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Palerasnitsynus gen. n. (Trichoptera: Psychomyiidae) from Burmese amber
No full textPalerasnitsynus ohlhoffi gen. et sp. n. is described from Burmese amber of late Albian (Lower Cretaceous) age. This is the first record of the family Psychomyiidae from Burmese amber, and the earliest fossil record of the family. The genus Palerasnitsynus gen. n. differs from all other known psychomyiid genera by the absence of fork III in the forewings
More records of mosses from Dominican amber
No full textHypnum spec., Orthostichella cf. pentasticha, Syrrhopodon flexifolius and Porotrichum aff. substriatum are recorded from Dominican amber (c. 25 mio yrs. b.p.). The first two species were known before from Dominican amber, the last two are newly reported
Amber in the Poem "De Rana et Lacerta, Succino Prussiaco Insitis" (About a Frog and a Lizard Embedded in Prussian Amber) by Daniel Hermann (1543—1601), a Humanist from Riga
No full textPoet Daniel Hermann (1543–1601), a 16th-century humanist and diplomat from Prussia, authored the poem "About a Frog and a Lizard Embedded in Prussian Amber," which was published in Riga in 1600. This poem is among the earliest works in Riga focused on natural sciences. The central "characters" in the poem are a frog and a lizard trapped in Prussian amber.
The article revises the views of 16th century scientists on the origin of amber and the formation of amber inclusions. In the lines of the poem, Daniel Hermann allows the reader to get to know the use of amber in the medicine of the early modern period. Due to his excellent Latin language skills and extensive knowledge, the literary works of Daniel Hermann can be considered an important contribution to the literary heritage of Riga's humanists
Biting midges from Dominican amber : 3. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
No full textThe following 10 new species of biting midges are described and illustrated from Dominican amber: Culicoides (Oecacta) antilleanus, C. (0.) brodzinskyi, C. (0.) ambericus, C. (0.) hispanicolus, C. mammalicolus, Brachypogon (B.) american us, B. (Isohelea) dominicanus, B. (Isohelea) prominuloides, Stilobezzia (S.) antilleana and S. (Acanthohelea) dominicana. Two other species, in Nannohelea and Stilobezzia, are described but not named. Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) wirthicola is a new name for Stilobezzia (A.) succinea Szadziewski from Miocene Saxonian amber, which is preoccupied by the extant Stilobezzia succinea Ingram and Macfie, from Argentina
Hypnodontopsis confertus comb. nov. from Baltic amber
No full textThe first record of a sporophyte of Muscites confertus Goeppert & Berendt described as fossil species from Baltic amber revealed that this species can be attributed to the genus Hypnodontopsis. It is very similar to the extant H. mexicana known from only two collections in Mexico and Uganda, but seems to differ in the absence of pluripapillose laminal cells. Therefore Muscites confertus is combined as new to the genus Hypnodontopsis
Amber: Tears of the Gods
No full textIn 2010, a unique exhibition of amber art and artefacts arrived in Glasgow, mostly coming from the famous Malbork Castle collection in Poland. Notable additions included the wellknown Gdańsk lizard from the Gdańsk Amber Museum, as well as a selection of insects trapped in amber and some historical artefacts from the collections of the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The aim of the exhibition was to bring together many different aspects of amber that would not normally be exhibited together in such a holistic
way. Amber collected for its historic and prehistoric significance and those pieces collected for natural history reasons were displayed together to help us to understand amber in its entirety. This book draws on the exhibition for inspiration, looking at many aspects of amber from prehistory to natural history; at how people related to
amber from the Stone Age, through the Middle Ages until
the present day
Burmese amber fossils bridge the gap in the Cretaceous record of polypod ferns
No full textpublisher: Elsevier articletitle: Burmese amber fossils bridge the gap in the Cretaceous record of polypod ferns journaltitle: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2016.01.003 content_type: article copyright: Copyright © 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. This document is the authors' final accepted version of the journal article. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.NHM Repositor
21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia
Full text linkWikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the debates around accuracy and review, in the context of geology. He concluded that ‘If Wikipedia is the first port of call, as it already seems to be, for information requirement traffic, then there is a commitment to build on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of various kinds and improve their quality.’ In a similar approach to the Geological Society event that Whalley describes, Sarah Fahmy of JISC worked with Wikimedia and the British Library on a World War One (WWI) Editathon. There is a rich discourse about the way that academics relate to Wikipedia
Discolomopsis dominicana : a new genus and species of Endomychidae (Coleoptera) from Dominican amber
No full textDiscolomopsis, a new genus of Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), is described and illustrated based on a fossil endomychid embedded in amber resin from the Dominican Republic. Discolomopsis dominicana sp. nov. is designated as the type species for the genus
Dawn, Amber
No full textcurrentMFA, BA (UBC)
Amber Dawn is the author of four books and the editor of three anthologies. Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015) was a finalist for BC Book Award’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
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