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Preface to Late Roman silver: the Traprain treasure in context
The Traprain Law treasure from east Lothian in south-east Scotland is the most dramatic hoard of late Roman Hacksilber yet found. The interpretation of these bent, broken and crushed silver fragments has long been debated. Were they loot broken up by uncultured barbarians, or some form of diplomatic gift? This...Hunter, Fraser ; Painter, Kenneth
Silverwork, Silverware, Scotland, Romans, and Traprain Law
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Three Early Bronze Age flint daggers from Northumberland and their typological context
The flint dagger from Highfield Hope is reassessed and discussed here together with two other daggers from Northumberland which are in Scottish museum collections. An appendix provides details of a previously unillustrated parallel from Scotland for the Highfield Hope example.Saville, Alan
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The role of cross-sectional geometry, curvature and limb posture in maintaining equal safety factors: A computed tomography study
The limb bones of an elephant are considered to experience similar peak locomotory stresses as a shrew. "Safety factors" are maintained across the entire range of body masses through a combination of robusticity of long bones, postural variation, and modification of gait. The relative contributions of these variables remain uncertain....Brassey, Charlotte A ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Withers, P J ; Manning, Phillip L ; Sellers, William I
posture, force, safety factors, cross-sectional geometry, and effective mechanical advantage (EMA)
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A Scottish Neolithic carved stone ball with enigmatic surface details
A Scottish carved stone ball with unusual surface markings is described and analysed. Although undoubtedly an original prehistoric artefact, it is an unprovenanced find and there is no absolute certainty about the dating and character of its unique markings. Its enigmatic nature, with the possibility of anthropomorphic depiction, presents an...Saville, Alan ; Grant, E ; Cavers, G ; Braby, A
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New taxa of Tanyderidae (Diptera) from Eocene Baltic amber
Macrochile hornei sp. nov. from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene) is described and illustrated. Podemacrochile gen. nov. is described with Podemacrochile baltica (Podenas, 1997) as type species. A key to the genera and species of Tanyderidae known from Baltic amber is presented.Krzeminski, Wieslaw ; Krzeminski, Ewa ; Kania, Iwona ; Ross, Andrew
fossil Diptera, Macrochile hornei sp. nov., and Podemacrochile gen. nov.
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Gleaned from the soil: fieldwalking Trimontium’
James Curle's excavation of the Roman frontier fort of Newstead, ancient Trimontium, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, was a landmark in Roman frontier studies culminating with his book, published in 1911. This volume was conceived as a celebration, looking back to Curle and his work, and looking forward to...Elliot, W ; Hunter, Fraser
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): lost papers
Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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ICON Ethnography Group Workshop: Introduction to feathers (review)
Review of the ICON Ethnography Group Workshop: Introduction to feathers held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 17 -18 October 2007.Ogilvie, Ticca M A
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Conference paper (published)
One model for the care of corporate heritage: The BT Connected Earth partnership in practice since 2002
Connected Earth is a web based museum of the history of communication,underpinned by a series of major physical collections, distributed among a network of museums around the UK. It represents a £6 million investment by BT (British Telecommunications plc), to promote the widest possible access to its collections of historical...Taubman, Alison
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Studies of hair for use in lime plaster: Implications for conservation and new work
Historic buildings constructed with lime plasters often require repairs and re-plastering of areas as part of a maintenance and conservation regime. Hair is commercially available for use in lime plaster and mortar, as it is still used today to provide additional strength and crack resistance to fresh plaster. In this...Kennedy, Craig J ; Revie, William A ; Troalen, Lore ; Wade, Matthew ; Wess, Tim J
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Amazing amber
Used for centuries as a decorative artefact, amber was treasured, too, for its perceived magical powers, crafted into charms and amulets to heal and ward off evil spirits. Amber also has the unique capacity to preserve fragile life that is millions of years old, opening a special window into the...Ross, Andrew ; Sheridan, J A
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DNA barcoding and the taxonomy of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): impacts after 8 years and nearly 20,000 sequences
Microgastrine wasps are among the most species-rich and numerous parasitoids of caterpillars (Lepidoptera). They are often host-specific and thus are extensively used in biological control efforts and figure prominently in trophic webs. However, their extraordinary diversity coupled with the occurrence of many cryptic species produces a significant taxonomic impediment. We...Smith, M A ; Fernandez-Triana, J ; Eveleigh, E S ; Gomez, J ; Guclu, C …
deoxyribonucleic acid barcode , parasitoid, data release, microgastrine , and cytochrome c oxidase
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Metal detecting, collecting and portable antiquities: Scottish and British perspectives
While it is common to focus on the detail and intent of heritage law, this article focuses instead on the social and cultural attitudes of both archaeologists and finders towards the finding and ownership of portable antiquities, not least in the different laws regarding portable antiquities that operate within the...Campbell, Stuart
Portable Antiquities Scheme, Treasure trove, metal detecting, Scotland, metal detectors, and heritage law
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Book chapter
What do we know about what we know? The museum ‘register’ as museum object.
As the title suggests, this essay considers how registers provide knowledges about collections, and challenges prevailing perceptions that registers are an unproblematic resource. To do this I adopt the epistemological position that registers are themselves museum objects – ‘meta-objects’, collections of records about collections, an archive of an archive. -...Swinney, Geoffrey N
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The saproxylic hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Serbia
The revision of the saproxylic hoverflies collected in Serbia from 1950 to 2010 has revealed a total of 56 species, of which Sphiximorpha subsessilis (Illiger in Rossi) is new to the Balkan Peninsula and Arctophila superbiens (Muller), Blera fallax (Linnaeus), Brachyopa panzeri Goffe, Brachyopa testacea (Fallén), Brachyopa vittata Zetterstedt and...Radenković, S ; Nedeljković, Zorica ; Ricarte-Sabater, Antonio ; Vujic, A ; Šimić, S
conservation, Balkan Peninsula, Fruška Gora, saproxylic syrphids, and forests
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Scottish fossils
Scotland boasts some of the most famous fossil localities in the world, and for a small country, has a remarkable fossil record with almost every period of geological time represented by Scottish localities. These localities provide snapshots of the plants and animals that have inhabited Scotland through deep time. They...Trewin, N H
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Development sites and early stages of eleven species of Clusiidae (Diptera) occurring in Europe
Two hundred and ninety-six rearing records of 11 clusiid species (Diptera, Clusiidae) were obtained from 8 tree species in England, Finland, France, Norway, Russia and Scotland, mainly during the period 1994 to 2004. Larvae and puparia were found between annual layers of whitewood (sapwood and heartwood) of wet, decay-softened, dead...Rotheray, Graham E ; Horsfield, David
locomotion, puparium, host tree, morphology, Druid fly, pseudocephalon, larva, trophic structures, respiration, rearing, and head skeleton
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Hidden in taxonomy: Batesian mimicry by a syrphid fly towards a Patagonian bumblebee
1.Batesian mimicry has been repeatedly reported in syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), with noxious Hymenoptera identified as the models, including bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Despite the number of detailed studies of bumblebee mimics from the Holarctic, only minimal biological and ecological information is available for the same phenomenon in most other biogeographical...Polidori, C ; Nieves-Aldrey, J L ; Gilbert, Francis ; Rotheray, Graham E
Chile, morphology, Bombus, mimicry, foraging behaviour, and Aneriophora
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Book chapter
Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: a Matter of Circumstance and Context
While our understanding of the nature of Early Neolithic settlement in Britain and Ireland is advancing through recent discoveries and improvements in dating, many questions remain, not least that of why there seems to have been a fairly brief period, during the opening centuries of the fourth millennium bc, when...Sheridan, J A
Britain , Large houses , Habitation structures , Ireland, and Neolithic
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the catalogue of his fossil collection
Michael Taylor) and Lyall Anderson write: we have observed that one of the specimen numbering systems applied to Miller’s fossil collection was started while the collection was still in family hands – though we are not certain whether this was before his death.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): ephemera and museum visit reports sought
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson are writing an account of the dispersal, curation, and display of the collections of Hugh Miller.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the loss of his papers.
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson have been considering the fate of Hugh Miller’s manuscripts as part of a wider study of his collections.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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A man changed by Darwin
In a short autobiographical sketch, Robert Munro divided his life into three phases: in his youth there was a struggle for education, his prime was devoted to public duty as a medical practitioner in the west of Scotland and, finally, early retirement led to an extraordinary new career spurred on...Clarke, David V
crannogs, Munro, and lake dwellings
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The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material
This paper is intended as an interim update for the Beaker People Project. The project aims to investigate mobility, diet, environment, and subsistence for the Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age population of Britain using a number of research tools, but particularly isotopic analysis of bones and teeth. This...Jay, Mandy ; Parker Pearson, Mike ; Richards, Mike ; Nehlich, Olaf ; Montgomery, Janet …
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The Language of Objects: Material Culture in Medieval Scotland
The material culture and archaeology of medieval Scotland are familiar from both archaeological excavation and museum collections, although that familiarity has often proved an impediment to a fuller understanding. Those objects commonly collected and curated by museums are typically of a particular quality, and this concentration on high-status objects can...Campbell, Stuart
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A Rumsfeld Reality Check: what we know, what we don't know and what we don't know about the Chalcolithic in Britain and Ireland
Should we create a specific label for the period between the 25th century BC, when metal-using and other novelties first appeared in Britain and Ireland, and the 22nd century, when bronze first started to be used here? And if so, should it be called the Chalcolithic? To address these questions...Sheridan, J A
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Is there a Scottish Chalcolithic?
This brief contribution discussed the concept of a Scottish Chalcolithic in terms of the available evidence from metalwork and early Beaker graves. It is argued that a Chalcolithic phase can be demonstrated to have existed in Scotland; it is characterised as/subsumed within an 'Early Beaker' identity.Shepherd, Ian
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Kastell Inveresk: Leibwächter, geköpfte Tote und Mysterienkulte in Britannien
Am nordwestlichen Rand des Römischen Reiches werfen aktuelle Ausgrabungen ein neues Licht auf das Leben an der Grenze. Das Kastell von Inveresk befindet sich zehn Kilometer östlich von Edinburgh, an der südlichen Seite des Firth of Forth, einer großen Bucht an Schottlands Ostküste. Der Antoninuswall, die römische Grenzlinie in Nordbritannien,...Hunter, Fraser
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The Ellismuir fossil arachnid- the only known Scottish Carboniferous trigonotarbid
Elaverimartus pococki Petrunkevitch 1953 from above the Kiltongue Coal Seam (Langsettian) of Ellismuir, Baillieston (Glasgow) is the only example of the extinct arachnid order Trigonotarbida recorded from the Carboniferous Coal Measures of Scotland. The fossil is from the Robert Dunlop collection and, although not so well preserved, historical documentation in...Dunlop, J A ; Ross, Andrew ; Stewart, Sarah E
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The first diplatyid earwig in Tertiary amber (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae): A new species from Miocene Mexican amber
The first earwig (Dermaptera) to be described from Mexican (Miocene) amber is named Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel sp.n., represented by an adult female and constituting the second record of the basal family Diplatyidae in the fossil record. Brief comments are made regarding the biogeographic implications of the fossil and...Ross, Andrew ; Engel, M S
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Growth, age and size of the Jurassic pachycormid Leedsichthys problematicus (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii)
The Jurassic pachycormid osteichthyan Leedsichthys problematicus is renowned for having been able to achieve prodigious size for a bony fish. Building on work of MARTILL (1986a), a thorough examination of all known material was conducted in order to constrain estimates of the size of this animal and examine its rate...Liston, Jeff ; Newbrey, Michael G. ; Challands, Thomas James ; Adams, Colin E
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The plasticity of gill raker characteristics in suspension feeders: Implications for Pachycormiformes
Pachycormids apparently represent part of the first radiation of the total group of teleosts, and therefore are important in understanding stem teleost phylogeny. Gill rakers (or fanunculi) are elements of the gill skeleton (branchial basket) in fishes that function primarily to protect respiratory lamellae, and sometimes have a secondary role...Liston, Jeff
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Exhibiting Livingstone: A life and legacy on display
The paper combines a biographical and a geographical perspective to construct an auto-critique of a commemorative exhibition as a museological event. Taking as its primary focus the bicentenary exhibition staged in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh in 2012–2013, it situates an autobiographical exploration of the process of collaboration...Worden, Sarah ; Swinney, Geoffrey N
Malawi, Scotland, curation, museology, commemoration, and visitor experience
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Sehr geschaetzte Werke der Manuellen Kunst’ ‘Objekte aus Bernstein im 16. und 17
IN PREUSSEN NEHMLICH im Fürstenthumb Samland am Meere seind hohe weiße Berge von reinem Sande auff diesen stehen gemeiniglich Eiche auch Fichtenbäume. In dem Sande fi ndet man eine Materia, die ist weich wie ein Teich den man formiren kan in den Ofen zu stoßen Brod zu backen. …. So...King, Rachel
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Finding the Divine Falernian: Amber in Early Modern Italy
This paper explores both the finding of raw amber, and the creation of sculptural works in this venerated material, in Italy, from the late-16th to the 18th centuries. Using new archival and archaeological evidence, it offers new interpretation and context for a number of amber objects in the V&A’s collection.King, Rachel
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Rethinking the oldest surviving amber in the West
Discusses how the production of sculpture in amber began earlier than was previously assumedKing, Rachel
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Pharaoh: King of Egypt - a retrospective
Maitland, Margaret
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Book chapter
Tara Boy: local hero or international man of mystery?
Although building on earlier research, this volume is not intended to be a definitive door-closing statement on the archaeology of Tara. There are many gaps between the themes, and others may be inspired to address those gaps or build on the work contained here. The shafts of light in the...Sheridan, J A ; Jay, Mandy ; Montgomery, Janet ; Pellegrini, M ; Cahill Wilson, J
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Changing designs in Arawe, New Britain
The British Museum's collection is pre-eminent among early collections from Melanesia, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The extraordinary art styles represented, from groups such as New Guinea, New Ireland and the Solomon Islands and relating to ancestors, family and...Knowles, Chantal
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Large cats
Based on the acclaimed print series, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., this new supplement covers extinct life. Written for students and general researchers, this supplement explores all aspects of extinctions and extinct life. Approximately 80 articles outline major extinctions and related scientific areas. - Extract from publisher's websiteKitchener, Andrew C
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Locating specimens of extinct tiger (Panthera tigris) subspecies: Javan tiger (P.t. sondaica), Balinese tiger (P.t. balica), and Caspian tiger (P.t. virgata), including previously unpublished specimens
Recent advances in multivariate statistics, and in ancient DNA techniques, have greatly increased understanding of tiger phylogeography. However, regardless of advances in analytical methodology, researchers will continue to need access to specimens for morphological measurements and sampling for genetic analysis. The tiger has become increasingly endangered, and out of the...Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki ; Driscoll, Carlos A ; Werdelin, Lars ; Abramov, Alexei V ; Csorba, Gabor …
museum, Sunda Islands, Indonesia, Central Asia, and conservation
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The genetic legacy of the 19th-century decline of the British polecat: evidence for extensive introgression from feral ferrets
In the 19th century, the British polecat suffered a demographic contraction, as a consequence of direct persecution, reaching its lowest population in the years that preceded the First World War. The polecat is now recovering and expanding throughout Britain, but introgressive hybridization with feral ferrets has been reported, which could...Costa, M ; Fernandes, C ; Birks, J D S ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Santos-Ries, M …
microsatellites, European polecat, Britain, hybridization, Mustela furo, and Mustela putorius
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OMALIIDAE Handlirsch, 1904 (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) and XENOPTERIDAE Pinto, 1986 (Insecta, Megasecoptera): proposed emendation to OMALIAIDAE and XENOPTERAIDAE respectively to remove homonymy with OMALIINAE MacLeay, 1825 (Insecta, Coleoptera) and XENOPTERIDAE Riek, 1955 (Insecta, Orthoptera)
The purpose of this application, under Articles 29 and 55.3 of the Code, is to remove the homonymy between the family-group names OMALIDAE Handlirsch, 1904 (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) and OMALIDAE MacLeay, 1825 (Insecta, Coleoptera), which are homonyms due to the similarity of the names of their respective type genera Omalia Beneden... -
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An Updated Hoverfly Checklist (Diptera: Syriphidae) of the Mascarene Island of Réunion, France
A commented and updated checklist of the hoverflies from the Mascarene island of Réunion, France, is presented. A total of 22 species are listed. New data on eight species are provided, two of them new to Réunion: Syritta austeni Bezzi, 1915 and Eristalinus madagascariensis (Hervé-Bazin, 1914). Réunion has 14 species...Marcos-Garcia, M-Angeles ; Ricarte-Sabater, Antonio ; Estella, Neus
Mascarene Islands, Syrphid fauna, Afrotropical region, and first records
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A Contribution to Knowledge of the Biodiversity of Syrphidae (Diptera) in Spain
Data are provided on two hoverfly species new to the Iberian Peninsula, Brachyopa grunewaldensis Kassebeer and Criorhina floccosa (Meigen), and one new to Spain, Eumerus consimilis Šimić & Vujić. New habitat and breeding data are presented. -
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A long-snouted protorosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern China
A new protorosaur is described on the basis of a single specimen from the Ladinian of southern China. Although it has been greatly crushed, it still preserves clear details of the skull and axial skeleton. It possesses a neck that is longer than the trunk and is similar to tanystropheids...Fraser, Nicholas C ; Rieppel, Olivier ; Chun, Li
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Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints
The popular form of traditional theatre in Japan, known as kabuki, combines drama, music and dance and is presented on spectacular stage settings in lavish costumes. In 19th-century Japan people eagerly acquired pictures of their favourite actor in the latest play. These woodblock prints were a cheap and colourful medium...Buckland, Rosina
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A Triassic seed with an angiosperm-like wind dispersal mechanism
The earliest record of a seed with a pappus-like, parachute seed dispersal mechanism, Edenia villisperma gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Triassic of the eastern United States. The seed is small and roughly triangular. Clusters of long hairs emerge from a whorl of at least five circular...Axsmith, Brian J ; Fraser, Nicholas C ; Corso, Taryn
Newark Supergroup, seed, wind dispersal, angiosperm, and Triassic
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‘The hero with a thousand faces’: the literary legacy of Lord Cochrane
The extraordinary naval career of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, has generated a corpus of historical biography. However, as several of his biographers have noted, a succession of novelists have also been inspired to adapt his exploits into works of popular fiction. The works of Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester...Allan, Stuart
Frederick Marryat, monomyth, C.S. Forester, Pablo Neruda, Patrick O'Brian, Cochrane, and adventure fiction
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Amazing Amber: the challenges of creating an exhibition on amber and possible solutions
Ross, Andrew ; Sheridan, J A
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Fossil Arachnids - book review
Review of Fossil Arachnids. Jason A. Dunlop and David Penney. 2012. Siri Scientific Press. Monographic Series, Volume 2. 192pp. £60.00. ISBN 9780956779540.Ross, Andrew
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Artifacts in waiting: altered agency of Museum objects
Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums and the various individuals and communities who were (and are) involved in their production and consumption. Reassembling the Collection is interdisciplinary in scope and international in coverage. It addresses fundamental questions about the nature,...Knowles, Chantal
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BOLTONOCOSTIDAE nom. nov. (Insecta: Hypoperlida), a replacement name for ORTHOCOSTIDAE Bolton, 1912
The purpose of this note, under Article 39, is to propose the replacement name BOLTONOCOSTIDAE for the invalid name ORTHOCOSTIDAE Bolton, 1912, a monotypic family of fossil insects (Insecta, Hypoperlida) of Carboniferous age.Ross, Andrew ; Nicholson, D.B ; Jarzembowski, E A
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The new Palaeobiology Store at National Museums Scotland
Ross, Andrew
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Conference paper (published)
Assessment of materials used for anoxic micro-environments
Carrió, Vicen ; Stevenson, Suzie
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