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Wednesday, 03 February 2016

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Born This Day: Gideon Mantell 

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Mantell (Feb. 3, 1790 – Nov. 10, 1852), a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, and he had discovered bones belonging to three extinct species: a giant crocodile, a plesiosaur, and Buckland's Megalosaurus. But in 1822 he found several teeth that "possessed characters so remarkable" that they had to have

Died This Day: Dunkenfiled Henry Scott 

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Painting by Mary ParrishScott (Nov. 28, 1854 – Jan. 29, 1934) was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the structure of fossil plants, one of those who laid the foundations of paleobotany. He conducted experiments in the Jodrell Laboratory in Kew Gardens, where he became its honorary keeper (1892-1906). In collaboration with W.C. Williamson, he wrote three papers

Born This Day Alfred Russel Wallace 

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Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner to describe some of the most interesting natural habitats in the tropics. He is best known for devising a theory of the origin of species through natural selection made independently of Darwin. Between 1854 and 1862, Wallace assembled evidence of natural selection in the Malay

Born This Day (1894): Alfed Sherwood Romer 

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”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 and was one the singularly most influential vertebrate paleontologists of the 20th Century. His work ranged over virtually every conceivable subject within that field, although it was the osteology and taxonomy of the therapsids and other proto-mammals

Died This Day: J.B.S. Haldane 

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Haldane (Nov. 5, 1892 - Dec. 1, 1964) is best remembered along with E. B. Ford and R. A. Fisher one of the three major figures to develop the mathematical theory of population genetics. His greatest contribution was in a series of ten papers on "A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection" which was the major series of papers on the mathematical theory of natural selection.

Born This Day: Robert Broom 

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imageRobert Broom (Nov. 30, 1866 – April 6, 1951) was a South African doctor and paleontologist. From 1903 to 1910 he was professor of zoology and geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate paleontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town. Broom was first known for his study of mammal-like reptiles. After Raymond Dart's

Born This Day: Dunkinfield Henry Scott 

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Painting by Mary ParrishScott (Nov. 28, 1854 – Jan. 29, 1934) was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the structure of fossil plants, one of those who laid the foundations of paleobotany. He conducted experiments in the Jodrell Laboratory in Kew Gardens, where he became its honorary keeper (1892-1906). In collaboration with W.C. Williamson, he wrote three papers

Died This Day: Sven Ander Hedin 

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Hedin (Feb. 19,1865 - Nov. 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer and geographer, born in Stockholm, who led four multi-year expeditions into Central Asia between 1897 and 1935. Although not as well known as Roy Chapman Andrews his work in the regions revealed a wealth of cultural, archaeological and palaeontological wonders. During his first major Asian expedition, he crossed the Pamirs, charted

Born This Day: Steve Clemente 

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imageSteve Clemente (born Esteban Clemento Morro Nov. 22, 1885—May 7, 1950) was a Mexican actor known for his many villainous roles. He began acting in his teens, signing up for his first movie, The Secret Man, in 1917. His later, numerous roles were usually bit parts and he was an expert knife thrower. He was a known scene stealer and was famous for his villainous snarl. He later starred

Born This Day: Robert Armstrong 

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Armstrong (Nov. 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) took Fay Wray to Skull Island in 1933. He returned later the same year to find The Son of Kong, only to lose him as the island sank, as these things are prone to

Born This Day: Julie Ege 

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Nov. 12, 1943 – April 29, 2008The late Julie Ege had the lead role as Nala in the 1971 Hammer film, “Creatures The World

The Paris Climate Change Conference – What You Need to Know 

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference, meeting in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, brings together world leaders to craft a new international agreement to keep the average global temperature rise below 2°C by 2100. Here's what you need to know about

International Conference on El Niño, Nov. 17-18 

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A live-streamed international conference on El Niño takes place on Nov. 17 and 18 at the International Research Institute for Climate and

Died This Day: Gideon Mantell 

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Mantell (Feb. 3, 1790 – Nov. 10, 1852), a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, and he had discovered bones belonging to three extinct species: a giant crocodile, a plesiosaur, and Buckland's Megalosaurus. But in 1822 he found several teeth that "possessed characters so remarkable" that they had to have

Died This Day: Alfred Russel Wallace 

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Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner to describe some of the most interesting natural habitats in the tropics. He is best known for devising a theory of the origin of species through natural selection made independently of Darwin. Between 1854 and 1862, Wallace assembled evidence of natural selection in the Malay

Born This Day: J.B.S. Haldane 

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Haldane (Nov. 5, 1892 - Dec. 1, 1964) is best remembered along with E. B. Ford and R. A. Fisher one of the three major figures to develop the mathematical theory of population genetics. His greatest contribution was in a series of ten papers on "A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection" which was the major series of papers on the mathematical theory of natural selection.

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 11/2-11/8 

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Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week!  Film Screening – Making North Armerica with Dr. Robert T. BakkerTuesday, Nov. 36:00 p.m.Join … Continue reading

Born This Day: Alfred Wegener 

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Visit The Paleomap Project Alfred Lothar Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 – Nov, 1930) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who first gave a well-developed hypothesis of continental drift. He suggested (1912) that about 250 million yrs ago all the present-day continents came from a single primitive land mass, the supercontinent Pangaea, which eventually broke up and gradually drifted apart.

Born This Day: Gavin de Beer 

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<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/host/debeer.html">de Beer</a> (Nov. 1, 1899 – June 21, 1972) was <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6sVhskT_Fs/Su2N3nOS2EI/AAAAAAAAESQ/Fbp7rU1bE8k/s1600-h/debeer.gif"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6sVhskT_Fs/Su2N3nOS2EI/AAAAAAAAESQ/Fbp7rU1bE8k/s400/debeer.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);

Born This Day: William Lonsdale 

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Image from PBS.org Lonsdale (Sept. 9, 1894 - Nov. 11, 1971) was an English geologist and paleontologist whose study of coral fossils found in Devon, suggested (1837) certain of them were intermediate between those typical of the older Silurian System (408 to 438 million years old) and those of the later Carboniferous System (286 to 360 million years old). Geologists Roderick Murchison and
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