the university of manchester annual
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the university of manchester annual
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2015 THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM MM APR 2015 1 THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2015 THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 SWOT ANALYSIS 10 PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN 11 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: - PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT - MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 39 41 RISK STATEMENT - inserted 44 COMPLIANCE STATEMENT 46 STAFF SURVEY RESULTS AND ACTION PLAN 47 APPENDICES Appendix 1: Esteem Measures Appendix 2: Visitor Statistics for HEFCE Appendix 3: Publications by Museum staff - inserted 50 56 57 MM APR 2015 2 INTRODUCTION General The Museum’s performance continues to improve year on year. Visitor numbers were yet again at an all-time high at 442,000, and number of contacts with priority groups went up by nearly 11%. Visits by disabled people went up 2% as did visits by lower socioeconomic groups. BME visits, however, went down by 7% from the previous high of 18% for reasons that are currently not clear. In terms of families, we have had a record-breaking year, with more visiting than ever before. 92,264 visitors participated in 233 family events (23,618 under 5’s, 44,674 5 -15 year olds, 1,341 16-19 year olds, 22,631 adults). In terms of schools, we aim to maintain school visits at around 30,000 in order to manage numbers and maintain quality. The Cultural Access Programme had another successful year, offering all Year 5 children in 16 local primary schools one free visit (with coaches paid for) to one of the University’s cultural institutions. 636 pupils have participated at the Museum. 4620 adults participated in 142 dedicated adult events and in addition 20,333 adults participated in family events such as Big Saturdays and Magic Carpet. We held two main temporary exhibitions over the course of the year, both of which strongly featured University research. ‘Siberia: At The Edge Of The World’ aimed to challenge some of the preconceptions about this region, which is larger than western Europe, and ‘Making Monuments on Rapa Nui: The Statues of Easter Island’ explored findings of the latest fieldwork on the island led by Prof Colin Richards. The Museum was awarded the annual Lever Prize by the North West Business Leadership Team for its ‘Real Life Science’ programme. This provided £10,000 to support a Sustainability Summer School for 6th formers across the North West, and provided the opportunity for the Museum to engage with some of the region’s leading businesses in ways that are leading to some longer term partnerships. In May 2015 the Museum’s Science Spectacular event in partnership with NOWGEN, Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Directorate for the Student Experience won a special Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement. The main capital project for the year was to work on ‘The Study, a £750,000 redevelopment of the 774m2 3rd floor public space. Plans were developed for this to be transformed into a unique research space for all visitors, from academics and students to members of the public. It encompass three separate areas – an improved temporary exhibitions space which uses the Museum’s collections to showcase cutting edge University research; a new Visitor Research space, which provides visitors with the opportunity to do their own research using the Museum’s collections; and an expanded Collections Study Centre, offering much improved facilities for in-depth collections research. ‘The Study’ opened on Sept 11 2015. Work also continued on the Museum’s most significant capital project for over 15 years, which is to provide a 500 m2 space for temporary exhibitions so that we can participate in the national and international touring circuit, and showcase University research to a MM APR 2015 3 much wider audience, and to develop a permanent gallery on the history and culture of South Asia, along with a new entrance to make the Museum more accessible from Oxford Rd. The South Asia gallery was proposed by the Government in April, with a commitment to support it financially. At the time of writing, £5 million has been submitted by DCMS to Treasury as part of the CSR for this element. The total project cost stands at £11.47 million, with the balance to be found from the Museum’s endowment, a large bid to Heritage Lottery Fund, and from trusts and foundations. The primary learning programme was awarded £25,000 from the Zochonis Charitable Trust to develop a Primary Schools outreach scheme to allow us to increase the Museum’s reach to non-visiting schools. Plans for this programme include the development of an ‘inflatable museum’, which allows us to better recreate the unique learning environment of the Museum within a school. Sessions will feature real museum objects and be piloted in October 2015. Wonderstruck, an artist-led participatory choral project commissioned jointly with innovative UK arts charity, People United, was a highlight of the lifelong learning programme. Working with artists, over 100 people participated in the newly written performance pieces across the Museum. All ages were represented with singers from community choirs, Golden Voices (Manchester Age Friendly Choir) performing with primary school students from the Network Choir, Ordsall Acappellas and She Choir. The Museum also created a choir for the project, including participants from Streetwise Opera. Throughout the Wonderstruck weekend, over 1,000 visitors encountered choirs across the museum. Documentation work, largely supported by volunteers and students, has added 16,000 computer records to our database, Ke Emu. A total of 647,527 searchable online records now cover 99% of the collection. The Museum loaned a total of 909 specimens and objects in the year under review in 22 loans. Research loans were made to Vietnam, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Museum of Tropical Queensland (Australia), Czech Republic, Hiroshima University and Senckenberg. Social Responsibility The Museum’s work with older people is now acknowledged as sector-leading. Using the Museum Comes to You outreach programme we continue to work with community organisations such as Age UK and Alzheimer’s Society support groups, Junction 17 and the Gardener young person secure mental health units, connecting with people at risk of social isolation through their support networks. This has allowed the museum to connect with over 3,163 adults and young people. We are developing further our work with people with dementia, drawing upon the significant expertise within the University. We received a commission from CMFT to develop Forget-menot, are a series of Montessori-based resources and activities linked to collections for dementia patients. We have developed new partnerships with the Manchester Carers Forum, a support network for older adults who are carers, visiting their group meetings in North Manchester, Salford and Hulme. As part our targeted outreach work over the summer we visited the Wythenshawe Games age friendly day and a Grand Day out group who target older adults at risk of exclusion. We continue to offer tours and supported visits to organisations with wider reach such as Henshaws Society for Blind People, supporting 40 of their service users to access our MM APR 2015 4 collections, and the University of the Third Age. We also continue to work with Age UK visiting their social groups in Openshaw, Moston and Gorton. Our commitment to volunteering has continued to grow during 2014-15, offering a diverse range of opportunities to a total of 245 volunteers who have contributed 11,347 volunteer hours (total value of £136,164). We were particularly pleased that our number of student volunteers increased by 77% to 84 following a concerted recruitment drive. Manchester Museum remains at the centre of citywide volunteer developments, leading the Cultural Volunteer Coordinators Forum, a network dedicated to cultural and heritage volunteering which has representation from 16 different Museums and Galleries. This year the group has centralised the way cultural volunteer opportunities are promoted as well as hosted a Volunteer Celebration for volunteer and staff from across the city during Volunteers Week. if: Volunteering for wellbeing, the HLF-funded socially-engaged volunteering project, is now in its third year. To date, Manchester Museum has recruited 75 volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds who have taken part in a 16-week volunteering programme alongside a heritage training course. Evaluation from year one and two provides significant evidence which demonstrates that museums and galleries can be highly effective settings for addressing social needs and supporting essential services to unlock improvements in public health and wellbeing. Key findings from across the partnership were that 85% of the volunteers were initially in receipt of a benefit. 86% reported a significant increase in wellbeing following the programme, and 28 people gained employment. The project was highly commended as an ‘outstanding local community collaboration’ at this year’s Making a Difference Awards for Social Responsibility and was shortlisted at the Spirit of Manchester Awards (Partnership Project). At the other end of the age range, the Vivarium team have developed Scales and Tails sessions, specifically focused to provide one to one engagement with the animals for children with learning difficulties and health related problems. Children with special needs from local schools taught this year include those from St Peter’s High School (children with autism), Park Lane Special School and Peak School (children with learning difficulties). In November 2014 we expanded our core programme of family activities to include two early openings per month, one for 0-5’s (early risers) and their older siblings and parents/carers and an Autism Friendly early opening, as families with an autistic child prefer to access the Museum at quieter times. The latter have gone particularly well, with the most recent opening receiving 233 visitors. We have been working closely with the National Autistic Society to develop and promote our Autism Friendly sessions and provide Autism Awareness sessions for staff members at the Museum. Teaching & Learning This year, the number of modules making use of the Museum went up again (by 9%) to 165. Of these, 117 were in the University of Manchester, despite the Collections Study Centre being out of commission for most of the year while it was being redeveloped as part of The Study. The number of students involved in research and teaching activities increased by 4% to 7,074 students. This has been MM APR 2015 5 achieved through a targeted and concerted effort to enhance teaching use by areas of the University that are a natural fit with the Museum’s subject areas. Links with FLS, SEAES (notably Earth Sciences), Museum Studies/ICP, Archaeology and Anthropology have always been strong, and in recent years we have worked to increase teaching use for History and other subject areas in SALC, and with SEED. We are working to develop strong relationships with the new Global Development Institute and will similarly work to support the newly shaped faculties and schools. We have been working with the Directorate of the Student Experience to get Museum volunteering opportunities listed as eligible for students’ HEAR reports, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate Glynn. Henry McGhie and Amanda Bamford have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This involves students attending weekend seminarstyle sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering based around museum collections into a more co-ordinated scheme. 500 students engaged with Manchester Museum's stand at "The Start of Year Fair" and 800 students came to "Night at the Museum", both part of Welcome Week. Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Naomi Kashiwagi, together with our Volunteer Coordinator Kate Glynn, recruited a team of 14 Student Consultants to work with on The Study, with a particular focus on The Study Student Volunteer role. Weekly consultation sessions included discussing volunteer role development, including social media overview, The Study activity trial and the Study Student Launch. Research Head of Collections Henry McGhie has analysed the REF2014 in terms of the Museum’s contribution towards Impact Templates, Environment Templates and Impact Case Studies. The Museum featured in more Impact Case Studies (17) than any other UK university museum (more than Oxford or Cambridge museums), and more than any museum except the NHM, BM, V&A and Science Museum, which are all much larger, and London-based. It featured in more Impact Case Studies than the National Museums of Wales and Scotland, and more than any other Manchester cultural venue (eg. MOSI had 8 Impact Case Studies). He has provided a summary of the Museum’s place in REF2014 to Impact Co-ordinators. The Museum was cited in the Environment Templates for 9 units of assessment: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Mathematics; Archaeology; Anthropology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory; Clinical Medicine; Archaeology; Sociology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Philosophy; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory. We have produced a digest of publications that have drawn on the Museum collection, exhibitions and practices during 2004–14 (Appendix 3), to understand which areas are used most extensively, and where there are opportunities for further development. This shows that the Museum has featured in around 700 publications (books, chapters, journal articles), or approximately 70 per year. The number of research activities drawing on collections rose by 5% to 3,635, with many including student research projects. MM APR 2015 6 International interactions This year has seen good progress on developing our international interactions. Nick Merriman has joined the University’s USA, India and China strategy groups, and has produced a paper for the USA group outlining how the cultural institutions can contribute to the strategy. He has also been invited to join the Greater Manchester India Strategy group, so that a cultural component to the strategy can be formulated. India has been a particular focus of work in preparation for the South Asia gallery, and for a Manchester-wide programme in 2017 commemorating the 70th anniversary of Partition. Nick Merriman visited India in December 2014 to scope potential partners, and codeveloped a successful bid to the British Council/Arts Council Re-Imagine India fund for research and development around 2017. Nick was also involved in the Manchester-wide group preparing for the opening of the British Consulate in Wuhan, China, in which Manchester played a major role. We anticipate developing partnerships with museums in Wuhan as part of this relationship. Looking forward In 2015-16 we will see the opening of ‘The Study’ and the submission of our major capital bid to HLF for the expansion of our facilities into the courtyard. Our major autumn exhibition is ‘Gifts For The Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed’, which showcases the Leverhulmefunded research on scanning of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies by two researchers in FLS, Lidija McKnight and Stephanie AllertonWoolham. In 2016 our major contribution to European City Of Science is an exhibition and associated programme called ‘Climate Control’, which will engage the public with University research and debate around climate change, and the need to take action. Our major concern in 2015-15 is the future of HEFCE’s dedicated funding for university museums and galleries. The Museum receives over £1.3 million from this fund (the second largest grant after the Ashmolean), and it is our largest single source of funding. We note that the Higher Education Green Paper proposes the breakup of HEFCE and the creation of a new higher education body. We would wish the University to lobby hard to ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for university museums and galleries, and that this resource continues to be protected as far as possible. MM APR 2015 7 Issues & actions identified in last year’s report: Integration in University Processes a) To liaise with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Associate Vice-President Social Responsibility to ensure the public-facing aspects of the University are included in consultation and decision-making as appropriate. The Directors of the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth meet regularly with the Deputy President, and the Director of the Museum sits on the Social Responsibility Operations Group and Governance Group to ensure this takes place Internationalisation b) To liaise with the Director of Student Recruitment and International Development about representation on the relevant Strategy Groups (including the China Strategy Group, the India Strategy Group, the USA Strategy Group, and the Internationalisation Strategy Group. The Director of the Museum now sits on the strategy groups for China, India and the USA. City-University Relationship c) To liaise with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor about the possibility of developing an action plan for the University to lead on brokering a partnership between the three universities (UoM, Salford and Manchester Metropolitan) to collaborate on creative courses and career opportunities for young people. No progress was made on this from the Museum side. Employability d) To liaise with the Vice-President Teaching, Learning and Students about capacity for internships and placements. Head of Collections Henry McGhie met with Clive Agnew to discuss ways in which the Museum can effectively support a distinctive student experience. As a direct result, we have been working with DSE to get Museum volunteering opportunities listed as eligible for students’ HEAR report, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate Glynn. Henry McGhie and Amanda Bamford have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This involves students attending weekend seminar-style sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering based around museum collections into a more co-ordinated scheme. MM APR 2015 8 Academic Engagement e) To discuss the development of an academic engagement strategy with the Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students. See above The following action was carried over from the APR 2013, to be reported in the 2015 APR: High International Standing f) To provide an update about the development of the peer review process to the 2014 APR, including an estimate of the resource required. The delay of the re-opening of the Whitworth to Feb 2015 has delayed the introduction of a peer review. Plans have been developed along lines previously discussed: a group of up to five experts in university museum/gallery work will be invited (from the UK and overseas) to spend a few days at the Museum and the Whitworth reviewing programmes, activities and plans, talking to staff and stakeholders, and examining information on performance. A report will be produced which will assess the two institutions against their knowledge of the best practice worldwide. Costs have been calculated as £14,500, plus the time spent by staff in preparing. Agreement needs to be reached as to where this resource will be sourced. MM APR 2015 9 SWOT Analysis The Manchester Museum Strengths Weaknesses Ø High level of performance from staff, resulting in continuing excellent improvements in engagement, research and teaching Ø University and HEFCE funding continues to leverage significant additional funding from public sources, trusts & foundations, and from commercial activities. Ø Well trained and committed staff and excellent collections in a listed building Ø The two key foci on intercultural understanding and promoting sustainability enable clear linkage to university, city-region and national priorities Ø A large and dedicated audience, many of whom come from the local area, and can act as advocates for the University Ø Excellence in now being recognized by regional and national awards (eg Lever Prize, Government funding for new gallery) Opportunities Ø Much achievement is dependent on project funding Ø Building infrastructure needs constant maintenance Ø The Museum can play in increasingly central role in the Social Responsibility agenda Ø Strength of partnership with other cultural institutions in city region means greater impact across a wider area; University Cultural Institutions are working more closely together Ø Emphasis on tackling issues such as biodiversity, volunteering, sense of place and worklessness represents an opportunity to work towards greater links with City Council objectives Ø The exhibition programme can increasingly demonstrate the impact of university research Ø Development of international partnerships opens up new opportunities to develop our work and contribute to University international priorities Ø Significant concern about future of core funding from HEFCE: over £1.3 million is under threat: a third of our total budget. Ø Increase in risks, from thefts to child protection means we must maintain or increase vigilance Threats Actions to be taken in mitigation of weaknesses and threats: Ø Ø Ø Ø Maintain successful approach to project fundraising, bolstered by new Partnership arrangements Advocate to colleagues the particular needs of the University’s public-facing cultural institutions Continue advocacy for core funding from HEFCE, Arts Council, University and other funders (see Risk Register) Continuously monitor risks and take mitigating actions at Joint Leadership Team and Health & Safety Committee MM APR 2015 10 PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN 1 Create a great visitor experience through excellent services and innovative programmes Exhibitions Siberia: At the Edge of the World 4 October 2014 – 1 March 2015 Manchester Museum’s exhibition ‘Siberia: At the Edge of the World’ combined stunning artefacts with rare objects and photographs. This was the first UK show dedicated to the subject of Siberia, and revealed a surprisingly rich and varied picture of this vast, diverse and little known territory. The exhibition featured the work of University of Manchester academics and included works from major museums in the UK and Russia, alongside those from Manchester Museum’s collection. The Museum acquired a taxidermied Siberian Brown Bear and some extremely rare Siberian birds, which form a lasting legacy of the project. Making Monuments on Rapa Nui The Statues of Easter Island 31 March 2015 – 6 September 2015 Manchester Museum’s exhibition ‘Making Monuments’ brought together Moai Hava (one of only 6 or 7 complete statues outside Easter Island or Rapa Nui) with the results of the latest research undertaken by Prof. Colin Richards (an archaeologist in SALC) and a British team of archaeologists. The exhibition included loans from a number of museums in the UK to supplement Easter Island objects from the Museum’s own collection. In its first month the exhibition received 30,000 visitors and was seen by an estimated 150,000 visitors in total. Romuald Hazoumè: Flight of the Butterflies 14 February 2015-December 2015 ‘Flight of the Butterflies’ was a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists, Romuald Hazoumè. The work consisted of large panels with swarms of textile ‘butterflies’ in the Museum’s popular Living Worlds gallery. Hazoumè, whose work was featured in ‘We Face Forward’ (2012) produced this work especially for Manchester Museum, as an African perspective on politics, exploitation and the butterfly effect. Hazoumè asked the Museum to give away the butterflies from six panels on Election Day, as an opportunity for visitors to own a piece of contemporary art from a leading West African artist, and to engage in the political process by committing to do “something” to engage with politics, either by voting, joining a campaign, debating or some other political act. MM APR 2015 11 Manchester International Festival July 2015 The Herbarium (where the botany collections are kept) was transformed for psychedelic ‘High Tea in Wonderland’ events as part of the Manchester International Festival, and dressed with botany and zoology specimens and props to connect with the wonder.land MIF show. 511 guests attended the performances (100% capacity), which took place on three Sundays in July. Rutherford’s Garden ongoing Curator of Botany Rachel Webster worked with Anna Bunney to support the ‘Rutherford’s Garden’ project, including an installation in the Museum courtyard. Artist James Brady has been an Artist in Residence at the Museum following his successful application for the University of Manchester Arts and Science Collaboration funding. The project draws inspiration from the research of Dr. Jon Pittman (FLS), the Museum’s Herbarium collections and the historic work of Ernest Rutherford at The University. The Museum arranged to have a Tigon, a rare cross between a Tiger and a Lion, mounted by a taxidermist. The skin had been in the Museum since it was donated in 1949, nearly 60 years ago. Maude the Tigon was the most famous animal in Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo in the late 1930s and 40s. She has proved to be an extremely popular exhibit and talking point. Maude’s story featured in all major, and many less major, UK newspapers, including the Times, Guardian, Sun, Independent, Manchester Evening News, Metro and more. Partnerships and training We have completed a highly effective second Cultural Concierge programme delivered with CityCo, Visit Manchester, MIF, Creative Tourist and Manchester Visitor Information Centre. The aim of this is to ensure both that our own staff are aware of what is going on in other venues through the city, and can recommend places to eat, drink and shop, and that hotel concierges are aware of what is available in cultural institutions. Our annual training programme with our visitor team has included work on: • Mental Health First Aid • Disability Awareness • Makaton Training • Equality & Diversity • Description Training for Visual Impairments • Dementia Friends/Champions Our partners in training for these have been, Hear First, MindsEye, Disability Support Office, MIF (Makaton training), Alzheimer's Society MM APR 2015 12 2 Facilitate innovative educational opportunities for Early Years, schools, colleges and lifelong learners Early Years 2014-15 has been another successful and innovative year for Early Years work at the Museum with the Nature Discovery gallery opening in December 2014. The gallery has been an opportunity to develop new sessions for our Baby Explorer and Magic Carpet under 5’s family programmes, which continue to be popular, attracting 23,061 under 5’s visiting for family and formal learning programmes. An Arts Council assessor attended our Magic Carpet sessions in April to carry out a quality assessment and we received excellent feedback. It also provides new opportunities to develop our early years formal learning programme and professional development sessions for early years teachers. Elaine Bates, Early Years Coordinator, completed an MA at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in Birmingham, receiving a distinction for her evaluative dissertation on the Nature Discovery gallery, which focused on how effectively the gallery is supporting families learning together and identified opportunities to support this further. We have continued to develop our relationship with research staff at the Max Planck Child Study Centre, supporting MA student research projects undertaken at the Museum with young children and their carers, focusing on language acquisition with objects. Menaka Munro, Learning Manager, continues in the role of Impact Champion and on the Advisory Board for LuCID (ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development). We are supporting a family weekend event with the LuCID which will be held in the museum in November 2015. We have continued to share our early years practice through our Culturebabies blog and have attracted visits from international museum and gallery professionals looking to set up their own programmes for the very youngest visitors; for example from Dallas Museum of Art and Melbourne Museum. http://culturebabies.org.uk/ Formal Learning The total number of formal learning visits from Early Years to Post 16 reached 29,732 pupils over 2014-2015. The key development area for the Museum’s formal learning programme has been working towards ‘The Study’, a redevelopment of the third floor of the Museum’s original 1885 Waterhouse building. Currently an underused space, the aim is to transform the third floor into a unique research space for all visitors – a flexible, beautiful workspace that showcases the Museum’s collection and current University research, with cutting edge tools and equipment. Development of this 774 m2 space is being led by the Museum’s Learning Manager, and builds on the successful Learning & Engagement programme. The space will be informed by the same enquiry based learning theory used in our schools and colleges programmes and aims to inspire a sense of curiosity in all visitors, ultimately empowering them MM APR 2015 13 to engage with their own passions and research interests and providing them with a space in which to pursue them. This is a distinct approach within museums to the creation of a research space and a rare example of a public enquiry-based learning space. Early development for The Study has involved establishing working partnerships with key organisations who are either leaders in adult learning, such as Manchester Craft Mafia, or are undertaking interesting research that can be showcased in the space, such as The Biospheric Studio – a tech start up company who are interested in food production in urban settings. The Study is a large scale capital project and has received over £300,000 worth of external funding from a variety of funding bodies, including DCMS Wolfson, Arts Council and Garfield Weston. The Museum has appointed Ben Kelly Design to the project and is working with Wilson Mason Architects to ensure a full refurbishment and restoration of the original building. Primary Learning The Museum’s primary learning programme remains ever popular with local schools. The Cultural Access Programme had another successful year, offering all Year 5 children in 16 local primary schools one free (coaches paid for) visit to one of the University’s cultural assets. 636 pupils have participated at the Museum. A collaboration with Heald Place Primary School saw children from Years 1- 6 create a Cultural Ambassadors group of 30 children. Through a series of visits to the museum they curated a case in the schools lunchroom and produced a museum trail entitled ‘Top Ten Objects’. There has been a strong focus on developmental work, much of it in response to the new curriculum changes. The primary team has piloted a Greek Super Learning Day for three Year 4 classes to develop their knowledge and showcase the wonderful Ancient Greek collection. This project reached 180 pupils and proved an effective and distinctive way to engage young people in History. In response to the new curriculum we piloted a new ‘Habitats and You’ session, differentiated across the age ranges. In addition to delivering the core programme, the other area for development has been engaging teachers and CPD. The primary team has supported many CPD events including the cultural education of 30 trainee teachers from MMU and 20 primary school teachers on an English Heritage History CPD day. The museum participated in Manchester Grammar Schools History Conference where 120 KS2 teachers took part in a taster session highlighting what their classes could experience from a trip to the museum. In the museum the team met with 18 Chinese teachers visiting Manchester interested in learning about how the museum uses objects in taught sessions. The primary team supported a Primary Science Teacher CPD event led by Lyn Bianchi, head of the Science and Engineering Education and Research and Innovation hub, where 20 teachers enthralled by our hands on approach to learning. The Vivarium continues to be popular with schools, and the Vivarium team have developed some key programmes, particularly for younger children and those with special needs. Scales and Tails sessions are specifically focused to provide one to one engagement with the animals for children with learning difficulties and health related problems. Children with special needs from local schools taught this year include those from St Peters High School (children with Autism), Park Lane Special School and Peak School (children with learning difficulties). Others included children from Park Lane Special School and William Hulme School. The introduction of live animals into the ‘Animal explorer’ sessions for Early Years continues to be very popular and over 250 children, ranging from those at a range of MM APR 2015 14 infant and primary schools throughout the region enjoyed these sessions this year. Children from schools included those from Echos Nursery, St Mary’s Primary, St Edmunds Primary, and Lindhurst Primary. The primary learning programme was also successful in a bid to the Zochonis Charitable Trust for £25,000 to develop a Primary Schools Outreach programme. As the learning programme is nearing capacity within the Museum, this funding allows us to increase the Museum’s reach to non-visiting schools and to satisfy demand. Plans for this programme are being developed by Learning Programme Assistant, Jack Ridley and include the development of an ‘inflatable museum’, which allows us to better recreate the unique learning environment of the Museum within a school. Sessions will feature real museum objects and be piloted in October 2015. The inflatable museum is being designed by leading set designer Ben Stones. Secondary and Post-16 Learning Cat Lumb, Secondary and Post-16 Co-ordinator (Humanities), participated in a Teaching Schools Partnership initiative called Specialist Leaders in Culture Education (SLiCE) funded by Curious Minds. The Museum was partnered with Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale to examine the impact that cultural learning can have on pupils’ learning, with a sample of 150 pupils taking part. The outcomes demonstrated that groups visiting cultural venues showed greater acquisition of knowledge related to ability, and evidence suggests that those who visited cultural venues achieved significantly higher grades. Cat Lumb also continues to develop the Secondary Humanities Enquiring Minds Programme through the cultivation of Museum-School partnerships, such as the successful photography project with Tameside College. The Museum also continues to support the Ancient History GCSE delivered by Parrs Wood High School and Walkden Academy by delivering an annual selection of workshops that contribute to the coursework material for over 90 Year 10 students. The Museum ran its second year of the ‘Art of Identity’ project, funded by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts. This year the project explored the topic of ‘Identity’ within multicultural Manchester with 280 children from three northwest secondary schools, who do not regularly participate in cultural activities. The children worked with three practising artists and produced original artwork that was exhibited in the Museum foyer. The Real Life Science programme was awarded the prestigious 2015 Lever Prize (an annual award for leading cultural organisations in the North West) by the North West Business Leadership Team (NWBLT). Winning the prize allowed Emily Robinson, Secondary and Post-16 Co-ordinator (Science), to draw on the expertise of local business leaders to enhance and develop our core Real Life Science sessions. For example, she has pursued links with Astrazeneca for advice on improving our already popular Genetic Engineering Workshops, with cutting edge industry examples of applied science. She’s also pursued a number of graduates from various sciencebased companies within the NWBLT to do short promotional clips for inclusion in sessions, as examples of career pathways for visiting pupils. As well as working with the NWBLT on our permanent schools programme, the £10,000 prize money was also used to host a week long residential summer school for fifteen post-16 students from across the North-West. Demand for places was high and students were chosen based on their passion for science and further education. Students participated in hands on Museum activities, site visits to MM APR 2015 15 examples of good practice such as the green roof at the University’s Graphene building, and also heard from industry leaders, such as Chris Matthews from United Utilities as to why sustainability matters to business. In total, students had contact with over 18 different NWBLT industry professionals and University of Manchester researchers. As part of our continued work within the Natural History Museum’s Real World Science Partnership we hosted a Knowledge Exchange placement by Sue Mallender, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries Real World Science Officer, to support the evaluation process of the Sustainability Summer School programme. We continue to consolidate our relationships with the University, supporting Widening Participation initiatives such as Gateways and Manchester Access Programme (MAP). This year the Gateways programme had 716 contacts over 13 visits to the Museum and the MAP programme features two bespoke workshops for 40 pupils. We continue to build partnerships with University Departments through delivery of our Engage with the Experts Study Days and the RCUK SUPI programme. To better understand the long term impact of our Secondary and Post 16 Science Programme on students’ career choices, the Museum has been a key member of an application to the ‘Science Learning +’ funding stream, an international initiative established in partnership with the US National Science Foundation and the ESRC. The Museum participated in a bid led by the Institute of Education at UCL and in partnership with several key UK museums including the Natural History Museum in London, as well as several leading US Museums such as Harvard Museums. We were successful in obtaining a stage 1 development grant and have used this to build an evidence base and shape our research question for a stage 2 application in late 2015. If successful, this would provide up to 5 years funding to develop longitudinal methodology, which could be used across all participating museums, to measure the impact of informal science learning experiences on the attitude and career choices of participating school children. Potential outcomes include measurement tools that could be rolled out in schools and science organisations across the UK and US. Student engagement 500 students engaged with Manchester Museum's stand at "The Start of Year Fair" and 800 students came to "Night at the Museum", both part of Welcome Week at the University of Manchester. Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Naomi Kashiwagi, together with our Volunteer Coordinator Kate Glynn, recruited a team of 14 Student Consultants to work with on The Study, with a particular focus on The Study Student Volunteer role. Weekly consultation sessions included discussing volunteer role development, including social media overview, The Study activity trial and the Study Student Launch. The vivarium has offered several new opportunities of support for student volunteers and placements, notably a zoology placement student from Chester University/Reaseheath College working full time over the summer months, work experience students from local schools. Volunteers now work in the vivarium supporting public handling sessions, every weekday. Esme Ward continues to co-teach the post-graduate Creative Learning module, part of MA Museology and Arts Management courses. Many of the wider learning and engagement team run seminars and placements as part of this programme. MM APR 2015 16 3 Engage our many communities in ways that are meaningful to them Lifelong learners Wonderstruck, an artist-led participatory choral project commissioned jointly with innovative UK arts charity, People United (dedicated to working with the arts to create conditions for kindness and social change) was a highlight of the lifelong learning programme in November 2014. Working with artists Daniel Bye, Sarah Punshon and Boff Whalley, over 100 people participated in the newly written performance pieces across the Museum. All ages were represented with singers from community choirs, Golden Voices (Manchester Age Friendly Choir) performing with primary school students from the Network Choir, Ordsall Acappellas and She Choir. The Museum also created a choir for the project, including participants from Streetwise Opera. Filmmaker Tim McKnight was commissioned to document the artistic process and the Culture Counts framework was used to measure the impact of the project. In March 2015 the films were premiered with over half the participants returning. We will use this model of commissioning working with artists will inform future lifelong learning opportunities. Throughout the Wonderstruck weekend, over 1,000 visitors encountered choirs across the museum. Partnerships across the University remain the most significant part of our growing Museum Meets adult programme, both enabling a richness of content and ability to reach new and broad audiences. The year opened with a talk delivered by Michael Wood, Professor of Public History. The opportunities of the jointly curated exhibition with the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (Rapa Nui: Making Monuments on Easter Island) enabled co-development of adult programmes, with popular talks from Professor Colin Richards. Northern Knap-in was a joint university and museum hands-on experimental research day into flint knapping. With academics from the Faculty of Life Sciences, we hosted the adult event for their NERC funded summer of science and talks for the Museum of Medicine. We again hosted a sell-out day course with Egyptology@Manchester on Egyptian Jewellery and the singing theme continued with a ‘Museum sings’ workshop with ethnomusicologist, Dr Caroline Bitthel. For our Siberia exhibition we hosted a talk by leading anthropologist Dr Alexander Bird, University of Aberdeen. Rutherford’s Garden involved working with artist James Brady and Jon Pitman from Plant Sciences, and as part of this research-led creative project (funded through the University of Manchester Social Responsibility Arts and Science collaboration) the Museum allotment has been transformed. We’ve continued to work in partnership with Confucius Institute and the Grey to Green Wildlife project and with local and national festivals, including Wonder Women, Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester Science Festival and Manchester International Festival. New collaborations this year were with the SICK! Festival and the Wellcome Collection Sexology season, with the talk ‘Carry on Collecting’ by curator Stephen Welsh being podcast on their website. Poetry partnerships included a two day course with the Poetry School and poet Helen Mort, focusing on our Manchester gallery and Siberia temporary exhibition, an age friendly targeted workshop with Tony Sheppard, exploring the Museum’s Materia Medica, performances by Manchester collective Bad Language and a launch of poetry collection inspired by our Entomology collection by poet Helen Clare. MM APR 2015 17 Our evening social events, After Hours have been delivered in partnership; from working with the Oxjam volunteers to raise money through World Music, the artist led Look 200 evening and film screenings of artists films, Noah’s Ark and Home, which were followed by discussion led by the Tyndall Centre. For Manchester’s Museums at Night with Creative Tourist and Culture 24, we were partnered with Brighter Sound for a premiere of commissioned music based on Indian Waarli paintings. Finally, development work took place throughout this year, in preparation for Manchester’s first ever EU Researchers Night in late September, with funding secured from the Natural History Museum. In June we were delighted to host the North West Adult Learners’ Week Awards Health and Social Care 2015 with Health Education North West. ‘English Corner’, our joint project across the Manchester Museum Partnership to deliver free English conversation classes has flourished and with the opening of the Whitworth is now available once a week across Manchester. Ruth Edson from Manchester Art Gallery and Anna Bunney from Manchester Museum also participated in a British Museum-led project exploring Museums and ESOL providers. We also jointly delivered a CPD training session for ESOL tutors in January in both venues, with over 40 participants. Through participation in Talk English (a DCLG funded targeted ESOL project), we have engaged over 300 learners with the Museum and participated in a celebration day at Manchester Cathedral in June. 4620 adults participated in 142 dedicated adult events and in addition 20,333 adults participated in family events such as Big Saturdays and Magic Carpet. Object identification events such as Rock Drop and meteorite events and Collection Bites continue to be popular. With the development work for the Study, our new adult learning space (as above), we developed partnerships with Manchester Craft Mafia and the Biospheric Studio to explore new models of adult participation and learning opportunities. Development of other models (such as lighting talks) and open access to the community of learning spaces (such as the Make Table) will come to fruition from September 2015. Partnerships The Museum’s community engagement work continues to connect with local groups through the Museum Comes to You programme, supported visits and festival attendance. In addition to events hosted in the museum as part of city-wide festivals and campaigns, we continue to support festivals as part of our targeted audience development including the Manchester Mela, British Muslim Heritage Eid celebrations and the Wythenshawe Games, reaching 715 families and older adults. From June to September 2015 the museum carried out targeted outreach work in the Wythenshawe area, connecting with families, older adults and young people in an area of the city identified as traditionally low in museum participation. Working with adult groups and supporting family activities in the libraries in the area we are able to connect with 185 older adults and 110 family groups. MM APR 2015 18 Age Friendly, and Health & Culture The Museum’s work with older people is now acknowledged as sector-leading. The recent international publication The Caring Museum features an image from the Museums’ Coffee, Cake and Culture dementia-friendly programme on its cover and a chapter outlining our work. The museum continues to work with the British Museum as one of the lead partners for the nationwide Age Friendly Museums Network, promoting seminars, publications and events such as Silver Sunday across the museum network, encouraging and supporting museums to work for and with older adults. This year the network has secured additional £60,000 from the Baring Foundation to develop its leadership role. Using the Museum Comes to You outreach programme we continue to work with community organisations such as Age UK, Manchester Carers forum and Alzheimer’s Society support groups, Junction 17 and Gardener Units, which are young persons’ secure mental health units, connecting with people at risk of social isolation through their support networks. This has allowed the museum to connect with over 3,163 adults and young people. Museum Comes to You has also continued to support our off-site ESOL provision engaging 58 learners in Inspire Levenshulme and Salford Community College. In addition we have been worked with two LGBT groups (Rainbow Noir and Out in the City) using the museum’s West African collections to explore perceptions of identity through programme of workshops, visits and talks. Our Health and Culture programme, established in 2008, focuses on delivering projects and programmes in collaboration with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our partnerships now extend into many of the community health service providers and charities and across the University of Manchester including; Macmillan Cancer Support, Stroke Association, Autistic Society, Henshaws Society for Blind People and within the University, School of Medicine, DART, MICRA, Medhumlab and Museum of Medicine and Health. +Cultureshots is our week-long series of takeover events, planned to fit around a busy hospital working day. This year it took place 1317 July at Trafford General Hospital, engaging over 2000 hospital staff, patients and visitors. The event also ran a photography competition for the hospital community. 19 works were selected, framed and displayed within the hospital. This was funded by the League of Friends at Trafford Hospital. Since 2013 we have delivered twice-weekly workshops on the stroke units at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Trafford General Hospital. Devised in collaboration with clinical staff and part of the recovery and rehabilitation programme, we’ve delivered over 100 sessions for 560 patients and staff. In addition, we supported a workshop programme ‘Stories of Self through Art and Science’ a partnership with the Stroke Association and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, FLS. The programme supported 20 stroke survivors to explore their personal stories of life after stroke. We are developing further our work with people with dementia, drawing upon the significant expertise within the University. We received £6500 commission from CMFT to develop resources for dementia patients. Forget-me-not are a series of Montessori based resources and activities linked to collections. We have contributed to an evidence-based group programme to offer cognitive stimulation therapy MM APR 2015 19 (CST) to people with dementia. The CST manual offers a further 24 carefully researched group sessions for use in all care settings. The manual comes with a new DVD showing filmed examples of sessions with leaders and people with dementia. Wendy Gallagher, Arts for Health Manager, has recently been accepted to study part time MSc in Dementia Care, funded by NHS, and Esme Ward continues to advise cultural organisations, Arts Council and government on dementia friendly culture. Most recently, she visited Japan and led sessions for business and arts organisations (in partnership with the British Council) on Manchester’s approach to dementia friendly work. Esme also sits on the Dementia Friends steering group in the University. The Museum seeks to ensure all public-facing staff are trained as Dementia Friends. The museum continues to be part of the Age Friendly Manchester Cultural Offer Group, promoting and developing programmes for older adults both in the museum and externally in the community through the Museum Comes to You programme. We have developed new partnerships with the Manchester Carers Forum, a support network for older adults who are carers, visiting their group meetings in North Manchester, Salford and Hulme. As part our targeted outreach work over the summer we visited the Wythenshawe games age friendly day and a Grand Day out group who target older adults at risk of exclusion. We continue to offer tours and supported visits to organisation with wider reach such as Henshaws Society for the Blind, supporting 40 of their service users to access our collections, and the University of the Third Age. We also continue to work with Age UK visiting their social groups in Openshaw, Moston and Gorton. Volunteering Our commitment to volunteering has continued to grow during 2014-15, offering a diverse range of opportunities to a total of 245 volunteers who have contributed 11,347 volunteer hours (total value of £136,164). Manchester Museum remains at the centre of citywide volunteer developments, leading the Cultural Volunteer Coordinators Forum, a network dedicated to cultural and heritage volunteering which has representation from 16 different Museums and Galleries. This year the group has centralised the way cultural volunteer opportunities are promoted as well as hosted a Volunteer Celebration for volunteers and staff from across the city during Volunteers Week. We held four recruitment drives for new volunteers, particularly aimed at University of Manchester students, MLP students and graduates. A total of 99 volunteers were recruited (83 of whom were students) who began volunteering in our object handling and public programmes departments. We now have seven object handling tables operating on the Museum’s galleries; new introductions this year include Nature Discovery (aimed at our Early Years audience) and Palaeontology. Volunteers have also supported a number of other museum activities and projects including: Culture Shots, English Corner, Talk English, Museum Meets, Wonderstruck and the University’s Cultural Access Programme. The volunteer programme also supports bespoke placements for individuals including a young man with cerebral palsy and offers learning activities for organisations such as Venture Arts and Back on Track. Finally, a total of 7 volunteers have gained employment as casual members of staff within the Visitor Service team. This is a great example of volunteer progression within the organisation. MM APR 2015 20 In line with the development of the Museum’s new public research space, The Study, a new volunteering role is also under development to support the space. This role will be distinct from other volunteering opportunities within the Museum and will focus on recruiting volunteers who have a passion for learning in the broadest sense – from academic research to comic books. Kate Glynn is working on the development of this role and devising a training programme for new recruits that focuses on research techniques and enquiry based learning theory. She is also working with Naomi Kashiwagi, the Student Engagement Coordinator, to reach out to a diverse range of potential volunteers including students and older learners. We hope to recruit and train up to 40 volunteers in September 2015. if: Volunteering for Wellbeing if: Volunteering for wellbeing, an HLF funded project in partnership with IWM North, is now in its third year. To date, Manchester Museum has recruited 75 volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds who have taken part in a 16-week heritage training course. Evaluation from year one and two provides significant evidence which demonstrates that museums and galleries can be highly effective settings for addressing social needs and supporting essential services to unlock improvements in public health and wellbeing. Key findings from across the partnership include: • 85% of volunteers were in receipt of a benefit • 86% report significant increase in wellbeing • 28 people gained employment if: Volunteering for wellbeing was highly commended as an ‘outstanding local community collaboration’ at this year’s Making a Difference Awards for Social Responsibility and was shortlisted at the Spirit of Manchester Awards (Partnership Project). Our younger volunteers, the Museum Youth Board, continue to attract new members (with some leaving to go to university the board membership remains consistent at 15 members). Highlights include working in collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery Creative Consultants to curate a Thursday late event at Manchester Art Gallery with a total of 20 young people working together in the planning and development attracting 217 visitors on the night. The group have contributed to Microverse, a national citizen science research project aimed at young people and led by the Natural History Museum examining microscopic life in urban environments. Their contribution will be published later in 2015. They have also worked with a designer to improve the look and feel of the lockers in the reception area, highlighting their favourite objects in the collection. Elisha Bradley from the youth board carried out an archive research project as part of the development of the Gift for the Gods: Animal Mummies exhibition, presenting her work at a national student conference in Edinburgh in July 2015. Families We have had a record-breaking year, with more families visiting than ever before. 92,264 visitors participated in 233 family events (23,618 under 5’s, 44,674 5-15 year olds, 1,341 16-19 year olds, 22,631 adults). MM APR 2015 21 Our flagship Big Saturday programme continues with great success and draws upon a range of partnerships across the city and region, including Festival of Archaeology, National Science and Engineering Week, 24:7 Theatre Festival and Manchester Science Festival. In February we also hosted a Climate Challenge Big Saturday with new partners such as Liverpool John Moores University, Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester and the British Antarctic Survey. In May 2015 the Museum’s Science Spectacular event in partnership with NOWGEN, Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Directorate for the Student Experience won a special Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement. Working with the Early Years Co-ordinator, the informal offer for visitors under 5 continues apace, with the opening of newly developed Nature Discovery gallery, early openings, new Magic Carpet sessions, a toddler handling table which is facilitated by a team of dedicated and trained volunteers, and a paper-based on-gallery resource. In November 2014 we launched a new element to our core programme of family activities to include two early openings per month. One for 0-5’s and their older siblings and parents/carers which occurs before the monthly Big Saturday, and on the second Saturday of every month we have an Autism Friendly early opening. Our Autism Friendly early openings have gone from strength to strength (most recently 233 visitors), with this target audience preferring to access the Museum at quieter times. We have also seen a transferal of ‘new’ visitors to these sessions accessing our broader programme of activities. We have been working closely with the National Autistic Association to develop and promote our Autism Friendly sessions and provide Autism Awareness sessions for staff members. Partnership work with the Family Arts Network North West continues and this year the Network successfully bid for additional fund to promote its work throughout the Family Arts Festival in October 2015. Intergenerational work was highlighted through the continuing success of our Grandparents/Grandchildren scrapbook and events for Grandparents Weekend in October 2014. Over the summer the Museum delivered events both within the Museum and in Wythenshawe, where we developed our partnership work with Manchester Libraries, focusing our family outreach visits to libraries in Wythenshawe as part our broader targeted work to consult with this audience. The Museum took family activities to the Wythenshawe Games, Wythenshawe Park, Forum Library and Brooklands Library supporting the Libraries Summer Reading Challenge and promoting the Museum’s Summer Family programme. Alongside our broader participatory programmes, we run targeted work to attract key family audiences; this year this has included continued work with Genie Networks, a charity which supports deaf people and their families who made an annual visit to the Museum during the Summer, and work with Trafford Carers Centre, who visited the Museum on a supported visit with 6 young carers and their supporting adults. Our partnership continues with Into Film, whose 3 year ‘Opening Minds; Transforming Lives’ project in Greater Manchester will set up 150 free after school film clubs in Greater Manchester schools where at least 20% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. In April we MM APR 2015 22 worked with a young film group from the WOW Zone in Wythenshawe to develop and produce a film documenting the Museum’s Big Saturday, Nature and Us. We will be continuing to work with Into Film in a similar way next year. The Museum’s involvement with the Happy Museum projects continues, with the publication of the Rules for a Playful Museum, a tool for other cultural and heritage venues wishing to support play in their venues to use as guidelines. We received £5000 to develop our work with the Happy Museum over the next 3 years, with a focus on programmes and exhibitions on developing a sustainable world. 4 Ensure that the Museum plays a distinctive role in the teaching, learning and research programmes of the University Supporting student teaching and learning The Museum has seen significant, year on year increases in the use that is made of it for student teaching and learning; the number of modules using the Museum has risen yet again, to 165 in total (117 in the U of M, 48 elsewhere), despite the Collections Study Centre being out of commission for most of the year under review while it was being redeveloped as part of The Study. The number of research activities drawing on collections rose by 5% to 3,635, with many including student research projects. The number of students involved in research and teaching activities increased by 4% to 7,074 students. This has been achieved through a targeted and concerted effort to enhance teaching use by areas of the University that are a natural fit with the Museum’s subject areas. Links with FLS, SEAES (notably Earth Sciences), Museum Studies/ICP, Archaeology and Anthropology have always been strong, and in recent years we have worked to increase teaching use for History and other subject areas in SALC, and with SEED. We are working to develop strong relationships with the new Global Development Instititute and will similarly work to support the newly shaped FLS and SEES. These partnerships will extend beyond student teaching and learning, but into our public events and exhibitions, as there is a very comfortable fit with our work around sustainability and intercultural understanding. Following comments from the previous APR, Head of Collections Henry McGhie met with Clive Agnew to discuss ways in which the Museum can effectively support a distinctive student experience. As a direct result, we have been working with DSE to get Museum volunteering opportunities listed as eligible for students’ HEAR report, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate Glynn. Henry McGhie and Amanda Bamford have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This involves students attending weekend seminar-style sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering based around museum collections into a more co-ordinated scheme. MM APR 2015 23 Henry McGhie worked with the student Zoology Society to provide a series of lunch-time ‘specimens in focus’ talks and explorations of particular animals, supported by other museum staff, including Curator of Herpetology Andrew Gray; the Zoo Soc won the award for ‘best student society’. Rachel Webster supported a similar series of visits for the Botany Society. Curator of Earth Sciences David Gelsthorpe worked closely with David Schultz (SEAES) to develop an Earth Sciences MOOC using the collections and the museum as a backdrop. David has also worked with Caroline Jay in the School of Computer Science to supervise a MSc project to develop a mass digitisation citizen science website to transcribe the fossil collection labels, which has subsequently been taken up to great effect by students. Campbell Price has worked closely with Dr Joyce Tyldesley (FLS), on the first FLS MOOC, 'A History of Ancient Egypt in Six Objects', based entirely on the Museum’s Egyptology collection. Launching in October 2015, the course builds on a range of online, distance learning courses in Egyptology with expected uptake of over 15,000 students worldwide. Campbell Price ran object handling sessions for two Egyptology-themed University College courses with Dr. Joyce Tyldesley. The University College course Collecting and Exhibiting Culture did not run in the year under review, but will run again in the present year. There have been issues in how this is advertised, which should now be addressed. The Museum hosted four Industrial Year placements, two from FLS, and two from MMU, with two in Zoology, one in Botany and one in Entomology. Placement projects focus on curatorial practice, literature-based research and science communication skills. Henry McGhie and Holly Shiels (FLS) were awarded funding from the Learning Through Research fund, to develop a series of tutorialbased activities where 2nd year Biology students learn through self-directed research. Rachel Webster worked with AGLC to develop a series of workshops to develop independent research and communication skills. Workshops took place in the AGLC and the Museum. The students produced technical and lay summaries of selected objects that will be used in the Museum to add to the information about the specimens. This series of activities culminated in a public event, where students spoke with the public about their chosen topics and objects. Students told us that this activity stretched their learning, as they had to make use of resources unfamiliar to them in order to learn effectively. To give some examples of teaching: Humanities: Bryan Sitch taught sessions for SALC (Archaeology) about Roman military archaeology (CLAH 30881) and for Classics about Roman coins (ARGY20042 and CLAH10122) and made available Minoan objects for lecturers from Archaeology (ARGY 30222). Many curatorial staff teach and facilitate projects for the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. David Gelsthorpe and Rachel Webster undertook teaching for Geography. Curator of Anthropology Stephen Welsh worked with Dr. Pierre Fuller during the UoM international summer school to introduce Chinese students to the Chinese collection, and led seminars for Social Anthropology students around Asian History, Modern China and the Afterlife of Objects. Stephen also worked with Professor Tim Insoll to deliver several world archaeology sessions to almost 100 students. Henry McGhie gave a lecture and tours for students from The Geography of Life, with Dr. Richard Huggett. Campbell Price has delivered lectures and object handling sessions for over 100 students taking archaeology and MM APR 2015 24 ancient history modules, focusing on the rich evidence of Pharaonic daily life and afterlife beliefs in the collection. He regularly supports the supervision of Long Essay and Dissertation topics in Egyptology. EPS: David Gelsthorpe undertook teaching in MACE and supplied objects to illustrate crystal formation for Chemistry teaching. FLS: Dmitri Logunov undertook teaching in field courses on Urban Biodiversity and Conservation (BIOL 20872) and Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Costa Rica (BIOL20552), which was also attended by Curator of Herpetology Andrew Gray. Dmitri received a unit survey score of 4.94 for the Costa Rica field course, as a result of his enthusiasm and knowledge. Rachel Webster took part in two FLS field courses: Comparative and Adaptive Biology, Mallorca (first year undergraduates) and Alpine and Forest Ecology, Italian Alps (second-year undergraduates), which was also attended by Henry McGhie. Henry, Rachel and Dmitri also lectures and seminars for FLS students. As the Museum is a non-academic unit, it can act as a partner in CASE studentships, but not with research based in the University of Manchester (due to the rules from RCUK). Kayleigh Rose completes her PhD in biomechanics in the present year. The Museum is partner in a further successful CASE partnership with the University of Liverpool. . The Museum as a vehicle for the research impact agenda Head of Collections Henry McGhie has analysed the REF2014 in terms of the Museum’s contribution towards Impact Templates, Environment Templates and Impact Case Studies. The Museum featured in more Impact Case Studies (17) than any other UK university museum (more than Oxford or Cambridge museums, or UCL museum), and more than any museum except the NHM, BM, V&A and Science Museum, which are all much larger (and London-based). It featured in more Impact Case Studies than the National Museums of Wales, Scotland, and more than any other Manchester cultural venue (eg. MOSI 8 Impact Case Studies). This is a major headline for a university museum. He has provided a summary of the Museum’s place in REF2014 to Impact Co-ordinators. The Museum was cited in the Environment Templates for 9 units of assessment: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Mathematics; Archaeology; Anthropology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory. Clinical Medicine; Archaeology; Sociology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Philosophy; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory. UOM impact case studies= 7 1. Reconstructing Ancient Faces (John Prag) 2. History of British Exploration: enhancing public understanding of Scott of the Antarctic 3. Exhibiting Surrealism to the Public (David Lomas) 4. Manchester and the Dead Sea Scrolls (John Prag) 5. Conservation Activities and Biodiversity Training in Sumaco National Park, Ecuador (Richard Preziosi) 6. Supporting Multilingualism and Community Language Needs MM APR 2015 25 7. Providing Healthcare Training and Increasing Public Awareness of Neglected Tropical Diseases via national and international engagement (Sheena Cruickshank) Impact case studies in other universities= 10 1. Changing the display and interpretation of the Lindow Man exhibit (U of Bristol) 2. Migration, Refugees and Belonging (U of East London) 3. Revitalising the cultural and retail environments through technology (U of Edinburgh and Herriot-Watt) 4. Influencing public perceptions of Muslim communities and Islam (SOAS) 5. Local and global consequences of trans-Atlantic slavery, abolition and racial oppression (UCLAN) 6. The Ancient Trireme (Royal Holloway) 7. LJMU research improves public understanding of human evolution through engagement with creative and media sector (LJMU) 8. Herculean Labours: enriching the public understanding of our classical mythological heritage (U of Leeds) 9. Laser cleaning leads to the preservation and restoration of world heritage and art (Loughborough Uni) 10. Cultural, economic and political impacts resulting from the discovery of Ice Age Cave Art at Cresswell Crags (Sheffield Uni) In terms of working towards the next REF, Henry McGhie has been meeting with Judith Gracey and staff involved in Impact in SEED and BWPI (to become GDI), to develop and realise opportunities for academics to use the Museum for Impact and wider public engagement purposes; he also attended a NERC Impact Accelerator Workshop held in the Museum. We have been working to include academics in exhibitions and related programmes where their work promotes understanding between cultures and sustainability, and complements our exhibitions and events. For example, Making Monuments was based around academic work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Prof. Colin Richards. Rapa Nui has often been used as a metaphor for what might happen to the Earth if we do not use resources more sustainably. The Museum’s Siberia temporary exhibition drew on academic work that relates to the Museum’s main themes, around environmental sustainability and intercultural understanding. A key part of the display showcased research on climate change and Arctic permafrost by Bart Van Dongen (SEAES). Drs. Lidija McKnight and Stephanie Atherton-Woolham (Hon. Academic Curators of Zooarchaeology) have continued their work documenting the animal mummies in the collection, and co-curated the temporary exhibition 'Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed', accompanied by a book. The conference ‘Refloating the Ark’ was organised to promote the effective use of museums for research and public engagement purposes; the meeting was very well attended (110 museum professionals and academics from throughout the UK) and received an excellent review in Museums Journal. Curator of Botany Rachel Webster worked with Dr. Giles Johnson to develop the University of Manchester FLS Environmental Roadshow for an evening of hands-on demonstrations and flash talks based on NERC-funded research. MM APR 2015 26 The Roadshow was made possible by an award from NERC celebrating their 50-year anniversary. Henry McGhie, Dmitri Logunov and Rachel Webster are listed in the Living Labs and Ecosystem Services databases, to promote interaction. Henry McGhie was awarded Higher Education Innovation Fund money to promote relationships between people working in museums in the NW and researchers working in the field of environmental sustainability. This has resulted in Stronger connections between attending museums and academics; increased skills and awareness of delegates in terms of connecting with wider sustainability agendas; increased awareness of the potential for these museums to connect with the social responsibility agenda; resulted in a new partnership between natural history museums and the National Biodiversity Network, to find way to release ‘trapped’ data in museums., and fostered a strong partnership between the Museum and Lancashire Wildlife Trust on their ‘Carbon Landscapes’ project. Use of the Museum’s resources by researchers and teachers We have produced a digest of publications that have drawn on the Museum collection, exhibitions and practices during 2004–14, to understand which areas are used most extensively, and where there are opportunities for further development. This shows that the Museum has featured in approximately 700 publications (books, chapters, journal articles), or approximately 70 per year. To give some example of the diverse ways in which the Museum is used by researchers and teachers: the Museum was a major partner in an ERC-funded project to scan and digitize beak shapes of all 10,000 of the world’s bird species (the Museum has around 3,500 species), organised by the University of Sheffield. BBSRC-funded CASE student Kayleigh Rose (with FLS) continued her work on biomechanics, drawing on the Museum’s collection. The museum is hosting post-doctoral student José Antonio Cantón Álvarez with funding from and support from British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) Cultural Engagement Partnership and Professor Yangwen Zheng (UoM). Nikolaus Stolle, a German researcher, visited to review parts of the Native North American collection. Gave tours of the collection for the UoM theology conference delegates. Rapa Nui obsidian donated by Charles Heape was tested by UoM archaeology department. The FLS placement student Jemma Houghton developed teaching resources using the Museum’s Materia Medica collection. The activity is based on specimens on display in ‘Nature’s Library’ and explores the sources of ancient and modern medicines. This session is now part of the self-guided offer to school parties. Despite closure of the herbarium, we were able to accommodate five academic research visits to the collection; three from the UK and two from Japan. At least eight academic papers were based on the Manchester Museum’s entomology collections in 2014-15. A collaborative project with FLS (Melissa Kidd, project student, and Tucker Gilman) and MMU (Edward Harris) on the spider genus Saitis is on its way. The project student was provided with samples of two Saitis species from the MM’s collection for DNA-sequencing and further analysis and possible further steps were discussed. MM APR 2015 27 The Museum’s Earth Sciences collections have formed the basis of new research projects by the School of Computer Science on citizen science, Ice Age Animals and fossil plants. The scheme of Honorary Academic Curators, established in 2014, has been extremely successful in strengthening relations with relevant academics, and incorporating them and their work into public events and thinking about exhibitions. New appointments in the year under review include Prof. Andrew Chamberlain, Dr. Lidija McKnight and Dr. Steph Atherton-Woolham in FLS, Will Fletcher from Geography, Prof Richard Preziosi and Prof Amanda Bamford from FLS, and Professor Tim Insoll from Archaeology. Dr. Roberta Mazza (Hon. Curator of Graeco-Roman Egypt) has organised a number of high-profile events on the ethics of collecting and the illegal trade in antiquities. We have continued to host the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life (ICAL), which brings together researchers from right across the University to focus on the insights that high resolution imaging can bring to the study of archaeology and palaeontology. The close relationship between researchers and the museum has enabled a strong public engagement programme to take place, which has seen ICAL at the Royal Society Summer Show and the Cheltenham Science Festival. A life sized cast of Gorgosaurus commissioned for the former is now on permanent display in the Museum. 5 Become known for our fresh approach to the development and use of the collection Digital collections access Documentation work, largely supported by volunteers and students, has added 16,000 computer records to our database, Ke Emu. This is a major channel by which researchers, students and the public explore our stored collections as part of their studies and research. The great majority of the collection is listed on Ke Emu in some form, either as individual catalogue records, or as ‘bulk’ records covering groups of objects and specimens. A total of 647,527 searchable online records cover 99% of the collection. This is a significant achievement, given that the collection includes 4.8 million objects and specimens. We have experienced difficulties in getting ownership of technical support and development of Ke Emu within IT, but have made progress in this direction with the help of Angela Hilton. Henry McGhie has been working with the National Biodiversity Network, Zooniverse and other organisations to help promote and develop methodologies and opportunities for crowd-sourcing and mass digitisation, with a view to involving many more people in museums, to unlock information held with collections. This will inform future developments in crowd-sourcing information about a range of collections, and is already being trialled by David Gelsthorpe, who has worked with Caroline Jay (School of Computer Science) to develop a mass digitisation citizen science website to transcribe fossil collection labels. This has involved a team of new volunteers photographing thousands of specimens from the collection to make them available online. Volunteers from across the world can then MM APR 2015 28 transcribe the information which will then be used in the catalogue. In similar vein, Lindsey Loughtman has worked with Kate Glynn to develop a volunteer-led, on-gallery activity in which the public are invited to help photograph the botanical microscope slide collection. This gives visitors a taste of behind-the-scenes work at the Museum. In future, these photographs will be made available via an online crowd-sourcing programme to help digitise the collection and to bring the collection to the attention of a wider audience. Stephen Welsh has continued to prolifically use social media to increase and encourage digital access to the Living Cultures collection. The Kongolese power figures Mangaaka and Kozo have also been extensively promoted on the Met website and Twitter feed as they went on loan there. Nearly 800 photographs of the Materia Medica collection have been uploaded to KE Emu and are available to view online. Over 2000 photographs of liverworts, ferns and flowering plants have been upgraded to higher resolution images. These records with images were to be uploaded to Europeana, an EU-funded online database of cultural materials in museums and galleries. 1,500 specimens from the Challenger Expedition were photographed by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter) as part of a project funded by the Ellerman Foundation. Rachel Webster and Lindsey Loughtman have arranged to deliver images of the Alan Newton Rubus collection to the Herbaria@Home website. This will make an important botanical reference collection available to the main potential users, the members of the BSBI. More than 600 digital photographs of the D. Longsdon’s Swallowtail Butterfly collection have been uploaded to KeEmu. Information from data labels have been extracted and transcribed for the following collections of British insects: dragonflies and damselflies; bees, wasps and ants; and parasitoid wasps of the family Aphididae; the data were transferred for uploading to the National Biodiversity Network, the UK portal for biological records, used by researchers, policy makers and the public. Michael Dockery started a project to extract information from data labels of British butterflies, to provide to researchers. Campbell Price has continued to use social media to increase and encourage digital access to the Egypt and Sudan collection. Hundreds of new images have been added to Ke-Emu and volunteers have completed the first phase of digitising the Museum’s archive correspondence for Egyptology (over 600 items). Social media platforms are a key component of the upcoming FLS Egyptology MOOC (over 15,000 people registered - see above). More archive documentation is planned for 2015/16. Regional working Henry McGhie established and led a network of all of the museums in the NW with significant natural history collections, amounting to 31 museums totalling 7 million objects/specimens and over 2 million visitors a year. The network was established as many museums face funding crises, collections are looked after by staff not confident in using them, and collections are poorly understood or at risk. The work complements work led by Nick Merriman as part of a national advocacy programme, in association with the Natural History Museum and other major regional museums. The NW work has been very well received, and resulted in an advocacy document (7 Million Wonders) that has been used as a model by other museums for their advocacy, a website with advocacy tools, good publicity in the Museums MM APR 2015 29 Journal, and a national conference, Refloating the Ark. David Gelsthorpe, Rachel Webster, Dmitri Logunov and Henry McGhie have been working with NW museums to review their collections, to understand their cultural value and potential for use, and to raise confidence among those working with these collections. Dmitri Logunov organized a ‘Coleopterists Day’ at the Manchester Museum for local enthusiasts studying beetles around North-West. Dmitri Logunov and Phillip Rispin supported two national insect festivals at the Derby University (November 2014) and in York (July 2015). Dmitri Logunov gave three talks to 6th-form colleges and a talk to the Derbyshire Natural History Society (14 Nov). Stephen Welsh is a core committee member and North West representative of the Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network. He has also been a member of the British Muslim Heritage Centre steering group to support the 100 Stories of Sacrifice project. He was also appointed as a temporary committee member of the Museum Ethnographers Group to oversee the progression of the MEG conference which will happen in April 2016 at Manchester Museum. Stephen also worked closely with the International Curators visiting from the British Museum and Future Curator (a British Museum training scheme) Kiera Gould completed her placement. Stephen presented at the Everyday Muslim conference in London. Campbell Price stepped down as Chair of the Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES) at the end of 2014, but continues as North West representative – hosting a workshop in November 2015. Campbell has hosted several popular Egyptology workshops for the North West Development Agency and maintains close links with collections in Liverpool, Bolton, Wigan, Southport, and Sheffield. Campbell provided curatorial support to the Wigan Museum ‘Ancient Egypt Rediscovered’ exhibition and the new Ancient Egypt gallery at The Atkinson, Southport. Museum staff participated in networking meetings for NW curators working with natural history collections. Lindsey Loughtman and Rachel Webster visited Liverpool World Museum herbarium as part of the North West Herbarium Curators meeting series. The agreement to house part of the archive of the British Pteridological Society expired and this archive has been transferred to the herbarium of Liverpool World Museum whose fern collection is less familiar to the society. Thematic collecting Curators have been working on an innovative thematic collecting project, initiated in response to work by Nick Merriman. This work featured in conference presentations at Rheged on ‘Sustainability in Museums’, and as part of Refloating the Ark. This offers museums a novel and sustainable way of approaching collecting, moving away from a responsive mode (which lacked an intellectual foundation from the beginning) to a model based on interpreting and documenting contemporary issues and concerns, and building relationships with people. Bryan Sitch filmed interviews on the themes of Migration and Water at South Shields Museum, at Stoupa in the Peloponnese in Greece, and on the subject of Little Owls in Greece; with Dr Andrew Fear, Lecturer in Classics, about a Roman inscription in the collection; with Dr Emma Stafford (University of Leeds) about a vase in the collection showing Herakles. David Gelsthorpe has recorded interviews on MM APR 2015 30 the themes of Migration and Water at Manchester Christmas Market, Walney Island in Cumbria, North Sea Fossils in Holland and Le Brea Tar Pits, California (funded by an Art Fund Ruffer Grant). Dmitri Logunov has recorded six interviews on the themes of Migration and Water on: butterfly conservation in Shropshire with Stephen Lewis; migrations of the Brown Trout to caves with Graham Proudlove; a freshwater shrimp that survived the Ice Age with Graham Proudlove; a story of the Chinese Mitten Crab with Malcolm Greenhalgh; creating a poem ‘Belonging’ with Helen Clare; and butterfly migration with Laurence Cook. Rachel Webster has recorded interviews on the themes of Migration and Water at Manchester Christmas Market, Keukenhof in Holland, Flora Holland, the New Land Museum in Holland, the River Bollin near Altrincham and with Campbell Price about Egyptian textiles. Henry McGhie has recorded interviews with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Liverpool University, around themes of bird and mammal conservation, and how people contribute towards this. Stephen has recorded responses to museums and migration from playwright Anjum Malik and a UoM social anthropologist. Campbell Price has filmed interviews with Dr Steven Snape (on the migration of ostriches in North East Africa), Dr Valentina Gasperini (on the migration of pottery styles around the ancient Mediterranean) and Drs Alice Stevenson, Emma Libonati, Hisham El-Leithy, and Bassem Gahad on the migration of Pharaonic objects from Egypt to the UK. This connects with a wider AHRC-funded research project, based at UCL, on the migration of Pharaonic objects to UK museum collections. Work with Egyptian colleagues has proved especially useful in establishing contacts. Storage improvements We have been able to secure a PRISM grant for a complete re-storage of the British Lepidoptera collection, and as a result 18 new steel cabinets and 230 new unit-trays were purchased. Two-thirds of specimens in the British Lepidoptera collection have already been rehoused in 220 new drawers. The project resulted not only in greatly improved storage facilities, but in better access to the collection. A complete restorage of the spider collection by Dmitri Logunov is 80% complete; storage facilities have been improved (new jars) and much better access to the collection is provided. Work on re-boxing the ancient Greek pottery collection has continued. The Coin Room in Numismatics has been reorganised. An important collection of archaeological material from the site of the Roman fort in Manchester was transferred from Manchester Art Gallery to the Museum. We have been able to acquire new shelving for the large objects in the fossil collection. This has given increased access to objects and provided expansion space. The newly acquired Howie Mineral collection has been packed in acid free storage. The Herbarium has been closed for the year while major renovations were made to the roof and to the 1885 Building electrical and lighting systems. Most of the work did not result in direct improvements to the store, but all the windows and skylights are now doubleglazed and UV filtered. The work also required the removal of wooden storage cupboards and these have been replaced with more appropriate metal racking. The herbarium collections were dispersed into safer storage while the work progressed. Once the recant is complete, the major collections will be stored on shelving (not hard stacked), in consecutive order and contained within the 4th floor store rooms. Susan Martin continues to make ongoing improvements to the storage of the Living Cultures collection, and continues to make improvements to the storage of the Egypt and Sudan collection, with a major upgrade of the Organics store mezzanine level in 2015. MM APR 2015 31 Collections improvements Lindsey Loughtman has continued to host volunteers in a temporary venue while both the Herbarium and Collections Study Centre were closed. Volunteers conserved herbarium sheets, and improved computer records. Completed tasks included checking and amending computer records for the General Flowering Plants collection; work started on species-level bulk records for the cultivated plants. Curatorial Assistant Phillip Rispin worked on the recuration of the Museum’s collection of British Butterflies and Moths, which is rich in historical and scientifically important material. Michael Dockery (Honorary Curatorial Associate) completed a project on D. Longsdon's collection of Swallowtail Butterflies and published an article in which this collection and its history are fully described (Russian Entomological Journal, 2015, 24,2: 155–179). Graham Proudlove (Honorary Curatorial Associate) continued with the recuration and documentation of the Museum’s centipede and millipede collection. Clare Miles (Volunteer) completed a project on the Museum’s earwig collection and produced a catalogue of type specimens, published in the European Journal of Taxonomy. Casual volunteers helped out with various curatorial works needed. Prof. John Prag - with Clare Pye and others - has brought the Alderley Edge landscape project close to publication. Kay Prag has continued her research on the Jerusalem and the Tel Iktanu site excavation archives. Keith Sugden, who retired as Curator of Numismatics in 2014, assisted with the reorganization of the Numismatic collection. We have had a team of volunteers taking images of fossils for our Citizen Science project to document our collection and engage virtual volunteers across the world. Our Honorary Curatorial Associates have delivered public events such as The European Scientists Night and Manchester Science Festival. Transfers The skull of a Japanese soldier brought to Manchester at the end of the Second World War was transferred to Japanese authorities, who travelled to Manchester as part of a series of visits to collect similar remains from European museums. The event was reported in Museums Journal. We are currently arranging for the transfer of some Bernard Leach studio pottery to Manchester Art Gallery, where it will be of more use for exhibitions and for study. New acquisitions Maude, a famous Tigon from Belle Vue Zoo, was prepared as a taxidermy mount from a flat skin, having been in the Museum for 60 years. She is now on display and has been a popular and much discussed exhibit. The Museum acquired 240 bird skins from the collection of FW Frohawk, a famous Edwardian naturalist and wildlife artist. In Entomology, 19 small collections were acquired, ranging from two important Mediterranean spider collections (from Crete and Chios); and from Anthony Russell-Smith (Kent), and four specimens of a beetle species new to the collection from Jonathan Cooter. Some acquisitions originated from the curator's fieldwork (e.g., in Iceland) or from public enquires (e.g., captive-bred spiders). In the last year the archaeology collection has taken receipt of archaeological objects from the Abu Hureyra excavation of 1973 by Prof. Andrew Moore. The Museum contributed to the site excavation fund. The Museum also received sizeable archaeological archives of MM APR 2015 32 finds from the Whitworth Park community archaeology excavation project, as well as Roman archaeological material from the Manchester and Salford exhibition of 1909 that was transferred from Manchester Art Gallery. Two woven mats with geometric patterns, bought from the Tuvalu Women’s Craft Centre in Tuvalu in March 1985, were donated to the Museum. At the time of purchase the donor, Sue Fleming, was working for the University of the South Pacific, Institute of Rural Development on a Women and Development programme. We'll use them to generate interest in the themes of water and migration because with a rise in sea levels of 20-40cm over the next century Tuvalu could be uninhabitable. We have acquired a collection of approximately 800 fossils and minerals from key sites around the UK. The collection was put together by John Beck of Eyam, Derbyshire over the last 40 years and has exceptionally detailed locality information, making it very useful to researchers. We have also acquired a Bronze Age Deer skull from Walney Island, Cumbria and a possibly Prehistoric dog skeleton from Lancashire. Loans The Museum loaned a total of 909 specimens and objects in the year under review in 22 loans. Research loans were made to Vietnam, Moscow, Novosibirsk (insects), Museum of Tropical Queensland (Australia) (bryozoa), Czech Republic (insects), Hiroshima University (mosses) and Senckenberg (spiders). Conservation During the reporting period the team have conserved, mounted and prepared material for a series of exhibitions including the Ghanaian Union exhibition, Siberia, The War on Nature, Romuald Hazoumè’s Flight of the Butterflies, the refurbishment of the Nature Discovery gallery, the removal of the Mark Dion Bureau, and the installation of Rapa Nui. For the latter, a lengthy process of risk assessments, building surveys and structural preparations was undertaken for the arrival and safe installation of the British Museum Moai Hava sculpture on a long- term loan for 3 years. Towards the end of this period the team has worked on Gifts for the Gods (with National Museums Liverpool and Kelvingrove Glasgow) and the challenge to construct an exhibition that could tour to the further 2 legs of the tour in Glasgow and Liverpool. For all of the workshop activities a core team of casuals has been employed to support the team. Conservation work continued on collections for national and international loans, internal exhibitions and outreach sessions. Crates were built throughout the year for traveling loan objects and objects were conserved and mounts made for a large touring Egyptian loan, Queens of Egypt to Japan. The team also supported institutions that do not have in-house object conservation expertise such as the Museum of Wigan Life and Harrow School as well the Whitworth during the re-opening and the John Ryland’s University Library, and in October 2014 work was undertaken for the Café Muse by the workshop. There were episodes of moving and protecting cases and objects throughout the year to accommodate the window replacement project, such as covering the Stigmarium fossil tree on the Fossils gallery and removing the very heavy basalt columns and boxing in the murals on the fossils gallery. The Collection Care team supported the MIF High Tea in Wonderland to ensure the event was planned to run smoothly and cause minimal risk to the collection. MM APR 2015 33 The House Services team have coordinated several extensive building related projects including window replacement and installation of LED lighting in back-of-house areas. Dean Whiteside, House Services Manager reports against sustainability targets via Julie’s Bicycle. Following a period as maternity cover, Preventive Conservator, Abigail Stevens returned to work 3 days per week. Members of the team deliver training and lectures for Museum volunteers, AGMS, Art History and Archaeology students, Regional Collections Care and Management Training, and to the public as part of the Museum Outreach Culture Shots week. 6 Make sure we manage and develop our resources, facilities and workforce to deliver our objectives Development This year the Museum has continued its success in securing funds from external sources. During the reporting period the following has been raised: Funder Project £ V & A Purchase Grant Fund Art Fund Acquisitions Programme Camelia Trust Wellcome Trust (* application in partnership with colleagues at KHN Centre for Biomedical Egyptology) The Mercers’ Charitable Foundation Zochonis Charitable Trust British Antarctic Survey Headley Trust Anonymous Trust donor North West Business Leadership Team Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’ Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’ Whitworth Park exhibition Gifts for the Gods exhibition 15,000 20,000 750 29,168 The Study Museum Comes to School – Year 1 Siberia: At the Edge of the World exhibition Making Monuments on Rapa Nui exhibition General Lever Prize 2015 (prize money for Sustainability Summer School) Making Monuments exhibition Nature Discovery Garden An Image of Islam 5,000 25,000 2,000 5,000 2,000 10,000 John and Ruth Howard Charitable Trust D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust John Ellerman Foundation (* application in partnership with colleagues at Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester City 2,500 4,137 97,882 MM APR 2015 34 Galleries) Alan Evans Memorial Trust University of Manchester Learning Enrichment Fund Individual donor Individuals FLS Economica Institut Fuer British Museum Paul Hamlyn Foundation Natural History Museum Central Manchester University Hospitals Total Nature Discovery Garden The Study (resources for the Collections Study Centre) Conservation of wolf skeleton Donations box income Kekoldi Project (Andrew Gray) Ambavis Project (Sam Sportun) Making Monuments on Rapa Nui exhibition (Bryan Sitch) Happy Museum (Anna Bunney) Real World Science (Emily Robinson) Arts and Health (Wendy Gallagher) 1,000 5,000 2,000 + 500 Gift Aid 23,877.45 10,000 10,479.63 7,575 5,800 1,213.47 8,800 294,682.55 In addition, over the course of the year successful funding applications were also submitted to the following (although final notification of the outcome was only received after the year had ended) Funder Project £ Zochonis Charitable Trust Total Museum Comes to School – Year 2 25,000 25,000 Grant management and reporting has also featured significantly over the year, leading to the following grants - which had been awarded prior to the beginning of this reporting period (and reported in previous APRs) - being drawn down: Funder Project £ DCMS / Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund Heritage Lottery Fund Arts Council England Designation Development Fund Henry Moore Foundation The Study 200,000 Ancient Worlds – final payment The Study Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’ 54,590 39,500 10,000 MM APR 2015 35 Wellcome Trust Heritage Lottery Fund Total Fragmentary Ancestors exhibition – final payment IF Volunteering Programme (Kate Glynn) 1,594.80 39,613.67 345,298.47 Capital Fundraising In addition to the above, a major priority for the Development Team over the past year has been preparation for the launch of fundraising for The Courtyard. This proposed major new development will provide significantly expanded space for temporary exhibitions, a permanent new South Asia Gallery developed in partnership with the British Museum, a much more visible entrance area which is directly accessible from Oxford Road, and much-improved visitor facilities. The first major element of the fundraising programme will commence with the submission of a First Round application to the Heritage Lottery Fund in December 2015. Revenue Fundraising Applications for revenue funding to external funders continue to be made to support exhibitions and learning programmes. This focuses on specific projects that meet the objectives of the individual funders. Building Management & Systems The window replacement, roof repairs and stone restoration works are progressing well, with the 1885 Building now fully complete. Significant work has been carried out in the workshop areas to improve work flow processes, material storage and safe handling of materials. A project is underway to replace all of the back of house lighting with LED fittings. Work is continuing on investigation into the upgrade of the lighting control system. The redevelopment of the 3rd floor area (The Study) has allowed us to upgrade this section of the system as a standalone project, giving us clear direction for the remainder of the building. Work to develop a greater in-house understanding of the BMS software and explore the potential of the system to assist with our energy reduction targets is on-going. Remedial work to the intruder alarm system and CCTV equipment has not progressed as planned. We are currently in discussion with the Estates team about how best to progress this. We are currently planning a re-zoning and re-labelling of the system which will make it considerably more user friendly and easier to operate for both newly trained and current users. The fire detection system is overdue an upgrade, and we are awaiting confirmation of a start date for this. A project to install wifi throughout the Museum is underway, it is expected that this will be completed in July 2015. MM APR 2015 36 Environmental Sustainability Henry McGhie led and organised a two-day conference called Refloating the Ark, exploring how museums with natural history collections can maximise their contribution towards environmental sustainability, by engaging effectively with the public and the scientific research community. The conference was aimed at museum workers, environmental educators, conservationists, scientific researchers, students, amateur naturalists, funders and the biological recording community. The Museums Journal in July 2015 held Manchester Museum as an example of a museum communicating climate change relating to the Refloating the Ark Conference. “Some in the sector are also debating how museums should communicate climate change to the public (see p11). This is a sensitive and sometimes controversial issue, but institutions such as the Manchester Museum are leading the way in the sector in connecting the public and scientists with natural history collections, and exploring how museums can contribute to environmental sustainability. The museum recently held a two-day conference that looked at whether museums could and should promote environmental awareness and proenvironmental behaviour.” The replacement of all back of house lights with LED fittings will contribute to a reduction in our electricity usage. The on-going window replacement project will also contribute towards lower gas consumption. We are continuing to only heat areas in use, work with the BMS system is being planned to automate this. Commercial activities A review was undertaken of the quality and effectiveness of the three main strands of our commercial work: events, shop and café. As a result we have changed the pricing of our events to ensure they deliver the right level of return in relation to the input; we have jointly appointed a commercial buyer and a merchandiser with the Whitworth to ensure that we have appropriate stock and better controls over ordering. We also re-tendered the café contract and after a protracted procurement period the café is now run by Teacup, which has a small number of well-regarded outlets in Manchester. At the time of writing the café is closed for a much-needed refurbishment and will re-open in late November. Training and Development Head of Collections Henry McGhie undertook an ILM7 in executive coaching and mentoring and is listed on the University’s bank of trained coaches. Curator of Earth Sciences David Gelsthorpe was selected for the Museums Association Transformers training programme, with a project to develop Manchester Museum as a campaigning museum. In October 2014 he visited Russia with support from the British Council to study best practice in Russian museums and evaluate the international tourist offer. He also visited the La Brea Tar Pits and museum in California in June 2015, with funding from the Jonathan Rufford Curatorial Grants Scheme. Curator of Botany Rachel Webster was awarded a place on the Greater Manchester Museums Group Leadership Development Programme. MM APR 2015 37 Lindsey Loughtman and Rachel Webster became ‘Dementia Friends’. Lindsey Loughtman undertook a week-long placement to the Natural History Museum in March, as part of their UK Museum Pilot Placement Scheme aiming to share curatorial best practice, and to develop ideas around citizen science and models for mass-participation in curatorial work. Henry McGhie worked with the Natural History Museum to co-develop a ‘universal natural history curator’ internship. Chad McGitchie and the wider visitor team have developed new induction and staff training programmes. This includes wide-ranging mental health and dementia friends training and extensive first aid training. Audio description training provided by Mnds Eye and VocalEyes has been especially successful and the gallery now has online audio description of the spaces and Welcome (devised & read by Anne Hornsby Director of MindsEye) and is developing weekly audio described tours for the public. Recruitment We have developed a new recruitment system to ensure we reach more diverse candidates and local people. This includes a series of open days, group interviews (tasks & presentations) + individual interviews. Previous recruitment drives from 2012-2013 produced 8-10 applications under the ‘two ticks’ disability guaranteed interview scheme per organisation. In 2014 the Museum Visitor Team opportunities attracted 36 (360% increase) applications under the ‘two ticks’ disability guaranteed interview scheme. We interviewed 19 candidates from these. The Access/Disability Awareness training was co-developed with Julie Ryder Director of HearFirst to tailor session for Visitor facing teams in the museums and gallery. Significantly, we have been shortlisted for a RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) award. MM APR 2015 38 THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Public Engagement a) Annual number of visits b) Contacts with school age children Annual increases in, and broadening of, participation in educational programmes and public visits to the Manchester Museum 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 % Comment change 349,273 367,082 388,613 425,369 442,202 +3.96% Numbers are again the highest in the 125 year history of the Museum 25,616 19,549 25,791 31,301 29,872 -4.56% 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 c) Number of contacts with people from priority groups d) Definition of priority groups and further breakdown of data (as available and appropriate) 133,422 132,063 108,847 137,924 152,562 % change +10.61% n/a n/a BME 15% Disabled 6% C2DE 17% e) Number of UoM student volunteers f) Number of staff who are school governors Environment n/a n/a 24 BME 18% Disabled 7% C2DE 19% 47 BME 11% Disabled 9% C2DE 21% 83 BME -7% Disabled +2% C2DE +2% 77% n/a n/a 2 2 2 0 We aim to have no more than 30,000 visits to maintain quality Social Responsibility g) Number of environmental sustainability enthusiasts h) Number of green impact 2012/13 Actual 3 (Shared with WAG) 1 2013/14 Actual 1 2014/15 Actual 1 2014/15 Target 1 2015/16 Target 1 1 1 1 1 Comment Priority grounds are defined as BME, disabled and lower socioeconomic groups. Decrease in BME visits are unexplained and will be investigated as part of review of data collection Result of 4 targeted recruitment drives Comment MM APR 2015 39 teams Customer Satisfaction i) Results of annual user satisfaction surveys Academic Engagement j) Number of research activities drawing on collections including contribution to publications, seminars, partnerships, PhD supervision etc k) Number of teaching courses drawing on collections/staff (to include report on course unit survey scores on which Museum staff teach) l) Number of students involved in research and teaching activities Annual increase in levels of satisfaction in users of the Manchester Museum 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 % change 96% Very or 98% Very 97% Very 98% Very or 98% Very Fairly Satisfied or Fairly or Fairly Fairly Satisfied or Fairly 0% Satisfied Satisfied Satisfied Comment Annual increase in levels of teaching and research use of the Manchester Museum 2010/11 2011/12 2012/1 3 2,917 2013/14 2014/15 1,288 1,817 59 3,130 % change +5% 3,462 3,635 98 (70 UoM; 19 other) 123 (96 UoM; 27 other) 151 165 (117 UoM; 48 other) +9% 4,315 5,915 6,802 7,074 +4% Comment MM APR 2015 40 THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Performance Indicator Staff m) Staffing summary: headcount (FTE) Admin & management Clerical Computing/IT Manual/craft Technical Total Achievement 2012/13 20 (19.0 FTE) 30 (27.34 FTE) 1 (1.00 FTE) 4 (3.71 FTE) 11 (10.53 FTE) 66 (61.58 FTE) 2013/14 22 (21.0 FTE) 33 (30.49 FTE) 1 (1.00 FTE) 1 (0.71 FTE) 14 (13.39 FTE) 71 (66.59 FTE) Comment (include target where appropriate) 2014/15 23 (22.4 FTE) 39 (31.85 FTE) 1 (1.00 FTE) 0 (0.0 FTE) 13 (12.40 FTE) 76 (67.65FTE) Financial Management n) Confirmation of managing within budget o) Detailed financial statement, including breakdown of income sources and external grants generated, and commentary p) Details of new grants awarded in 2014/15 See below See above MM APR 2015 41 FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR 2014/2015 Manchester Museum Management Accounts 31 July 2015 Cumulative Actual Budget Variance £'000 £'000 £'000 HEFCE Income Tuition Fees Endowment Income Other Income Investment Income Total Income 1,369 80 36 1,497 47 3,029 1,402 0 24 1,027 30 2,482 -33 80 12 471 17 547 Pay Non-Pay Total Expenditure 2,578 1,270 3,848 2,545 935 3,480 -33 -335 -368 -819 -998 179 32 20 -11 -851 -1,019 168 Net Cost Endowments Adjustment Net Cost After Endowment Adjustment MM APR 2015 42 SUMMARY OF 2014/2015 The Museum reports an overall positive variance for the financial year of £168k. The large positive variance is explained through the capital projects the Museum is undertaking with Estates. The Museum is contributing part of its Exhibition budget towards the redevelopment of the 3rd Floor project. The Museum is also paying the initial architect fees for a possible project extending the temporary exhibtion space. Income The Museum reports income received to budget as a favourable variance of £547k. HEFCE Income and Tuition Fees The Museum received a greater than expected allocation of CFTA income. Endowment Income No material variance recorded. Other Income Other Income has two elements: other grants and the commerical and sundry income of the Museum. Other grant income is £390k above budget and includes funding matched to expenditure made on behalf of the Manchester Partnership with Manch Gallery. Sundry income is £81k above budget and includes the funding received to purchase the Mark Dion art installation. Investment Income No material variance recorded. Expenditure The Museum reports expenditure incurred as an adverse variance of £368k. Pay Costs Pay Costs are £33k over budget, which is covered by external funding. Non-Pay Costs Non-Pay Costs are £335k over budget, of which the majority is covered by the additional funding as shown in Other Income. Non-Pay costs includes expenditure incurred on behalf of the Manchester Partnership with Manchester Art Gallery & Whitworth. MM APR 2015 43 RISK STATEMENT – inserted University of Manchester Risk Register Level: School The Manchester Museum Date Aug-15 Risk Toward 2020 Risk Owner Implications. Failure to achieve… directly (indirectly) Impact Likelihood Net Rank Risk Change since last report Risk Indicators Current Management Processes and Mitigating Activities Specific Mitigating Due Date Actions Action Owner Level of funding allocated by HEFCE HE Green paper proposes abolition of HEFCE University Museums Group is formal consultee on future funding. Current year is flat funding. UMG is continuing to lobby and make the case. UMG Ongoing communication with HEFCE Director The museum is actively promoting a culture of safe working, ensuring staff and volunteers receive appropriate H & S and child protection training, managers are pro-active in managing risk and regularly review and where necessary update risk assessments and method statements to maintain a safe environment for all users and staff Health and Safety Quarterly committee mitigates risks, monitors reported data and takes actions Director Level of funding for 2015-18 now known: cut of 2% Quarterly meetings Quarterly on 2014-15 confirmed: can be absorbed with Arts Council to track progress; annual report Director The museum is actively promoting a culture of safe working, ensuring staff and volunteers receive appropriate H & S and child protection training, managers are pro-active in managing risk and regularly review and where necessary update risk assessments and method statements to maintain a safe environment for all users and staff Director is committed to staying for at least 5 more years to see through gallery changes; job continues to be stimulating Health and Safety Quarterly committee mitigates risks, monitors reported data and takes actions Director None Deputy President Build in community consultation to every project; undertake explicit risk assessment on this issue; train key staff in dealing with difficult issues and in conflict resolution; develop advocacy campaign around what we are trying to achieve. Director reviews Quarterly exhibition and public programme and takes advice from line manager where necessary; Health & Safety committee reviews risks quarterly; child protection procedures reviewed as part of this. Loss of HEFCE special funding 1 HEFCE provides a separate strand of funding Goals 1,2,3; Enabling for key university museums and galleries. This goals 1, 2, 4, 6 is currently the largest single source of funding for the Museum 2 Failure of Health and Safety systems and procedures Director High 4 Likely 4 16 1 Increased risk The Museum attracts approximately 440K Goals 2 & 3; Enabling Director visitors a year and has a duty of care to maintain goals 2, 3, 4 a safe environment for all users and staff. Failure to do so could lead to increase in number of injuries or risks to visitors, staff and volunteers, including children and vulnerable adults. 3. Decline in Arts Council Funding High 4 Possible 2 8 2 No change Number of injuries and serious near misses to visitors, staff and volunteers; number of incidents relating to children or vulnerable adults; indices of staff well being. Mediu m 2 Probable 4 8 3 High 4 Possible 2 8 4 No change Number of injuries and serious near misses to visitors, staff and volunteers; number of incidents relating to children or vulnerable adults; indices of staff well being. Arts Council is providing major strand of Goals 1,2,3; Enabling support, so decline in funding would be critical goals 1,2,6 Director Change Quarterly reports and feedback; levels of funding awarded 4 Failure of Health and Safety systems and procedures 5 The Museum attracts approximately 380K Goals 2 & 3; Enabling Director visitors a year and has a duty of care to maintain goals 2, 3, 4 a safe environment for all users and staff. Failure to do so could lead to increase in number of injuries or risks to visitors, staff and volunteers, including children and vulnerable adults. Departure of Director Goals 1, 2, 3 Director Mediu m 3 Possible 2 6 5 No change None -- other than one or both Directors announcing departure Mediu m 3 Possible 2 6 6 No change Complaints by members of the public; critical media coverage Management arrangements for Museum and Whitworth mean that the two Directors have to work extremely closely together so that shared staff are managed effectively. This works because of the relationship between the two Directors. If one or both left, management arrangements would need to be reviewed. 6 Damage to reputation of the Museum The Museum is undertaking innovative and Goals 2, 3; Enabling experimental work, to re-think the role of the goals2,3, 4 university museum. This involves taking risks, and accepting that sometimes controversy will be generated. Bad publicity, particularly in relation to a failure of duty of care or inadequate community engagement, could jeopardise future programmes, and harm the image and reputation of the Museum and University. Director N/A Director Page 1 of 2 MM APR 2015 44 University of Manchester Risk Register Level: School The Manchester Museum Date Aug-15 Risk Toward 2020 Risk Owner Implications. Failure to achieve… directly (indirectly) Impact Likelihood Net Rank Risk Change since last report Risk Indicators Current Management Processes and Mitigating Activities Specific Mitigating Due Date Actions No change Attempted break-ins Spate of museum thefts across country has increased risk. Input from crime prevention team at GMP; New staff structure provides a dedicated House Services and security team acoss Museum and Gallery Security improvements instigated following review; and in light of increased thefts from museums Monitoring and reporting of "near-misses" External assessment Ongoing staff training for front of house Action Owner 7 Theft or other human damage to collections The Museum houses valuable collections that Goals 1,2,3 are vulnerable to theft and/or accidental damage Director Mediu m 3 Possible 3 6 7 Improved security in House Services place from Dec Manager 2012; monitoring is ongoing Annual assessment by Arts Council Security Advisor 8 Damage to collections through physical means (fire, water, pests) Goals 1, 2, 3 Director High 4 Rare 1 4 7 No change Significant damage to a collection/collections would have a major impact on the Museum's ability to deliver core activities and would represent major reputational damage to the University. Monitoring reports on environmental/security/heating/pe sts Incidents recorded by House Services Manager/Estates colleagues Hard infrastructural improvements via annual Estates annual Estates programme programme Ongoing House services manager Director Introduction of dedicated cleaning service for the Museum (training completed) Pest management programme, monitored annually Replacement of obsolete fire and security systems 9 Decline in support from University University is the major stakeholder in the Museum so any loss of support would be critical Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Director goals 1, 2, 4,6 High 4 Rare 1 4 9 No change APR feedback and actions; level Museum annual work plan is keyed into University of funding awarded priorities; Deputy President is line manager and provides regular feedback Regular feedback from Deputy President Quarterly Small decline in visitors could be Goal 3; Enabling goal 2 Director accommodated if quality of visit is maintained. Major fall would inflict reputational damage and reduce commercial income.Visitor numbers are important, but all recent targets have been exceeded. 11 Decline in academic use of collections and Museum Low 1 Rare 1 2 10 No change Visitor numbers collected daily; full review undertaken monthly Maintain excellent programme of activities as outlined in Work Plan Reviewed every 6 Director weeks by Leadership Team; visitor numbers reported monthly Mediu m 2 Rare 1 2 11 No change Numbers of UG & PGT courses Meet targets for academic engagement set out in drawing on museum collections current plan, including involvement of academics in and staff; feedback from courses; all major projects feedback from academics using Museum for impact agenda Ensure Museum is involved in University College courses Ongoing Head of Collections discussions; courses in place from Sept 2013 onwards Low 1 Possible 2 2 12 No change Meeting of deadlines for targets and deadlines; sickness levels; staff turnover. 6 weekly review of progress against plan; monthly monitoring of sickness absence 6 weekly and monthly reviews 10 Fall in Visitor Numbers It is essential that the Museum engages with the Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Head of academic mission of the University. Failure to goals 1, 2, 3 Collections do this would lead to decline in support from university, including possible financial reduction. Continue current initiatives which have led to great rises in numbers. Last year broke 400,000 for first time in history. 12 Staff capacity to meet demand for academic and public work Museum has to meet several agendas from a Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Director variety of funding bodies, including University, goals 1, 2, 3 HEFCE, Arts Council, Heritage Lottery Fund. If staff spread themselves too thinly and do not meet demands placed on them, delivery of targets will be affected. Restructuring and sharing of services with the Whitworth has ensured all services continue at an acceptable level, while the Arts Council funded partnership with Manchester Art Gallery has increeased capacity. Museum has own action plan and progress is monitored 6 weekly and inforrmally Director Page 2 of 2 COMPLIANCE STATEMENT MM APR 2015 45 Number of positive responses % Positive response 4 100% Key: 4 100% 4 100% Positive 3 75% 4 100% Negative 4 100% What percentage of staff has provided a Register of Interests return? (inc. nil returns) I understand my legal and management responsibilities for Health & Safety and related matters, as set out in the University's Health & Safety Policy. Have all staff who handle person identifying data (such as personal data related to staff, students and research participants) completed the University's online Data Protection course? Does your Operational Plan contribute to the University's Strategy for Environmental Sustainability? Are you satisfied that your authority to spend (and those exercising it on your behalf) is not compromised by any conflict of interest? Are you satisfied that all necessary internal control processes are in place to ensure that any significant variances from your approved budget can be properly identified and controlled ? Are you confident that you understand your financial management responsibilities? Table 4 2015 Returns from Directors of the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester Library and Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Manchester Museum 95 For Cultural Assets Average 96% N/A STAFF SURVEY RESULTS AND ACTION PLAN MM APR 2015 46 Manchester Museum Staff Survey Questions Q1.1TheUniversity isagoodplaceto work Q1.4I feel value dby the peopl eI work with Q1.10 Overall, Iam satisfie dwith myjob. 98 94 82 82 92 82 2015 Manchester Museum Total University Total Manchester Museum Total University Total 2020 Target 98 94 89 80 86 82 80 least 10 percentage than the University score At points better 5-10 percentage points worse than the University score At least 10 percentage points worse than the University score Q10.3 More could be done tohelp staff prepar efor and cope with change Q10.5I believe positive action willbe taken asa result ofthis survey. Respons erate (%) Q2.6Onthe whole, communicatio ninthe Universityis effective Q4.6My immediat eline manager helpsme finda good work-life balance Q5.1Have youhadan individual performanc eand developmen treviewor probation reviewin thelast12 months? Q7.9Ifeel stressedat work ('Always', 'Frequently' and 'Occasionally' ) Q8.5(c)I feelthe University actsfairly withregard to rewarding exceptional performanc e 77 63 2013 76 67 79 61 87 70 74 63 87 91 88 64 68 59 91 93 78 77 48 56 67 63 74 78 68% 70% 78 59 76% 71% 50% MANCHESTER MUSEUM STAFF SURVEY ACTION PLAN 2015: Name of: Faculty / School / Directorate / Organisational Unit: Manchester Museum MM APR 2015 47 Name of Author: Nicola Walker Date: 24 July 2015 Notes: • Your plan should record those actions which respond directly to local findings, it should list no more than 3-5 achievable actions overall • You may wish to include items from your Staff Survey 2013 outcomes which are still relevant and in progress • Further advice on action planning is available in the supporting document: Staff Survey 2015: Manager’s Guidance for Action Planning Please record your Person principal actions points Responsible Summary survey: feedback Timescale Progress and Evaluation Include dates of meetings in progress, reports and details of how staff are engaged in the process Action Completed Notes from Q9-2 I have a comfortable work space (including temperature, lighting, etc.) (MM score 69 against UoM score 78, MM 2015 score of 69 against 2013 score of 70, a % change downwards of 1%) Look at improvements that could be made to Museum office accommodation of Action/description planned activity: • Session at a Staff Forum’ to generate ideas for improvements for general staff facilities and office spaces • Draw up timetable for improvements to staff facilities and offices and implement • Include lessons learnt session re Nick Merriman Spring 2016 Dean Whiteside Spring 2016 Nicola Walker Sept 2016 Staff forum date in spring 2016 tbc Session with JLT (MM and WAG) MM APR 2015 48 temporary office accommodation in Courtyard Project planning Summary feedback from survey: Q10-3 I do not feel more could be done to help staff prepare for and cope with change (MM score 77 against UoM score 78, MM 2015 score of 22 against 2013 score of 26, a % change downwards of 4%) Investigate ways in which change (in particular during the forthcoming building project) is managed and put in place a change management strategy Action/description of planned activity: • Discuss change management at LT level • Investigate options for external training for all staff and implement as required • Organise series of staff consultation workshops alongside Courtyard Project development and delivery stages Summary survey: feedback Action/description planned activity: Nick Merriman Spring 2016 Date tbc Nick Merriman Spring 2016 Date tbc Nicola Walker Spring 2016 Throughout Dates tbc project period from Q10-5 I believe positive action will be taken as a result of this survey (MM score 67 against UoM score 63, MM 2015 score of 67 against 2013 score of 78, a % change downwards of 11%) Provide Museum staff with a Staff Survey feedback session highlighting how positive action will be taken of MM APR 2015 49 • • • Organise Staff Survey feedback session on overall survey results Outline plans for action planning and commitment to positive action Share details of specific areas for improvement with LT Summary survey: feedback Nick Merriman Oct 2015 Staff Forum Date tbc Nick Merriman Oct 2015 Ditto Nick Merriman Oct 2015 LT meeting Date tbc from Q8-2 Are you aware of the ‘We Get it’ zero tolerance to bullying and harassment campaign? (MM score 65 against UoM score 74) Provide Museum staff with information about the ‘We Get it’ zero tolerance to bullying and harassment campaign of Action/description planned activity: • Provide information to all staff at a Staff Forum and follow up with email and link to UoM information • Include information and links within new staff induction briefings Nicola Walker Dec 2015 Dean Whiteside Dec 2015 Staff Forum Date tbc APPENDICES MM APR 2015 50 Appendix 1: Esteem measures • Manchester Museum won NWBLT Lever Prize for Real Life Science (secondary programme). Awarded £10,000. • Successful application to Happy Museum to develop sustainable programme focusing on campaigning in museums • Inspiring Futures programme was shortlisted for Spirit of Manchester Partnership award. • Hosted the North West Adult Learners’ Week Awards Health and Social Care 2015 with Health Education North West. • Awarded £25,000 from Zochonis Charitable Trust to develop Primary School Outreach programme (inflatable museum!) • Awarded second year funding (£7,000), 'Art of Identity KS3 Humanities Programme' from Children and the Arts. Nick Merriman, Director • Chair of Collections Trust • Chair of Rothesay Pavilion Charity • Member of National Museum Directors’ Conference • Member of Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Capital Committee Jo Beggs, Head of Development for the Manchester Museums Partnership & Steve Walsh, Head of Devlopment • Committee member and Steve Walsh (Head of Development, Manchester Museum) is a member of the North West Development Network, a rapidly growing network for development professionals from across the cultural sector in the region. The group has continued to offer excellent training and networking opportunities for the Development Team this year. Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh are both also members of the Capital Development Network, a networking forum run by Museum Development North West and the Heritage Lottery Fund, for cultural organisations undertaking capital projects. • Jo Beggs is Northern representative to the National Committee of Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy. Steve Walsh is an associate member of the Institute of Fundraising. • Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh represent the Museum at the University’s Development Forum, run in conjunction with the Division of Development and Alumni Relations, which brings together DDAR and cultural assets development staff on a quarterly basis to share prospect information and coordinate approaches to potential funders. Over the course of the past year, the team worked closely with DDAR to support the success of the University’s inaugural Celebration of Philanthropy Day in March and ensure that the Museum was fully represented. This included: liaison with Museum donors regarding their potential induction into the Beyer Circle; arranging curator-led tours of the Museum for donors and hosting an extremely popular stand featuring the work of the MM APR 2015 51 Museum’s Vivarium at the Philanthropy Showcase in University Place (which led DDAR colleagues to reflect that, “the Showcase was an absolute hit with our guests and the success of it was in no small part down to the Manchester Museum and Vivarium.”) • The Museum is also continuing to work with DDAR to highlight the role of donations from alumni and friends of the University, following our receipt of a grant from the University’s Learning Enrichment Fund towards improved study facilities within the Museum’s new Collections Study Centre. • Both Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh regularly respond to requests from other cultural venues and heritage organisations across the UK, to share advice and experiences in good practice in development. Over the past year, this has included: Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; British Museum Future Curators; Bristol Museums; 24:7 Theatre; MBA student from MBS; FACT; The National Football Museum, The Geffrye Museum. • Jo Beggs is a Board Member at Contact Theatre, Manchester. • The Museum’s receipt of 2015’s Lever Prize has enabled the Museum to work individually with the membership of the North West Business Leadership Team, to explore the potential for a range of future collaborative opportunities. In addition, funder visits to the Museum over the past year have included: Arts Council England, The Zochonis Charitable Trust, The Wolfson Foundation, The Headley Trust (of the Sainsbury Family Trusts); The John Ellerman Foundation; as well as individual donors. Nicola Walker, Head of Collections Care and Access • Collection Care representative at the UK Heads of Conservation / Facilities Managers Network • Collection Care / Collections Management representative at the NMDC Heads of Collections Management Network • Judge on the ICON Conservation Awards, Student Conservator of the Year 2015 screening panel • Whitworth representative on UoM Sustainability team Staff Signature working group • IAMFA Europe joint IAMFA / Conservators meeting, London 14-15 May 2015 Irit Narkiss, Conservator • Icon CPD Review reader • Icon Accreditation Pathway mentor • Judge on the ICON Conservation Awards, Conservation in the Community 2015 screening panel • Risky Business? Dealing with damage to collections through active use, at Touchy Feely, Icon Care of Collections Group Sam Sportun, Collection Care Manager MM APR 2015 52 • • • • • • • • • Collection Care & Conservation of Mixed Collections, Key note at Annual School Archivist group conference at Bolton School, 22 June 2015 Sam Sportun and Stephen Devine - Understanding Egyptian collections Innovative display and research projects in museums, Ancient Worlds: Open Data, Mobile Web, Haptics, Digital Touch, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, September 1-2, 2014 Sam Sportun attended Symposium at the British Museum on The care and conservation of human remains with a focus on natural mummies on 20th and 21st April 2015. Sam Sportun working on 2 year Erasmus + funded project. The project AMBAVis aims to be a driving force for the development and the dissemination of tactile and 3D practices in museums, in order to improve cultural access for blind and visually impaired People. Working with European partners Economica in Vienna; Austrian Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted (BSVÖ); German Association for Blind and Visually Impaired People (DBSV e.V.); Trnka n.o. (Slovakia); Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna and Center for Virtual Reality and Visualisation (VRVis) in Vienna. As part of this project visited Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre in Knaresborough and attended two project workshop meetings – both here and in Vienna. Sam Sportun was awarded a STFC Small Award, working in collaboration with Dr Nick Edwards and Dr Jennifer Anne (ICAL Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life ) ‘Bringing research to life: Recreating a 3D stone Archaeopteryx fossil as a digital interactive; where cutting edge science can be released through touch’ Sam Sportun is near the completion of a Click Curate Connect grant funded project awarded by Leicestershire County Council to create a digital touch interactive for use in sessions for visitors with learning disabilities. This work forms part of the Click; Connect; Curate; Create project exploring how LCC can use digital content and technology to increase engagement with museum collections. She is continuing her part-time practice-based PhD to produce 3D touch-sensitive replicas at Loughborough University Supported sessions for Venture Arts and Jo Lisle (volunteer with cerebral palsy) within Conservation undertaking practical sessions Julie’s Bicycle – ACE sustainability partnership MAST - Manchester Arts Sustainability Team Esme Ward, Head of Learning and Engagement: • Member of Advisory Board National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing • Founding member of National Age Friendly Museums Network, led by British Museum. Successful funding application to Baring Foundation to extend this work across UK. • Advisor on Dementia Friendly Culture, Alzheimers Society Arts Group, part of Governments’ Dementia Challenge. • Strategic Lead for Culture, Age Friendly Senior Strategy Group, Manchester City Council • Personal and team commendation for Outstanding Public Engagement, University of Manchester Social Responsibility Awards MM APR 2015 53 • • Invited to attend week-long Arts and Ageing Society Research Visit to Japan, funded by British Council, Baring Foundation and Gulbenkian Foundation. Age Collective founding member, successful bid to Baring Foundation to develop work and extend reach across UK. Esme sits on several other advisory groups and boards, including University’s Community Engagement Strategy Group and Dementia Friendly Steering group. She advises on national policy development, including attending roundtable events on the future of cultural education, review of priorities for Children and Young People (Arts Council) and Alzheimers Society-led dementia friendly culture review. She is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences and seminars, including; Tate International Learning Research event; Playful in execution, serious in intent; Developing a research culture in learning and engagement at the Whitworth and Manchester Museum, Tate London. Reaching new Audiences, Arts Marketing Association, Birmingham. The Future of Cultural Education, curious minds/Arts Council, University of Lancaster. Chad McGitchie, Head of Visitor Team and Visitor Team staff: • Visitor Studies Group (VSG) Committee member • Shortlisted for a RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) award http://www.ridiawards.com/finalists/ Andrea Winn, Curator of Community Exhibitions: • Speaker at the High Five for Volunteers conference in Cumbria, June 2016. • Sits on the Erasmus + Steering group for European funding programmes for adults learning. • Participated in Baring-funded MCC Age Friendly enquiry visit to Swansea. Wendy Gallagher, Arts and Health Programme Manager: • Member of steering panel and advisory group for SICK! Festival • Member of steering group for Dementia Strategy: Raising Standards of Care and Promoting Activities, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. • Successful application for Wendy Gallagher to study MSc Dementia Care, funded by NHS. • Speaker at ENGAGE conference Liverpool Sept 2014 • 10 days consultancy work at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore focused on setting up engagement programmes for people with dementia and their carers. Anna Bunney, Engagement Manager: MM APR 2015 54 • Received University of Manchester Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology: • Awarded special award for outstanding contribution to public engagement, University of Manchester Social Responsibility Awards. (The Lemur Frog Project, conceived, initiated, developed and managed by Andrew Gray was acknowledged as a flagship international conservation project). • Museum hosted the AGM of the British Herpetological Society with Andrew as key speaker (March 2015). • AG accompanied Claes Andren, Nordens Ark’s (Sweden) Scientific Director to Costa Rica and introduced him to other project partners including the Organisation for Tropical Studies Director Carlos de la Rosa and Costa Rican Amphibian Centre (CRARC) Director Brian Kubicki. Full funding for a new research Centre was thus obtained and the station built. • Museum receives recognition in the form of highly complimentary Note Verbale from Costa Rican Embassy in London notifying of Ambassadors support for furthering collaborations with Costa Rican museums and Universities linked to the amphibian conservation work being carried out in the museum’s Vivarium. • Adam Bland was supported with a consortium grant to visit the Atlanta botanical gardens, USA where he spent a week in February 2015 working within their Amphibian Conservation department. Menaka Munro, Learning Manager: • Publication: Creating an ‘Emporium of Wonder’ at Manchester Museum, in Patrick Blessinger , John M. Carfora (ed.) Inquirybased Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators (Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, Volume 1) Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2014 • Continuing in the role of Impact Champion and on Advisory Board for LuCID (ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development). • Invitation to be advisor on bid to the Nuffield Foundation for 'Developing and evaluating strategies in schools and museums for teaching evolution' from the Institute of Education, University of Reading. Elaine Bates, Early Years Coordinator: • Vice chair of Governors at Martenscroft Nursery school and children’s centre and a member of the University governor group (UMSGI) • Research visits from Dallas Museum of Art and Melbourne Museum to look at early years practice. Victoria Grant, Family Programme Coordinator: MM APR 2015 55 • • • Sits on advisory board for Family Arts Festival North West. Speaker at Museums Development North West Conference on Museum’s Autism work and at Leadership programme on engaging visitors in sustainability. Received University of Manchester Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement Henry McGhie, Head of Collections: • Adviser to the University of Oslo Museum Studies Programme • Invited to participate in a workshop on far-reaching interdisiplinarity in Spitzbergen, funded by the Norwegian Research Council • Invited to speak at the University of Oslo on environmental sustainability and museums • Treasurer of the University Museums’ Group • Heads the North West Natural History Museums’ Partnership • Accreditation mentor (natural history) for the Whitaker in Rossendale Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan: • North West rep for the ACCES (Egypt and Sudan SSN • Invited to give a lecture at the University of Basel on Egyptian texts (May 2014) and the British Museum Sackler Colloquium on ‘Statuary in Context’ (July 2016) Bryan Sitch, Deputy Head of Collections: • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) • Serves on Committee of the Society for Museum Archaeology • Hon Secretary of Medieval Section of Yorkshire Archaeological Society Appendix 2: Visitor Statistics for HEFCE MM APR 2015 56 Annual monitoring statement 2015 HEFCE funding for university museums and galleries 1) For 2014-15 your HEI received £1,345,500 in museums and galleries funding to support one or more museums. For each funded museum, where available, provide the following information: • number of higher education visits: 1675 • number of further education visits: 1410 • number of HEI courses drawing on the collection: 165 (117 U of M, 48 elsewhere) • number of loans made (including number of items and whether national or international): 22 loans (of which 1 is international) and totals 909 specimens/objects • percentage of collection documented: 99% • number of website visits: 1,385,977 page views plus 1,079,330 unique page views • number of exhibitions: 8 • number of pupils on school visits: 28,462 • number of public events: 487 events (number of visitors 95,008). • number of visitors: 442,202 Appendix 3: Publications by Museum staff MM APR 2015 57 A culture of inquiry The Manchester Museum is one of the UK’s great museums. Its collections include 4.8 million objects and specimens, both natural sciences and humanities. The MM APR 2015 58 collections are formally recognized by the UK government as being of national and international significance. These are experienced by 450,000 visitors each year, most of whom come from the North West. Our collections, exhibitions and practices form the basis of thousands of enquiries and investigations each year, some of which result in publications in books, journals and magazines. This brochure is intended to provide a listing of publications known to have drawn on our Museum for the period 2005-14, whether by professional researchers, enthusiasts and amateurs (in the original sense of the word, as someone who loves their subject of choice). No doubt some publications have been missed out, especially those in more obscure locations. Nevertheless, this brochure is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which our Museum contributes to knowledge, and appreciation of the world and its inhabitants, as a tool for understanding and a catalyst for creative thinking. The Museum is unusual in several respects. Firstly, it combines a position as the UK’s largest university museum along with a position as Manchester’s civic museum in the traditional model. This hybrid position has been a persistent character of the Museum since it first opened in 1888, and stems from the University of Manchester’s longstanding aspirations as being a university that is accessible to the public and its local community, providing access to the University’s collections, and using them to inspire, educate and entertain the public. While some of the language and ways that this is realized have changed over the years, this core purpose has not. It means that we MM APR 2015 59 have a lot of experience of providing access to collections, whether through exhibitions and temporary exhibitions or through providing access to our stored collections. Secondly, the Museum combines natural sciences and humanities collections. We use this to encourage people to explore the past, present and future of the earth and its inhabitants. We pride ourselves in making collections and collections-related knowledge available, whether to worldwide researchers, students in the University of Manchester and elsewhere, to private enthusiasts, or to schoolchildren. Research is not something that is only done by researchers, but by anyone with curiosity 2 about the world, and the determination to find out more. We want to make it easy for people to take their studies further and we hope this brochure will encourage and inspire people to go on their own journeys of discovery, and further our collective understanding of the world around us. General publications... 3Archaeology (& Numismatics)... 5Botany... 11Earth sciences... 22Egyptology... 28Entomology... 33Exhibitions, events and engagement... 44 Living cultures collections (& Archery)... 48 Museum practice... 50Zoology... 52-61 MM APR 2015 60 3 GENERAL Alberti, S. J. M. M. (2006). Molluscs, mummies and moon rock: the Manchester Museum and Manchester science. Manchester Region History Review, 18, 130. Alberti, S. J. J. M. (2009). Nature and Culture: objects, disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Manchester University Press, Manchester. Alberti, S. J. (2011). The Status of Museums: Authority, Identity, and Material Culture. Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, 51. Gilbert, A. D. (2010). Evoking humanity: Reflections on the importance of university museums and collections. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Committee of ICOM for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), Manchester, 16th–20th September 2008, 1-4 Hussey, J. (2008). Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates: Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy. Countyvise Ltd. Kitson, P. J. (2011). The Strange Case of Dr White and Mr De Quincey: Manchester, Medicine and Romantic Theories of Biological Racism. Romanticism, 17(3), 278- 287. Logunov, D. V. & Merriman, N. (eds.) (2012). Manchester Museum, Window to the World. University of Liverpool Press, Liverpool. Lucas, P. (2007). Charles Darwin,“little Dawkins” and the platycnemic Yale men: introducing a MM APR 2015 61 bioarchaeological tale of the descent of man. Archives of natural history, 34(2), 318-345. Macleod, C. (2010). Samuel JMM Alberti, Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. The British Journal for the History of Science, 43(4), 620-622. Mason, T. (2010). Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Museums Journal, 110(10), 58-59. Parsons, T. (2013). Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Annals of Science, 70(1), 111-114. Swinney, G. N. (2010). Alberti, SJMM Nature and culture: objects, disciplines and the Manchester Museum. Archives of Natural History, 37(2), 367-368. Trustram, M. (2013). The Little Madnesses of Museums. Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience, 187. Merriman, N. (2012). The Manchester Museum. Archaeological Journal,169(sup1), 38-43. MM APR 2015 62 4 ARCHAEOLOGY The more prominent research uses of the archaeology collection include work on Roman material from excavations in Manchester (Gregory 2007); studies initiated by Prof John Prag in connection with the Bronze Age mines at Alderley Edge (Prag and Timberlake 2005; Smith et al. 2011); and work on the material from Sir William Boyd Dawkins’ excavations at Creswell Crags (Jacobi, 2006, 2007a and 2007b; Bahn and Pettit 2009). The late Roger Jacobi’s knowledge of Creswell collections in the UK and in the United States was so detailed it extended to recognizing matching breaks or joins between fragments of objects held by different institutions. It is particularly gratifying to report the sourcing of significant collections of and Romano-British pottery from excavations at Gayton Thorpe in Norfolk during the 1920s (Sitch 2010; Sitch and Harlow 2011) and human remains of early Medieval date from Heronbridge, near Chester (Sitch 2011). Both collections had frustrated earlier attempts to provenance them to such an extent that, in the case of the Gayton Thorpe pottery, sherds had been distributed to archaeological societies in Manchester and institutions abroad as unprovenanced handling material for teaching purposes. In the case of the Heronbridge remains, the material went from being under consideration for disposal to being displayed in the Museum’s Ancient Worlds displays (Sitch 2013a, 2013b) and being included in a study of the Anglo-Saxon world by a University of Manchester academic (Higham and Ryan 2013). One of the more unusual research requests came from the School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester and involved x-raying an edentulate human mandible in water in order to simulate MM APR 2015 63 the effect of x-raying an elderly live patient. The x-rays were used in the training of dental students. Bahn, P. & Pettitt, P. (2009). Britain's Oldest Art: The Ice Age Cave Art of Creswell Caves. English Heritage, Swindon. Bonfante, L. (2006). Etruscan inscriptions and Etruscan religion. Pp. 9-26 in N.T.de Grummond & E.Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans, University of Texas Press, Austin. Bouwman, A. S., Brown, K. A., Prag, A.J.N.W. and T. A. Brown (2008). Kinship between burials from Grave Circle B at Mycenae revealed by ancient DNA typing. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 2580-84 (available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008. 04.010). Bouwman, A., Brown, K. A. and A. J. N. W. Prag (2010). Middle Helladic Kinship : Families, Faces and DNA at Mycenae. In Philippa- Touchais, Anna, Touchais, Gilles, 5 Voutsaki, Sofia and Wright, James (eds), Mesohelladika: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age (Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 = Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52, 453-9. Bouwman, A.S., Brown, T.A., Chilvers, E.R,. Arnott, R. and Prag, A.J.N.W. (2009). ‘Kinship in MM APR 2015 64 Aegean prehistory? Ancient DNA in human bones from mainland Greece and Crete’, Annual of the British School at Athens 104, 293-309. Chilvers, E.R, Bouwman, A.S., Brown, K.A., Arnott R.G., Prag, A.J.N.W., Brown, T.A. (2008). Ancient DNA in human bones from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 2707- 14 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008. 04.019). Dickinson, O.T.P.K., Papazoglou- Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A. and Prag, A.J.N.W. (2012).Mycenae Revisited Part 4: Assessing the New Data. Annual of the British School at Athens 107, 161-88 (doi:10.1017/S0068245412000056) . Gregory, Richard A. (2007). Roman Manchester: The University of Manchester's Excavations within the Vicus 2001-5. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Harlow, N. and Sitch, B. (2011). New light on an old excavation archive: material from Gayton Thorpe in the Manchester Museum. Museum Archaeologists News, 50, 1-4. Higham, N., and Ryan, M. J. (2013). The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press. Høgenhaven, J. (2007). George J. Brooke and Philip R. Davies (eds), Copper Scroll Studies. Journal of Semitic Studies, 52(2), 393-394. Jacobi, R. (2006). Some observations on the non-flint lithics from Creswell Crags. Lithics, 25, 3964. Jacobi, R. M. (2007) Early Upper Palaeolithic Artefacts, Beedings, West Sussex and the Context of Similar Finds. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 73, 229-325. MM APR 2015 65 Jacobi, R. M. (2007). The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire. Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European Context, 71- 111. Jacobi, R. M., and Higham, T. F. G. (2011). The British earlier Upper Palaeolithic: settlement and chronology. The ancient human occupation of Britain, 181-222. Manby, T. G. (2007). Ehenside Tarn and the neolithic pottery of North-Western England. Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Extra Series, 33, 61-97. 6 Musgrave, J., Prag, A.J.N.W., Neave, R., Fox, R.L., White, H. 2010. The Occupants of Tomb II at Vergina. Why Arrhidaios and Eurydice must be excluded. International Journal of Medical Studies, 7(6):s1-s15. doi:10.7150/ijms.7.s1. Available from http://www.medsci.org/v07p00s1.ht m Neave, R.A.H. and Prag, A.J.N.W. 2005. The skull as the armature of the face: reconstructing ancient faces. In Brady, M. and Bowman, A.K. (eds), Proceedings of the joint Royal Society/British Academy symposium "Artefacts and Images of the Ancient World", 6-7 December 2000). London: British Academy Occasional Paper 4, 131- 43. Pantos, E., Kockelmann, W., Chapon, L.C., Lutterotti, L., Bennet, S.L., Tobin, M.J., Mosselmans, J.F.W., Pradell, T., Salvado, N., Butí, S., Garner, R., Prag, A.J.N.W. (2005). Neutron and X- ray characterisation of the metallurgical properties of a 7th century BC Corinthian-type bronze helmet. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 239, 16-26. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A., Musgrave, J.H., Neave, R.A.H., Smith, D. and Prag, MM APR 2015 66 A.J.N.W. (2009). Mycenae revisited Part 1. The human remains from Grave Circle A: Stamatakis, Schliemann and two new faces from Shaft Grave VI. Annual of the British School at Athens 104, 233- 77. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A., Musgrave, J.H. and Prag, A.J.N.W. (2010). ‘Mycenae revisited Part 3. The human remains from Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Behind the masks: a study of the bones of Shaft Graves I–V’, Annual of the British School at Athens 105, 157-224. Prag, A.J.N.W. (2005). Chapter 1. Introduction: The Alderley Edge Landscape Project. In Timberlake, Simon and Prag, A.J.N.W. (eds), The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Oxford, British Archaeological Reports: British Series 396 and Oxford, J & E Hedges), 1- 5. Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010a). Lost and Found: the Tale of a Miner’s Shovel. In Sekunda. N. (ed.), Ergasteria: Works presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th Birthday. Gda sk: Gda sk University. Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010b). Return of a Greek youth. Minerva 21.5, 7. Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010c). Hermes the Goat-carrier: Arcadian Enigma. Minerva 21.5, 16-19. Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010d). Foreword to E. C. Casella and S. K. Croucher, The Alderley Sandhills Project. Manchester: Manchester University Press, xiii-xvi. Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010e). The Colouring of the Ruthwell and 7 Bewcastle Crosses (Oxford University Project Woruldhord: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldh MM APR 2015 67 ord/contributions/369). Prag, A. J. N. W. (2012). Foreword to Paolo Fundarò, The Eternal Gaze (Lo Sguardo Eterno). Rome: Espera, 3. Prag, A. J. N. W. and R. Neave (2010). Sibling semblance: Mausolus and his sisters. In MacFarlane, Fiona and Morgan, Catherine, Exploring Ancient Sculpture. Essays in honour of Geoffrey Waywell (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, Supplement 104), 109-20. Prag, A.J.N.W. and Timberlake, S. (2005). Chapter 15. Conclusion: a Summary and Future Prospects. In Timberlake, Simon and Prag, A.J.N.W. (eds), The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Oxford, British Archaeological Reports: British Series 396 and Oxford, J & E Hedges), 262-5. Prag, A. J. N. W., Garner, R., Pantos, E., Bennett, S. L., Mosselmans, J. F. W., Tobin, M. J., Kockelmann, W., Chapon, L.C., Salvado, N. and Pradell, T. (2008). How the Greeks Got Ahead: Technological Aspects of Manufacture of a Corinthian Type Hoplite Bronze Helmet from Olympia. In Paipetis, S.A. (ed.) Science and Technology in Homeric Epics (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, August 28-30th, 2006, Olympia, Greece). Dordrecht: Springer, Netherlands, 205-20. Prag, K. (2006). Defensive Ditches in Ottoman Fortifications in Bilad al- Sham. Pp. 295-306 in H. Kennedy (ed.) Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria. From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period. Brill, Leiden. Prag, K. (2007a). Water strategies in the Iktanu region of Jordan. Pp. 405-412 in Studies in the MM APR 2015 68 History and Archaeology of Jordan, Vol. IX. Department of Antiquities, Amman. Prag, K. (2007b). Jerusalem in the third and second millennia B.C. The archaeological evidence. Pp. 54-68 in Z. Kafafi and R. Schick (eds.), Jerusalem before Islam. British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1699. Prag, K. (2008). Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961- 1967. Volume V. Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem. Levant Supplementary Volume 7. Oxbow, Oxford. Prag, K. (2009a). The late third millennium in the Levant: a reappraisal of the north-south divide. Pp. 80-89 in P.J. Parr (ed.) The Levant in Transition. Proceedings of a Conference held at the British Museum on 20-21 April 2004. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual IX. Maney, Leeds (UK). Prag, K. (2009b). The foothill cemeteries behind Iktanu: the vanishing landscape. Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, 8 X, 703-8. Amman Prag, K. (2011). The domestic unit at Tall Iktanu, its derivations and functions. Pp. 55-76 in M. Chesson (ed.) Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant. Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. Prag, K. (2012a). Footbaths: Secular, Ritual and Symbolic. Pp. 361-371 in M. Gruber, S. Aḥituv, G. Lehmann & Z. Talshir (eds.) All the Wisdom of the East. Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and History in Honor of Eliezer D. Oren. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 255. Academic Press, and MM APR 2015 69 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Fribourg and Göttingen. Prag, K. (2012b). Shu'aib/Hisban Project. CBRL 2012, Bulletin 7, 52- 53. Prag, K. (2014a). The Southern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age. Ch. 26, pp. 388400 in M. Steiner & A. Killebrew (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant c. 8000332 BCE. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Prag, K. (2014b). 'Tell Barakat' Revisited: a kernos ring from central Jordan in E. Gubel & I.M. Swinnen (eds.) From Gilead to Edom. Studies in the Archaeology of Jordan in honor of Denyse HomèsFredericq. Akkadica Supplementum, Brussels. Salvadó, N., Butí, S., Tobin, M.J., Pantos, E., Prag, A.J.N.W., Pradell, T. 2005. Advantages of the use of SR-FTIR microspectroscopy: applications to Cultural Heritage. Analytical Chemistry 77(11), 3444- 51. Sayer, D. (2010). Who's afraid of the dead? Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo. World Archaeology, 42(3), 481-491. Sitch, B.J. (2009). Comings and goings from the Museum. Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation Newsletter, 1(2), 5. Sitch, B.J. (2011). Museums, Human Remains and Disposals. Pp. 120-147 in P. Davies (ed.) Museums and the Disposals Debate. MuseumsEtc, London. Sitch, B.J. (2012) Archaeological re-discoveries at the Manchester Museum. Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation Newsletter, 1(8), 10-11. MM APR 2015 70 Sitch, B.J. (2012). Rediscovering a long-lost battlefield assemblage from Heronbridge, nr Chester. Museum Archaeologists News, 52 (Spring), 1-4. Smith, A.D., Green, D.I., Charnock, J.M., Pantos, E., Timberlake, S . & Prag, A.J.N.W. (2011). Natural preservation mechanisms at play in a Bronze Age wooden shovel found in the copper mines of Alderley Edge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(11), 3029-3037. 9 Smith, K. (2011). The Alderley Sandhills Project: an archaeology of community life in (post)Industrial England. Journal of Design History, 24(1), 91-92. Thorn, J. C. (2005). The Necropolis of Cyrene: Two Hundred Years of Exploration. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome. Timberlake, S. (2005). Stone Mining Tools From Alderley Edge. A re-examination of hammerstones in the collections of The Manchester Museum and from archaeological excavations on Engine Vein (1997). British Archaeological Reports British Series, 396, 58. Timberlake, S. and A. J. N. W. Prag (eds) (2005). The Archaeology of Alderley Edge: Survey, Excavation and Experiment in an Ancient Mining Landscape. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, British Series 396 and Oxford: J & E Hedges). Numismatics Butcher, K. & Ponting, M. (2012). The Beginning of the End? The Denarius in the Second Century, The Numismatic Chronicle 172, 63- 83. MM APR 2015 71 Butcher, K. & Ponting, M. (2014). The metallurgy of Roman silver coinage: from the reform of Nero to the reform of Trajan. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Sugden, K., & Stoddart, P. Empire and coinage: a contribution to the debate on colonialism ICOMON eProceedings (Frankfurt, 2006) 1 (2008), 1-15. Sugden, K. & Jones, I. (2011). Dies of Henri le Rus. British Numismatic Journal, 81, 234-7. Sugden, K. & Stoddart, P. (2012) 20th century British campaign medals: a continuation of the 19th century? Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress, 2009, 1965-72. Sugden, K. & Jones, I. (2012) The Prestbury Civil War hoard. British Numismatic Journal 82, 133145. 10 BOTANY Over the last 10 years, 119 articles, books and chapters have used the botanical collections of the Manchester Museum. Of these, almost half (47%) have been studies of mosses, liverworts or hornworts, while studies of flowering plants and ferns account for another 38% of the total. Most of these publications are taxonomic reviews (including phylogenetics) or studies of distribution and conservation status, but there are also species identification keys, biodiversity checklists and ecotoxicological testing. Research into the flora of the British Isles tends to focus on taxonomically challenging groups such as apomicts and hybrids e.g. Hieracium (Rich, 2005MM APR 2015 72 2011), Sorbus (Price & Rich, 2007) and Juncus (Wilcox, 2009-2014). However, the collections have world-wide significance and many publications result from international loans; this is particularly true for neotropical liverworts and hornworts. The Manchester Museum’s collection of Richard Spruce’s (1817-1893) South American liverworts is rich in type specimens and the number of resulting publications is an indication of their continuing scientific importance (e.g. the publications of Reiner-Drehwald and colleagues, 2005 and 2013). While many studies make use of the existing historic collections, scientific research can also generate material such as voucher specimens which are deposited in the herbarium to allow for future verification (e.g. AlGendy et al., 2010; Jepson et al., 2012; and Rowntree et al., 2010). In addition to the taxonspecific studies, a further 13% of the total publications cover the collectors themselves and the functions of herbaria. It is not surprising that the herbarium collection is a rich source of information for historical research about horticulture (e.g. Brooks, 2010; Golding, 2010), natural history collectors (e.g. Gill, 2012; Hodkinson & Stewart, 2012; Seaward, 2007) and their societies and exchange networks (Groom et al., 2014; Middleton, 2014). However, publications also draw on the Manchester Museum collection for work into modern herbarium practices such as generating large botanical datasets (Castañeda Álvarez et al., 2011), issues of health and safety (Fellowes et al., 2011) and mass digitization through on-line access (Wolstenholme and Humphrey, 2006). Collectors, herbarium history and practiceBaker, R. A. (2007). In search of a naturalist-natural history in Warrington from 1870 to 1910 and the records and collections of Linnaeus Greening (1855-1927). Archives of Natural History, 34(2), 235-243. Castañeda Álvarez, N.P., Vincent, H.A., Eastwood, R.J. & Maxted, N. (2011). Chapter 14: MM APR 2015 73 Ecographic Studies. In: Guarino, L., Ramantha Rao, V. & Goldberg, E. (eds.), Collecting Plant Diversity: Technical guidelines. 2011 update, Biodiversity International, Rome. Brooks, A. (2011). A Veritable Eden. Oxbow Books, Oxford. 11 in Dudley, S. H. (ed.). Narrating objects, collecting stories: essays in honour of Professor Susan M. Pearce. Routledge, Abingdon. Hodkinson, I.D. & Steward, A. (2012). The Three-Legged Society. The lives of the Westmorland naturalists and friends George Stabler, James M. Barnes and Joseph A. Martindale. Centre for MM APR 2015 74 North-West Regional Studies. Fellowes, J. W., Pattrick, R. A. D., Green, D. I., Dent, A., Lloyd, J. R., & Pearce, C. I. (2011). Use of biogenic and abiotic elemental selenium nanospheres to sequester elemental mercury released from mercury contaminated museum specimens. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 189(3), 660-669. Galloway, D.J. (2013). Contributions to a history of New Zealand lichenology 4. Richard Helms (1842-1914). Australian Lichenology 73, 12-23. Gill, S. (2012). Leopold Hartley Grindon. Micro-Miscellanea Manchester Microscopical and MM APR 2015 75 Natural History Newsletter, 81. Golding, Y. (2010). Messrs. W & J Birkenhead: ferns a specialty. Pteridologist, 5(3), 170. Grayer, S. (2009). Is there a viable future for herbaria in British Museums? NatSCA News, 17, 14- 28. Groom, Q. J., O'Reilly, C., & Humphrey, T. (2014). Herbarium specimens reveal the exchange network of British and Irish botanists, 1856-1932. New Journal of Botany, 4(2), 95-103. Groves, E. W. (2013). Archibald Menzies's visit to King George Sound, Western Australia, September-October 1791. Archives of Natural History, 40(1), 139-148. Hill, K. (2012). "He knows me... but not at the museum": women, natural history collecting and museums, 1880-1914. Pp. 184-195 King, D.Q. (2009). A checklist of sources of the botanical illustrations in the Grindon Herbarium, The Manchester Museum: additional sources. Archives of Natural History, 36(2), 354-356. Middleton, R. (2014). The Royal Horticultural Society's 1864 botanical competition. Archives of Natural History, 41(1), 25-44. Seaward, M. R. D. (2007). Richard Spruce's contribution to lichenology. Bibliotheca Lichenologica, 95, 105. Wolstenholme, L. & Humphrey, T. (2006). Documenting herbarium specimens from home – can you help? BSBI News, 103, 41. Flowering plants and ferns MM APR 2015 76 Allen, D. E. (2005). Additional Irish records of Rubus species from reAl-Gendy, A. A., El-Gindi, O. D., Hafez, A. S., & Ateya, A. M. (2010). Glucosinolates, volatile constituents and biological activities of Erysimum corinthium Boiss.(Brassicaceae). Food Chemistry, 118(3), 519-524. 12 examination of herbaria. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 176-178. biodiversity: Hieracium radyrense (Asteraceae), Radyr Hawkweed. Watsonia, 25, 403-407. Jepson, P., Lubienski, M., Llewellyn, P. & Viane, R. (2013). Hybrids within Equisetum subgenus Hippochaete in England and Wales. New Journal of Botany, 3(1), 47-58. Jepson, P., Welch, D. & MM APR 2015 77 Bailey, J.P. (2012). A new Myosotis hybrid, Myosotis x bollandica (Boraginaceae). New Journal of Botany, 2(1), 2-8. Knapp, A. (2010). Ranunculus × hiltonii still present on Copthorne Common, E. Sussex. BSBI news, 115, 34-35. McVeigh, A., Carey, J.E., & Rich, T.C.G. (2005). Chiltern Gentian, Gentianella germanica (Willd.) Börner (Gentianaceae) in Britain: distribution and current status. Watsonia, 25, 339-367. Price, D.T. & Rich, T.C.G. (2007). One-way introgressive hybridisation between Sorbus aria and S. torminalis (Rosaceae) in southern Britain. Watsonia 26, 419-432. Ames, M. & Spooner, D.M. (2008). DNA from herbarium specimens settles a controversy about origins of the European potato. American Journal of Botany, 95, 252-257. El-Gazzar, A. & Rabei, S. (2008). MM APR 2015 78 Taxonomic assessment of five numerical methods and its implications on the classification of Hyptis s.l.(Labiatae). International Journal of Botany, 4, 85-92. Flores-Moreno, H., Garcia-Trevino, E.S., Letten, A.D. Moles, A.T. (2014). In the beginning: phenotypic change in three invasive species through their first two centuries MM APR 2015 79 since introduction. Biological Invasions, 1-11. Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. (2009). Lectotypification of Dryopteris pseudomas based on Wollaston’s specimen of D. affinis. Fern Gazette, 18(6), 284-285. Hutchinson, G. & Rich, T.C.G. (2205). Conservation of Britain’s Molina, A., Acedo, C., & Llamas, F. (2008). (1817) Proposal to conserve the name Carex leersii FW Schultz against C. leersii Willd. and C. chabertii Gallo, L. (2008). Taxonomic notes (Cyperaceae). Taxon, 57(2), 648MM APR 2015 80 on some species of Sedum ser. 649. Rupestria Berger (Crassulaceae) and typification of their names. Webbia, 63(2), 169-173. Gibby, M. (2013). Ferns and Conservation. The Bulletin of the British Pteridological Society, 7(6), 477-482. Goyder, D. (2007). 585. Asclepias MM APR 2015 81 barjoniifolia. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 24(2), 93-100. Pujadas-Salvà, A.J. and Argiumbau, P.F.I. (2008). A new species of Orobanche (Orobanchaceae) from the Balearic Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 158, 722–729. 13 Pujadas A.J, Plaza L, Sánchez E, Triano E, López M, Burgarella C, Rubiales D, Román B, Reyes E & Ivorra A. (2007). El género Orobanche L. (Orobanchaceae) en Andalucía. Acta Botanica Malacitana, 32, 91-126. MM APR 2015 82 Rabei, S., & El-Gazzar, A. (2007). Computer-generated keys to species of Hyptis sl(Labiatae). Taeckholmia, 27, 11-39. Rich, T., Houston, L., Robertson, A. & Proctor, M. (2010). Whitebeams, Rowans and Service Trees of Britain and Ireland. A monograph of British and Irish Sorbus. BSBI, London. Rich, T.C.G., Lockton, A.J. & Parnell, J. (2005). Distribution of the Irish Whitebeam, Sorbus hibernica E.F. Warb (Rosaceae). Watsonia, 25, 369-380. Rich, T. C., Mardon, D., Curtis, I., Heyward, S. J., Heyward, V. G., McKean, D. R., Hall, T., Harris, S., MM APR 2015 83 O’Rourke, A., Coawn, R.S. & Fay, M. F. (2005). Is the enigma a variation? Sagina boydii FB White (Caryophyllaceae), Boyd's pearlwort. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society,147(2), 203-211. Rich, T.C.G. (2005). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Hieracium neocoracinum (Asteraceae), Craig Cerrig-gleisiad Hawkweed. Watsonia, 25, 283-287. Rich, T.C.G. (2006). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Hieracium nriddelsdellii (Asteraceae), Craig Riddelsdell’s Hawkweed. Watsonia, 26, 139-144. Rich, T.C.G. (2011). Hieracium maccoshiana, a new Scottish hawkweed related to H. dovrense (section Alpestria, Asteraceae). PhytoKeys, 3, 1-8. Rich, T.C.G., Edward, B. and Pearman, D.A. (2007). Hieracium portlandicum (Asteraceae), a new endemic hawkweed from the Isle of Portland, England related to Hieracium leyanum. Watsonia, 26, 451-461. Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2008). The status of Hieracium arranense and H. sannoxense (Asteraceae), two endemic hawkweeds from the Isle of Arran. Watsonia, 27, 119-125. Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2010). Conservation status of two British members of Hieracium MM APR 2015 84 section Alpestria: Hieracium mirandum and H. solum (Asteraceae). Watsonia, 28, 141- 144. Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2010). Taxonomy and conservation status of Hieracium vinifolium (including H. kintyricium), Claret-leaved Hawkweed (Asteraceae). Watsonia, 28, 151- 156. Rich, T.C.G., Hjertson, M. & Moberg, R. (2006). Typification of some T. Hedlund names in Sorbus L. (Rosaceae). Taxon, 55(1), 203- 206. 14 Rich, T.C G., McDonnell, E J. & Lledó, M D. (2008). Conservation of Britain's biodiversity: the case of Hieracium cyathis Smith, P.H. & Lockwood, P.A. (2011). Grazing is the key to the conservation of Gentianella campestris (L.) Börner (Gentianaceae): evidence from the north Merseyside sand-dunes. New Journal of Botany, 1(2), 127-136. MM APR 2015 85 taxa. Botanical Journal of the Rich, T.C.G., Motley, G.S. & Kay, Q.O.N. (2005). Welsh endemic Sorbus species. Watsonia, 25, 381-388. Sawtschuk, J. & Rich, T.C.G. (2008). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Status of the two Wye Valley endemics Hieracium pachyphylloides, Carboniferous Hawkweed and H. vagicola, Tutshill Hawkweed. Watsonia, 27, 109-118. Sierra, S.E.C., van Welzen, P.C. amd Slik, J.W.F. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Mallotus section Philippinensis (former section Rottlera – Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia and Thailand. Blumea, 50(2), 221-248. Sierra, S.E.C, Aparicio, M., Gebraad, M.J.H, Kulju, K.K.M. & van Welzen, P.C. (2007). The mopholoical range in Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) and a taxonomic revision of its section Rottleropsis (including Axenfeldia) in Malesia, Thailand and Africa. Blumea, 52(1), 21-113. Smith, P. H. (2009). Distribution, status and ecology of Blysmus compressus (L.) Panz. ex Link on the Sefton coast sand-dunes, Merseyside. Watsonia, 27(4), 339. Thomas, S., Bailey, J.P. and Rich, T.C.G. (2011). Pollen and chromosome studies in Hieracium sect. Alpestria (Asteraceae). Nordic Journal of Botany, 29(2), 244-248. Typification and synonymy of (Asteraceae) MM APR 2015 86 and its relation to other apomictic Linnean Society, 156, 669–680. Rivero-Guerra, A. O. (2010). names in Santolina (Asteraceae: Anthemideae) published by Hoffmannsegg and Link. Nordic Journal of Botany, 28(5), 581-587. Valcárcel, V. & Vargas, P. (2010). Quantitative morphology and species delimitation under the MM APR 2015 87 general lineage concept: Optimisation for Hedera (Araliaceae). American Journal of Botany, 97(9), 1555-1573. Wilcox, M. (2009). Juncus fasciculatus Koch (?)’ in Cliffe Castle Museum Keighley, Skipton. BSBI News, 112, 5-7. Wilcox, M. (2010). A novel approach to the determination and identification of Juncus x diffusus Hoppe and J. x kern-reichgeltii Jasen & Wacht. ex Reichg. Watsonia, 28, 43-56. Wilcox, M. (2011). Hybrid rushes in the U.K. – sterility and fertility. BSBI News, 116, 21-27. 15 Wilcox, M. (2011). Epilobium tournefortii Michalet. BSBI News, 116, 70-76. Wilcox, M. (2012). Neglected couch: the enigma of Elytrigia campestris ssp. maritima – a confused couch! BSBI News, 119, 25-27. Wilcox, M. (2014). Juncus subgenus Juncus, Section Iridifolii in Britain. BSBI News, 125, 35-36. MM APR 2015 88 Liverworts, mosses and hornworts De Moura, O.S., Ilkiu-Borges, A.L., Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2012). A new species of Lejeunea Lib. (Lejeuneaceae) from Low Várzea forest in lower Amazon (Pará, Brazil). Nova Hedwigia, 95(1-2), 197-202. Alvarenga, L. D. P., Lisboa, R. C. L., & Tavares, A. C. C. (2007). New liverwort records for the Caxiuanã National Forest Pará State, Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasilica, 21(3), 649-656. MM APR 2015 89 Bastos, C.J.P. (2012). Taxonomy and distribution of Cheilolejeunea aneogyna (Spruce) A. Evans (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta). Acta Botanica Brasilica, 26(3), 709- 713. Crandall-Stotler, B.J., Stotler, R.E., Doyle, W.T. & Forrest, L.L. (2008). Species of the Phaeorceros hallii (Austin) Prosk. – Phaeoceros pearsonii (M. Howe) Prosk. Complex and the systematic affinities of Paraphymatoceros Hässel. Fieldiana Botany, 47, 213- 238. Feldberg, K., Groth, H., Wilson, R., Schäfer-Verwimp, A. & Heinrichs, J. (2004). Cryptic speciation in Herbertus (Herbertaceae, Jungermanniopsida): range and morphology of Herbertus sendtneri inferred from nrITS sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 249(3-4), 247-261. Feldberg, K. & Heinrichs, J. (2005). On the identity of Herbertus borealis (Jungermanniopsida: Herbertaceae) with notes on the possible origin of H. sendtneri. Journal of Bryology, 27(4), 343350. Marchantiophyta). Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 421-450. Daniels, A. E. D. (2010). Checklist of the bryophytes of Tamil Nadu, India. Archive for Bryology, 65, 1117. MM APR 2015 90 Engel, J. J., & Merrill, G. S. L. (2010). Studies on New Zealand Hepaticae. 39–55. More new taxa, combinations, typifications and synonymy in Plagiochila from New Zealand (Plagiochilaceae). Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 501-517. Crandall-Stotler, B., Stotler, R.E., Zhang, L. & Forrest, L.L. (2010). On the morphology, systematics and phylogeny of Noteroclada (Noterocladaceae, Feldberg, K. & Heinrichs, J. (2006). MM APR 2015 91 A taxonomic revision of Herbertus (Jungermanniidae: Herbertaceae) in the Neotropics based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA and morphology. Botanical 16 Journal of the Linnean Society, 151(3), 309–332. Feldberg, K., Hentschel, J., Wilson, R., Rycroft, D.S., Glenny, D. & Heinrichs, J. (2007). Phylogenetic biogeography of the leafy liverwort Herbertus (Jungermanniales, Herbertaceae) based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: correlation between genetic variation and geographical distribution. Journal of Biogeography, 34(4), 688-698. and Crete. Journal of Bryology, 28(4), 357-359. Holyoak, D. T. (2010). The bryophytes of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. CISFBR. MM APR 2015 92 Ilkiu-Borges, A.L. & Lisboa, R.C.L. (2004). The Cyclolejeunea, Haplolejeunea, Harpalejeunea, Lepidolejeunea and Rectolejeunea genera (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae) in the Ferreira Penna Research Station, Pará, Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasilica, 18(3), 537-553. Ilkiu-Borges, A.L. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Echinocolea (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae). Nova Hedwigia, 80(1-2), 45-71. Feldberg, K., Váňa, J., Long, D.G., Shaw, A.J., Hentschel, J. & Heinrichs, J. (2010). A phylogeny of Adelanthaceae (Jungermanniales, Marchantiophyta) based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers with comments on classification, cryptic speciation and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 55(1), 293-304. Freire, A. V., & Stotler, R. E. (2007). Typifications of the names of some Latin American species of Fossombronia (Fossombroniaceae). The Bryologist, 110(4), 817-823. Hässel de Menéndez, G.G.(2006). Paraphymatoceros Hässel, Gen. Nov. (Anthocerotophyta). Phytologia, 88(2), 208-211. Hässel de Menéndez, G. G. (2006). Aneura polyclada, A. polyptera and A. denticulata (Aneuraceae) from South America, overlooked names since 1886. The Bryologist, 109(1), 33-37. Hedderson, T. A., & Blockeel, T. L. (2006). Oncophorus dendrophilus, a new moss species from Cyprus Melendez, J.U. (2008). Monograph of Frullania subgenus meteoriopsis (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta). Caldasia, 30(1), 49-94. MM APR 2015 93 Pócs, T. & Bernecker, A. (2013). New or little known epiphyllous liverworts, XIX. Acta Botanica Hungarica, 55(3-4), 385-391. Pócs, T., Bernecker, A. & Tixier, P. (2014). Synopsis and key to species of neotropical Cololejeunea (Lejeuneaceae). Acta Ilkiu-Borges A. L. (2006). A taxonomic monograph of the genus Prionolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida). Göttingen. Cuvillier. Juslén, A. (2006). Revision of Asian Herbertus (Herbertaceae, Marchantiophyta). Annales MM APR 2015 94 Botanici Fennici, 43(6), 409. 17 Botanica Hungarica, 56(1-2), 185- 226. Porley, R.D. & Edwards, S. (2010). Leptodontium proliferum Herzog (Bryopsida: Pottiaceae), new to Europe. Journal of Bryology, 32(1), 46-50. Reeb, C. & Bardat, J. (2014). Studies on African Riccardia types and related material. Cryptogamie, Biologie, 35(1), 47-75. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E. (2005). On Lejeunea rotundifolia and Dicladolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida). Systematic Botany, 30(4), 687-692. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2005). On Amphilejeunea and Cryptogynolejeunea, two small genera of Lejeuneaceae (Junngermanniopsida), and two common Neotropical Lejeunea species. Nova Hedwigia, 81(3-4), 394-412. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2006). Type studies on Neotropical Lejeuneaceae (Junngermanniopsida). Cheilolejeunea and Lepidolejeunea. Nova Hedwigia, 83(3-4), 473-482. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2008). Leujeunea oligoclada and L. rionegrensis (Lejeuneaceae) in tropical America: new data on morphology and geographical distribution. Nova Hedwigia 87(1- 2), 175184. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2010). A taxonomic revision of Lejeunea deplanta (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) from Tropical America. Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 519-532. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2011). Studies on MM APR 2015 95 Neotropical Lejeuneaceae (Jungermanniopsida). New Synonyms and Ceratolejeunea temnantha (Spruce) comb. Nov. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 32(2), 95- 100. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., Allen, N. S., & Chung, C. (2013). New combinations and synonyms in neotropical Lejeuneaceae (Marchantiophyta), with description of Lejeunea tamasii, a new species from Barro Colorado island, Panama. Polish Botanical Journal, 58(2), 419-426. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & Grolle, R. (2012). Review of the genus Rectolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, MM APR 2015 96 Marchantiophyta). Nova Hedwigia, 95(3-4), 451-482. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & Grolle, R. (2013). "Review of the genus Harpalejeunea (Lejeuneaceae) including the description of H. grandis, a new species from the paramos of Colombia." Journal of Bryology, 21(1), 31-45. MM APR 2015 97 Reiner-Drehwald, M. E. & Ilkiu- Borges, A. L. (2007) Lejeunea huctumalcensis, a widely distributed Lejeuneaceae from the Neotropics, and it’s relation to Ceratolejeunea. The Bryologist, 110(3), 465-474. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & SchäferVerwimp, A. (2008). Lejeunea oligoclada and L. rionegrensis 18 (Lejeuneaceae) in tropical America: new data on morphology and geographical Inflatolejeunea, Lejeunea species F. (2014). Advances in the distribution. Nova Hedwigia, 87(1MM APR 2015 98 knowledge of South African Riella 2), 175-184. with eplicate perianths and Lejeunea talamancensis sp. nov. from Costa Rica (Lejeuneaceae). Nova Hedwigia, 87(3-4), 387-420. Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., Schmidt, A. R., & Heinrichs, J. (2012). The genus Lejeunea in Miocene amber MM APR 2015 99 from the Dominican Republic. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 33(1), 33-38. Renner, M. A. (2013). Lejeunea subelobata and Lejeunea drummondii (Jungermanniopsida) in Australasia. Polish Botanical Journal, 58(1), 193-203. Rowntree, J. K., Cowan, R. S., Leggett, M., Ramsay, M. M., & Fay, M. F. (2010). Which moss is which? Identification of the threatened moss Orthodontium gracile using molecular and morphological techniques. Conservation Genetics, 11(3), 1033-1042. Shotbolt, L., Büker, P., & Ashmore, M. R. (2007). Reconstructing temporal trends in heavy metal deposition: assessing the value of herbarium moss samples. Environmental pollution, 147(1), MM APR 2015 100 120-130. So, M.L. (2004). Metzgeria (Metzgeriaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Africa. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 42(2), 271-292. So, M. L. (2005). Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Latin America, New Zealand Journal of Botany, 43(1) 301-321. Stotler, R.E. & Crandall-Stotler, B. (2005). A revised classification of the Anthocerotophyta and a checklist of the hornworts of North America, North of Mexico. The Bryologist, 108(1), 16-26. Stotler, R.E & Doyle, W.T. (2004) Riccia crytallina verified in North America, north of Mexico. The Bryologist, 107(1), 107-110. Sukkharak, P. & Gradstein, S.R. (2014). A taxonomic revision of the genus Mastigolejeunea (Marchantiophyta: Lejeuneaceae). Nova Hedwigia, 99(3-4), 279-345. Villarreal, J. C., Cargill, D. C., & Goffinet, B. (2010). Segarra-Moragues, J. G., & Puche, (Sphaerocarpales) and a new endemic species, Riella Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & SchäferMM APR 2015 101 trigonospora. South African Verwimp, A. (2008). On Journal of Botany, 94, 166-176. Segarra-Moragues, J. G., Puche, F., & Sabovljević, M. (2012). Rediscovery of Riella alatospora (Riellaceae, Sphaerocarpales), an aquatic, South African endemic liverwort previously known from a now largely transformed type locality. South African Journal of Botany, 79, 32-38. 19 Phaeomegaceros squamuliger subspecies hasselii (Dendrocerotaceae, Anthocerotophyta), a new taxon from the Southern Hemisphere. Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 349-360. MM APR 2015 102 Villarreal, J.C., Hässel de Menéndez, G. & Allen, N.S. (2007). Nothoceros superbus (Dendrocerotaceae), a new hornwort from Costa Rica. The Bryologist, 110(2), 279-285. he status and conservation of stoneworts (Characeae) in West Gloucestershire (v.c. 34) and North Somerset (v.c. 6). Watsonia, 26, 145-169. Wei, Y-M., Zhu, R-L. & Gradstein, S.R. (2014). Notes on early land plants today. 49. On Lejeunea huctumalcensis Lindenb. & Gottsche and the resurrection of Otigoniolejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn., an older name for Physantholejeunea R.M. Schust. (Marchantiophyta, Lejeuneaceae). Phytotaxa, 162(4), 236-238. Yano, O. (2004). New records of bryophytes in the states of Brazil. Acta Amazonica, 34(4), 559576. Yano, O. & Peralta, D.F. (2005). Hepáticas (Marchantiophyta) de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Hoehnea, 32(2), 185-205. Other Ing, B. (2011). Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire. University of Chester. Lansdown, R.V., Stewart, N.F., Kitchen, C. & Kitchen, A.R. (2006). Zhu, R-L. & Gradstein, S.R. (2005). Monograph of Lopholejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae) in Asia. Systematic Botany Monographs, 74. 20 MM APR 2015 103 EARTH SCIENCES Marie Stopes studying coal balls (courtesy of John Rylands University Library). Her research specimens have formed the basis of several publications over the last ten years’ Over the last ten years there has been a wealth of research into the earth science collections building on the long history of study. New discoveries have been recorded and historic collections have been investigated to reveal new insights. 84% of the publications are from the palaeontology collection, 6% from the petrology and 10% from the mineral collection. The collection has been used to illustrate a wealth of discoveries such as the new mineral Redgillite found in Cumbria (Pluth et al., 2005) and new evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Britain MM APR 2015 104 (Hetherington et al, 2006 and Vines, 2007). 13% of the published research focuses on research into Pleistocene mammals building on the work of Rodger Jacobi and Derek Yalden. Historical geology continues to be a strong research theme yielding 22% of the publications. Historical figures that capture the public’s imagination are ever popular, such as Marie Stopes (Pain, 2007). Raising the profile of Stope’s collection has led to a re-evaluation of some of our historic collections (Stullu-Derrien et al., 2011). Approximately half of the research has involved new study of historic collections. For example, a re-evaluation of the museum’s Plesiosaur holotype has led to its re-classification as a new species (Benson et al., 2011). New cutting– edge modelling techniques have pushed the boundaries of discovery (Falkingham, 2012). Palaeontology Barnett, R. (2014). An inventory of British remains of Homotherium (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae), with special reference to the material from Kent's Cavern. Geobios, 47(1), 19-29. Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Hodgetts D, Farlow JO, Breithaupt BH, O'Brien M, Matthews N, Sellers WI, Manning PL. (2009). Digital imaging and public engagement in palaeontology. Geology Today, 25(4), 134-139. 21 Benson, R. B., Ketchum, H. F., Noe, L. F., & Gómez-Pérez, M. (2011). New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK. Palaeontology, 54(3), 547-571. DeArce, M., Monaghan, N. T., & Jackson, P. N. W. (2011). The uneasy correspondence MM APR 2015 105 between TH Huxley and EP Wright on fossil vertebrates found in Jarrow, Co. Kilkenny (1865– 67). Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 65(3), 253-271. Dunhill, A. M., Benton, M. J., Newell, A. J., & Twitchett, R. J. (2013). Completeness of the fossil record and the validity of sampling proxies: a case study from the Triassic of England and Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, 170(2), 291-300. Edwards, A. L., & Pollard, J. E. (2006) Trace fossil collections at the University of Manchester The Geological Curator 8(5): 243-246. Falcon-Lang, H. (2008). Marie Stopes: passionate about palaeobotany. Geology Today, 24(4), 132-136. Falcon-Lang, H. J. (2008). Marie Stopes and the Jurassic floras of Brora, NE Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 44(1), 65-74. Falcon-Lang, H. J. (2008). Marie Stopes, the discovery of pteridosperms and the origin of Carboniferous coal balls. Earth Sciences History, 27(1), 78-99. Falkingham, P. L. (2012). Acquisition of high resolution three- dimensional models using free, open-source, photogrammetric software. Palaeontologia Electronica, 15(1), 15pp. Flower, L. O., & Schreve, D. C. (2014). An investigation of palaeodietary variability in European Pleistocene canids. Quaternary Science Reviews. Fraser, H. E., & Cleal, C. J. (2007). The contribution of British women to Carboniferous palaeobotany during the first half of the 20th century. Geological Society, London, Special MM APR 2015 106 Publications, 281(1), 51-82. Hetherington, D. A., Lord, T. C., & Jacobi, R. M. (2006). New evidence for the occurrence of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in medieval Britain. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(1), 3-8. Holland, C. H. (2007). Cyrtoconic nautiloid cephalopods from the British Silurian. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 118(4), 365-373. Garwood, R. J., & Dunlop, J. A. (2011). Morphology and systematics of anthracomartidae (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida). Palaeontology, 54(1), 145-161. Garwood, R. J., & Sutton, M. D. (2012). The enigmatic arthropod Camptophyllia. Palaeontologia Electronica, 15(2). 22 Gelsthorpe, D. (2007). Marie Stopes the palaeobotanist, Manchester and her adventures in Japan. The Geological Curator 8(8): 375-380. Jeffery, J. E. (2006). The Carboniferous fish genera Strepsodus and Archichthys (Sarcopterygii: Rhizodontida): clarifying 150 years of confusion. Palaeontology, 49(1), 113-132. Jepson, J. E., Coram, R. A., & Jarzembowski, E. A. (2009). Raphidioptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, UK. Cretaceous Research, 30(3), 527-532. Jepson, J. E., Makarkin, V. N., & Coram, R. A. (2012). Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Cretaceous Research, 34, 31MM APR 2015 107 47. Langford, J. I. (2011). Granite Millstones of Shropshire and Adjoining Counties. Wind and Water Mills, 30, 2-32. Lewis, M. D. (2010). Pleistocene hyaena coprolite palynology in Britain: implications for the environments of early humans. The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain, 14, 263. Manning, P. L., Margetts, L., Johnson, M. R., Withers, P., Sellers, .W. I., Falkingham, P. L., Mummery, P. M., Barrett, P. M. and Raymont, D. R. (2009). Biomechanics of Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur Claws: Application of X- Ray Microtomography, Nanoindentation, and Finite Element Analysis. The Anatomical Record 292(9): 1397-1405. Manning, P, Ott, C, Falkingham, P. (2008). A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana, United States. Palaios, 23(9-10): 645-647. Manning, P. L., Payne, D., Pennicott, J., Barrett, P. M., & Ennos, R. A. (2006). Dinosaur killer claws or climbing crampons?. Biology Letters, 2(1), 110-112. Martill, D. M. (2007). The age of the Cretaceous Santana Formation fossil Konservat Lagerstätte of north-east Brazil: a historical review and an appraisal of the biochronostratigraphic utility of its palaeobiota. Cretaceous Research, 28(6), 895-920. Menon, F. (2007). Higher systematics of scorpions from the Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Palaeontology, 50(1), 185- 195. MM APR 2015 108 Muir, L. A., Dunlop, J., & Moore, A. (2012). Arthropod types from Sparth Bottoms in the Howard Collection (Rochdale Museum Service). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 123(1), 165169. Munthe-Kaas, N. R. S. (2011). A study of the propodial morphology 23 on Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from Spitsbergen. Nudds, J. R. (2005). Catalogue of type, figured and referred fossils in the Geological Department of the Manchester Museum: supplement. In Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society (Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 173-182). Geological Society of London. Nudds, J. R., Brito, P. M., & Evans, J. W. (2005). The original syntypes of Vinctifer comptoni and Notelops brama from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of northeast Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(3), 716-719. Nudds, J. G., & Evans, J. W. (2005). The collection of George Gardner (1810–1849) from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of northeast Brazil. The Geological Curator, 8, 169-175. Pain, S. (2007). The hidden life of Marie Stopes. New Scientist, 196(2635), 74-75. Penney, D. (2005). First Caribbean Floricomus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), a new fossil species in Miocene Dominican Republic amber. A new synonymy for the extant North American fauna. Geologica Acta, 3(1), 59. Penney, D., Green, D. I., McNeil, A., Bradley, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Withers, P. J., & Preziosi, R. MM APR 2015 109 F. (2012). A new species of Craspedisia (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Miocene Dominican amber, imaged using X-ray computed tomography. Paleontological Journal, 46(6), 583-588. Pérez García, A., (2014) Revision of the poorly known Dorsetochelys typocardium, a relatively abundant pleurosternid turtle (Paracryptodira) in the Early Cretaceous of Europe, Cretaceous Research 49, 152-162 Pierce, S. E., Angielczyk, K. D., & Rayfield, E. J. (2009). Morphospace occupation in thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs: skull shape variation, species delineation and temporal patterns. Palaeontology, 52(5), 1057-1097. Pollard, J., Selden, P., & Watts, S. (2008). Trace fossils of the Camptophyllia from the Westphalian (Carboniferous) rocks of Lancashire, UK and their palaeoenvironmental context. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 270(3), 399-406. Rodrigues, T., Wilhelm, A., Kellner, A., (2013) Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England ZooKeys 308: 1–112 Smith, A. S., Araújo, R., & Mateus, O. (2011). A new plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 57(2), 257-266. Strullu-Derrien, C., Kenrick, P., Rioult, J. P., & Strullu, D. G. (2011). Evidence of parasitic Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous 24 MM APR 2015 110 seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1706), 675-680. Thomas, B. A., & Seyfullah, L. J. (2012). A re-examination of the unusual Carboniferous lycophyte species Halonia ichthyoderma Lesquereux (comb. nov.). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 182, 14-19. Tresise, G., & King, M. J. (2012). History of Ichnology: The Misconceived Footprints of Rhynchosaurs. Ichnos, 19(4), 228- 237. Vines, G. (2007). Medieval hunters exterminated Britain's lynx. New Scientist, 195(2616), 48-49. Watson, J. (2005). One hundred and fifty years of palaeobotany at Manchester University. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 241(1), 229-257. Whitehouse, N. J. (2006). The Holocene British and Irish ancient forest fossil beetle fauna: implications for forest history, biodiversity and faunal colonisation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(15), 1755-1789. Wilkinson, D. M., O’REGAN, H. J., & Clare, T. (2006). A tale of two caves: the history of archaeological exploration at Haverbrack and Helsfell in Southern Cumbria. Studies in Speleology, 14, 55-57. Yalden, D. (2010). The history of British mammals. A&C Black. Young, M. T. (2014). Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England. Historical Biology, MM APR 2015 111 26(1), 80-90. Petrology Bunney, A., Chalk, H., Edwards, A., Gelsthorpe, D. and Sitch, B. (2008). Volcanoes explode at The Manchester Museum: A case study of a volcano themed public event. The Geological Curator 8 (10): 467 – 472 Langford, J. I. (2011). Granite Millstones of Shropshire and Adjoining Counties. Wind and Water Mills, 30, 2-32. Thomas, B. A., & Warren, L. M. (2008). Geological conservation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 300(1), 17-30. Young, B. (2010) North Pennines area of outstanding natural beauty and European geopark. A geodiversity audit. North Pennines, 72. Mineralogy Green, D. I., Tindle, A. G., & Moreton, S. (2005). Brewsterite–Ba and Harmotome from the Wicklow Lead Mines, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 23(1), 101-106. 25 Green, D. I., & Young, B. (2006). Hydromagnesite and dypingite from the Northern Pennine Orefield, northern England. In Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society (Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 151-154). Geological Society of London. MM APR 2015 112 Green, D. I., Young, B., & Ixer, R. A. (2006). Beaverite from Cumbria and Yorkshire. In Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society (Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 155-158). Geological Society of London. Kerbey, H. C. David Forbes FRS (1828-1876): a chemist and mineralogist who advocated for thin section microscopy. Geological Curator, 9(10), 515-527. Pluth, J. J., Steele, I. M., Kampf, A. R., & Green, D. I. (2005). Redgillite, Cu6 (OH) 10 (SO4)· H2O, a new mineral from Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 69(6), 973-980. Torrens, H. S., & Ford, T. D. (2011). Elias Hall, pioneer mineral surveyor and geologist in the Midlands and Lancashire. Mercian Geologist, 17(4), 250. 26 EGYPTOLOGY Egyptian mummy in the process of being CT scanned, 2014 The last ten years have seen a significant increase in the amount of research conducted on the Museum’s Egyptology collection. Our 20 complete human mummies have been the most intensively studied part of the collection to date, with continuing output based on the work of the Manchester Mummy Project (David 2007, 2008, 2015; Cockitt et. al. 2014). The Museum’s collection of animal mummies is currently the focus of a major research project based in the University (McKnight et. al. 2011-2015). A considerable body of literature has been generated on MM APR 2015 113 the display and interpretation of Egyptian mummies (Day 2014; Exell 2013a,b; Riggs 2014; Sheppard 2012; Wieczorkiewicz 2005), based on Manchester examples. Comprehensive catalogues of our important holdings of cosmetic palettes of Predynastic date (c. 5000-3100 BC) (Patenaude and Shaw 2011) and shabti figurines (Janes 2012) have appeared, and a complete catalogue of mummies and coffins is currently in preparation (Dodson, Loynes and Price 2017). The museum’s significant collections from the towns of Gurob and Kahun and from the ‘Ramesseum Tomb’ continue to attract special interest (e.g. Gasperini 2014; Wernick 2014; Hernández 2013; Forshaw 2014). We regularly loan these and other items to major international exhibitions (Zeigler 2008; Morfoisse and Andreu-Lanoë 2014; Oppenheim 2015). New Egyptological research on little-studied but well-contexted objects (e.g. Frood 2007; Yasuoka 2011; Price, forthcoming), archival exploration and the application of new scientific techniques (e.g. Johnson et al 2013) has raised MM APR 2015 114 27 the profile of the collection as a whole. A volume of studies to celebrate the work of Rosalie David, reflecting particularly on the Manchester Mummy Project and other aspects of the MM APR 2015 115 Museum collection, is nearing completion (Price et. al. 2016). Atherton-Woolham, S. D., & McKnight, L. M. (2014). Post- mortem restorations in ancient Egyptian animal mummies using imaging, Papers on Anthropology, 23(1), 9-17. Battersby, S. (2012). ‘How a 3000- year-old code unmasked a stellar cannibal. New Scientist, 216(2895), 43-45. Cockitt, J.A., Martin, S.O., & David, R. (2014) A new assessment of the radiocarbon age of Manchester Mummy No 1770. Yearbook of Mummy Studies, 2, 95-102. David, A. R. (2007). The Two Brothers: Death and the Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt. Rutherford Press Ltd. David A. R.(ed). (2008). Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science. Cambridge University Press. David, A. R. (2015). A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt. Pen and Sword. Dodson, A, R. Loynes, and C. Price. Mummies and Coffins in the Manchester Museum. In preparation. Edwards, H. G., & Munshi, T. (2005). Diagnostic Raman spectroscopy for the forensic detection of biomaterials and the preservation of cultural heritage. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 382(6), 1398-1406. Edwards, H. G., Stern, B., Villar, S. E. J., & David, A. R. (2007). Combined FT–Raman spectroscopic and mass spectrometric study of ancient Egyptian sarcophagal fragments. MM APR 2015 116 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 387(3), 829-836. Exell, K. (ed.) (2009). Egypt in its African Context. Archaeopress. Forshaw, R. (2014). The Role of the Lector in Ancient Egyptian Society. Archaeopress. Forshaw, R., Morkot, R, Nicholson, P. and Price, C. (eds.) Mummies, Medicine and Magic. Multi- disciplinary Essays in Egyptology in Honour of Rosalie David. Manchester University Press. Forthcoming Franzmeier, H. F. Höflmayer, W. Kutschera &, Wild, E.M. (2011) Radiocarbon Evidence for New Kingdom Tombs: Sedment 254 and 246. Aegypten und Levante, 21, 15- 29. Frood, E. (2006). A Ramessid statue from Abydos bearing a sacred emblem. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 92, 250-255. Gasperini, V. (2014) Mycenaean and Cypriot Pottery from Gurob 28 (Fayoum, Egypt) in the Manchester Museum Collection, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 6(2), 10-22. Harbort, J., Gurvit, O., Beck, L. A., & Pommerening, T. (2008). Extraordinary dental findings in an Egyptian mummy skull by means of Computed Tomography. PalArch’s J. Archaeol. Egypt/Egyptol, 1, 1-8. Helps, F. G. (2011). Ancient Egyptian Tool Technology. International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, 81(2), 233-243. MM APR 2015 117 Hernández, R.A.D.(2014). Der Ramesseumspapyrus E. Ein Ritualbuch für Bestattungen aus dem Mittleren Reich. Gottingen 2014. Ikram, S. (2010). Mummification. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1). Johnson, D., Tyldesley, J., Lowe, T., Withers, P. J., & Grady, M. M. (2013). Analysis of a prehistoric Egyptian iron bead with implications for the use and perception of meteorite iron in ancient Egypt, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48(6), 997-1006. Leach, B. (2006). A Conservation History of the Ramesseum Papyri. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 92, 225-240. Janes, G. (2012). The Shabti Collections: A Selection from Manchester Museum. Olicar House Publications. McCreesh, N.C., Gize, A.P. & David A.R. (2009). Analysis of black coatings on a mummy and associated artefact from the Manchester Museum. In Gash, V; Finch, J. Current Research in Egyptology 2008 Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium: Current Research in Egyptology IX ; BAR; 2009. McKnight, L. (2012). Studying Avian Mummies at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology: Past, Present and Future. R. Bailleul- Leseur (ed.) Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt (Oriental Institute, Chicago), 99- 106. McKnight, LM and Atherton, SD. (2014). How to pigeonhole your mummy – a proposed categorization system for ancient Egyptian wrapped animal remains based on radiographic evaluation. Yearbook of Mummy Studies, 2. 109-116. Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, Munich. MM APR 2015 118 McKnight, L. M., Atherton, S. D., & David, A. R. (2011). Introducing the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester. Antiquity, 85, 329. Panagiotakopulu, E., Higham, T. F., Buckland, P. C., Tripp, J. A., & Hedges, R. E. (2014). AMS dating of insect chitin- a discussion of new dates, problems and potential. Quaternary Geochronology, 27, 22-32. 29 Patenaude, J., & Shaw, G. J. (2011). A catalogue of Egyptian cosmetic palettes in the Manchester University Museum collection. Golden House PublIcations. MM APR 2015 119 Price, C. & Criscenzo-Laycock, G. (2011). ACCES-ing Egyptian and Sudanese Collections in the UK. Egyptian Archaeology, 39, 37. Price, C. (2012). Foreword. Pp. ii-v in G. Janes, The Shabti Collections 5. A Selection from the Manchester Museum. Otacer House. Price, C. (2012). The Chantress Asru: The Manchester Mummies and Modern Science. Pp. 211213 in P. Bahn (ed.) Written in Bones. How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead. Quintet, London. Price, C. (2012). One Hundred Years of Displaying Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Ancient Egypt Magazine 13(3), Dec 12/Jan 13, 32-37. Price, C. (2013). Displaying Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, Egyptian Archaeology the Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, 42 (Spring), 34-5. Price, C. (2013). Under the Scanner, Revealing the Secrets of Egypt’s Ancient Dead, World Archaeology, 61 (Oct/Nov.), 42-3. Price, C. and M. Scott. (2015) The Egyptian Collection of Max Robinow in Manchester Museum, in R. Mazza (ed.) From Egypt to Manchester. Special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Riggs, C. (2005). Ancient Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Egyptian Archaeology, 27, 37-9. Riggs, C. (2014). Unwrapping Ancient Egypt. Bloomsbury, London. MM APR 2015 120 Riggs, C. (2014). Discussing Knowledge in the Making. Pp. 129- 140 in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: interdisciplinary measures. Routledge, London. Sheppard, K. L. (2012). Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers. Science in Context, 25(4), 525-549. Sheppard, K. L. (2013). The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: a woman’s work in archaeology. Lexington, Baltimore. Sheppard, K. L. (2014). Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom: Preparing “Petrie’s Pups”. Pp. 113- 128 in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: interdisciplinary measures. Routledge, London. Snape, S. (2011). Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death. Wiley-Blackwell Wernick, N. (2014). Slings in the Ancient Near East with Reference to the Egyptian Material. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 96(1), 97-103. 30 Wieczorkiewicz, A. (2005). Unwrapping mummies and telling their stories: Egyptian mummies in museum rhetoric. Science, magic, and religion: The ritual processes of museum magic, 51-74. Yasuoka, Y. (2011). Some remarks on the columns from the pronaos of Herakleopolis Magna. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 97, 31-60. 31 MM APR 2015 121 ENTOMOLOGY The female holotype of Dysaulophthalma nathani, a newly described species and genus, based on a specimen in the Museum’s collection of Mantises During the period of review, the Museum’s collection of arthropods has been mostly used for taxonomic/faunistic studies: 112 out of 122 published papers (92%). Several papers have been devoted to the museological descriptions of particular collections (Johnson, 2009; Higham, 2012; Proudlove & Logunov, 2011; etc.) or the story of such notable specimens as the Manchester Moth (Logunov, 2011). Most of the published taxonomic papers have been devoted to spiders (Araneae; 27 papers, 23% of all papers), reflecting the interests of the Curator, and to beetles (Coleoptera; 60 papers, 49%); a total of 87 papers (71%). Almost a half of the published beetle papers (47%) have been devoted either to the rove-beetles (Staphylinidae; 15 papers, 25% of all beetle papers), or to the tortoise-beetles (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae; 13 papers, 22%). It is hardly surprising, as the Manchester Museum’s collection of Staphylinidae, particularly that of Horace Last, is one of the best in the UK, while the collection of Cassidinae is the second best in the world, and both have been extensively used by overseas researchers. Of the interesting and novel to the Manchester Museum research undertaken by overseas specialists, which are largely based on undetermined museum collections, it is worth mentioning a series of six papers devoted to the African and Oriental tiger-moths (Erebidae) by V. V. Dubatolov (Russia), four papers devoted to the mantis (Mantodea) by M. Stiewe (Germany) and some papers devoted to such ‘exotic’ groups as the stick-insects (Phasmida; 3 papers), cockroaches (Dictyoptera; 1 paper + ongoing research) and crickets (Orthoptera; 1 paper + MM APR 2015 122 ongoing research). Finally, a total of 49 new species has been described on the basis of the Museum’s old undetermined collections or those deposited to it recently: spiders (Araneae) – eight new species; mites (Acari) – two species; beetles (Coleoptera) – 33 species; and other insect orders (Mantodea, Orthoptera, 32 Dyctiopera, etc.) – six species. Moreover, five new genera have been erected on the basis of museum insect collections: Dysaulophthalma of the mantis from India (Stiewe, 2009), Indoapterolampra of the cockroaches from India (Anisyutkin, 2014), Logunovium and Radiarctia of the tiger moths from Africa (Dubatolov, 2006a), and Guineella of the rove-beetles from New MM APR 2015 123 Guinea (Bordoni, 2014). Arachnida Azarkina, G. N. (2009). Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Africa. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology, 5: 171-177. Azarkina, G. N., & Mirshamsi, O. (2014). Description of a new Aelurillus species from Khorasan province of Iran, with comments on A. concolor Kulczy ski, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 60(1), 82-91. Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2012). On two rare spider species of the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the South Urals. Arthropoda Selecta, 21(3): 269-272. Fiser, C. & Azarkina, G. N. (2005). A contribution to the knowledge of the jumping spiders (Salticidae: Araneae) of the Republic of Macedonia. Acta zoologica bulgarica, 57(3), 299-304. Fomichev A. A., Marusik, Yu. M. & Koponen, S. (2014). A new species of Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 (Aranei: Thomisidae) from South Siberia. Arthropoda Selecta, 23(2): 127-134. Kronestedt, T., Marusik, Yu. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2014). Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VIII. The Palaearctic species of the Pardosa nigra group. Zootaxa, 3894(1): 33-60. Logunov, D. V. (2005). New data for spiders and harverstmen from Scotland. Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 102: 3-4. 112. MM APR 2015 124 Logunov, D. V. (2006). Notes on Xysticus kempeleni Thorell, 1872 and two closely related spider species (Araneae, Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica, 55(1), 59-66. Logunov, D. V. & Huseynov, E.F. (2008). A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta, 17(1/2): 117-131. Logunov, D. V. (2009). New and poorly known species of Salticidae (Araneae) from Turkey and Iran. In: C. Kropf & P. Horak (eds.), Towards a natural history of arthropods and other organisms. In memoriam Konrad Thaler. Contributions to Natural History, 12: 899-919. Logunov, D. V. (2010). New species of Zodariidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Vietnam. Arthropoda Selecta, 19(4): 249-260. 33 Logunov, D. V. (2010). On a small spider collection from the lower reaches of the River Ob’, western Siberia (Russia). Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 118: 11. Logunov, D. V. (2010). On new central Asian genus and species of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) exhibiting a pronounced sexual size dimorphism. Proceedings of the Zoological Institutes RAS, 314(3): 233-263. Logunov, D. V. (2011). On a small spider (Araneae) collection from the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria. Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 122: 8-9. Logunov, D. V. (2012). Notes on a small spider collection from Turkey (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta, 21(4): 375-377. MM APR 2015 125 Logunov, D. V. (2012). A synopsis of the genus Zyuzicosa Logunov, 2010 (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta, 21(4): 349-362. Logunov, D. V. (2013). A new species of the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from south-east Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta, 22(2): 163-169. Logunov, D.V. (2013). On a small spider collection from Cyprus (Arachnida: Araneae). Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 127: 4-5. Logunov, D. V., & Demir, H. (2006). Further faunistic notes on Cozyptila and Xysticus from Turkey (Araneae, Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 31, 38-43. Logunov, D. V., & Gromov, A. V. (2011). Notes on the distribution of Oculicosa supermirabilis (Araneae, Lycosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 42, 48-51. Logunov, D. V., Mirshamsi, O., Musavi, S. & Shayestehfar, A. (2013). New faunistic records of Salticidae (Aranei) from Khorasan Province of Iran. Arthropoda Selecta, 22(4): 379-381. Makol, J., Felska, M., Moniuszko, H. & Zalesny, G. (2012). Redescription of Leptus kattikus Haitlinger, 2009 (Actinotrichida, Parasitengona, Erythraeidae) and molecular identification of its host from DNA barcoding. Zootaxa, 3569: 67-78. Marchenko, I. V. (2013). A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from North Asia, with a key to the Eurasian species. Zootaxa 3626(3): 381-390. Marchenko, I. V. (2013). A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from MM APR 2015 126 Russia (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) with a key to the Asian species. Zootaxa, 3741(1): 172-180. Marusik, Yu. M., Gnelitsa, V. A. & Koponen, S. (2007). A survey of Holarctic Linyphiidae (Aranei). 4. A review of the erigonine genus Lophomma Menge, 1868. Arthropoda Selecta, 15(2): 153-171. 34 Marusik, Yu. M., Gnelitsa, V. A. & Koponen, S. (2008). A survey of Holarctic Linyphiidae (Araneae). 3. A review of the genus Praestigia Millidge, 1954. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 14(5): 213- 231. Marusik, Yu. M. & Logunov, D.V. (2011). New faunistic records of spiders from East Kazakhstan (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta, 20(1): 57-63. Oxford, G. S. (2009). Historical distributions in Britain of two species of large house spiders, Tegenaria saeva and T. gigantea (Araneae, Agelenidae), and their evolutionary implications. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 14(7), 297-302. Pietzsch, M. E., Medlock, J. M., Jones, L., Avenell, D., Abbott, J., Harding, P., & Leach, S. (2005). Distribution of Ixodes ricinus in the British Isles: investigation of historical records. Medical and Veterinary entomology, 19(3), 306- 314. Russell-Smith A. (2014). Spiders from the Ionian islands of Kerkyra (Corfu) and Lefkada, Greece (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta, 23(3): 285-300. Tanasevitch, A. B. (2011). On synonymy of linyphiid spiders of the Russian fauna (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). 2. Arthropoda Selecta, 20(2): 129-143. MM APR 2015 127 Insecta (Coleoptera) Assing, V. (2012). A revision of East Palaearctic Lobrathium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 61(1): 49-128. Assing, V. (2014a). A revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Pseudolathra. IV. New species, new combinations and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 46(2): 1151-1166. Assing, V. (2014b). A revision of Tetartopeus. IV. A new species from Turkey, new synonyms, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 46(2): 1119- 1131. Assing, V. (2014c). A revision of the species of Pinobius Macleay, 1871 of the Oriental, Palaearctic, and Australian Regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Dolicaonina). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 84, 115-191. Bonavita, P. & Taglianti, A. V. (2010). Ocydromus subg. Nepha Motschulsky, 1864: revisione tassonomica, filogenesi e biogeografia (Coleoptera Carabidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 89(1), 7-180. Bordoni, A. (2014). Xantholini of the Australian region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), VI. Species from New Guinea of the Last collection in the Manchester Museum. New genus, new species and new records. In: Telnov D. ed.) Biodiversity and Nature 35 conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea, volume II, 135-143. MM APR 2015 128 Borowiec, L. (2005). Revision of Madagascan species of the genus Chiridopsis Spaeth, 1922 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Annales Zoologici, 55(3), 383-393. Borowiec, L. & Świętoja ska, J. (2011). The Tortoise beetles of Madagascar (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Part 1: Basiprionotini, Aspidimorphini and Cassidini (except the genus Cassida). Wroclaw: Polish Taxonomical Monographs, vol. 18, 246 pp. Borowiec, L. & Świętoja ska, J. (2013). The Tortoise beetles of Madagascar (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Part 2: Tribe Cassidini, the genus Cassida. Wroclaw: Polish Taxonomical Monographs, vol. 20, 289 pp. Boucher, S. (2005). Évolution et phylogénie des Coléopteres Passalidae (Scarapbaeoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 41(3-4): 239-604. Caterino, M. S., Leschen, R. A. B. & Johnson, C. (2008). A new genus of Caenoscelini (Cryptophagidae: Cryptophaginae) from California, with two new species. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 62(4): 509- 523. Chaboo, C. S. (2007). Biology and phylogeny of the Cassidinae Gyllenhal sensu lato (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Bulletin of the Americanb Museum of Natural History, 305: 250 pp. Clarke, D. J. (2011).Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163: 723- 812. Darby, M. (2014). Studies on Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: The genus Acrotrichis MM APR 2015 129 including twenty seven new species. Zootaxa, 3866(2): 151-201. Darby, M. & Johnson, C. (2011). A review of Chilean Smicrus (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with nine new species. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 147: 133-154. Fabbri, R. (2005). Nueove specie di Chrysosimplocaria Paulus del Nepal e di Byrrhus Linnaeus sottogenere Asiatobyrrhus Paulus del Pakistan (Coleoptera Byrrhidae). Annali Museo di Civico Saci. Naturale di Ferrara, 6: 13-20. Háva, J. (2010). Thorictus arabicus sp.nov., a new species from Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Thorictinae: Thoricnini). Latvijas Entomology, 49: 32-34. Háva, J. (2011). Contribution to the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Arabian peninsula–1. Latvijas Entomologs, 50, 5-8. 36 Háva, J. & Herrmann, A. (2010). New Faunistic Records of Dermestidae (76 Coleoptera) – Part 4. Latvijas Entomology, 48: 76-79. Higham, D. (2012). The Manchester Museum’s Cassidinae Collection (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus, 23(3), 341- 361. Hromádka, L. (2009). Revision of the Afrotropical species of the Philonthus nigriceps species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina). Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East, Taxonomical series, 5(1-2), 115- 126. Hromádka, L. (2010). Revision of Afrotropical species of the Philonthus quisquiliarius species MM APR 2015 130 group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina). Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series, 6(1-2), 95113. Johnson, C. (2006). Notes on Palaearctic Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera) including lectotype designations and new synonyms. Entomologist’s Gazette, 57: 51-68. Johnson, C. (2007). A review of Migneauxia Jacquelin du Val, 1859 (col. Latridiidae) from the Indian subcontinent. Latridiidae, 5: 4-6. Johnson, C. (2007). Studies on Ptiliidae (Col.) from the Solomon Islands, 1. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 143: 213-226. Johnson, C. (2008). Saproxylic Coleoptera from Calke, Chatsworth, Hardwick and Kedleston parks, Derbyshire, 1881-1999. The Coleopterist, 17(1): 23-41. Johnson, C. (2009). British Coleoptera Collections in the Manchester Museum: first supplement. The Coleopterist, 18(2): 77-79. Johnson, C. (2012). A new Himalayan Sternodea species, together with notes and corrections on Palaearctic Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera). Entomologist’s Gazette, 63: 267-272. Johnson, C. (2012). Brachygluta klimschi Holdhaus, 1902 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) in England. The Coleopterist, 21(2): 103. Johnson, C. (2012). New records and data on notable British Ptiliidae (Coleoptera). Entomologist’s Gazette, 63: 63-68. MM APR 2015 131 Johnson, C. & Pal, T. K. (2008). Latridiidae (Coleoptera) from Mizoram, India. Latridiidae, 6: 4-7. Johnson, C. & Rücker, W. H. (2011). Latridius regalis spec. nov.− eine neue Art der Gattung Latridius (Coleoptera) aus Österreich. Latridiidae, 8: 21-23. Johnson, C. & Skidmore, P. (2005). A new saproxylic species of Ptinellodes Matthews (Col., Ptiliidae) from Malawi. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 141: 121-123. Krell, F. T., Johnson, C., Booth, R. & Mendel, H. (2005). The British 37 Dienerella separanda (Reitter) is D. clathrata (Mannerheim): with a compilation of British records of D. clathrata and D. elongata (Curtis) (Latridiidae). The Coleopterist, 14(3): 117-123. Legalov, A. A. (2007). Leaf-rolling weevils (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae) of the world fauna. Novosibirsk: Agro-Siberia, 523 pp. Legalov, A. A. (2007). Studies upon the genus Lagenoderus White (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Madagascar. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 7(2): 191-198. Legalov, A. A. (2011). A new species of the genus Zherichiniletus Legalov, 2003 with systematic notes on the tribes Sanyrevilleini, Auletini and Cesauletini (Coleoptera: Rhychitidae). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 11(1), 93-104. Majka, C. G., & Bousquet, Y. (2010). Monotomidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime provinces of Canada. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society, 6, 1-8. MM APR 2015 132 Majka, C. G., Johnson, C. & Langor, D. W. (2010). Contributions towards an understanding of the Atomariinae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada. ZooKeys, 35: 37-63. Majka, C. G. & Sörensson, M. (2007). The Ptiliidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera): new records and bionomic notes. Zootaxa, 1423, 27-38. McLean, J. A., Behennan, A. L. & Fairbarns, M. (2009). Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) associated with Garry Oak Ecosystems on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia, 106: 47-51. Morris, M. G. & Johnson, C. (2005). Sidebotham’s weevils (Curculionidae). The Coleopterist, 14(3): 101-113. Orledge, G. M., Smith, P. A., & Reynolds, S. E. (2010). The non- pest Australasian fungivore Cis bilamellatus Wood (Coleoptera: Ciidae) in northern Europe: spread dynamics, invasion success and ecological impact. Biological invasions, 12(3), 515-530. Otero, J. C. (2013). Cryptophagina (Coleoptera) de la región Paleárctica. Colepter. Monogr. Vol.4. 295 pp. Rossini, M., Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Mann, D. (2014). Onthophagus cerviconis Kirby, 1825, new sysnonym under Onthophagus dama (Fabricius, 1798) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). ZooKeys, 419: 111- 115. Rücker, W. H. & Johnson, C. (2007). Revision of Melanophthalma taurica (Mannerheim, 1844) species-group and description of three new species. Latridiidae, 5: 11-24. MM APR 2015 133 Sekerka, L. (2007). Description of Cyrtonota caprishensis n. sp. from 38 Peru together with a redescription of C. lurida (Spaeth, 1913) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Genus, 18(4), 671-676. Sekerka, L. (2007). Detailed distribution of Cassida sanguinosa and C. leucanthemi (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 47: 203- 209. Sekerka, L. (2008). Review of the genus Macromonycha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48(1), 95-102. Sekerka, L. (2008). Revision of the genus Pilemostoma Desbroches, 1891 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini). Zootaxa, 1859: 40-48. Sekerka, L. & Borowiec, L. (2008). Three new species of Cassida Linne, 1758 from India and note on Thlaspida obenbergeri Spaeth, 1928 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini). Annales Zoologici, 58(3):611-620. Shin, C. & Chaboo, C. S. (2012). A revision and phylogenetic analysis of Stoiba Spaeth 1909 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys, 224: 1- 36. Simões, M. (2014). Taxonomic review of the genus Paranota Monrós and Viana, 1949 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Dorynotini). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(4): 631- 655. MM APR 2015 134 Simões, M. & Monne, M.L. (2014). Taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophalia Hope, 1839 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa, 3835(2): 151-197. Simões M. & Sekerka L. (2014). Redescription of Heteronychocassis acuticollis Spaeth, 1915 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(3): 407-410. Solodovnikov, A. Y. (2008). Review of the Oriental genus Anchocerus with the description of new species and new combinations (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Insect Systematics & Evolution, 39(3), 287-301. Solodovnikov, A. Y. (2012). Revised concept of the genus Euryporus Erichson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) and phylogenetic significance of Staphylinini from New Guinea. ZooKeys, 213: 51-62. Solodovnikov, A. Y. & Schomann, A. (2009). Revised systematics and biogeography of ‘Quediina’ of sub- Saharan Africa: new phylogenetic insights into the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Systematic Entomology, 34: 443-466. Stenhouse, D. (2006). Records of Agelastica alni (L.) (Chrysomelidae) in South Lancashire and Cheshire in two successive years. The Coleopterist, 15(1): 21-24. 39 Stenhouse, D.A. (2014). Orthochaetes setiger (Beck) (Curculionidae) and Amara praetermissa (Sahlberg) (Carabidae) in Cheshire (VC58). The Coleopterist, 23(3):133. Stenhouse, D. A. & Atherton, R.S. (2012). The first record of Sepedophilus bipunctatus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Cheshire (VC58) Lancashire. Journal of the MM APR 2015 135 Lancashire & Cheshire entomological society, 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010): 16. Vickers, K. & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2013). Insect invaders, seasonality and transhumant pastotalism in the Icelandic shielding economy. Journal of Environmental Archaeology, 18(2): 165177. Wagner, T. (2003). Revision of afrotropical Monolepta Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). – Part IV: Species with red head and thorax (including pronotum) and black elytra or black with red apex, with description of new species. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Zoologie), 291: 37-89. Insecta (Lepidoptera) Dubatolov, V. V. (2005). On the status of the Australian genus Ardices Walker, 1855 with the description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805. Atalanta, 36(1/2): 173-179. Dubatolov, V. V. (2006a). New genera and species of Arctiinae from the Afrotropical fauna (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, 27(3): 139-152. Dubatolov, V. V. (2006b). On the generic status of the Afrotoropical Nyctemera species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta, 37(1/2): 191- 205. Dubatolov, V. V. (2013). A new genus of African tiger moths, with a review of the Amsacta melanogastra Holland species group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae). Zootaxa, 3682(4), 579-583. Dubatolov, V. & Holloway, J. D. (2007). A new species of the Creatonotos transiens-group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 55(2), 113- 121. MM APR 2015 136 Dubatolov, V. V. & Kishida, Y. (2005). A review of the genus Satara Walker, 1865, with descriptions of a new subgenus and species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Tinea, 18(4): 276-282. Insecta (other orders) Anisyutkin, L. (2014). On cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae) from South India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new taxa. Zootaxa, 3847(3): 301-332. Boardman, P. (2005). A review of the known records of Phylidorea 40 heterogyna (Bergroth, 1913) (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Great Britain. Dipterist Digest, 12: 83-86. Boardman, P. (2007). A provisional account and atlas of the craneflies of Shropshire. Publisher: Pete Boardman, 96 pp. Bragg, P. E. (2007). A description of the male and egg of Sipyloidea acutipennis (Bates, 1865) (Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae). Phasmid Studies, 16(1): 11-15. Bragg, P. E. (2007). Biographies of Phasmatologists - 1. Henry Walter Bates. Phasmid Studies, 15(1 & 2): 1-4. Gorochov, A. V. (2009). Sixth additions to the revision of Itarinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 18(2): 218–223. Hennemann, F. H. & Conle, O. V. (2009). Studies on the genus Phasmotaenia Navas, 1907, with the descriptions of five new species from the Solomon Islands, a revised key to the species and MM APR 2015 137 notes on its geographic distribution (Phasmatodea: “Anareolatae”: Phasmatidae s.l.: Stephanacridini). Zootaxa, 2011: 1-46. Logunov, D. V. (2010). On the collection of British Diptera in the Manchester Museum. Bulletin of the Dipterists Forum, 69: 8-9. Logunov, D. V. (2010). The Manchester Museum's Entomology Collections. Antenna, 34(4): 163167. Logunov, D. V. (2011). Where are you from, the Manchester Moth? Micro Miscellanea, Newsletters of the Manchester Microscopical & Natural History Society, 78: 10-12. Logunov, D. V. (2012). British entomology collections of the Manchester Museum. Journal of the Lancashire & Cheshire entomological society, 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010): 20-44. Mukherjee, T.K., Stiewe, M.B.D. & Ghorai, N. (2010). A new species of praying mantis, Ephestiasula woodmasoni n.sp. from Gujarat, India with a note on the location of types of some Indian species (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae). Genus, 21(2): 169-173. Notton, D. G. (2006). Genus-group taxa of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae & Platygastridae) new to Britain. Entomologists’s monthly Magazine, 142: 189-206. Penney, D., Notcutt, B. & Rowntree, J. K. (2012). Seed predation of yellow rattle Rhinanthus minor by Phytomyza varipes (Diptera: Agromyzidae), with new British records. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, 26: 1-8. Roy, R. & Stiewe, M. B. D. (2009). Contribution to the knowledge of Eastern African MM APR 2015 138 Amorphoscelis Stål, 1871, with description of two new species (Dictyoptera, Mantodea, Amorphoscelidae). Bulletin de la 41 Société entomologique de France, 114(2): 195-209. Stiewe, M. (2009). Dysaulophthalma nathani gen et sp.n. A new praying mantis from southern India (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Tarachodidae). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 145: 51-60. Triapitsyn, S. V. (2010). Revision of the Palaearctic species and review of the Oriental species of Ooctonus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with notes on extralimital taxa. Zootaxa, 2381: 1-74. Triapitsyn, S. V. (2014). Revision of the genus Camptoptera Foerster (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Palaearctic Region, with taxonomic notes on some extralimital species. Far Eastern Entomologist, 285: 1- 85. Vyajayandi, M. C., Stiewe, M. B. D., Mukherjee, T. K. & Rajeesh, R. S. (2008). On some variation in Gimanis authaemon (Wood-Mason, 1882) collected from Kerala, India (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Mantidae). Genus, 19(2): 313-318. Watts, P. C., Thompson, D. J., Allen, K. A. & Kemp, S. J. (2006). How useful is DNA extracted from the legs of archived insects for microsatellite-based population genetic analyses? Journal of Insect Conservation, 11(2), 195-198. DOI 10.1007/s10841-006-9024-y Myriapoda MM APR 2015 139 Proudlove, G. S. (2011). Notes on authorship, type material and current systematic position of the diplopod taxa described by Hilda K. Brade-Birks and S. Graham Brade- Birks. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, 25: 2-13. Proudlove, G. S., & Logunov, D. V. (2011). Myriapodological resources in the Manchester Museum. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, 25, 14-36. 42 EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & ENGAGEMENT We have redisplayed our main natural historyand humanities galleries during the last five years. Exhibitions Alberti, S. J. M. M. (2008). Constructing nature behind glass. Museum and Society, 6(2), 73-97. Alberti, S. J. M. M., Bienkowski, P., Chapman, M. J., & Drew, R. (2009). Should we display the dead?. Museum and Society, 7(3), 133- 149. Atkinson, R. (2012). Manchester Museum holds participatory musical weekend. Museum Practice 11.11.2014. MM APR 2015 140 Bankes, G. (2006). From Explorers and Encounters to Living Cultures. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 18, 23-36. Bennett, T. (2012). Machineries of modernity: museums, theories, histories. Cultural and Social History, 9(1), 145-156. Brown, P. (2011). Us and them: who benefits from experimental exhibition making? Museum Management and Curatorship, 26(2), 129-148. Burch, S. (2008). Lindow Man: a Bog Body Mystery: Manchester Museum puts display of human remains centre stage. Museums Journal, 108(7), 50. Day, J. (2014). Thinking makes it so: reflections on the ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies. Papers on Anthropology, 23(1), 29- 44. Donovan, S. K. (2011). Spineless displays or why inaccurate restorations of fossil invertebrates discredit our museums. Geological Curators’ Group, 9(5), 279-284. Endt, M. (2007). Beyond institutional critique: Mark Dion’s surrealist wunderkammer at the Manchester Museum. Museum and Society, 5(1), 1-15. 43 Edwards, FL (2007). Nomenclatio transitorius. Privately published. Exell, K. (2013a). Community consultation and the redevelopment of Manchester Museum’s Ancient Egypt Galleries. Pp. 130-142 in V. Golding and W. Modest (eds.), Museums and MM APR 2015 141 Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration. Bloomsbury. Exell, K. (2013b). Domination and Desire: The Paradox of Egyptian Mummies in Museums, in P. Harvey (ed.) Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion. London: Routledge. Freak, D. (2013). Nature’s Library- review. Museums Journal, 113(11), 62-65. Green, O. (2011). Living Worlds- review. Museums Journal, 111(6), 40-43. Insoll, T., Kankpeyeng, B., Nkumbaan, S. and Saako, M. (2013). Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land Ghana. University of Manchester Press, Manchester. James, N. (2008). Repatriation, display and interpretation, Antiquity, 82, 770-777. Jenkins, T. (2010). Contesting human remains in museum collections: the crisis of cultural authority. Routledge. Jones, D. G., & Whitaker, M. I. (2012). The contested realm of displaying dead bodies. Journal of Medical Ethics, 39, 652-653. Kennedy, S. (2012). Visitor services team. Museum Practice, 15.3.2012. Lange, P. (2010). Bryan Sitch on Lindow Man at Manchester Museum. (Council for British Archaeology, North West Spring meeting 2010). Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation Newsletter, 1 (4), 13-15. Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K., Pettican, A., & Art, B. (2012, August). From Wunderkammern to Kinect: the creation of Shadow Worlds. Leonardo, 45(4), 330-337. MM APR 2015 142 Machin, R. (2008). Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester Museum. Museum and Society, 6(1), 54-67. Machin, R. (2010). Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester Museum. Pp. 187-200 in A Levin (ed.) Gender, Sexuality and Museums. Routledge, London. McGhie, H. A. (2012). Living Worlds at the Manchester Museum. Pp. 222–253 in S. S. Jandl and M. S. Gold (eds.), A Handbook for Academic Museums: Exhibitions and Education. MuseumsEtc, London. Giles, M. (2009). Iron Age bog bodies of north-western Europe. Representing the dead. Archaeological Dialogues, 16(1), 75-101. 44 McGhie, H. A., Brown, P. R. & Horsley, J. (2010). Dealing with Darwin at the Manchester Museum. Pp. 412-445 in A. Filippoupoliti (ed.) Science Museums: Communication and Evaluation. MM APR 2015 143 MuseumsEtc. Morfoisse, F. and G. Andreu-Lanoë. (2014). Sésostris III. Pharaon de Légende. Snoeck, Palais des Beaux Artes, Lille. Oppenheim, A. (2015). Between the Old and the New. Middle Kingdom Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pantazis, S. (2013). We Face Forward: Art From West Africa Today (review). Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 32(1), 142-145. Pole, L. (2014). Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana (Manchester Museum, University of Manchester). Journal of Museum Ethnography, 27, 168-174. Price, C. (2012). One Hundred Years of Displaying Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Ancient Egypt Magazine 13(3), Dec 12/Jan 13, 32-37. Price, C. (2013). Displaying Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, Egyptian Archaeology the Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society 42 (Spring), 34-35. Rees Leahy, H. (2008). Under the skin. Museum Practice, 43, 36-40. Sitch, B.J. (2009). Courting Controversy: the Lindow Man Exhibition at the Manchester Museum. University Museums and Collections, 2, 51-54 Sitch, B.J. (2010). Consultation or confrontation: a case study of the Manchester Museum’s Lindow Man a Bog Body Mystery. Pp. 366-386 in The New Museum Community Audiences, MM APR 2015 144 Challenges, Benefits. MuseumsEtc, London. Sitch, B.J. (2010). Lindow Man Exhibition wins British Archaeological Award. Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation Newsletter, 1(6), 7-8. Sitch, B.J. (2012). Making Exhibitions of ourselves: recent and proposed archaeology displays at the Manchester. In Wise, Philip J. (ed) The Museum Archaeologist, 33, (Conference proceedings, Coventry 2010), 23-31. Weeks, J. (2013). Ancient Worlds- review. Museums Journal, 113(2), 42-45. Weeks, J. (2012). We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today. Museum Journal 112(9), 46- 49. Welsh, S. (2009). The Manchester Gallery. In Roberts (ed.), Museums and Heritage, 2, 71. Woodall, A. (2013). Sensory access to museum objects. Museum Practice 15.2.2013. 45 Zeigler, C. (2008). Queens of Egypt. From Hetepheres to Cleopatra. Grimaldi Forum. Froggett, L., & Trustram, M. (2014). Object relations in the museum: a psychosocial perspective. Museum Management and Curatorship, 29(5), 482-497. Merriman, N. (2008). Collective Conversations: new approaches to unifying the work of a university museum. In New Roads for University Museums, 6th International Congress for University Museums. University Museums & Collections, México: 225-244. MM APR 2015 145 Munro, M., & H. L. Chalk (2014). Creating an ‘Emporium of Wonder’ at Manchester Museum. Pp. 243- 270 in P. Blessinger & J. M. Carfora (eds.), Inquiry-based Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators. Volume 1, Innovations in Higher EducationTeaching and Learning. Emerald Group, Bingley (Yorks.). Narkiss, I., & Tomlin, H. (2008). Close encounters: enabling access to museum collections. Studies in Conservation, 53(Supplement 1), 166-169. Reeve, J. (2012). Audience Advocates in Museums. Pp. 183193 in C. Lang, J. Reeve & V. Visitor and community engagement Woollard (eds.), The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences MM APR 2015 146 in the Twenty-First Century. Ashgate, Aldershot. Roe, B., McCormick, S., Lucas, T., Gallagher, W., Winn, A., & Elkin, S. (2014). Coffee, cake and culture: evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the 0(0), 1-21, DOI: 10.1177/1471301214528927. community. Dementia Romanek, D., & Lynch, B. (2008). MM APR 2015 147 Touch and the value of object handling: final conclusions for a new sensory museology. Pp. 275286 in H. Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in museums: policy and practice in object handling. Berg, Oxford. Tythacott, L. & Arvanitis, K. (eds.) (2014). Museums and Restitution. Ashgate, Farnham. Sportun, S. (2014). The Future Landscape of 3D in Museums. Pp. 331-340 in N. Levent & A. Pascual- Leone (eds.), The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space. Reowland and Middlefield, Lanham. 46 LIVING CULTURES COLLECTIONS The Living Cultures collection has been, and continues to be, used extensively by staff and students at The University of Manchester for a multitude of research projects. Similarly it is used MM APR 2015 148 by researchers beyond the University of Manchester in organisations across North West England, the UK and overseas. In general the research fields accessing the collection include archaeology, art gallery and museum studies, art history, anthropology, media production, social anthropology, social history, and fashion. The result of such research is further critical information regarding the age, biography, material, provenance, and significance of a specific object or the collections. To achieve these results various methodologies are used including material sampling, laser scanning, and access to associated archives. In 2011 Tim Insoll, Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology at the University of Manchester, investigated the faunal remains of a Tanzanian diviner's basket. He sent the basket contents including bone, mineral and plant samples to colleagues at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University of Manchester, Jodrell Laboratory Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences for analysis and identification. Also in 2011, Joanna Ostapkowicz, Curator Americas collection, World Museum Liverpool, scanned and sampled a rare wooden Taino duho. Samples were sent for analysis to the University of Bristol School of Chemistry, the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit Research Laboratory for Archaeology, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The results helped determine the use and age of the object. Alisa LaGamma, Curator Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Ellen Howe a Conservator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, visited Manchester Museum in 2013 to research the Mangaaka power figure. This was in preparation for a loan of the power figure to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015 exhibition Power and Majesty: The Art of Kongo Masters. The exhibition and research connects Mangaaka power figures in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Paris, Brussels, Basel, Zug, Berlin, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Mainz, Leiden, Rotterdam, MM APR 2015 149 Rome, Liverpool, and Manchester. It furthers understanding of the role and composition of power figures. Alberti, S. J. (2006). Culture and nature: The place of anthropology in the Manchester Museum. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 18, 7-21. Bankes, G. (2009). ‘Collecting Contemporary pottery in and around Cuenca, southern Ecuador in 1997’, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 21, 227-240. Brock, F., Bronk Ramsey, C. , Higham, T., Lucejko, J.J., Ostapkowicz, J., Ribechini, E., 47 Wiedenhoeft, A.C., & Wilson, S. (2012). Chronologies in wood and resin: AMS 14C dating of pre- Hispanic Caribbean wood sculpture. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 2238- 2251. Dion, M., Lomas, D., Dezeuze, A., & Kelly, J. (2005). Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies (Vol. 4). Book Works. Hogsden, C., & Poulter, E. K. (2012). The real other? Museum objects in digital contact networks. Journal of Material Culture, 17(3), 265-286. Longair, S., & McAleer, J. (2013). Introduction: Shifting Interpretations of Empire, Museum History Journal, 6(1), 3-5. Lynch, B. T., & Alberti, S. J. (2010). Legacies of prejudice: racism, co- production and radical trust in the museum. Museum Management and Curatorship, 25(1), 13-35. MM APR 2015 150 Pantazis, S. (2013). We Face Forward: Art From West Africa Today (review), Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 32(1), 142-145. Poulter, E. K. (2013). Silent Witness: Tracing Narratives of Empire through Objects and Archives in the West African Collections at the Manchester Museum. Museum History Journal, 6(1), 6-22. Vincent, J. (2014) Lgbt People and the UK Cultural Sector: The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage Since 1950 Welsh, S. (2010). Cover Up. In Poole, (ed), Slashstroke, 3, 16-17. Welsh, S. (2012). Tipis and a Totem Pole in Salford, Greater Manchester. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 25, 163-171. Archery Hodkinson, A .W. & Welsh S. (2011). A Pair of Crossbow-Stand Fittings and a Different Type of Throwing Arrow. Arrowhead, 117, 6-7. Hodkinson, A W. (2011). Touhu: Three Millennia of the Chinese Arrow Vase and the Game of Pitch- Pot. Arrowhead, 118, 17-19. 48 MUSEUM PRACTICE MM APR 2015 151 Lynch, B. (2014). Whose Cake is it Anyway? Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Besterman, T. (2009). Returning a stolen generation. Museum International,61(1-2), 107-111. Lynch, B. (2014) Challenging Ourselves: Uncomfortable Histories and Current Museum Practice. Chapter 6 in J. Kidd, S. Cairns, A. Drago, A. Ryall & M. Stearn (eds.) Challenging History in the Museum: international perspectives. Ashgate, London. MM APR 2015 152 Besterman, T. (2014). Crossing the Line: Restitution and Cultural L. Tythacott & K. Arvanitis (eds.), Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate, Farnham. Bienkowski, P. (2014). Authority and the Power of Place: Exploring the Legitimacy of Authorized and Alternative Voices in the Restitution Discourse. Pp. 37-54 in L. Tythacott & K. Arvanitis (eds.), Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate, Farnham. Equity. Pp. 19-35 in Lynch B., (2008) The Amenable Object: Working with Diaspora Communities through a psychaonalysis of touch. Pp. 261MM APR 2015 153 272 in H. Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in Museums: policy and practice in object handling. Berg, Oxford. Lynch, B. (2011). Collaboration, contestation, and creative conflict: On the efficacy of museum/community partnerships.Pp. 146-163 in J. Marstine (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining ethics for the twenty-first century museum. Routledge, London. Lynch, B. T., & Alberti, S. J. (2010). MM APR 2015 154 Legacies of prejudice: racism, coproduction and radical trust in the museum. Museum Management and Curatorship, 25(1), 13-35. Merriman, N. (2008). Museum collections and sustainability. Cultural Trends, 17(1), 3-21. Merriman, N. (2012). Transforming the Manchester Museum. In Jandl, S. & Gold, M. (eds.) Beyond Exhibitions and Education. A Handbook for Academic Museums Volume 2. Museums Etc, London. Merriman, N. 2015. The Future of Collecting in ‘Disciplinary’ Museums: Interpretive, Thematic, Relational. In McCarthy, C. (ed.) Museum Practice. Volume 2 in International Handbooks of Lynch, B. T. (2011). Custom-made reflective practice: can museums realise their capabilities in helping MM APR 2015 155 others realise theirs? Museum Management and Curatorship, 26(5), 441-458. Lynch, B. (2013). Reflective debate, radical transparency and trust in the museum. Museum Management and Curatorship, 28(1), 1-13. 49 Museum Studies. John Wiley, New York: 249-265. 50 ZOOLOGY MM APR 2015 156 A type specimen of the Warbler Finch, collected on the Galapagos by Charles Darwin in 1835 on the Voyage of the Beagle (photograph by Pauline Neild). The zoology collections featured in 112 publications during 2005-14. Almost half of these (43%) related to the collection of bird skins, skeletons and eggs; molluscs formed the basis of 19% of publications; bryozoa (colonial marine animals) formed the basis of 15% of publications, and mammals formed the basis of 13% of publications. These figures reflect the relative significance of our various collections: our bird collection is within the top five in the UK, and our collections of molluscs and, especially, bryozoa are very rich in type specimens, the specimens that define scientific names. In terms of subjects covered, distribution and faunistics form the basis of many publications (22%), where researchers incorporate distributional records based on specimens in the Museum collection. Taxonomy and systematics are another popular subject drawing on the collection (20% of publications), drawing especially on the collections of Bryozoa and Molluscs, of which we have very significant numbers of type specimens. Projects that are specifically related to conservation biology are relatively small in number, but especially important in terms of their wider impact; many projects that relate to distribution and to ecology also have direct conservation applications. A significant number of publications relate to the history of the Museum and about collectors (21%), reflecting interest in both our practices and the importance of our donors and other associated people. MM APR 2015 157 51 In terms of key pieces of research, collections of Brown-lipped Snails from the UK collected during the latter part of the 20th century demonstrated evolutionary change in shell colour and patterning at all levels, including site, habitat and continent-wide scales. Data associated with specimens was used to demonstrate declines in large mammals in India and to map current diversity of birds in tropical Africa and Central America. Mammals MM APR 2015 158 Alberti, S. J. (2005). Objects and the museum. Isis, 96(4), 559-571. Alberti, S. J. (Ed.). (2011). The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie. University of Virginia Press, Richmond. Dudley (ed.) Museum Objects: experiencing the properties of things. Routledge, London. Alberti, S., & Winn, A. A Tiger in the Library. NatScA News, 19, 72-76.. Andrews, E. (2012). Reflexive displays: interpreting taxidermy practice. NatSCA News, 23, 59-63. Alberti, S. J. J. M. (2012). Preparing and conserving. Pp. 90-94 in S. H. Andrews, E. (2014), Reflections on Shifts in the Display and Use of Taxidermy in Contemporary Museums in Northern England. Taxidermist, 37, 8-10. Brassey, C. A., Kitchener, A. C., Withers, P. J., Manning, P. L., & Sellers, W. I. (2013). The role of cross-sectional geometry, curvature, and limb posture in maintaining equal safety factors: a computed tomography study. The Anatomical Record, 296(3), 395- 413. Buckley, M. (2013). A molecular phylogeny of Plesiorycteropus reassigns the extinct mammalian order ‘Bibymalagasia’. PloS one, 8(3), e59614. Colley, A. C. (2014). Portrait, empire and industry at Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester. Victorian Literature and Culture, 42(2), 167- 186. Dahlbom, T. (2009). Matter of fact: biographies of zoological specimens. Museum History Journal, 2(1), 51-72. MM APR 2015 159 Everest, S. (2011). Under the skin: the biography of the Manchester Mandrill. Pp. 75-91 in S. J. J. M. Alberti (ed.) The Afterlives of Animals. University of Virginia Press, London. Gardiner, J. D., Codd, J. R., & Nudds, R. L. (2011). An association between ear and tail morphologies of bats and their foraging style. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 89(2), 90-99. Gardiner, J. D., Dimitriadis, G., Sellers, W. I., & Codd, J. R. (2008). The aerodynamics of big ears in the brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(2), 313-321. 52 Gardiner, J. D., Dimitriadis, G., Codd, J. R., & Nudds, R. L. (2011). A potential role for bat tail membranes in flight control. PloS one, 6(3), e18214. Jenkins, P. D., & Carleton, M. D. (2005). Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major's expedition to Madagascar, 1894 to 1896: beginnings of modern systematic study of the island's mammalian fauna. Journal of Natural History, 39(20), 1779- 1818. Jordan, N. R., Messenger, J., Turner, P., Croose, E., Birks, J., & O’Reilly, C. (2012). Molecular comparison of historical and contemporary pine marten (Martes martes) populations in the British Isles: evidence of differing origins and fates, and implications for conservation management. Conservation Genetics, 13(5), 1195-1212. Karanth, K. K., Nichols, J. D., Karanth, K. U., Hines, J. E., & Christensen, N. L. (2010). The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, B. 277: 1971- 1979. Mani, F. (2012). British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: the gentleman hunter, new MM APR 2015 160 technology, and growing conservationist awareness. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 4(1), 69-87. Morris, P. (2012). The Afterlives of Animals. A Museum Menagerie. Journal of the History of Collections, 24(2), 277-278. Birds Bates, K. T., Manning, P. L., Hodgetts, D., & Sellers, W. I. (2009). Estimating mass properties of dinosaurs using laser imaging and 3D computer modelling. PLoS One, 4(2), e4532. Birkhead, T. (2010). The Magpies: the ecology and behaviour of Black- billed and Yellow-billed Magpies. A&C Black, London. Buchanan, G. M., Grant, M. C., Sanderson, R. A., & Pearce- Higgins, J. W. (2006). The contribution of invertebrate taxa to moorland bird diets and the potential implications of land-use management. Ibis, 148(4), 615-628. Combridge, P., & Castle, P. Should the Amesbury Hawk Owl remain on the Wiltshire List? A personal view. Hobby, 38, 109-118. Cotterill, F. P. D. (2006). Taxonomic status and conservation importance of the avifauna of Katanga (south- east Congo Basin) and its environs. Ostrich-Journal of African Ornithology, 77(12), 1-21. Craig, A., & Feare, C. (2010). Starlings and Mynas. A&C Black, London. MM APR 2015 161 Davison, G. W. H. (2013). Dresser, Seebohm, and the scope of Palaearctic ornithology. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 29, 259-268. 53 Dean, W. R. J., Sandwith, M., & Milton, S. J. (2006). The bird collections of CJ Andersson in southern Africa, 1850-1867. Archives of Natural History, 33(1), 159-171. Dickinson, E. C., Loskot, V. M., Morioka, H., Somadikarta, S., & van den Elzen, R. (2006). Systematic notes on Asian birds. 50. Types of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae. Zoologische Mededelingen, 80(5), 65. Dickinson, E. C., Loskot, V., Morioka, H., Somadikarta, S., & van den Elzen, R. (2006). Systematic notes on Asian birds. 66. Types of the Sittidae and Certhidae. Zoologische Mededelingen, 80(5), 287. Dougall, T. W., Holland, P. K., & Yalden, D. W. (2010). The population biology of Common Sandpipers in Britain. British Birds, 103, 100-114. Ennos, R., Van Casteren, A., Codd, J., Gardiner, J., & McGhie, H. (2009). How the snipe makes its drumming sound. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 153(2), S114-S115. Eubanks, T. L., Behrstock, R. A., & Weeks, R. J. (2006). Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast (Vol. 10). A&M University Press, Texas. Expósito, C. G., Copete, J. L., Crochet, P.-A., Qninba, A. & MM APR 2015 162 Garrido, H. (2011). History, status and distribution of Andalusian Buttonquail in the WP. Dutch Birding 33, 73-93. Flood, R. L. (2009). 'All-dark' Oceanodroma storm-petrels in the Atlantic and neighbouring seas. British Birds, 102(7), 365. Gilby, A. J., Pryke, S. R., & Griffith, S. C. (2009). The historical frequency of head-colour morphs in the Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae). Emu, 109(3), 222-229. Green, R. E. (2008). Demographic mechanism of a historical bird population collapse reconstructed using museum specimens. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1649), 2381-2387. Hernández, M., González, L. M., Oria, J., Sánchez, R., & Arroyo, B. (2008). Influence of contamination by organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls on the breeding of the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27(2), 433-441. Jacobsen, K.-O. (2005). Snøugle (Bubo scandiacus) i Norge [Snowy Owl in Norway]. NINA Rapport 84. Jansen, J. J. F. J. & Viek, R. (2010). Joseph Baker, een Engelse vogelverzamelaar in Nederland in het midden van de negentiende eeuw [Joseph Baker, an English ornithologist in the Netherlands in the middle of the 19th century]. Limosa, 83, 176-182. 54 Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2012). William Bridger (1832-1870), collector of birds eggs in Australia and MM APR 2015 163 the Netherlands. Archives of Natural History, 39(1), 174-176. Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2013). Kleinst Waterhoen in Nederland: voorkomen en herziening van gevallen in 1800-2006 [Baillon’s Crake in the Netherlands: occurrence and revision of records in 1800-2006]. Dutch Birding, 35(5), 311-322. Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2014). A review of the identification criteria and variability of the Slenderbilled Curlew. British Birds, 107, 339-370. Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2014). Former breeding of Eurasian Golden Plover, Dunlin and Wood Sandpiper in Limburg and Noord-Brabant. Dutch Birding, 36, 9-19. Jansen, J. J. F. J., & Nap, W. (2008). Identification of White- headed Long-tailed Bushtit and occurrence in the Netherlands. Dutch Birding, 30, 293-308. Kennerley, P. R., Bakewell, D. N., & Round, P. D. (2008). Rediscovery of a long-lost Charadrius plover from South-East Asia. Forktail, 24, 63-79. Kirwan, G. M. (2004). The taxonomic position of the Afghan Scrub Sparrow Passer (moabiticus) yatii. Sandgrouse, 26(2), 105-111. Kirwan, G. M. (2006). Comments on two subspecies of passerine birds recently described from Turkey, Eremophila alpestris kumerloevei and Pyrrhula pyrrhula paphlagonia with remarks on geographical variation in related forms of Bullfinch from the Balkans and Caucasus. Sandgrouse, 28(1), 12-23. Kirwan, G., Demirci, B., Welch, H., Boyla, K., Özen, M., Castell, P., & Marlow, T. (2009). The MM APR 2015 164 Birds of Turkey: the distribution, taxonomy and breeding of Turkish birds. A&C Black. Kobelkowsky-Vidrio, T., Ríos- Muñoz, C. A., & Navarro-Sigüenza, A. G. Biodiversity and biogeography of the avifauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(8), 1-19. Marquiss, M., Newton, I., Hobson, K. A., & Kolbeinsson, Y. (2012). Origins of irruptive migrations by common crossbills Loxia curvirostra into northwestern Europe revealed by stable isotope analysis. Ibis, 154(2), 400-409. McGhie, H. A. (2005). Specimens of extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, UK. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 125(4), 247-252. McGhie H. A. (2006). Henry Dresser and his Russian correspondents. Our Birds, 2-3(32- 33), 54-55. (in Russian) McGhie, H. A. (2009). Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning 55 the Darwin commemorations of 1909. Archives of Natural History, 36(2), 352-354. McGhie, H. A. (2010). Contextual research and the postcolonial museum- the example of Henry Dresser. Pp. 49-65 in E. Bauernfeind et al. (eds.), Collections in Context. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of European Bird Curators, Vienna 2007). MM APR 2015 165 McGhie, H. A. (2011). Henry Dresser. Pp. 89–90 in E. Dickinson, L. K. Overstreet, R. J. Dowsett & M. D. Bruce (eds.), Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology. Aves Press, Northampton. McGhie, H. A. (2012). Nineteenth- century ornithology, Leadenhall Market and Fraud. British Birds, 105, 678-682. McGhie, H.A. (2013). Images, ideas and ideals: thinking with and about Ross’s Gull. Pp. 101127 in L. E. Thorsen & K. A. Rader (eds.), Animals on Display: the Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History. Penn State Press, Pennsylvania. McGhie, H. A., & Logunov, D. V. (2005). Discovering the breeding grounds of Ross’s Gull: 100 years on. British Birds, 98, 589-599. McGhie H. A. & Logunov, D. V. (2006). Henry Dresser and Sergei Buturlin: friends and colleagues. Pp. 40-53 in Second Readings to the Commemoration of SA Buturlin, Proceedings of a conference held in Ulyanovsk, September 2005. Museum of Local Lore, Ulyanovsk. (in Russian) Mlikovský, J. (2007). Type specimens and type localities of Rock Nuthatches of the Sitta neumayr species complex (Aves: Sittidae). Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series, 176, 91-115. Peterson, A. T., Sanchez-Cordero, V., Martínez-Meyer, E., & Navarro- Sigüenza, A. G. (2006). Tracking population extirpations via melding ecological niche modeling with land-cover information. Ecological Modelling, 195(3), 229-236. MM APR 2015 166 Ríos-Muñoz, C. A., & Navarro- Sigüenza, A. G. (2012). Patterns of species richness and biogeographic regionalization of the avifaunas of the seasonally dry tropical forest in Mesoamerica. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 47(3), 171-182. Stewart, J. R. (2007). The fossil and archaeological record of the Eagle Owl in Britain. British Birds, 100(8), 481. Tickle, P. G., Ennos, A. R., Lennox, L. E., Perry, S. F., & Codd, J. R. (2007). Functional significance of the uncinate processes in birds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(22), 39553961. Tickle, P., Nudds, R., & Codd, J. (2009). Uncinate process length in 56 birds scales with resting metabolic rate. PloS one, 4(5), e5667. Valledor de Lozoya, A. (2013). Ostrero Canario: historia y biologia de la primera especie de la fauna espãnola extinguida por el hombre [Canary Islands Oystercatcher: history and biology of the first species of the Spanish fauna to be extinguished by humans]. Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales, Spain. Van Casteren, A., Codd, J. R., Gardiner, J. D., McGhie, H., & Ennos, A. R. (2010). Sonation in the male common snipe (Capella gallinago gallinago L.) is achieved by a flag-like fluttering of their tail feathers and consequent vortex shedding. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 213(9), 1602- 1608. MM APR 2015 167 Yalden, D. W., & Albarella, U. (2009). The History of British Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reptiles Vervust, B., Van Dongen, S., & Van Damme, R. (2009). The effect of preservation on lizard morphometrics–an experimental study. Amphibia-Reptilia, 30(3), 321-329. Amphibians Bland, A. (2013). The Husbandry and Captive Reproduction of The Gliding Leaf Frog Agalychnis spurrelli (Boulenger 1913) Herpetological Bulletin, The Bristish Herpetological Society (2013) 124: 9-12. Gray, A. R (2011). Notes on Hybridization in Leaf frogs of the genus Agalychnis (Anura, Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae), Cornell University and the National Science Institutes’ ArXiv:1102.4039v1. Petchey, A., Gray, A., Andrén, C., Skelton, T., Kubicki, B., Allen, C., Jehle, R. (2014).Characterisation of 9 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Critically Endangered lemur leaf frog Agalychnis lemur. Conservation Genetics Resources, December 2014, Volume 6: 4, pp 971-973. Fish Cobb, M. & McGhie, H. A. (2006). Letter- on the discovery of three live fish inside an apparently intact duck egg. New Scientist 2569 (16th September): 101. Molluscs & Brachiopods MM APR 2015 168 Bitner, M. A., Logan, A., & Gischler, E. (2008). Recent brachiopods from the Persian Gulf and their biogeographical significance. Scientia Marina, 72(2), 279-285. Cameron, R. A. D & Cook, L. M. (2013). Temporal morph frequency changes in sand-dune populations of Cepaea nemoralis (L.). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 108, 315-322. Cameron, R. A., Cook, L. M., Goodfriend, G. A., & Seddon, M. B. (2006). Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago: 57 Change and stasis in Pleistocene to recent times. Malacologia, 49(1), 25-59. Cameron, R. A. D., Cook, L. M. & Greenwood, J. J. D. (2013). Change and stability in a steep morph-frequency cline in the snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) over 43 years. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 108, 473–483 Clarke, B. C. 2008. Arthur James Cain. 25 July 1921 – 20 August 1999. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 54, 47-57. Cook, L. M. (2005). Disequilibrium in some Cepaea populations. Heredity, 94(5), 497-500. Cook, L. M. (2007). Heterosis in Cepaea. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 90(1), 49-53. Cook, L. M. (2008). Species richness in Madeiran land snails, and its causes. Journal of Biogeography, 35(4), 647-653. Cook, L. M. (2008). Variation with habitat in Cepaea nemoralis: the Cain and Sheppard diagram. MM APR 2015 169 Journal of Molluscan Studies, 74(3), 239-243. Cook, L. M. (2012). Habitat and shell polymorphism of Cepaea nemoralis (L.): interrogating the Evolution Megalab database. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78(2), 179-184. Cook, L. M. (2013). Selection and disequilibrium in Cepaea nemoralis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 108, 484-493. Cook, L. M. (2014). Morph frequency in British Cepaea nemoralis: what has changed in half a century? Journal of Molluscan Studies, 80, 43-46. Herbert, D. G. (2006). Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata). Journal of Natural History, 40(17-18), 1063-1081. Herbert, D. G. (2012). A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south- western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2), 381-502. Herbert, D. G., & Moussalli, A. (2010). Revision of the larger cannibal snails (Natalina sl) of southern Africa- Natalina ss, Afrorhytida and Capitina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rhytididae). African Invertebrates, 51(1), 1-132. Insoll, T., & Hutchins, E. (2005). The archaeology of disease: molluscs as potential disease indicators in Bahrain. World Archaeology, 37(4), 579-588. McGhie, H. (2008). Catalogue of type specimens of molluscs in the collection of The MM APR 2015 170 Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, UK. ZooKeys, 4, 1-46. 58 Silvertown, J., Cook, L., Cameron, R., Dodd, M., McConway, K., Worthington, J., Skelton, P., Anton, C., Bossdorf, O., Baur, B., Schilthuizen, M., Fontaine, B., Sattmann, H. & Jaun, X. (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS One, 6(4), e18927. Skriperon, T. (2002). The Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda) of Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). Novapex 3(1): 1-45. Trovant, B., Ruzzante, D. E., Basso, N. G., & Orensanz, J. M. (2013). Distinctness, phylogenetic relations and biogeography of intertidal mussels (Brachidontes, Mytilidae) from the southwestern Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(07), 18431855. Bryozoa Berning, B. (2013). New and little- known Cheilostomata (Bryozoa, Gymnolaemata) from the NE Atlantic. European Journal of Taxonomy, 44, 1-25. Boardman, R. S., & Buttler, C. J. (2005). Zooids and extrazooidal skeleton in the Order Trepostomata (Bryozoa). Journal Information, 79(6), 1088-1104. Cleary, D., & Wyse Jackson, P. N. (2007). Stenophragmidium Bassler, 1952 (Trepostomida: Bryozoa) from the Mississippian of Ireland and Britain. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 25(1), 1-25. MM APR 2015 171 Ernst, A. (2005, March). Lower Carboniferous Bryozoa from some localities in Sauerland, Germany. In Bryozoan studies 2004. Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology Association conference, Balkema, London (pp. 49-62). Kuklinski, P., & Taylor, P. D. (2006). A new genus and some cryptic species of Arctic and boreal calloporid cheilostome bryozoans. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86(5), 1035-1046. Kuklinski, P., Taylor, P. D., & Denisenko, N. (2007). Arctic cheilostome bryozoan species of the genus Escharoides. Journal of Natural History, 41(1-4), 219-228. Kuklinski, P., Taylor, P. D., Denisenko, N. V., & Berning, B. (2013). Atlantic origin of the Arctic biota? Evidence from phylogenetic and biogeographical analysis of the Cheilostome bryozoan genus Pseudoflustra. PloS One, 8(3), e59152. Nikulina, E. A., De Blauwe, H., & Reverter-Gil, O. (2013). Molecular phylogenetic analysis confirms the species status of Electra verticillata (Ellis and Solander, 1786). In Bryozoan Studies 2010 (pp. 217- 236). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Ostrovsky, A., Cáceres-Chamizo, J. P., Vávra, N., & Berning, B. (2011). Bryozoa of the Red Sea: history and current state of research. Annals of Bryozoology, 3, 67-97. 59 Reverter-Gil, O., & Fernández- Pulpeiro, E. (2007). Species of genus Schizotheca Hincks (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) described in the Atlantic-Mediterranean region, with notes on some species of Parasmittina Osburn. Journal of Natural History, 41(29-32), 1929- 1953. MM APR 2015 172 Reverter-Gil, O., Souto, J., & Fernández-Pulpeiro, E. (2012). New and little known species of Bryozoa from Iberian Atlantic waters. Zoosystema, 34(1), 157- 170. Souto, J., Reverter-Gil, O., & Fernández-Pulpeiro, E. (2010). Gymnolaemate bryozoans from the Algarve (southern Portugal): new species and biogeographical considerations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 90(07), 1417- 1439. Tompsett, S., Porter, J. S., & Taylor, P. D. (2009). Taxonomy of the fouling Cheilostome bryozoans Schizoporella unicornis (Johnston) and Schizoporella errata (Waters). Journal of Natural History, 43(35- 36), 2227-2243. Vieira, L. M. Revisão taxonômica do gênero Scrupocellaria van Beneden (Bryozoa, Candidae) (Doctoral dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo). Vieira, L. M., Jones, M. E. S., Winston, J. E., Migotto, A. E., & Marques, A. C. (2014). Evidence for polyphyly of the Genus Scrupocellaria (Bryozoa: Candidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters. PloS one, 9(4), e95296. Vieira, L. M., Spencer Jones, M. E., & Winston, J. E. (2013). Resurrection of the genus Licornia for Scrupocellaria jolloisii (Bryozoa) and related species, with documentation of L. jolloisii as a non-indigenous species in the western Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(7), 1911-1921. Winston, J. E., & Woollacott, R. M. (2008). Redescription and revision of some red-pigmented Bugula species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 159(3), 179- 212. MM APR 2015 173 Corals & other invertebrates Murray, J. W. (2012). Early British students of modern foraminifera: Carpenter and Williamson. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 31(2), 159- 167. Savriama, Y., & Klingenberg, C. P. (2011). Beyond bilateral symmetry: geometric morphometric methods for any type of symmetry. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1), 280. Bourmaud, C. A. F., Leung, J. K. L., Bollard, S., & Gravier-Bonnet, N. (2013). Mass spawning events, seasonality and reproductive features in Milleporids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Reunion Island. Marine Ecology, 34(s1), 14-24. 60 Echinoderms Massin, C., Uthicke, S., Purcell, S. W., Rowe, F. W., & Samyn, Y. (2009). Taxonomy of the heavily exploited Indo-Pacific sandfish complex (Echinodermata: Holothuriidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 155(1), 40- 59. 61 MM APR 2015 174