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AMNH Research Library, Photo Slide Collection Revised March 2013
AMNH Research Library, Photo Slide Collection Revised March 2013 Call Number Creator Title Date Summary Extent Extent (format) General Notes Related Archival PSC 1 Cerro de la Neblina Cerro de la Neblina Expedition 1984-1989 Field photographs from the 1984-1985 Cerro de la 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 14 slides Includes field notes. Expedition (1984-1985) photographic slides Neblina expedition. Includes one slide from Amazonas, Rio Mavaca Base Camp, March 1989. PSC 2 Abbott, R. E. R. E. Abbott photographic slides undated Field photographs of North American birds in nature, 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 7 slides Includes field notes. includes Cardinals, red-shouldered hawks, and song sparrow. PSC 3 Byron, Oscar. Abyssinia duplicate slides undated Duplicate slides made from hand-colored lantern 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 100 slides Copy slides from hand colored slides of field photographs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia] lantern slides. circa 1920-1921. PSC 4 Jaques, Francis Lee. ACA textile photographic slides undated ACA Collection. Textiles, 15th to 18th century textiles 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 22 slides from various countries. PSC 5 Bierwert, Thane L. A. A. Allen photographic slides undated Field photographs of North American birds in nature. 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 154 slides Includes field notes. Collection contains USDE numbers and K numbers. PSC 6 Blanchard, Dean Hobbs. AG Southwest Native Americans undated Field photographs of Southwestern Native 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 3 slides Includes field photographs. photographic slides Americans PSC 7 Amadon, Dean Dean Amadon photographic slides of 1957 Slide of fence post with holes made by Acorn or 1 box (0.25 linear feet) 1 slide Fence post in AMNH Ornithology birds California woodpecker for storage. -
Insight from the Sociology of Science
CHAPTER 7 INSIGHT FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE Science is What Scientists Do It has been argued a number of times in previous chapters that empirical adequacy is insufficient, in itself, to establish the validity of a theory: consistency with the observable ‘facts’ does not mean that a theory is true,1 only that it might be true, along with other theories that may also correspond with the observational data. Moreover, empirical inadequacy (theories unable to account for all the ‘facts’ in their domain) is frequently ignored by individual scientists in their fight to establish a new theory or retain an existing one. It has also been argued that because experi- ments are conceived and conducted within a particular theoretical, procedural and instrumental framework, they cannot furnish the theory-free data needed to make empirically-based judgements about the superiority of one theory over another. What counts as relevant evidence is, in part, determined by the theoretical framework the evidence is intended to test. It follows that the rationality of science is rather different from the account we usually provide for students in school. Experiment and observation are not as decisive as we claim. Additional factors that may play a part in theory acceptance include the following: intuition, aesthetic considerations, similarity and consistency among theories, intellectual fashion, social and economic influences, status of the proposer(s), personal motives and opportunism. Although the evidence may be inconclusive, scientists’ intuitive feelings about the plausibility or aptness of particular ideas will make it appear convincing. The history of science includes many accounts of scientists ‘sticking to their guns’ concerning a well-loved theory in the teeth of evidence to the contrary, and some- times in the absence of any evidence at all. -
The Joys and Burdens of Our Heroes 12/05/2021
More Fun Than Fun: The Joys and Burdens of Our Heroes 12/05/2021 An iconic photo of Konrad Lorenz with his favourite geese. Photo: Willamette Biology, CC BY-SA 2.0 This article is part of the ‘More Fun Than Fun‘ column by Prof Raghavendra Gadagkar. He will explore interesting research papers or books and, while placing them in context, make them accessible to a wide readership. RAGHAVENDRA GADAGKAR Among the books I read as a teenager, two completely changed my life. One was The Double Helix by Nobel laureate James D. Watson. This book was inspiring at many levels and instantly got me addicted to molecular biology. The other was King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz, soon to be a Nobel laureate. The study of animal behaviour so charmingly and unforgettably described by Lorenz kindled in me an eternal love for the subject. The circumstances in which I read these two books are etched in my mind and may have partly contributed to my enthusiasm for them and their subjects. The Double Helix was first published in London in 1968 when I was a pre-university student (equivalent to 11th grade) at St Joseph’s college in Bangalore and was planning to apply for the prestigious National Science Talent Search Scholarship. By then, I had heard of the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and its profound implications. I was also tickled that this momentous discovery was made in 1953, the year of my birth. I saw the announcement of Watson’s book on the notice board in the British Council Library, one of my frequent haunts. -
Indonesia Lesser Sundas Report
INDONESIA LESSER SUNDAS REPORT 5th July to 23rd July 2013 TOUR HIGHLIGHTS Either for rarity value, excellent views or simply a group favourite. • Spotted Harrier • Elegant Pitta • Flores Hawk-Eagle • Flores Minivet • Orange-footed Scrubfowl • Timor Figbird • Green Junglefowl • Chestnut-capped Thrush • Beach Thick-knee • Orange-sided Thrush • Australian Pratincole • Russet-capped Tesia • Mees’s Nightjar • Timor Stubtail • Black-backed Fruit-Dove • Buff-banded Thicketbird • Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove • Flores Monarch • Marigold Lorikeet • Arafura Fantail • Flores Lorikeet • Bare-throated Whistler • Yellow-crested Cockatoo • Black-winged Myna • Wallace’s Scops-Owl • Bali Myna • Sumba Boobook • Helmeted Friarbird • White-rumped Kingfisher • Black-chested Myzomela Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher Apricot-breasted Sunbird • • • Cerulean Kingfisher • Tricoloured Parrotfinch • Sumba Hornbill • Java Sparrow SUMMARY: This was the first ZOOTHERA tour to the endemic-rich, tropical paradise that is collectively known as The Lesser Sundas. We visited Timor, Sumba, Flores and Komodo in search of Indonesia’s rarest and least known species, ending up on Bali in search of the famous starlings. These islands are relatively undeveloped, thinly populated and seldom visited by birders but they gave us access to some of the rarest birds on the planet. Starting on the largest island, Timor with its dry grassland, acacia scrub and montane forest, it is home to the greatest number of endemics. We had to split our time here in two due to a last-minute rescheduling of our internal flights and this did affect our success here a little but we still managed to see most of what the island has to offer. Then we flew across to the arid island of Sumba which is the most isolated and least often visited. -
Web-Book Catalog 2021-05-10
Lehigh Gap Nature Center Library Book Catalog Title Year Author(s) Publisher Keywords Keywords Catalog No. National Geographic, Washington, 100 best pictures. 2001 National Geogrpahic. Photographs. 779 DC Miller, Jeffrey C., and Daniel H. 100 butterflies and moths : portraits from Belknap Press of Harvard University Butterflies - Costa 2007 Janzen, and Winifred Moths - Costa Rica 595.789097286 th tropical forests of Costa Rica Press, Cambridge, MA rica Hallwachs. Miller, Jeffery C., and Daniel H. 100 caterpillars : portraits from the Belknap Press of Harvard University Caterpillars - Costa 2006 Janzen, and Winifred 595.781 tropical forests of Costa Rica Press, Cambridge, MA Rica Hallwachs 100 plants to feed the bees : provide a 2016 Lee-Mader, Eric, et al. Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA Bees. Pollination 635.9676 healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive Klots, Alexander B., and Elsie 1001 answers to questions about insects 1961 Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY Insects 595.7 B. Klots Cruickshank, Allan D., and Dodd, Mead, and Company, New 1001 questions answered about birds 1958 Birds 598 Helen Cruickshank York, NY Currie, Philip J. and Eva B. 101 Questions About Dinosaurs 1996 Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY Reptiles Dinosaurs 567.91 Koppelhus Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N. 101 Questions About the Seashore 1997 Barlowe, Sy Seashore 577.51 Y. Gardening to attract 101 ways to help birds 2006 Erickson, Laura. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA Birds - Conservation. 639.978 birds. Sharpe, Grant, and Wenonah University of Wisconsin Press, 101 wildflowers of Arcadia National Park 1963 581.769909741 Sharpe Madison, WI 1300 real and fanciful animals : from Animals, Mythical in 1998 Merian, Matthaus Dover Publications, Mineola, NY Animals in art 769.432 seventeenth-century engravings. -
The Main Feature This Month Describes a Very FRONT COVER Exciting Place - One of the Most Exciting European Otter (Lutra Lutra)
THE INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE MAGAZINE Vol. 17 No. 4 April 1975 The main feature this month describes a very FRONT COVER exciting place - one of the most exciting European otter (Lutra lutra). places in the world, in fact. The Gunung Photo by Hans Reinhard/Bruce Colernan Leuser must represent one of the front rank of vital areas that conservationists must save, for all sorts of reasons. It is also a place that appeals because it is 150 The Great Wildlife still unexplored and unknown. Markus Borner Photographic Adventure told me when I was there last summer that 153 Birdwatcher at Large there were - and are - no adequate maps of the Gunung Leuser region. The most recent 154 Longnecks and Humpbacks was one prepared from American satellite Harry Frauca photographs. But it turned out to be 157 Into the Unknown inaccurate. So little known was the area that he even discovered a great rift valley in the Markus Bomer centre of the reserve, whose existence had been 166 Search for India's Grey Wolf unsuspected. S. P. Shahi Markus was involved specifically in the fate of the Sumatran rhino, but he was also 170 The Rooftop Gun concerned - through his project investigations Patricia M ol1aghan - with the wildlife of Sumatra generally. Working side by side with him were two other 173 A Brighter Future for the Polar Bear? Swiss zoologists; their project was to Colin Wyatt rehabilitate confiscated orang-utans. This makes a warm and fascinating story in itself, and we 176 The Latin Skin Trade are planning to publish a feature on it in a Fe/ipe Benavides future issue. -
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Relationship of Bird Diversity and Plant Composition Inside the Area Campus Green Space of Universitas Padjadjaran Jatinangor, Sumedang West Java
Biosaintifika 10 (3) (2018) 500-509 Biosaintifika Journal of Biology & Biology Education http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/biosaintifika Relationship of Bird Diversity and Plant Composition Inside The Area Campus Green Space of Universitas Padjadjaran Jatinangor, Sumedang West Java Deden Nurjaman, Teguh Husodo, Erri Noviar Megantara, Herri Y. Hadikusumah, Indri Wulandari DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/biosaintifika.v10i3.13543 Department of Biology, Postgraduate Programme of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia History Article Abstract Received 26 February 2018 Padjadjaran University (UNPAD) Jatinangor is currently conducting green Cam- Approved 19 September 2018 pus program. To support the program, a study of biota living in it, as one of the Published 31 December 2018 benchmarks of good or bad environmental conditions, is needed. The green space of Jatinangor Campus is divided into two clusters namely Cluster I green space Keywords (Campus Forest) and green space Cluster II (Campus Non Forest). The objective of birds; composition the research was to know the relationship between diversity of birds with diversity of plants; UNPAD of plants in the green space of Cluster I (Campus Forest) and Cluster II (Campus Non Forest) UNPAD Campus Jatinangor as one of the parameters of successful development of green Campus. This research is descriptive-explorative with census method on bird species and plant composition from green spaces of Cluster I (Cam- pus Forest) and Cluste II (Campus Non Forest) Campus UNPAD Jatinangor. From the observations in Cluster I, we identified 46 species of birds and 77 species of plants, whereas in Cluster II, we identified 32 species of birds and 74 types of plants. -
Science, Observation and Entertainment: Competing Visions of Postwar British Natural History Television, 1946-1967
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UCL Discovery Science, Observation and Entertainment: Competing Visions of Post-war British Natural History Television 1946 – 1967 Dr. Gail Davies G. Davies (2000) 'Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of post- war British natural history television, 1946-1967' Ecumene, 7 (4): 432-459 1 Abstract Popular culture is not the endpoint for the communication of fully developed scientific discourses; rather it constitutes a set of narratives, values and practices with which scientists have to engage in the heterogeneous processes of scientific work. In this paper I explore how one group of actors, involved in the development of both post-war natural history television and the professionalisation of animal behaviour studies, manage this process. I draw inspiration from sociologists and historians of science, examining the boundary work involved in the definition and legitimation of scientific fields. Specifically, I chart the institution of animal ethology and natural history filmmaking in Britain through developing a relational account of the co-construction of this new science and its public form within the media. Substantively, the paper discusses the relationship between three genres of early natural history television, tracing their different associations with forms of public science, the spaces of the scientific field and the role of the camera as a tool of scientific observation. Through this analysis I account for the patterns of co-operation and divergence in the broadcasting and scientific visions of nature embedded in the first formations of the Natural History Unit of the British Broadcasting Corporation. -
Irish Rare Bird Report 2014
Irish Rare Bird Report 2014 M. Carmody and J. Hobbs (on behalf of the Irish Rare Birds Committee) BirdWatch Ireland, Unit 20, Block D, Bullford Business Campus, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow Introduction Palearctic away from the Azores. Ireland’s second Pacific Diver Gavia pacifica (Galway) and third Sardinian Warbler Sylvia The year under review was the classic year of two halves. The melanocephala (Cork) were recorded in April and the fourth first half was one of the most exciting starts to a year in recent records of Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus (Mayo) and times, whereas the latter half was far more pedestrian. In line American Coot Fulica americana (Kerry) were recorded in with that, both additions to the Irish list in 2014 were during October and November respectively. Also, this report contains the first six months, with an American Purple Gallinule details of the second Little Swift Apus affinis from Wexford in Porphyrio martinicus found dead in Mayo and, less than a May 2002 and the fourth Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia week later, a Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus in Galway, from Cork in October 2013. Significant records of sub-species both of these in February. Undoubtedly, though, the most in the report are of the first Eastern Subalpine Warbler Sylvia significant record of the year was a Bermuda Petrel cantillans albistriata from Mayo in 2007 and the first Yellow Pterodroma cahow , which is categorised as an ‘At sea’ record as it was observed some 170 nautical miles west of Ireland, a location that lies outside the boundary of the Irish List. -
12 Boterdijk
12 Boterdijk At Boterdijk, near Roermondsplein, is an Airborne pillar, a memorial to the 1st and 3rd Parachute Battalions and their efforts in the after- noon of 18 and the morning of 19 September 1944 to join their com- rades at the bridge. The pillar marks the farthest point these British parachutists managed to reach. After the Rhine Bridge’s northern ramp was secured by British units in the evening and night of the 17th, other troops made further at- tempts to break through to the bridge over the following days in or- der to bolster the allied positions. On Monday 18 September two groups from the 3rd Parachute Battalion would get as far as Boter- dijk. Involved was a group led by Lieutenant John Dickson and a group led by Major Anthony Deane-Drummond. Next day they would be taken prisoner. On Tuesday 19 September companies of the 1st Parachute Battalion tried to get to the Rhine Bridge. ‘S’ Company ca- me to within 800 metres of the Rhine Bridge, but by then had too few men and too little fire-power to continue its advance. In this sto- ry the tale of these groups is depicted using war diaries and recollec- tions of British soldiers who were there. Dickson’s group Deane-Drummond’s group Units of the 1st Parachute Battalion in the attack 'S' Company R Company Making the balance Dickson’s group Map showing the situation around Boterdijk in 1944 (Copyright Cartographic Bureau MAP/Bert Stamkot) In the afternoon of 18 September the 3rd Parachute Battalion failed in its efforts to break through the German defence line al- ong Noordelijke Parallelweg and over Utrechtseweg. -
Goose Bulletin Issue 23 – May 2018
GOOSE BULLETIN ISSUE 23 – MAY 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: Editorial …....................................................................................................................... 1 Report of the 18th Goose Specialist Group meeting at Klaipeda University . ……….... 2 Light-bellied Brent Goose Branta bernicla hrota at Sruwaddacon Bay, north-west Co. Mayo, Ireland ………………................................................... 5 Status and trends of wintering Bar-headed Geese Anser indicus in Myanmar ………... 15 The establishment of an European Goose Management Platform under AEWA ……... 24 Outstanding Ornithologist of the past: Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780 – 1857) ….... 26 Obituary: William Joseph Lambart Sladen, 29-12-1920 – 20-05-2017 ……...………... 28 Obituary: William (Bill) Lishman, 12-02-1939 – 30-12-2017 ……………………….... 30 New Publications 2014 - 2017 …..…………………………………………….……….. 32 Literature …..…………………………………………….…………………………….. 35 Instructions to authors ………………………………..………………………………… 37 GOOSE BULLETIN is the official bulletin of the Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International and IUCN GOOSE BULLETIN – ISSUE 23 – MAY 2018 GOOSE BULLETIN is the official bulletin of the Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International and IUCN. GOOSE BULLETIN appears as required, but at least once a year in electronic form. The bulletin aims to improve communication and exchange information amongst goose researchers throughout the world. It publishes contributions