Английская Википедия:Barbara Pyrah
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Barbara Joan Pyrah (1943–2016) was a British geologist, museum curator, and illustrator.[1]
Career
From 1965–1968 Pyrah was the assistant keeper of geology at the Manchester Museum.[2] From 1968 to her retirement in 1988, Pyrah was the Keeper of Geology at the Yorkshire Museum.[3] During her time at the Yorkshire Museum Pyrah produced a four-part catalogue detailing the type and figured fossil specimens held in the collections.[4][5][6][7] This catalogue represented over 900 specimens from approximately 150 publications. The research interest in the collections of the museum rose considerably as a result of these published catalogues.[8]
Pyrah illustrated the 1977 publication The Ice Age in Yorkshire.[9]
Pyrah was a member of the organising committee of the Geological Curators' Group from 1975 to 1977.[10]
She retired from the museum due to ill-health in 1988;[3] In retirement she was a member of the Dunnington Art Club and a founding member of the Friends of Hagg Wood.[1]
She is listed as one of the donors to the mosaic map in York Museum Gardens.[11]
Exhibitions
Pyrah organised a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum: 'A New Look at the Dinosaurs' was opened in April 1984 by David Bellamy. The exhibition was inspired by a 1979 book of the same name by Alan J. Charig, who gave a lecture in the museum in celebration of its opening.[12] The exhibition received a favourable review in New Scientist, which described it as "an exhibition of unimpeachable scholarship which provides something of interest and enjoyment at any and every age.[13] Over 335,000 visitors saw the exhibition by the end of its year-long display.[8]
Publications
- Pyrah, B. J. 1974. "Collections and Collectors of Note. 3. Yorkshire Museum". Geological Curators Group Newsletter 1(2). 52–55.
- Pyrah, B.1976. "Catalogue of the type and figured fossils in the Yorkshire Museum: part 1", Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 41(1.4)
- Pyrah, B.1977. "Catalogue of the type and figured fossils in the Yorkshire Museum: part 2", Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 41(2.23)
- Pyrah, B.1978. "Catalogue of the type and figured fossils in the Yorkshire Museum: part 3", Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 41(4.32)
- Pyrah, B.1979. "Catalogue of the type and figured fossils in the Yorkshire Museum: part 4", Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 42(3.24)
- Pyrah, B. J. 1981. "Edward Charlesworth and the British Natural History Society. 1: Material in the Yorkshire Museum", The Geological Curator 3(2). 88–92.
- Pyrah, B. J. 1988. The history of the Yorkshire Museum and its geological collections. York: The Ebor Press. Шаблон:ISBN
References
- Английская Википедия
- 1943 births
- 2016 deaths
- Women geologists
- British curators
- Yorkshire Museum people
- Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
- Manchester Museum people
- British women curators
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