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Natural History Museum of Utah Image by InSapphoWeTrust The Natural History Museum of Utah, located on the University of Utah campus at its new Rio Tinto Building home, is best known for its excellent collection of fossils (especially dinosaur fossils) as well as emphasis on the place of humans in the greater ecosystem. In the …

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The Natural History Museum of Utah, located on the University of Utah campus at its new Rio Tinto Building home, is best known for its excellent collection of fossils (especially dinosaur fossils) as well as emphasis on the place of humans in the greater ecosystem. In the Salt Lake City area, where the vast majority of points of interest are affiliated with the Mormons, this is a very rare secular institution that stands out.

Fish fossils from the riverbed of Green River.

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Title: Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stewart, John F[letcher], 1841- [from old catalog]
Subjects: Fox Indians — History Kendall County (Ill.) — Antiquities Chicago (Ill.) — History
Publisher: Chicago, London [etc.] F. H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Franquelins, 1688, Showing Maramech DifferentlySpelled. From Winsors Narrative and Critical His-tory. unnamed and undated official French map of1718, now in the British Museum. It was ever the custom, among savage tribes, togive descriptive names to places and things. Astream that was characterized by an abundance of

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Maramech Hill, from the south. AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 29 sturgeon was given the name of that fish, henceMerrimac was applied to the river of New England,and Marame to the Kalamazoo river of Michigan.A river in Missouri also bears the name. The wordis seldom found spelled twice alike by old writers,but it meant the spiny sturgeon. Come with me to the site of ancient Maramech,the great village of the Miamis. The Fox river,as we now know it, always beautiful, in the autumnmonths has special charms. Great maple and wal-nut trees overhang its banks; plums, sweeter thanany cultivated orchard ever produced, are foundwild; pawpaws in September offer their riches, andnuts are the harvest of the squirrels. From the time

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UK – London – South Kensington: Natural History Museum – The Great Fish River Museum

UK – London – South Kensington: Natural History Museum Image by wallyg The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wgildlife garden containing native fauna and flora. The museum is renowned …

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The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wgildlife garden containing native fauna and flora. The museum is renowned for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, particularly the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the entrance.

The foundation of the collection was a bequest by Irish doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753). Sloane’s collection, which included dried plants, and animal and human skeletons, was initially housed in Montague House, home of the British Museum, in Bloomsbury in 1756. In the late 1850s, Professor Richard Owen, Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum saw a need for a bigger, separate building. Land in South Kensington was purchased, and in 1864 a design competition was held. The winning entry was submitted by Captain Francis Fowke who died shortly afterwards. Alfred Waterhouse substantially revised the agreed plans, and designed the façades in his own Romanesque style. Work began in 1873 and the museum opened in 1881, although the move from the old museum was not fully completed until 1883.

Both the interiors and exteriors made extensive use of terracotta brick to resist the sooty climate of Victorian London. The terracotta for the interior and exterior was made by the famous Gibbs And Canning Limited of Tamworth. The bricks include images of plants, animals and fossils. 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, forming the complex known colloquially as Albertopolis. The building is a Grade I Listed Building by the English Heritage.

Legally, it remained a department of the British Museum with the formal name British Museum (Natural History), often abbreviated in the scientific literature as B.M.(N.H.) or BMNH. In 1963, the Natural History Museum became an independent museum with its own Board of Trustees, and in 1986 absorbed the adjacent Geological Museum of the British Geological Survey. However, it was not until the Museums and Galleries Act of 1992 that the Museum’s formal title was finally changed from B.M.(N.H.) to The Natural History Museum.

The newly-developed Darwin Centre (named after Charles Darwin) holds a collection of millions of preserved specimens, interactive materials and new workspaces for the Museum’s scientific staff. The Darwin Centre is also home to Archie the squid, an 8 metre long giant squid taken alive in a fishing net near the Falkland Islands. The museum also holds the remains and bones of the River Thames Whale that lost its way in January 2006.

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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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generallycrept into some hole or corner to sleep: and it is remarkable that whenperched, or otherwise at rest, it had mostly the head downward, or atleaet even with the body, and not elevated like other birds. These are shy and solitary birds. Like the Woodpeckers theyfrequent woods, and run up and down the trees with surprisingfacility. They often move their tail in the manner of the Wagtail.They do not migrate; but, during the winter, they approach nearer toinhabited places, and are sometimes seen in orchards and gardens. OF THE KINGFISHER TRIBE IN GENERAL. The bill is sharp, triangular, long, straight and thick. Theis fleshy, short, flat and sharp.The feet, except in a few species,are formed for climbing, withthe toes two backward and twoforward. These birds frequent the banksof rivers; living principally onfish, which they catch with greatdexterity. They swallov; theirprey whole but afterwards throwup the indigestible parts. Theirwings are short; yet they fly verygwiftly. tongiio

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THE COMMON KINGFISHER. 133 THE COMMON KINGFISHER. The length of the Kingfisher is seven inches, and its breadth eleven,The bill is nearly two inches long, and black; but the base of thelower mandible is yellow. The top of the head, and the sides of thebody, are of a dark green, marked with transverse spots of blue. Thetail is of a deep blue ; and the other parts of the body are of a duskyorange, white, and black. The legs are red. In the beauty and brilliancy of its plumage, the Common Kingfisherfar excels all the other species of British birds. Its shape is, however,somewhat inelegant, from the great disproportion there is, in size,between the head and bill, and the other parts of the body. Its usual prey consists of the smaller kinds of fish, It frequentlysits on a branch projecting over the current: there it remains motion-less, and often watches whole hours, to catch the moment when a littlefish rises to the surfoce of the water under its station; it dives perpen-dicularly into th

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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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variably refusing all except living animals, or such asare not in the least degree putrid. And the fishermen assert, thatthey are never to be caught with baits which have been bitten byother fish. In many parts of England, Turbot and Holibut are sold indiscrimi-nately for each other. They are, however, perfectly distinct; theupper parts of the former being marked with large, unequal, andobtuse tubercles; while those of the latter are quite smooth, andcovered with oblong soft scales, that adhere firmly to the body. Theeyes of the Turbot also are on the left, whilst those of the Holibut areon the right of the head. Holibuts are sometimes caught of such immense size, on the north-em coasts of England, as to weigh from two to three hundred pounds.Olafsen speaks of having seen one in Iceland, which measured fivtjells in length. The Greenlanders employ the membrane of the stomach of th«Holibut, in place of glass for their windows. THE TURBOT, AND nOLIEUT. 425 riiTinimOTraiiTT.;!?^^ filllib

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The Turbot is most active in the night tim., when perhaps is cncm e.are les^ vi<.ilant; and in the .lay time it lies at the bottom with its cl a Ls deTppermost, and is consequently difficult to bo ^^-^-^-f^f ,.,/^ ^said that when apprehensive of danger it will remain periectly still. 426 THE BEAKED CH^TODON TOE PLAISE AND FLOUNDER. The general habits both of the Plaise and Flounder, reseinble thoseof all the other flat-fish. These fish areeach found in great abundance in mostof the European seas. Flounders oftenascend rivers, and occasionally even sofar as to be beyond the immediateinfluence of the tides.

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Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture Beecroft, Willey Ingraham, 1870- Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Game and game-birds — Massachusetts Game and game-birds — New England Birds — Massachusetts Birds — Conservation
Publisher: [Boston, Wright & Potter printing company, state printers
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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e sky in theirexalted and unswerving flight, sweeping along at a speedexceeding that of the fastest express train, traversing a conti-nent on the wings of the wind, their long lines glistening likesilver in the bright sunlight, they present the grandest andmost impressive spectacle in bird life to be found on this con-tinent. When at last they find their haven of rest they swingin wide, majestic circuits, spying out their landfall, until, theirspiral reconnoissance ended and their apprehensions quiteallayed, they sail gently down to the grateful waters, to rest,drink, bathe and feed at ease. Fifty years ago in the far west great flocks of these birds, aquarter of a mile in length, were seen massed like blankets ofsnow on the river banks. On the water they move lightlyand gracefully. Their long necks and great size, taken inconnection with the mirage effects, sometimes seen in theirhaunts, deceive the eye, until in the distance they present theappearance of a fleet of ships under sail.

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-5^5:^.1/^^ *^^*^^^ o^^P,, ((.?^. PLATE XXI. —WHOOPING CRANE. Once a migrant through New England, now extirpated and nearlyextinct. (From a drawmg by Annie E. Chase.) SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 477 The Trumpeter is well able to protect itself and its youngfrom the smaller prowlers, for it can deliver a terrible blowwith its powerful wing. Although it lays five to seven eggs,some mortality must overtake the young, for comparativelyfew young birds of the year are seen in the fall flights. TheBald Eagle sometimes surprises it in flight, and, hurtling fromabove, strikes it to the earth; otherwise it seems to have fewnatural enemies powerful and swift enough to destroy it. Little is known definitely about the food of the Trumpeter.Dr. Hatch says that it feeds chiefly on vegetation, bothaquatic and terrestrial. It feeds like all Swans, by immersingits head and neck and taking its food from the bottom. Itsfood consists largely of water plants, but it also takes shell-fish and crustac

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UK – London – South Kensington: Natural History Museum

UK – London – South Kensington: Natural History Museum Image by wallyg The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wgildlife garden containing native fauna and flora. The museum is renowned …

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The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wgildlife garden containing native fauna and flora. The museum is renowned for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, particularly the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the entrance.

The foundation of the collection was a bequest by Irish doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753). Sloane’s collection, which included dried plants, and animal and human skeletons, was initially housed in Montague House, home of the British Museum, in Bloomsbury in 1756. In the late 1850s, Professor Richard Owen, Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum saw a need for a bigger, separate building. Land in South Kensington was purchased, and in 1864 a design competition was held. The winning entry was submitted by Captain Francis Fowke who died shortly afterwards. Alfred Waterhouse substantially revised the agreed plans, and designed the façades in his own Romanesque style. Work began in 1873 and the museum opened in 1881, although the move from the old museum was not fully completed until 1883.

Both the interiors and exteriors made extensive use of terracotta brick to resist the sooty climate of Victorian London. The terracotta for the interior and exterior was made by the famous Gibbs And Canning Limited of Tamworth. The bricks include images of plants, animals and fossils. 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, forming the complex known colloquially as Albertopolis. The building is a Grade I Listed Building by the English Heritage.

Legally, it remained a department of the British Museum with the formal name British Museum (Natural History), often abbreviated in the scientific literature as B.M.(N.H.) or BMNH. In 1963, the Natural History Museum became an independent museum with its own Board of Trustees, and in 1986 absorbed the adjacent Geological Museum of the British Geological Survey. However, it was not until the Museums and Galleries Act of 1992 that the Museum’s formal title was finally changed from B.M.(N.H.) to The Natural History Museum.

The newly-developed Darwin Centre (named after Charles Darwin) holds a collection of millions of preserved specimens, interactive materials and new workspaces for the Museum’s scientific staff. The Darwin Centre is also home to Archie the squid, an 8 metre long giant squid taken alive in a fishing net near the Falkland Islands. The museum also holds the remains and bones of the River Thames Whale that lost its way in January 2006.

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