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	Natural History Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum).
		The museum is renowned for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, particularly the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the entrance.
		The central axis of the museum is aligned with the tower of Imperial College London (formerly the Imperial Institute) and the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial further north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_History_Museum (990 words)

	British Museum of Natural History 1898 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In January, 1864, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works issued an advertisement for designs for a Natural History Museum and a Patent Museum, to be erected on part of the land thus acquired, a plan which had been prepared by Mr.
		The departments of Geology, Mineralogy and Botany, were arranged in their respective sections of the Museum in the course of the year 1880, and the portion of the Museum which contained these departments was first opened to the public on April 18th, 1881.
		Owing to the nature of the specimens exhibited in one or two of these galleries, requiring for their exhibition rather table-cases than wall-cases, advantage has only been taken to a limited extent of this disposition of the plan.
	www.todayinsci.com /Events/Museums/BritishMuseumNaturalHistory1898.htm (1724 words)

	Museums, The Stationery Office, Balogh International Inc., Manual of Natural History Curatorship, The Marketing and ...
		London is the museum capital of the world with perhaps 300 museums and museum projects in the area.
		Many of these museums are world famous, such as the British Museum, Natural History Museum, National Gallery, however some are less known such as the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood and the Grange Museum of Community History, the Cutty Sark, etc. This guide offers directions, opening times, admission requirements, and discussion on the museum holdings.
		Readership: All individuals who are involved in the care of natural science collections and their associated documentation; who need to have access to these collections whether for research or education; who have management responsibility for natural science museums; for naturalists, biologists and environmentalists who need to understand the role and operation of museums.
	www.balogh.com /british/museums.html (402 words)

	British Museum - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The natural history collections were an integral part of the British Museum until their removal to the new British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum, in 1887.
		The British Museum has charged an admission fee only during a period of a few months in 1972; however, some temporary special exhibitions, within but separate from the main museum, do charge.
		The British Museum is principally a museum of antiquities.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4675 (1043 words)

	The British Museum: Important Dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Negotiations for the purchase of a 17th century mansion, Montagu House, in Bloomsbury to house the new Museum (concluded 1755).
		Parthenon Sculptures ('Elgin Marbles') purchased by Parliament from Lord Elgin and vested 'in perpetuity in the Trustees of the British Museum'.
		Excavations led by Sir Leonard Woolley and sponsored jointly by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania begin at Ur, southern Mesopotamia.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /visit/datelist.html (1889 words)

	General Geology books, Balogh International Inc., The Stationery Office, British Museum of Natural History, british ...
		Erosion, deposition and flooding are natural phenomena and an integral part of the natural landscape.
		There is clearly a need for a book that describes the nature of the threat presented by landsliding in the UK for the non-specialist.
		This lavishly illustrated book traces the history of the tracks in NW England, and narrates the finds of the 19th century, drawing from unpublished contemporary accounts and illustrations.
	www.balogh.com /british/geology.html (847 words)

	British Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room.
		In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854-57; at 42.6 metres (140 ft) in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.
		The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Museum (2272 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - History - British Museum history
		In 1963 The British Museum (Natural History) was recognised as a completely separate institution and in 1973 the departments of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts were separated from The British Museum to form part of the new British Library although at first physically staying under the same roof.
		With the final departure of the British Library departments to their new building in St Pancras in 1998, the way became clear to convert all the vacated space to Museum use and the Great Court scheme was begun.
		The British Museum has always maintained a worldwide perspective and has brought understanding and wonder to the public for the past 250 years.
	www.open2.net /historyandthearts/history/article1_p2.html (240 words)

	BUBL LINK: Natural history
		Museum scientists trace the history of life, explore the development and relationships of different groups of animals, document changes in the environment, and describe the achievements of human cultures.
		National museum which aims to increase understanding of, and influence public debate on, the natural environment, human societies and human interaction with the environment.
		The Museum's mission is to maintain and develop its collections and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/n/naturalhistory.htm (1042 words)

	Natural History Museum at South Kensington by W. T. Stearn, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0434736015 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
		The Myth Of Syphilis: The Natural History Of Trepo...
		Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum (...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0434736015.html (321 words)

	The Literature Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Falk, J. Analysis of the behavior of family visitors in history museums: The National Museum of Natural History.
		Mitchell, J. The National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution: The establishment of a national museum.
		Riley, D. The representation and interpretation of the image of science and scientists at a museum of natural history.
	www.museumlearning.org /scripts/museumtype_list.php?Section=Natural (3230 words)

	The British Museum: History of the BM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		From its beginnings the British Museum was a new type of institution.
		With the additional expansion of the natural history collections and the library, Montagu House was rapidly outgrown.
		In the 1880s the natural history collections were moved to a new building in South Kensington, later to become the Natural History Museum.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /visit/history.html (1048 words)

	Natural History Museum in Colorado Springs- The John May
		The May Natural History Museum of the Tropics, located southwest of Colorado Springs, is a unique museum - there is not another like it on the continent.
		Over the years there have been hundreds of school and college classes that have come to see this Museum and the students are impressed with the many really astonishing forms of camouflage these creatures employ for their own protection.
		The May Natural Museum is open from May 1st to October 1st and reservations are required for groups in the winter.
	www.maymuseum-camp-rvpark.com /natural_history.htm (660 words)

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		Ogden, C.G. Observations on clonal cultures of Euglyphidae (Rhizopodea, Protozoa): Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 41: 137-151.
		Ogden, C.G. Observations on the systematics of the genus Difflugia in Britain (Rhizopoda, Protozoa): Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 44: 1-73.
		Ogden, C.G. The role of the organic matrix in the construction of the agglutinate shell of Centropyxis discoides (Rhizopoda: Protozoa): Journal of Natural History, 22: 137-148.
	palaeo-electronica.org /2003_1/biblio/b16.html (1594 words)

	Everard Baldwin Britton
		During this time, he was responsible for the organisation and use of the world collection of beetles, and visited southwest Africa with the British Museum expedition in 1936-7.
		While at the British Museum, Ev took an active part in the Royal Entomological Society, acting as Editor in 1948, Honorary Secretary from 1951 to 1957 and serving on Council in 1949 and 1958.
		Although appointed a Research Scientist with CSIRO early in 1964, he remained in England for a few months to study the Australian material in the British Museum and, in September 1964, with his family (and Joyce’s baby grand piano), sailed for Australia on the ocean liner, Oronsay.
	www-museum.unl.edu /research/entomology/workers/EBritton.htm (1172 words)

	Psocodea
		Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History Entomology 25: 75-98.
		Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 218: 90 pp.
		Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 51(3): 187-346.
	tolweb.org /Psocodea/8235 (714 words)

	News Articles - School of Natural Resources - University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The British Museum of Natural History, one of the most prestigious in the world, published "Agates — Treasures of the Earth" in the United Kingdom in June and released it in North America this fall.
		Roger Pabian, a retired geologist with UNL's School of Natural Resources and the book's lead author, has advanced the understanding of agates as much as any scientist in the world, according to the British museum, and so was chosen by the museum to head up the writing (more.
		Doing so, she detailed a rich but tortured history of competing management approaches to cattle ranching and wildlife conservation in this ecologically fascinating area, a legacy both tragic and comic in retrospect but well explained in terms of the knowledge and priorities of a given time.
	snrs.unl.edu /information/news_articles.asp (1112 words)

	University of Wyoming Geological Museum
		The life-sized statue of Tyrannosaurus rex that guards the entrance to the Geology Museum was created by renowned Wyoming geologist Samuel Howell Knight.
		Among Knight's other works are the bas-relief Stegosaurus and Triceratops panels that front the museum and the reconstructed Apatosaurus ("Brontosaurus") skeleton that is the museum's centerpiece.
		The museum is open weekdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and weekends from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., except for holidays.
	www.uwyo.edu /GeoMuseum/tour/trex.asp (536 words)

	Natural History Museum :: Cromwell Road, London, England, United Kingdom :: Glass Steel and Stone
		M uch as the British Library is an offshoot of the British Museum, the Natural History Museum is, too, descended from the BM.
		The British Museum's collection received a massive infusion from Sir Hans Sloane in the 1700's.
		By the late 1800's, the BM's collection had grown so large that it was decided that a separate natural history museum was needed.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/287.php (412 words)

	Lady Smith Woodward's tablecloth
		Edwards told her that he did not think the British Museum (Natural History) had anywhere suitable to put it; whereupon Lady Woodward gave the tablecloth to George Gaylord Simpson, who took it back to the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
		He was retired by the museum in 1924, when he was sixty years old.
		As regards the latter, Steve Gould's piece in Natural History for August, 1980 simply is not true or at best is not logical or acceptable.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_report_finds/lady_smith_table.html (1556 words)

	National Museum Directors' Conference: Spoliation Report - Natural History Museum
		The museum is satisfied that the provenance of all items checked is such that none have come into its possession either directly or indirectly as a result of any unlawful activity by any person as a result of their action during the Holocaust or World War II.
		The Official Archives of The Natural History Museum comprise those papers, drawings, photographs and other media generated as a result of the work of the Museum that have been selected for permanent preservation and handed over to the care of the Archivist.
		Although most records date from the opening of the Museum in 1881, the earliest items in the collection date from 1755 and represent items transferred to South Kensington by the natural history departments after leaving the British Museum.
	www.nationalmuseums.org.uk /spoliation/reports/nhm.html (876 words)

	British Iguanodon from Brussels, 1895 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1895 the British Museum (Natural History) acquired a cast of a Bernissart Iguanodon from the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels.
		The British Museum had at the time three entire wall-cases and two table-cases devoted to Iguanodon remains, including Mantell's slab with the Maidstone Iguanodon, but as Henry Woodward says in this article, they somehow fail to impress with the same degree of interest as the huge skeleton, even if it was a reproduction.
		The Iguanodon skeleton inspired a notable life restoration in Lydekker's Royal Natural History in 1896.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/dino/woo1895.htm (207 words)

	Museum of Natural History - Alfred Waterhouse - Great Buildings Online
		One of the grand Victorian museums of the 19th century, Alfred Waterhouse's Museum of Natural History had roots in designs by Sir Richard Owen, the museum's creator, and an 1864 competition won by Francis Fowke.
		The building integrates the romantic and the practical in an eclectic whole: German Romanesque stylistic use of dramatic arches and towers, decorated with a rich sculptural program of terra cotta, and a practical use of structural iron and contemporary mechanical systems.
		The museum director provided specimens and Waterhouse developed designs for the terra-cotta ornaments, using living material as models for the embellishment of the walls surrounding the zoological exhibits on the west side of the building and extinct models for the geological section on the east side."
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Museum_of_Natural_History.html (592 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The mission of the Natural History Museum (UK) is to maintain and develop its collections and to use them to promote discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
		Working in 72 countries, the 250-year old museum is renowned for its pioneering approach to exhibitions, its role as an expert voice on the natural world, and the excellence and importance of scientific research.
		The Natural History Museum has approximately 300 scientists, and attracts more than 5.5 million virtual and physical visitors each year.
	www.fathom.com /partners/nhm/index.html (299 words)

	BUBL LINK: British natural resources
		Features protected by the commission include areas of outstanding natural beauty, community forests, greenways, heritage coasts, millennium greens, national parks, national trails, quiet roads, and rural development areas.
		Official information from the Government's statutory adviser on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment in Wales and its inshore waters.
		Since 1912 the Wildlife Trusts have been speaking out for nature in Britain and are a network of 47 Wildlife Trusts, 50 Urban Wildlife Groups and Wildlife Watch (junior branch) covering all of the UK.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/b/britishnaturalresources.htm (595 words)

	The Transfer of Functions (British Museum (Natural History)) Order 1988
		The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument which is published by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made.
		This Order transfers to the Lord President of the Council the power under section 8(2)(b) of the British Museum Act 1963 to appoint one of the Natural History Trustees, and the power under section 10(2) to amend Part II of Schedule 3 to that Act, presently exercised by the Secretary of State.
		The buildings for the time being described in Part II of that Schedule are the authorised repositories for the collections of the British Museum (Natural History).
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si1988/Uksi_19881836_en_1.htm (631 words)

	The Mineralogical Record - Label Archive
		The British Museum (Natural History) was founded in 1753.
		The systematic mineral collection originated in part from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), and now includes the minerals from the former Geological Museum, the collection of Sir Arthur Russell, and the Kingsbury, Ashcroft, Ludlam, Neville, and Allan-Greg collections, among others.
		The museum today, now known as The Natural History Museum, contains one of the largest mineral collections in the worls, over 325,000 specimens.
	www.minrec.org /labels.asp?colid=254 (111 words)

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