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natural

adjective artless, authentic, characteristic, connate, consistent, crude, free from affectation, genuine, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenerate, ingrained, innate, innatus, instinctive, instinctual, lifelike, native, nativus, normal, organic, original, pure, real, regular, true to life, typical, unadulterated, unartificial, uncultivated, unsynthetic, untouched
Associated concepts: natural law

SERVITUDES, NATURAL, civil law. Those servitudes which arise in consequence of the nature of the soil.
2. By law the inferior heritages, are submitted in relation to the natural flow of waters, and the like, to the superior. An inferior field is, therefore, subject to the injury or prejudice which the situation of the ground, in its natural state, way cause it.

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In his prologue, Peter Ng poses the question, "why a natural history museum?

Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore's Natural History Museum

Jamaica (Chapter 1) and Mark Catesby's Natural History (Chapter 2), Part I, "The Nature of Slavery," makes the persuasive claim that natural history was the genre that helped readers navigate the new epistemological conditions of a transoceanic empire fueled by speculative economies and the slave trade.

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

The specimen is open for public display in Pakistan Museum of Natural History.

UNESCO, Pakistan Science Foundation inaugurate whale shark specimens

Besides this, PMNH also publishes natural history books, field guides, monographs, research articles, popular literature, technical reports, bulletins, brochures and pamphlets for the promotion of scientific research and public awareness.

PMNH preserving natural history specimens

Based on a compelling analysis of a vast array of natural history texts, manuscripts, and correspondence between naturalists, Cooper asserts that the influx of so-called "exotic" commodities and knowledge from foreign lands fostered a new urge among Europeans to document local--or indigenous--vegetation and natural resources as a means of asserting territoriality and coming to grips with the foreign influences that increasingly surrounded them.

Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

in association with The American Museum of Natural History, 2006.

Coming to life: museum artists create dioramas so lifelike that they might he mistaken for the real thing

Ogilvie's study is important because it offers a plausible and convincing explanation for the rise of natural history as an individual and, in some ways, idiosyncratic discipline in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe

1 -- cover -- color) If arachnids creep you out, head over to the Natural History Museum to see the SPIDER-MAN

WEB OF INTRIGUE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM'S SPIDER PAVILION PUTS A POSITIVE SPIN ON ARACHNOPHOBIA

Rosenfeld and Kay performed a meta-analysis of 63 articles to determine the natural history of untreated AOM and otitis media with effusion (OME).

AOM and AOMT are different entities

His playground was the American Museum of Natural History, where his mother worked with anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Manifesting ecologic and microbial connections

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is the world's most prestigious wildlife photographic competition, organised each year by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005

Another show, British Isles: A Natural History, will see TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh take on a new role as a natural history presenter.