POSTAGE ON NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS

Natural Selection: Finding Specimens in a Natural History Collection

The natural history domain is rich in information. For hundreds of years, biodiversity researchers have collected specimens and samples, and meticulously recorded the how, what, and where of these objects of research. To retrace this information, however, deep knowledge of the collection and patience is necessary. Whereas traditional access methods (e.g., analysing paper logs of specimen finds)...

The Stability of Natural History Specimens In Fluid-preserved Collections

Natural history museum collections are incomparable storehouses of geological, biological, and genetic resources throughout the world. Some of the materials composing the specimens in these collections are vulnerable to deterioration when stored in fluids. Samples were taken from liquid storage media surrounding mammal specimens in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Inst...

A brief Iranian medical history through commemorative postage stamps.

Medical philately provides a useful medium for the study of medical history. There are a handful of Iranian stamps which have been issued with a medical theme. This report briefly reviews the history of Iranian medicine through Iranian commemorative postage stamps. Some notable stamps are presented.

Radiology on postage stamps.

Natural history and temporalization: reflections on Buffon's Natural history.

This article presents a rereading of Buffon's Natural History in the light of the concepts of temporal reversibility and irreversibility. The goal is to determine to what extent Buffon introduces a transformationist concept of natural forms in this work. To that effect, the main points of classical natural history and the doctrine of preformed germs are analyzed. Subsequently, Buffon's use of t...