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Mataga, Jesmael, Farai Mudododzi Chabata, and Charity Nyathi. "Sepulcherised Objects and Their Decolonial Futures in African Museums: The “Robert Edward Codrington Collection” at the Zimbabwe Natural History Museum." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 18, no. 1 (March 2022): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15501906211073105.

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This essay builds on the emerging (museum) decolonizing perspectives to (i) explore the biographical details and modes of curation and classification to which “ethnographic”1 objects collected during the colonial era have been exposed; to (ii) foreground the complexities of inherited colonial museum processes embedded in African urban contexts; and, to (iii) consider alternative modes of engagement with ethnographic objects and local Indigenous communities to challenge the embedded regimes of care and the marginalization rendered to Indigenous epistemologies. One of the biggest questions facing museums in the world today is how to deal with the hordes of objects collected from various Indigenous communities and placed in museums far away from the communities who made and used them. Using the case of an “ethnographic” collection in a former colonial museum, we call for a paradigm shift in museum practices, and challenge the present state of affairs of museum curatorship. We then briefly suggest possible ways in which such museums can confront their imperial histories and unsettle their inherited regimes of care and representation. We call for museums to enter into conversations with communities, listening to them and effecting curatorial activities that re-center local ways of knowing, while embracing the complexities associated with such engagements.

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Khalaim, A. I. "To the study of Afrotropical species of the genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae)." Zoosystematica Rossica 19, no. 1 (July 15, 2010): 120–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2010.19.1.120.

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Aneuclis rhodesiana sp. nov. is described from Zimbabwe, Cameroon and South Africa from the material of the Natural History Museum, London. New faunistic records of six species of the genus Aneuclis are given for Afrotropical region.

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Chiwara, Davison. "Sustainable Pest Management Through Preventive Conservation: Case Studies in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Military Museum." Studies in Conservation 63, sup1 (August 2018): 335–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2018.1504448.

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Major, Tom, Pia Renk, Jens Reissig, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Ellie Morris, Michael Hofreiter, Axel Barlow, Donald G. Broadley, and Wolfgang Wüster. "Museum DNA reveals a new, potentially extinct species of rinkhals (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hemachatus) from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe." PLOS ONE 18, no. 9 (September 27, 2023): e0291432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291432.

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Genetic information plays a pivotal role in species recognition and delimitation, but rare or extinct animals can be difficult to obtain genetic samples from. While natural history wet collections have proven invaluable in the description of novel species, the use of these historical samples in genetic studies has been greatly impeded by DNA degradation, especially because of formalin-fixation prior to preservation. Here, we use recently developed museum genomics approaches to determine the status of an isolated population of the elapid snake genus Hemachatus from Zimbabwe. We used multiple digestion phases followed by single strand sequencing library construction and hybridisation capture to obtain 12S and 16S rDNA sequences from a poorly preserved tissue sample of this population. Phylogenetic and morphological analyses in an integrated taxonomic framework demonstrate that the Zimbabwean rinkhals population represents an old and highly distinct lineage, which we describe as a new species, Hemachatus nyangensis sp. nov. Our phylogenetic dating analysis is compatible with venom spitting having evolved in response to the threat posed by early hominins, although more data are required for a robust test of this hypothesis. This description demonstrates the power of museum genomics in revealing rare or even extinct species: Hemachatus from Zimbabwe are only known from a small area of the Eastern Highlands known for high endemism. No living specimens have been seen since the 1980s, most likely due to dramatic land-use changes in the Eastern Highlands, suggesting that the species could be extinct. In view of its recognition as a highly distinct lineage, urgent action is required to determine whether any populations survive, and to safeguard remaining habitat.

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Musundire, R., C. J. Zvidzai, C. Chidewe, B. K. Samende, and A. Chemura. "Habitats and nutritional composition of selected edible insects in Zimbabwe." Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 2, no. 3 (June 15, 2016): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jiff2015.0083.

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Edible insects are gaining recognition as food with potential of contributing to attainment of household food security. In sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable use of insects as food is threatened by lack of data on host plants and habitatassociations. In addition, lack of nutritional data on most edible insects reduces consumer confidence and limits integration of insect consumption with other food sources. This study was undertaken to review, collate and assembledispersed information of some edible insects of Zimbabwe. Data on species identities, host plants and habitats weregathered for 14 species from reputable literature sources and Bulawayo Natural History Museum records. In addition, nutritional assessments were carried out on 10 widely consumed insects in Zimbabwe. Standard ecological samplingprocedures were used to collect insect specimens. Proximate analyses were conducted following the Association of Official Analytical Chemists standard procedures using dried pulverised material. Majority (60%) of reviewedinsects had reliable host plants and habitats records. More than half of these were recorded in agro-ecosystems. On dry matter basis, protein content ranged from 22%(Gryllotalpa africana) to 55.4% (Gonimbrasia belina); fat content ranged from 10.8% (G. africana) to 41.6% (Macrotermes natalensis). Ash content was >10% in the ground dwelling G. africana (12.6%) and Eulopida mashona larvae (10.9%). Wide species differences were recorded for carbohydrate content; 0.4% in M. natalensis and 47.2% in G. africana. Carbohydrates content was inversely relatedto protein and fat contents for all insects. Energy and fat contents were positively related in all the insects. Overall, insect species from this study have high proximate constituents that can match plant and animal products diets andcan be considered as potential viable alternative nutritious food sources. Findings from this study are expected to promote greater recognition of insects as food in Zimbabwe and encourage up-scaling of their sustainable utilisation.

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Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. "The name-bearing types of Odonata held in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, with systematic notes on Afrotropical taxa. Part 1: introduction and Anisoptera." International Journal of Odonatology 10, no. 1 (April 2007): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13887890.2007.9748285.

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Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. "The name-bearing types of Odonata held in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, with systematic notes on Afrotropical taxa. Part 2: Zygoptera and descriptions of new species." International Journal of Odonatology 10, no. 2 (October 1, 2007): 137–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13887890.2007.9748296.

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Banks, Rex E. R. "The Natural History Museum." African Research & Documentation 55 (1991): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00015831.

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The Natural History Museum has been at South Kensington, London in the romanesque style building of Alfred Waterhouse since 1881. Before that it existed as the Natural History Department of the British Museum, when that institution was established in 1759, with the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, offered to the nation on his death in 1753. The separation of the natural history collections to a new building at South Kensington was forced on the Trustees as a result of the rapid growth of those collections since the Museum's foundation, but especially during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This growth of collections and libraries has, of course, continued right down to the present time, and has compelled the Trustees to transfer some parts of the Natural History Museum to out-stations, such as, for example, the Zoological Museum, Tring, where the ornithological collections are now housed.

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Banks, Rex E. R. "The Natural History Museum." African Research & Documentation 55 (1991): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00015831.

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The Natural History Museum has been at South Kensington, London in the romanesque style building of Alfred Waterhouse since 1881. Before that it existed as the Natural History Department of the British Museum, when that institution was established in 1759, with the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, offered to the nation on his death in 1753. The separation of the natural history collections to a new building at South Kensington was forced on the Trustees as a result of the rapid growth of those collections since the Museum's foundation, but especially during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This growth of collections and libraries has, of course, continued right down to the present time, and has compelled the Trustees to transfer some parts of the Natural History Museum to out-stations, such as, for example, the Zoological Museum, Tring, where the ornithological collections are now housed.

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Garcia-Guinea, J. "Spanish Natural History Museum." Science 283, no. 5400 (January 15, 1999): 327e—327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.283.5400.327e.

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NOVACEK, MICHAEL. "Natural History Museum (cont'd)." Nature 345, no. 6277 (June 1990): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/345656a0.

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TASSY, P. "Natural History Museum (cont'd)." Nature 345, no. 6277 (June 1990): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/345656b0.

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URBANEK, ADAM. "Natural History Museum (cont'd)." Nature 345, no. 6277 (June 1990): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/345656c0.

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Crawford, Ryan. "Proust’s Natural History Museum." Qui Parle 28, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 103–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10418385-7522587.

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GREGORY, J. T. "Museum Life: The National Museum of Natural History." Science 232, no. 4753 (May 23, 1986): 1030–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.232.4753.1030-a.

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MATSUURA, Keiichi. "Natural History Collections and National Museum of Natural History." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 20, no. 5 (2015): 5_46–5_51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.20.5_46.

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YAMADA, Tadasu. "From a Natural History Museum." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 15, no. 3 (2010): 62–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.15.3_62.

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Kim, Jong-Heon. "‘World Museum of Natural History’." Journal of the Korean earth science society 36, no. 1 (February 28, 2015): 136–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/jkess.2015.36.1.136.

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HUMPHREY, PHILIP S. "University Natural History Museum Systems." Curator: The Museum Journal 35, no. 1 (March 1992): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1992.tb00734.x.

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Gee, Henry. "American Museum of Natural History." Nature 369, no. 6476 (May 1994): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/369087b0.

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Root, Nina J. "American Museum of Natural History Library." Science & Technology Libraries 6, no. 1-2 (October 4, 1985): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j122v06n01_01.

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Williams, Benjamin W., and W. Peyton Fawcett. "Field Museum of Natural History Library." Science & Technology Libraries 6, no. 1-2 (October 4, 1985): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j122v06n01_04.

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Fortey, Richard. "Natural history: Backstage at the museum." Nature 543, no. 7647 (March 2017): 618–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/543618a.

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Hadlington, Simon. "Natural History Museum in a decline?" Nature 333, no. 6171 (May 1988): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/333289d0.

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Butler, Declan. "France to renovate natural history museum." Nature 401, no. 6749 (September 1999): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/43519.

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Giles Miller, C., and Miranda Lowe. "The Natural History Museum Blaschka collections." Historical Biology 20, no. 1 (February 2008): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912960701677531.

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Gmelch, George. "Baseball in the Natural History Museum." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 11, no. 2 (2003): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nin.2003.0008.

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Yang, Seong Young. "Natural history museum or Natural museum? - with some names of the geological ages." Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 52, no. 2 (April 30, 2016): 179–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.14770/jgsk.2016.52.2.179.

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SILVATABOADA, G. "Natural history collections and the National Museum of Natural History in Cuba." Museum Management and Curatorship 15, no. 3 (September 1996): 314–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0260-4779(97)83292-x.

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Carnall, Mark. "Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum." Configurations 30, no. 3 (June 2022): 341–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.2022.0020.

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MacFadden, Bruce J., Betty A. Dunckel, Shari Ellis, Lynn D. Dierking, Linda Abraham-Silver, Jim Kisiel, and Judy Koke. "Natural History Museum Visitors' Understanding of Evolution." BioScience 57, no. 10 (November 1, 2007): 875–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/b571010.

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Stockton, Carol M. "American Museum of Natural History Halls Open." Journal of Gemmology 37, no. 6 (2021): 560. http://dx.doi.org/10.15506/jog.2021.37.6.560.

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HUMPHREY, PHILIP S. "MORE ON UNIVERSITY NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SYSTEMS." Curator: The Museum Journal 35, no. 3 (September 1992): 174–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1992.tb00751.x.

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Arnold, Nicholas. "101 uses for a natural history museum." Nature 394, no. 6693 (August 1998): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/28936.

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Katz, Judy. "On Passing the Museum of Natural History." Women's Review of Books 22, no. 2 (November 2004): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4024439.

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Pini, Pia. "New gallery for the Natural History Museum." Lancet 354, no. 9186 (October 1999): 1311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)76089-x.

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Asmus, John F. "Laser divestment for natural history museum collections." Journal of Cultural Heritage 1 (August 2000): S259—S262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1296-2074(00)00140-0.

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Sendino, Consuelo. "The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 16, no. 4 (December 2020): 363–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042.

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This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica.

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Erzinçlioglu, Y. Z. "The failure of The Natural History Museum." Journal of Natural History 27, no. 5 (October 1993): 989–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222939300770611.

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Steward, Donald I. "CING 52. Kendal Museum of Natural History." Geological Curator 5, no. 1 (March 1988): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc558.

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Geological public service: permanent display; access to reserve collection under supervision; no specialist curator; no identification service; not a NSGSD record centre. Geological collections: c. 1,000 specimens; rocks, minerals and (mainly) fossils; condition fair; not easy to locate and records poor. August 1986....

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Steward, Donald I. "CING 87. Bournemouth Natural History Society Museum." Geological Curator 5, no. 1 (March 1988): 27–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc597.

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Geological public service: permanent display; access to reserve collection by appointment with Mrs V.E. Copp (0202 34534); no specialist curator; no identification service; not a NSGSD record centre. Geological collections: 4,000-5,000 specimens; good local coverage for rocks, minerals and fossils, also maps and books; condition 95% good; systematically stored; major strength in Barton fossils and Bournemouth Leaf Beds. September 1987. The following is reproduced with permission from the Geologists^ Association Circular no.863, September 1987: The [Bournemouth Natural History] Society grew out of meetings held as far back as 1868 when a few people began to meet at each other's houses to read and discuss papers of scientific interest. Alfred Russell Wallace was a founder member. By 1919 the Society had...

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Hou, Jiang. "Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica." Museum 6, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 56–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/2096-1715.2022.006.004.056.

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Bezděčková, Klára, Pavel Bezděčka, Ján Macek, and Igor Malenovský. "Catalogue of type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in Czech museums." Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57, no. 1 (2017): 295–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aemnp-2017-0076.

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Type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in natural history museum collections in the Czech Republic are catalogued. Altogether, we list types of 19 extant taxa housed in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague; the Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Brno; the Department of Natural History, Museum of the Highlands, Jihlava; and the Department of Natural History, Silesian Museum, Opava.

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Klymyshyn, O. "History of the publishing activity of the State Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine." Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum, no. 35 (December 8, 2019): 157–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.36885/nzdpm.2019.35.157-160.

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The publishing activity of the museum for the whole period of its existence is analyzed, starting from the first published in the museum by V. Didushitsky in 1880 and up to 2018 inclusive. Approximately this work is about 3.5 thousand publications, among which 84 monographs; 35 issues of the scientific miscellany "Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum"; 5 issues of the book series "Scientific Collections of the State Natural History Museum"; more than 50 catalogs of museum collections, thematic miscellanies, qualifiers, dictionaries and guides; about 2.2 thousand scientific articles; about 1 thousand materials and abstracts of reports of scientific conferences, as well as dozens of popular scientific articles, brochures and booklets.

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Maran-Stevanović, Aleksandra. "Natural history museum: A journey through time and space." Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, no. 13 (2020): 7–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/bnhmb2013007m.

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The occasion of a great jubilee - 125 years since the founding of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade - merits highlighting certain historical circumstances, important events and personalities, as well as significant research and activities from the first 80 years of its existence. The fact that this paper will not be covering the modern period of the Museum is a consequence of the author's desire to have that time period reviewed and interpreted by other researchers - those who are still active witnesses. Extensive archive materials and the photo library of the Museum were used in the process of preparation, together with the reports on the work of the Museum, documents from the personal legacy of the first director Petar Pavlovic, and memoirs of antecedent museologists Petar Stevanovic and Sergei Matveyev.

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VALENTICH-SCOTT, PAUL, and EUGENE V. COAN. "A new species of Chama (Bivalvia, Chamidae) from Mexico." Zootaxa 2446, no. 1 (May 6, 2010): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2446.1.3.

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While preparing a review of the bivalve mollusk fauna of the Panamic Province, we encountered a conspicuous, colorful species of the genus Chama Linnaeus, 1758, that could not be identified with any named species. After examining type specimens at The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), the United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM), the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP), the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), we have concluded that this species is new to science.

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MACGREGOR, ARTHUR, and ABIGAIL HEADON. "Re-inventing the Ashmolean. Natural history and natural theology at Oxford in the 1820s to 1850s." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 3 (October 2000): 369–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.3.369.

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During the period of the successive keeperships of John Shute Duncan (1823–1829) and his brother Philip Bury Duncan (1829–1854), the collections of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford were comprehensively redisplayed as a physical exposition of the doctrines of natural theology, specifically as propounded by William Paley. The displays assembled by the Duncans, overwhelmingly dominated by natural history specimens, were swept away with the opening of the University's new Natural Science Museum and with them went almost all recollection of an extraordinary chapter in museum history. From largely unpublished records in the Ashmolean, the Duncans' achievement is here reconstructed. The primary evidence is provided by contemporary reports prepared for the Visitors of the Museum and by surviving texts from the Duncans' museum labels. Additional perspectives are provided by an extensive body of correspondence from the collectors, explorers and others who contributed specimens to the new displays: their texts illuminate aspects of contemporary preoccupations with classification, broader research priorities, and problems associated with collecting, preserving and transporting specimens, as well as shedding light on individual exhibits which they contributed to the Museum. These correspondents include a number of significant figures in the nineteenth century history of natural history, including Andrew Bloxam, N. A. Vigors and William Burchell.

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Chitima, Simbarashe Shadreck. "“Engines and Wagons”: The Challenges and Options of Conserving Railway Heritage." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 18, no. 2 (October 25, 2021): 202–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15501906211052717.

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Zimbabwe has a rich railway heritage that includes rail engines, wagons, coaches, trolleys, ticket rooms, rail stations, and tracks. The National Railway Museum of Zimbabwe (NRMZ) has a long history in providing railway transport and have contributed to the social, economic, and political lives of Zimbabweans. The NRMZ is the only institution that collects, preserve, and display railway heritage. This study investigates the effectiveness of the NRMZ in conserving railway heritage. This study employed qualitative research methodology. It is revealed that railway collections are deteriorating at unprecedented levels. The major agents of deterioration include relative humidity, temperature, pollution, pests and rodents as well as human factors. The study concludes that the NRMZ is employing ineffective conservation strategies and the museum is likely to lose more collections if they do not prioritize preventive conservation, develop collections, and disaster management policies.

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Ebel, Denton S. "History of the American Museum of Natural History meteorite collection." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 256, no. 1 (2006): 267–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2006.256.01.13.

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Janardhan, Sandhya Naidu. "Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum: Living Encyclopedia." CITYGREEN 01, no. 11 (2015): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/s2382581215010832.

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