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	Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The University's collection of anatomical and natural history specimens were similarly spread around the city.
		The largest portion of the museum's collections consist of the natural history specimens from the Ashmolean Museum, including the specimens collected by the Tradescants, William Burchell and geologist William Buckland.
		Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, are generally cast as the main protagonists in the debate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford_University_Museum_of_Natural_History (1118 words)

	Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census).
		Oxford is twinned with Bonn in Germany, Grenoble in France, León in Nicaragua, Leiden in the Netherlands, and Perm in Russia.
		Oxford's Town Hall was built by Henry T. Hare, the foundation stone was laid on 6 July 1893 and opened by the future King Edward VII on 12 May 1897.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford (1455 words)

	Pitt Rivers Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford.
		The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building.
		The museum was founded in 1884 by General Augustus Pitt Rivers, who donated his collection to the University of Oxford with the condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitt_Rivers_Museum (374 words)

	Alberghi vicino a Oxford University Museum Of Natural History
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	www.activereservations.com /hotel/it/hotels-near-attractions/2052-5.html (799 words)

	Natural History Museums and Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Museum of Natural History of Crete, University of Crete (Greece)
		Museums of Natural History at Tøyen (Tøyen, Norway)
		Natural History Museums (from U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)
	www.lib.washington.edu /sla/natmus.html (1773 words)

	Statutes and Regulations: Regulations for the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
		The purpose of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History is to assemble, preserve, and exhibit the University's natural history collections and to promote research, teaching, and public education in the natural sciences based on the museum's collections.
		The Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History shall be the secretary to the Visitors, except that the Visitors may require him or her to withdraw from any meeting.
		The Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History shall be the first officer of the museum, and shall act for and be responsible to the Visitors in the exercise of their powers.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /statutes/regulations/527-122.shtml (801 words)

	Dodo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The decaying remnants of the last complete stuffed Dodo, in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, were burned in 1755.
		Working at Oxford University in 2000-2002, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro used ancient DNA techniques to extract and analyse DNA from the Dodo and its close relative, the Solitaire.
		DNA was extracted from a small fragment of bone taken from the leg of a Dodo specimen that is currently on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dodo (1425 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Dodo - Raphus calculatus
		A team of Oxford University experts, led by Dr Alan Cooper, has already started to build the dodo's family tree by testing the DNA of African and Indian Ocean pigeons, to which it is thought to be related.
		All that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, a foot in the British Museum in London, a head in Copenhagen, and a variety of bones strewn across museums in Europe, the United States and Mauritius.
		The Oxford team worked with the Natural History Museum to collect and analyse genetic material from a preserved dodo, from the similarly extinct solitaire bird, and from another 35 kinds of living pigeon and dove.
	home.conceptsfa.nl /%7Epmaas/rea/dodobird.htm (1447 words)

	Visiting - Pitt Rivers Museum
		The Pitt Rivers Museum is pleased to announce that it has been given over six million pounds to build a new extension to the Museum's well-known galleries on South Parks Road.
		Vehicles parking in the University's Science Area without a permit are liable to be wheel-clamped, so we can only suggest that you look for parking in either the side streets around the Museum or at the multi-storey car park.
		In some instances the 'displays' are primarily visible storage, due to the museum being first and foremost a teaching and research institution and the curators are also university lecturers in either cultural anthropology or prehistoric archaeology.
	www.prm.ox.ac.uk /visit.html (1089 words)

	Oxford City Council: Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Oxford is recognised across the world for the quality of its museums.
		The Museum of Oxford is the only museum that is dedicated to the history of the City and the University.
		The Oxford Story is an excellent introduction to the history of Oxford University and college life.
	www.oxford.gov.uk /tourism/museums.cfm/text/1 (175 words)

	Natural Selection: subject gateway to the natural world
		The fossil vertebrate collection at the Museum includes over 9,500 specimens and is strong in fossil fish from the Devonian to the Pleistocene period.
		The Museum Collection Navigator is a project of the Natural History Museum in London "to identify electronically the wide range of collections it holds".
		With around 70 million specimens within its earth and life science collections, the Natural History Museum in London (formerly part of the British Museum) is one of the world's premier centres for taxonomy and systematics.
	nature.ac.uk /text/browse/560.7441.html (745 words)

	Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Liverpool City Guide venues & listings
		The Oxford University Museum of Natural History houses the University's scientific collections of zoological, entomological, geological, palaeontological and mineralogical specimens, accumulated in the course of the last three centuries.
		They are devoted to the history and diversity of life on Earth and the rocks and minerals that form it.
		The National Museums Liverpool homepage is a portal to some of the best museums in the city and much more, with information on exhibitions, collections and themed learning sections.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /liverpool/museum/SE000392.html?ixsid= (331 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dodo, a funny face, a funny name, a tragic end (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beth Shapiro and colleagues from the zoology department of the University of Oxford extracted DNA from 37 species of pigeons and doves, including the dodo and the solitaire, and from the five other related families.
		The scientists recovered fragments of DNA from a preserved dodo's head and foot kept in Oxford University's Museum of Natural Museum.
		Examination of the DNA of the extinct and modern birds showed that the dodo and the solitaire are indeed the closest relatives in terms of the degree of likeness of their genetic information.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/biology/2002-02-28-dodo.htm (879 words)

	Museum of Comparative Zoology
		The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859, through the efforts of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).
		Agassiz, a zoologist from Neuchatel, Switzerland, served as the Director of the Museum from 1859 until his death in 1873.
		A brilliant lecturer and scholar, he established the Museum and its collections as a center for research and education.
	www.mcz.harvard.edu (127 words)

	Museums in Oxfordshire, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On display are the University's rich and diverse collections of British, European, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities: European paintings and drawings, sculpture, silver, ceramics and musical instruments, coins and medals in the Heberden Coin Room, Oriental art - Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indian metalwork, ceramics, paintings, textiles and sculpture.
		As a branch museum of Oxfordshire's Department of Leisure and Arts, schools are warmly invited to use the museum and education room.
		The museum is housed in a manor house dating from the 12th century, rebuilt in 1684 by Sir Christopher Wren and decorated by Grinling Gibbons and James Wyatt.
	archive.museophile.org /museums/oxon.html (3974 words)

	The Dodo Family Secrets
		Researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, have taken samples from a preserved specimen in an attempt to uncover the extinct bird's family tree.
		All that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford, a foot in the British Museum in London, a head in Copenhagen, and a variety of bones strewn across museums in Europe, the US and Mauritius.
		The fragments at Oxford are unique in that they have some soft tissue left, but in the end the researchers looked inside a claw bone to extract short pieces of the bird's DNA.
	www.birds.mu /Extinct/DodoFamily.htm (447 words)

	Oxford University Museum of Natural History - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and ...
		Oxford has four park-and-ride car parks on the Ring Road, with regular bus services to the city centre.
		Drawing and painting in the Museum: The floors and walls of the Museum are unsealed, porous stone.
		Food: There are no restaurant facilities at the Museum; there are many cafes and restaurants within a few minutes walk of the Museum in the city centre.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum/SE000392.html (427 words)

	The Campaign for Philosophical Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this lecture theatre on 14 August 1894 at the Oxford meeting of The British Association, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., demonstrated the reception of a morse code signal transmitted from the old Clarendon Laboratory, some sixty metres away.
		This article is censored from all large-circulation papers and magazines throughout the world because it links the subject of survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics - the study of the invisible part of the universe.
		A plaque in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History commemorates Sir Oliver Lodge sending the first radio signal on August 14, 1894 at the Oxford meeting of The British Association.
	www.cfpf.org.uk /news/items/lodge_pl/plaque.html (178 words)

	Roger_Bacon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Image:Roger-bacon-statue.jpgthumb300pxStatue of Roger Bacon in the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryOxford University Museum]]
		His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of Henry III of England, their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driven into exile.
		Roger Bacon studied at Oxford, lectured on Aristotle and later became a Franciscan friar and a professor at Oxford.
	copernicus.subdomain.de /Roger_Bacon (888 words)

	University of Oxford - Kellogg College - Fellows of Kellogg College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After two years back in England as a post-doctoral fellow at University College London (courtesy yet again of the old Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), it was clear that the market for zoologists here in Britain, never strong anyway, had become distinctly negative.
		He made numerous visits to Oxford, including a sabbatical in 1984, and was aware of the odd fact that the University Museum did not have a director.
		Meanwhile, after 22 years at Yale University as, variously, Professor of Biology, Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Keith Thomson found himself unwilling to become Yale's "Mr Chips".
	www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk /fellows/thomsonk.htm (459 words)

	Natural Selection: subject gateway to the natural world
		Oxford University Museum of Natural History : dinosaurs
		An introductory page tells briefly the history of the study of dinosaurs and when the term dinosaur first arose.
		Further pages provide descriptions of the different specimens on display at the museum, four species of which were present in Oxfordshire.
	nature.ac.uk /cgi/fullRecord.cgi?key=20232603&gateway=natural (105 words)

	Oxford 2003 - Museum of Nat. History, photos by Louise Cooley, copyright MSUAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Oxford University Museum of Natural History-built 1855-1860 and dinosaur exhibits
		Oxford University Museum of Natural History and dinosaur exhibits
		Carroll and the young Alice Liddell often visited the Dodo bird exhibit at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
	www.msualum.com /evecoll/oxford-03/photos/museum/page_01.htm (88 words)

	News: Look and touch at the University Museum of Natural History
		The new project builds on the success of the museum’s ongoing programme of display renewal.
		The University Museum of Natural History is free to visitors, and runs a major education, access and outreach programme, plus a ‘learning zone’ website, all of which build on the new exhibits.
		University of Oxford > Central Administration > News
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/news/2003-04/sep/29.shtml (124 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The bare bones
		The bone was one of several intriguing objects in a backpack provided by the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Natural History - two Oxford museums that share a front door, and that had been jointly nominated for the Guardian Family Friendly Museum award for their "Family Friendly Sundays".
		This is rare: at most museums, the "hands on" element is new machines and purpose-made interactive models, and the "hands off" is the collection.
		The trick these twin museums seem to have cracked is to have family-friendly activities that are unstructured and fun, yet directly relevant to their collection.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1521989,00.html (1130 words)

	News & Events - University of Oxford central web pages
		Oxford University is leading a European-wide network to explore the potential of dendritic cell therapy to cure cancer.
		The University is inviting its staff and students to view initial design proposals for the Radcliffe Infirmary site masterplan and to find out more about the masterplanning process to-date at an exhibition this week.
		Oxford University is part of Evolving City, a year-long programme of cultural events in Oxford.
	www.ox.ac.uk /news (246 words)

	Oxford University Museum of Natural History Charles Darwin Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Oxford University Museum of Natural History Charles Darwin Introduction
		While Darwin was studying divinity at Cambridge he developed an interest in natural history and was accepted as the naturalist on an expedition that was being organised by a group of scientists.
		This was the voyage of The Beagle (1831-1836).
	www.oum.ox.ac.uk /onlinedb/darwin/darintro.htm (606 words)

	Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Distribution and natural history of some mammals from the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon, Arizona.
		The instrumental role of paleontology in the funding and development of a major new natural history museum.
		Caldwell, J. Natural history and survival of eggs and early larval stages of Agalychnis calcarifer (Anura: Hylidae).
	www.snomnh.ou.edu /publications/Articles/index.shtml (3408 words)

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