinea (on the British Ornithologists' Union jubilee expedition to New Guinea); in Southern India

15 Jul 2024: Search site. William Crowther (1817-1885). William Crowther (1817-1885). What’s in the collection? The skeleton of a false killer whale (UMZC C.98.A and UMZC C.98C). The skull of a false killer whale donated by Crowther (Pseudorca crassidens UMZC C

15 Jul 2024: Seven mammals and two birds, from Tasmania and New South Wales, including echidnas and a platypus. ... He was particularly impacted by the last two, and published the book New Homes for the Old Country in 1872.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Spanish butterflies better at regulating their body temperature than their British cousins. Submitted by Tricia Harnett on Tue, 09/01/2024 - 15:18. Butterfly populations in Catalonia in northern Spain are better than their UK

15 Jul 2024: This was the definitive proof Caldwell had been looking for, and the news was sent around the world.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Morton Allport (1830-1878). Morton Allport (1830-1878). What’s in the collection? The largest collection of thylacines in the UK, if not the world, known to originate from a single collector. Thylacines are large extinct marsupial

15 Jul 2024: What do we know about the specimens in Cambridge? New mammal species are not described very often, particularly ones which surprised zoologists as much as marsupial moles did. ... He said he needed to collect more specimens. By 1890 European scientists

Find us on the New Museums Site, through the Pembroke Arch on Downing Street.By car: The nearest car park is the multi-storey Grand Arcade car park.By bus: The

c) To 1865 when the Museum of Zoology opened. 5. Why can’t the 3196 rainforest species from Singapore live in the new farmland and urban habitat? ... a) The new environment has far fewer types of plants and animals within it.

These came together on our current site in 1865. The 1865 building was demolished in 1965, making way for a new museum, opening in 1970. ... Most of our specimen collection was acquired between 1865 and 1915, although we continue to collect new material

These came together on our current site in 1865. The 1865 building was demolished in 1965, making way for a new museum, opening in 1970. ... Most of our specimen collection was acquired between 1865 and 1915, although we continue to collect new material

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11546289. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international agreement adopted at the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992, defined biodiversity ... http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services

Least Concern. Other resources:Explanatory Video: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/origin-species-beak-finchWork of Rosemary and Peter Grant: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/060710/full/news060710-11.html. ... Then take a look at the resulting

Newton, a colonial administrator in Mauritius. Sunburst StarTurban,Astraeaheliotropium. This shell was collected in Cook’s Strait, New Zealand.