. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Storrs L. Olson 28 Bull. 2003 123A 1>L\ â â¢â i â¢â¢ '. \. I'AR P- BEL ON, I'.! German researchers also investigated the relationships of birds through studies of anatomy, including osteology, which culminated in the exhaustive treatise of Max Fiirbringer (1888), whose results were adopted by Hans Gadow (and later Alexander Wetmore) to produce the flawed and derivativeâbut extremely familiarâsystem of classification of the orders of birds that dominated ornithological literature throughout the twentieth century. Compar
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Storrs L. Olson 28 Bull. 2003 123A 1>L\ â â¢â i â¢â¢ '. \. I'AR P- BEL ON, I'.! German researchers also investigated the relationships of birds through studies of anatomy, including osteology, which culminated in the exhaustive treatise of Max Fiirbringer (1888), whose results were adopted by Hans Gadow (and later Alexander Wetmore) to produce the flawed and derivativeâbut extremely familiarâsystem of classification of the orders of birds that dominated ornithological literature throughout the twentieth century. Comparative anatomy had, of course, long been an important zoological tool and was the subject of intensive research by Baron Cuvier in Paris and later by Richard Owen in England. The field received a tremendous boost after 1859, when Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories provided a rationale for similarities and differences in anatomical structures. The discipline of comparative anatomy was formalised in some museums by the creation of separate departments. The avian skeletal collections in several museums, such as the Smithsonian Institution, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the Natural History Museum in the , have as their nuclei the specimens inherited from now-defunct departments of comparative anatomy, or from medical museums such as the former museum of the. - t In ,<âmi» nrdg %4ff**$m fu^j*** \ 1 ;»vMnk , ,»mim. Fig. 1. Skeleton of a Common Raven Corvus corax, by Belon (1555). Set next to that of a human skeleton, this was the first detailed illustration of an avian skeleton. © The Natural History Museum, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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