XX Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Madrid, del 4 al 7 de septiembre de 201

Barroso-Barcenilla, Fernando

Brandão, José Manuel Moraes Vale

Callapez, Pedro

Paredes, Ricardo

Santos, Vanda Faria dos

Segura, Manuel

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Isabel Rábano y Ana Rodr igo (Eds.) especies, 112 géneros y 6 familias pertenecientes al orden Unionoida. La procedencia de los ejemplares es muy variada y abarca los cinco continentes. En este estudio hemos contabilizado 152 lotes con 30 especies provenientes de África, 1.359 lotes con 245 especies de América, 125 lotes que incluyen 55 especies de Asia, 1.472 lotes con 18 especies de Europa y 28 lotes con 7 es­pecies procedentes de Oceanía. Hoy por hoy la península Ibérica es la zona geográfica mejor re­presentada con un total de 1.233 lotes, 114 pertenecientes a la familia Margaritiferidae y 1.119 a la familia Unionidae. Destaca por su importancia la colección en alcohol que consta de 456 lotes de náyades europeas y 39 de norteafricanas, siendo probablemente una de las colecciones más completas de estas áreas geográficas. En el estudio histórico de la colección se ha hecho especial énfasis en las náyades reco­lectadas por la denominada Comisión Científica del Pacífico (1862-1866) en Suramérica y Améri­ca Central. Para el establecimiento de categorías de amenaza se han seguido las dos leyes princi­pales de protección vigentes: el Programa de Especies en Peligro (Endangered Species Program) de Estados Unidos y la Directiva Hábitat de la Unión Europea. Se ha revisado asim ismo la Lista Roja de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN) en la que están re­presentados el 30 % de las especies de náyades vulnerables, el 36 % de las especies en peligro, el 44,5 % de las consideradas en peligro crítico y el 34,5 % de las náyades extintas. The Krantz palaeontological collections from the University of Coimbra (Portugal): a century of teaching and museological activities Pedro M . Cal lapez1. 2, Ricardo Paredes1, Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla3. 4, José M. Brandao5, Vanda F. Santos 6 and Manuel Segura4 lDpto. Ciencias da Terra, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000-272 Coimbra, Portugal 2Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Coimbra (FCT), Coimbra, Portugal 3Dpto. Paleontología, U. Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, España .r.filipae@gmail.com 4Dpto. Geología, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, España 5Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia da Ciencia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal 6Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciencia, 1250-102 Lisboa, Portugal The Faculty of Philosophy was an innovative structure at the moment of its creation, in 1772, as a part of the overall reformation of the University of Coimbra promoted by the Marquis of Pombal (1699-1782), minister of D. José 1, King of Portugal. Its original settlement was inspired by Enlightenment ideals and enriched by the creation of Natural History and Physic cabinets, a botanic garden and an Astronomic observatory. Nevertheless, this structural and teaching plan­ning was little changed throughout the following decades, thus becoming progressively inade­quate and behind time in face to the new realities of the country. By the second half of the XIXth century, Portugal was following a timid but stepped way into modernization, and these new challenges and some competition by the polytechnic and professional schools of Lisbon and Oporto were imperative for a new reformation of the Faculty, which took place in 1885. These changes included the restructuration of sections, museums and curricula . They also were the 13 XX Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid, 2013 departure point for extensive acquisitions of instruments, models, scientific books, maps and natural history specimens destined to reequip laboratories and classrooms. During this period of relative abundance that persisted until the First World War were made dozens of transac­tions with European comptoirs specialized in didactic and scientific materials. For the Section of Mineralogy of the university Natural History Museum that was functioning as a close support for several disciplines, it was the awaited and desired opportunity to acquire large collections of minerals, rocks, fossils and models. The director of the section was the notable mineralo­gist António Gonsalves Guimaraes (1850-1919), later assisted by Anselmo Ferraz de Carvalho (1878-1955). Both were involved in the acquisition of several thousands of specimens and large collections of models for the museum, with emphasis for those of the Krantz house from Bonn, Germany. The dealership founded by Adam August Krantz (1809-1872) was one of the most im­portant comptoirs of that time, with several noteworthy catalogues available, and many collec­tions sold to other Iberian institutions, including the official Portuguese Geological Survey and the Industriallnstitute of Oporto (Portugal), and the Central University and the School of Mines of Madrid (Spain) . The Krantz palaeontological collections held at the University of Coimbra were bought at August 1890, June 1909 and November 1913, respectively by the amounts of 1189,00, 1884,00 and 627,50 D.M. They originally included 686, 961 and 92 specimens of invertebrates, fossil plants, and a few vertebrates collected from the most well-known European sites, but also from North-America, Brazil, North-Africa and Australia. They were organised for taxonomic and stratigraphic purposes, and to be an overall synthesis of the Phanerozoic periods and main fossil invertebrate groups. From them also stand out a noteworthy record of the classical XIX century stratigraphy of West Europe. The Krantz palaeontological collections were widely used in the classrooms of the faculty, contributing for the formation of several generations of Natural Scien­ces teachers and many other professionals. The surviving hundreds of samples are mixed with similar specimens bought from other comptoirs and conserved in a reserve room of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, awaiting the finalization of a long conservation work des­tined to confer them their original relevance. Un caso práctico: el Museo de Ciencias del Instituto Padre Suárez de Granada Luis CasteJlón Serrano Instituto Padre Suárez Gran Vía 61, 18001 Granada kstllons@gmail.com En las inquietudes actuales por el rescate conservación y en definitiva la puesta en valor del Patrimonio de los Institutos, destaca naturalmente lo relativo al Patrimonio cientifico educa­tivo . Sería ocioso aclarar el qué son los Institutos entendidos como "Históricos" los que pueden hacer una oferta más destacable en este sentido. Conformados en la actualidad en la Asociación Nacional para la Defensa del Patrimonio de los Institutos Históricos, los pasos seguidos vienen a ser parecidos para todos: rescate, clasificación, restauraciónes y la disposición para el uso, estu­dio y disfrute por el mayor público posible, aunque esto último está condicionado por espacios 14 

The Krantz palaeontological collections from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) : a century of teaching and museological activities

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