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Belated records from Silpha tyrolensis Laicharting (Silphidae) from Cumbria
The recent publication of Lane, Lucas & Whiffin (2020), with the keys it contains led to AD's re-examination of a series of larger silphids that have resided in his collection for several years.Dutton, Adrian ; Whiffin, Ashleigh
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Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard: Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland
Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland's earliest-known Viking Age hoars. In the years since its discovery in 2014, wide-ranging research has illuminated its eclectic and often unique contents. As a new exhibition opens, exploring the story so far, Martin Goldberg takes us through some of...Goldberg, D Martin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Keeping natural history collections healthy: preventing deterioration in store and on display
Ogilvie, Ticca M A
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Conference paper (unpublished)
William Morris and La Vie Seigneuriale: New light on the revival of tapestry weaving in England
The artist and designer William Morris taught himself to weave in 1879 and went on to produce some of the most celebrated tapestries of the 19th century. But how far can Morris’s writings on the revival of Medieval craft be accepted as the ethos behind his tapestries? Previously overlooked evidence...Wyld, Helen
English tapestry, La Vie Seigneuriale , Tapestry, William Morris, Weaving, England, Medieval craft revival, European tapestry, 19th century , and Arts and crafts
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Confronting colonial histories and legacies in Egyptian and Sudanese collections at National Museums Scotland
Maitland, Margaret
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Buying Power: Archaeologists as Dealers in Egypt and Sudan
Exhibitions and displays of Egyptian objects in museums across the world continue to inspire awe and fascination for millions of visitors. As museums tell the stories of the ancient world, they also tell their own collecting stories of how the objects came to be part of their collections. These narratives...Potter, Daniel
Dealers, Collections, Archaeology, Antiquities, Sudan, John Garstang, Edwin Ward, Charles Trick Currelly, Egypt, and William Matthew Flinders Petrie
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Vessels for the ancestors: essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall
In this volume a group of distinguished prehistorians present the latest work on the Neolithic of the north and west of Britain and Ireland, areas with some of the most impressive monuments and material culture in north-west Europe. The contents are presented in four sections: funerary studies; megalithic art; artefact... -
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Specialist Meetings
Shaw, Mark R
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Andrew Rodger Waterston 1912-1996
Shaw, Mark R ; Gibson, J A
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A very local hero
Profiles 19th century amateur palenteologist Hugh Miller. His discoveries of fossils in the Firth of Cromarty in Scotland; Notice of his fossils by the paleontologist Louis Agassiz, and recognition Miller received by Agassiz; His life in Scotland; His decision to drop out of high school to become a stonemason and...Taylor, Michael A
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Setting the record straight for Odynerus spinipes
Shaw, Mark R
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Functional significance of bone ballastin in the evolution of buoyancy control strategies by aquatic tetrapods
The primary function of pachyostosis, pachyosteo‐sclerosis, and osteosclerosis may be to act as ballast, not so much (as previously suggested) to neutralise the buoyancy of existing lungs, but to allow enlargement of the lungs. Enlarged lungs cause an animal to lose buoyancy more rapidly with depth. They also provide a...Taylor, Michael A
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Book chapter
Spices in the display environment
Unprocessed vegetable products such as spices are increasingly being introduced into museum displays that seek to provide a more accessible and not solely visual sense of other cultures and historical periods. Because of their aromatic nature, there is always the suspicion that such materials may emit damaging volatile organic compounds....Ogilvie, Ticca M A ; Carter, J F ; Evershed, R P
exhibitions, organic material, spice, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, plant material, volatility, and collections care
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Locomotion in Mesozoic marine reptiles
Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading authorities from around the world to produce Palaeobiology II. Using the same successful formula, the content is arranged as a series...Taylor, Michael A
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Molecular phylogeny of Cotesia Cameron, 1891(Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae)parasitoids associated with Melitaeini butterflies (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Melitaeini)
Phylogenetic relationships among Cotesia Cameron (Braconidae) species parasitising Melitaeini butterflies were examined using DNA sequence data (mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I and NADH1 dehydrogenase genes, nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region) as well as 12 microsatellite loci. Molecular data were available from ostensibly six species of Cotesia from 16...Kankare, M. ; Shaw, Mark R
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First host records for the rogadine genus Conspinaria (Hymenoptera:Braconidae)and notes on Rogadinae as parasitoids of Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera)
The parasitic wasp genus Conspinaria is recorded as parasitizing two species of chalcosiine zygaenid moths, Chalcosia thaivana owadai Wang and Erasmia pulchella hobsoni Butler in Taiwan. Parasitism of Zygaenidae and of Limacodidae by rogadine braconids is discussed in the light of possible phylogenetic relationships.Quicke, D L J ; Yen, Shen-Horn ; Mori, M ; Shaw, Mark R
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What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland
Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. Museums and the Future of Collecting exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting...Taylor, Michael A
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From sickles to circles: Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge
From Sickles to Circles marks the retirement of Professor Derek Simpson from his Chair at Queen's University of Belfast and brings together both renowned scholars in the field of British prehistoric archaeology and students. The dedication written by Alex Gibson is followed by twenty-two essays that address a variety of... -
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Scottish food vessel chronology revisited
Sheridan, J A
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Late Ordovician brachiopod faunas from Pomeroy, Northern Ireland: a palaeoenvironmental synthesis
Comparisons of the Caradoc assemblages with North American biofacies indicate that the Bardahessiagh Formation was deposited during a transgressive regime, which peaked with the presence of a typical Sericoidea association (member (II)). These diverse and exceptionally preserved faunas lived below the storm-wave base. The assemblages also contained a shallower water...Candela, Yves
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West Pans Pottery Ceramic Resource Disk 2
The West Pans ceramic material, listed described and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (MES1.1 to 1132). The majority of the ceramic material was recovered during a small rescue excavation funded by Historic Scotland and the...Haggarty, George
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Forgotten gems: microphotographs as jewellery
Phillipson, Tacye
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The palaeoenvironment associated with a partial iguanadon skeleton from the Upper Weald clay (Barremian, Early Cretaceous) at Smokejacks brickworks (Ockley, Surrey, UK) based on palynomorphs and ostracods
In 2001 a partial skeleton of an Iguanodon was discovered in the Upper Weald Clay (Barremian, Early Cretaceous) at Smokejacks Brickworks near Ockley, Surrey, UK. When the dinosaur was excavated, a detailed stratigraphic section was logged and 25 samples taken for palynological and micropalaeontological (ostracod and megaspore) analysis, including a...Nye, E ; Feist-Burkhardt, S ; Horne, D J ; Ross, Andrew ; Whittaker, J E
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Bagpipes : a national collection of national instruments.
Based on a 'national collection of the national instrument' now assembled in National Museums Scotland, this book offers an account of the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context, including the remarkable influence of the Baroque on Scotland's musical traditions. The record is meagre for the evolution of the...Cheape, Hugh
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Book chapter
The Hafizi Nightingale
McGowan, R Y
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Everything you always wanted to know about…la néolithisation de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande
In Great Britain and in Ireland, two conflicting models of neolithisation have been proposed. One, that is based on the assumption that indigenous late Mesolithic groups were in contact with Continental farmers (as in the case of the Ertebølle culture in Denmark), proposes a slow acculturation process; but there is...Pailler, Yves ; Sheridan, J A
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Arms and the robot: Freddy and his, her, or its toys.
One of a collection of papers presented at Musee des Arts et Metiers in 2006 and 2008.Phillipson, Tacye
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