This research exemplifies how informative DNA mini-barcodes might, in combination with an efficient extraction methodology, be used to identify the evolutionary origin of museum specimens.
We also obtained information on the origin of 27 museum specimens (17 geographically independent) collected in Borneo in historical times.
Wonder may even lie at the origins of science museums, which grew out of "cabinets of wonder" — eccentric Renaissance collections of natural marvels.
On November 24 , 1959on the 100th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species the museum's exhibition of Darwiniana contained illustrations of his life and times and were labeled with his own writings (Anonymous 1959, November 22).
Tells about the origins of the museum in the baseball collection of Stephen C. Clark, a Cooperstown millionare & about Induction Day.
But this presentation also distorts the more noble origins of the museum and prevents us from seeing either Roosevelt or the institution in full.
Beginning with a section devoted to the origins of the museum itself, founded in 1914 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a townhouse at 8 West 8th Street, we soon find ourselves mired in stories of gross inequality, of America's increasing industrialisation and the after-effects of the great depression.
If valid information emerged that an object had been illegally removed from its country of origin, the museum would return it, regardless of how much time had passed.
A New York Times editorial praised the Met for its willingness to return artifacts to their countries of origin, unlike other museums that fight to keep their artifacts.
Prominent on the Brooklyn Museum's fall schedule is "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe," the first museum exhibition devoted to the extravagantly bulked-up collage paintings and collage-related photographs of this talented young artist.
