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Non-destructive analysis of nineteenth century Scottish calotype negatives and salt prints
Nineteenth century negatives and positives in the collections of the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) and the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) were analysed non-destructively to identify the techniques used in their manufacture. Modern positive and negative images prepared using known nineteenth century processes were also analysed for comparison. Air-path...Eremin, Katherine ; Tate, Jim ; Morrison-Low, A D ; Berry, James ; Stevenson, Sara
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Contributions. In: Ritchie, Georgina 'Pictures worth 1,00 words: capturing Orkney's chambered cairns'
What can cutting-edge photographic technology add to our understanding of Orkney's Neolithic chambered tombs? Georgina Ritchie explores the possibilities of photogrammetry with contributions from Steve Farrar and Hugo Anderson-WhymarkAnderson-Whymark, Hugo
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Book chapter
The art and science of replication. Copies and copying in the multi-disciplinary museum
Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields...Alberti, S J M M ; Blackwell, Alice ; Davidson, Peter ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Swinney, Geoffrey N
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Book chapter
Museum nature
From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars, this richly illustrated volume offers a lively introduction to the history of natural history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Covering an extraordinary...Alberti, S J M M
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Doctoral thesis
Towards an Historical Geography of a ‘National’ Museum: The Industrial Museum of Scotland, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art and the Royal Scottish Museum, 1854-1939.
This thesis adopts a primarily process-based methodology to put a museum in its place as a site of knowledge-making. It examines the practices of space which were productive of a government-funded (‘national’) museum in Edinburgh. Taking a spatial perspective, and recognising that place is both material and metaphorical, the thesis...Swinney, Geoffrey N
history of science, exhibition, museum education, institutional history, geographies of science, and visitor experience
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Location, location, location
Morrison-Low, A D
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Museum Appeal
Grant, Katarina
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Afrephialtes cicatricosa (Ratzeburg) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae), an unexpected addition to the Irish fauna
This parasitic wasp is added to the Irish list based on specimens reared from the Red-tipped Clearwing moth Synathedon formicaeformis collected at Glengarriff, Co. Cork by E.S.A. Baynes in 1953. The specimens had been determined initially as Exeristes (=Mesocentrus) roborator. The paper reviews the status of the two parasites and...O'Connor, J P ; Shaw, Mark R
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Delayed wing expansion in Tachinidae (Diptera)
Shaw, Mark R