Edward Whitaker Gray (1748-1806), keeper of Natural Curiositioes at the British Museum

The British Museum of Natural History.

Well, someone can decide by themselves what they want to do and need to do but sometimes, that kind of person will need some the british museum of natural history references. People with open minded will always try to seek for the new things and information from many sources. On the contrary, people with closed mind will always think that they can do it by their principals. So, what kind of per...

Edward Jenner Museum

studied, and practiced as a country doctor—and later dominated a decade of my life! Jenner knew that poets talked about the nice complexions of milkmaids, and he heard a milkmaid say she was immune to smallpox because she had acquired cowpox. He came to believe in the protective effects of cowpox after careful review of the experiences of milkmaids during smallpox outbreaks. He spent a dozen ye...

The Memory Machine : sound and memory at the British Museum

Edward Jenner and the discovery of vaccination--an appeal for the Edward Jenner Museum.

The discovery of vaccination was one of the greatest medical dvances of all time and, indeed, an estimated 8–10 million lives are resently saved on an annual basis worldwide by vaccines. Included n this number are the many that would have died of smallpox, radicated by vaccination in 1977 [1]. The potential for doubling his number exists if vaccines can be developed to control the major orld he...

XTAMERICAN MUSEUM Novitates PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 79TH

Noronhomys vespuccii, a new genus and species (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), is described from Ilha Fernando de Noronha, a small volcanic island located 345 km northeast of Cabo de Sao Roque, Brazil. The abundant cranial and postcranial material of the fossil rodent was recovered from old beach dunes that are late Quaternary in age (probably late Holocene). Noronhomys vespuccii retains incomplete me...