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  Natural history - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In the 18th century and well into the 19th century, natural history as a term was frequently used to refer to all scientific studies, as opposed to political or ecclesiastical history.
The term "natural history" alone, or sometimes together with archaeology, forms the name of many national, regional and local natural history societies that maintain records for birds (ornithology), mammals, insects (entomology) and plants (botany).
The growth of natural history societies was also spurred due to the growth of British colonies in tropical regions with numerous new species to be discovered.
open-encyclopedia.com /Natural_history   (308 words)

  
 Mission Santa Inés - History
In order to serve the Chumash Indians in the Santa Ynez Valley area and to serve as a link between the Missions in Santa Barbara and Lompoc, the Mission was established in 1804.
The padres did not condone the actions of the Indians, but were quick to call the behavior of the Presidio personnel unreasonable, and in some cases inexcusable, especially the unjustifiable killings of the Indians.
The resulting conditions were disheartening for the Indians, who received little or no recompense for their labors and were required to pay the salary of the secular "administrators".
www.missionsantaines.org /history.html   (4272 words)

  
 The Living Edens "Patagonia" -- History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
atagonia is nature at its most pristine and desolate, a land of wonders at the end of the earth.
This combination of opposites, of the inviting and the inaccessible, has both lured and deterred numerous peoples to and from the region.
Indians were Patagonia's first human inhabitants, tribes that adapted their cultures to the staunch challenges of the land.
www.pbs.org /edens/patagonia/history.htm   (326 words)

  
 Early Keosauqua History
Indians originally occupied the site of the town, and later French monks lived on the bend.
The Manning and the Jackson brick blocks were destroyed in 1898 by one of the worst fires in the history of the town.
The region was thick with natural shrubs and was already being used as a recreation ground.
showcase.netins.net /web/villages/keo/history.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Natural history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other meanings of "natural history", see Natural History
Many civil servants took an interest in their new surroundings, sending specimens back to museums in Britain.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_history   (343 words)

  
 Natural History Highlight - National Museum of Natural History
Although the Indonesian specimens superficially resemble those in the western Indian Ocean, analyses of DNA from tissue samples removed from one of the Indonesian specimens have revealed significant genetic differentiation from the Indian Ocean population.
In the Indian Ocean only one capture (the original one in 1938) is from South Africa and this specimen was long thought to be a stray from the Comoron population.
Elsewhere in the Western Indian Ocean specimens have been captured off the west coast of Madagascar and off Mozambique and Kenya, the latter representing the most northern locality record along the African coast.
www.mnh.si.edu /highlight/coelacanth   (1044 words)

  
 Yosemite Natural History Section - Yosemite News - YosemiteNews.net
Prescribed fires, intended to simulate natural fires and improve the health of the forest, are now set by the National Park Service.
It is the setting of the Pioneer Yosemite History Center, a collection of relocated historic buildings and horse-drawn coaches.
The Indian Cultural Exhibit and the Indian Village, located behind the visitor center, display the cultural history of the native Miwok and Paiute people from 1850 to the present.
www.yosemitenews.net /natural_history.html   (1748 words)

  
 Astoria Oregon History
The Society is organized to obtain, preserve, conserve where necessary, and exhibit items pertaining to the history and culture of Clatsop County and its surrounding areas, together with buildings in which to house such items.
Displays feature different aspects of Clatsop County's heritage--natural history, Indian artifacts, early immigrants and settlers of the area, important maritime events and art history represent some of the stories the museum has to tell.
Displays feature natural history, Native American artifacts, early immigrants and settlers of the area, important maritime events and art history.
www.all-oregon.com /city/astoria/history.htm   (531 words)

  
 Diamonds | American Museum of Natural History
The role of metal in jewelry is reduced to that of a framework, and enamel disappears from the front of jewels, now used only on the backs.
The classical elements favored in the Renaissance are eventually replaced by naturalism in the form of sprays of leaves and flowers, ribbons tied into knots, and simplified geometric lozenges, ovals, and circles.
The rose-cut diamond is seen in combination with the aging point and table cuts, closely packed together in continuous lines or clusters.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/diamonds/17th.html   (148 words)

  
 Natural History of Beavers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
From chapter 2, "Nature's Hydrologists" in Water: a natural history by Alice Outwater.
Beavers were commonly kept as pets around Indian encampments, but they do have a fatal flaw in a modern household: they never stop building.
The Indians of Nova Scotia claimed to know of an ancient beaver dam so cast that it flooded the Annapolis valley; farther west, tales circulated of tribal ancestors using immense beaver teeth to hollow out their canoes.
www.shawsheen.org /Beavers/Natural_History_of_Beavers/natural_history_of_beavers.html   (3269 words)

  
 John Brickell, Natural History
Like Lawson, Brickell too considered the study of Indians to be a part of Natural History, and he included discussions of Indian culture as well as a valuable vocabulary of the Tuscarora, "Pampticough," and Waccon languages.
As for the Indian Women, which now happen in my Way; when young, and at Maturity, they are as fine-shap'd Creatures (take them generally) as any in the Universe.
In addition to Indians, the relatively elastic conception of Natural History employed by Brickell also encompassed the colony's burgeoning number of Africans.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/exhibits/nature/brickell.htm   (760 words)

  
 Landscape Natural History
Be sure to include a list of the natural community types (as described in Wetland, Woodland, Wildland) that you think are present on your landscape.
interpret the natural history of your landscape for your classmates
Indian Brook Reservoir         Caroline and Whitney        11-4-02                  (1:50 – 2:50)    
www.uvm.edu /~wpoleman/lnh/landscapeassignment.html   (1048 words)

  
 Natural History: The Ecological Indian: Myth and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Indian tribes of the Great Plains practiced mass killings of buffalo before the systematic slaughter initiated by white hunters in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Woodland Indians contributed to the extinction of beaver populations in large areas of the North and decimated deer herds in the South.
Many people, determined to discover wisdom whether or not it is there to be found, look to Indian societies (which often have names that translate as "real people" or "true human beings") for keys to living in a better way.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_8_108/ai_56183373   (694 words)

  
 Indo-Pacific Citations
The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys.
Nature reserves of the Himalaya and Mountains of central Asia.
Amazonian nature reserves: An analysis of the defensibility status of existing conservation units and design criteria for the future.
www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/indo_ref.html   (11073 words)

  
 Bernard Romans, Natural History
He made the first maps of Pensacola Harbor, Tampa Bay, and Mobile Bay, and along with David Tait and George Gauld (who prowled the coastal regions), he was responsible for mapping most of the interior of West Florida between 1770 and 1772.
As he prepared them, he may already have had in mind the prospect of producing an accompanying volume on colonial natural history.
The British civil and military establishment prized Romans' maps and charts for their accuracy, and they demonstrated their support in the clearest way possible by the standards of the day: financially.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/exhibits/nature/romans.htm   (747 words)

  
 VP News Dream 2047 December issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History, Edited by R.E. Hawkins, which was brought out on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the society, is also a valuable guide to natural history of the country.
In addition to organising nature camps, treks, etc, in wild places, the society has also established the BNHS Conservation Education Centre in 33 acres of land adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Goregoan, Mumbai.
The Centre has an auditorium, five nature trails, display and discovery room which introduce nature to about 10,000 students every year in a wide variety of ways, such as games, puzzles, displays, video and slide shows, and even first hand visits to the neighbouring jungles.
www.vigyanprasar.com /dream/dec2001/soundsociety.htm   (1289 words)

  
 Welcome To The BNHS Website
The Bombay Natural History Society is today the largest non-government organisation (NGO) in the Indian sub-continent engaged in nature conservation research.
In the 120 years of its existence, its commitment has been, and continues to be, the conservation of India's natural wealth, protection of the environment and sustainable use of natural resources for a balanced and healthy development for future generations.
ENVIS Centre at the Bombay Natural History Society was established in 1996 by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India.
www.bnhs.org   (472 words)

  
 The Carnegie Museum of Natural History
With this in mind, he announced plans to begin construction of a substantial addition that would help to ease the "growing pains." In 1907, the plans were fulfilled; a building three times larger than the original structure stood along Forbes Avenue.
It now ranks among the six largest natural history museums in the nation, housing approximately 14 million biological, geological, anthropological, and archaeological specimens.
In addition to being known for its research and exhibitions, Carnegie Museum of Natural History is also a major educational institution.
www.clpgh.org /exhibit/neighborhoods/oakland/oak_cente.html   (443 words)

  
 Lec 62 (Focus) Indian Cultures in History 1783-1860
The policies, legal precedents, legislation, and administrative structures which were developed to guide Indian affairs in the early na­tional period affected each of the tribes chosen to illustrate the focus lectures.
The course of Indian history in this period, however, was more pro­foundly affected by those who disregarded the government's policies than by those who tried to enforce them.
  Territorial pressure on the Indians of the West was, until the final decades of the period, largely an indirect result of international rivalries and the displacement of the eastern tribes.
daphne.palomar.edu /llewis/AIS101/101Lectures/M6/Lec62.htm   (3748 words)

  
 Natural History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
North- and east- facing slopes were covered with oak woodland, while native grasses and north coast scrub were predominant on west- and south-facing slopes.
Indian use of fire almost certainly accounts for the extension of grassland environment and the restriction of forest and brush land that is apparent in early paintings and photographs of the island.
In the nineteenth century, a number of highly aggressive European grasses (mostly annuals) began to replace the native grasses (mostly perennials), and firewood cutters chopped down much of the oak forest on the northeast side of the island.
www.angelisland.org /nature.html   (508 words)

  
 Natural History: Ishi's Brain: in Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Natural History, April, 2004 by Laurence A. Marschall
Ishi's history, it seems, had ended as incongruously as it had begun.
In August 1911 newspapers nationwide reported the discovery of a starving man crouching in the backyard of a slaughterhouse near the northern California town of Oroville.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_113/ai_n5990769   (794 words)

  
 Draper Museum of Natural History
The Draper Museum of Natural History opened to the public on June 4, 2002 to become the newest addition to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and the first American natural history museum established in the 21st century.
The Museum bears the name of BBHC trustee and benefactor Nancy-Carroll Draper, who tirelessly championed adding a natural history museum to the humanities museums of the BBHC.
In 1997, the BBHC Board of Trustees approved a proposal to begin development of the DMNH as a vehicle to integrate natural sciences with humanities and therefore present a broader perspective on the American West.
www.bbhc.org /dmnh/index.cfm   (399 words)

  
 Rewriting Indian History - a Hindu Timeline
Dates in Hindu history after Buddha are subject to little dispute, while dates before Buddha have been decided as much by current opinion and politics as by scientific evidence.
When you learned Indian history, a startling amount of myth may have inadvertently been mixed in the masala with fact.
The "official" history of India and Hinduism was set down by Western scholars more than a hundred years ago, a history based on the now-disputed principle that an outside group of "Aryans," not her indigenous peoples, were responsible for most of India's civilization.
www.tamilnation.org /heritage/hindutimeline.htm   (5958 words)

  
 Welcome To Indian Wildlife Club.com
The husband and wife team of Vivek (retired bureaucrat)and Arati Sinha, are committed conservationists, whose photographs speak eloquently of India's wildlife.
The Dance of the Sarus makes good reading to those in light reading on Indian natural history.
'Common Indian Wild Flowers' is a publication by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and is a guide to the study of flowers that are commonly seen in one's backyard, roadside and forest.
www.indianwildlifeclub.com /mainsite/iwcmodule8a.asp   (548 words)

  
 Natural History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The African Wildlife Foundation has been working with the people of Africa to protect their invaluable natural resources and history.
The Smithsonian's Natural Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to preserving, studying, and displaying the life, language, history, and art of Native Americans.
The National Museum of Natural History displays treasures of nature and of humankind--take a tour..
education.uncc.edu /sitesforkids/natural.htm   (145 words)

  
 GN Online: Ton up for journal on natural history
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has much to celebrate this year as its Journal completes its 100th volume on the flora and fauna of the Indian sub-continent.
For a journal edited by 'amateurs' Salim Ali, the late ornithologist noted that it reached its peak in credibility and acquired a reputation as the foremost natural history publication in Asia when Executive Editor S H Prater edited it between 1933-1948.
On Wednesday, the cause of conserving wildlife and nature was given a stamp of approval by people other than conservationists at a colourful function, on the birthday of well-known ornithologist Salim Ali, with the release of the Centenary Journal.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=102983   (427 words)

  
 American Indian Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
American Indian Studies programs were created at a number of universities throughout the United States beginning in the late 1960s.
The American Indian Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1994 and is the oldest continuous existing program.
The history of the Taino Nation of the Caribbean from October 11, 1492 to the present.
www.csulb.edu /projects/ais   (1236 words)

  
 Arkansas History Commission & State Archives preserves Arkansas history
The Arkansas History Commission (AHC) is one of the oldest existing state agencies in The Natural State.
At the AHC, the history of Arkansas and its people can be researched through manuscripts, books, microfilm, newspapers, maps, and visual materials plus census, county, military, Indian, cemetery and church records.
Prepare for a visit by accessing information on using the archives including hours, location, tips on getting started, and answers to FAQS types of resources or materials located at the AHC and selected materials including forms and bibliographies, databases of Arkansas newspapers, county records and the Arkansas Confederate Home.
www.ark-ives.com   (213 words)

  
 The Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
It serves as a repository for sacred relics, historical artifacts, genealogical records and the history, folklore and traditions of the largely unknown Muskogee Creek Indian community of North Florida, especially Pine Arbor Tribal Town (the old Apalachicola Nation).
The mission of "THE MUSEUM" is to: gather, preserve, archive, disseminate and exhibit to the interested public, information and knowledge about North Florida's native communities and other indigenous cultures of the New World in particular and Southern Culture's White, Black, and Native American peoples in general.
The scope of "THE MUSEUM" shall include but not be limited to arts, culture, history, law, letters, music, philosophy, religion, science and technology.
www.tfn.net /Museum   (292 words)

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