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"Wreningham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some south east of Wymondham and south west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 6.24 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 493 in 199 households, the population increasing to 528 at the 2011 Census For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk. From 1808 to 1814 Wreningham hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in the port of Great Yarmouth. Superstitions Wreningham, allegedly, got its name from the Witch and the Wren myth. The myth tells the story of a witch living in Wreningham who was discovered by the villagers. A knight then came to kill her and upon being attacked she transformed herself into a wren to escape safely; in response the villagers beat the bushes with sticks and caught and burnt any wrens that flew out in an attempt to kill her. She supposedly returns to the village every St Stephen's Day, and traditionally the villagers would beat the hedges and burn any wrens they caught on this day. References * Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. . * Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005. External links . *Information from Genuki Norfolk on Wreningham. *Wreningham village website Category:Villages in Norfolk Category:Civil parishes in Norfolk "
"Thylacines in Washington D.C., 1906The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections. The ITSD was first published as an electronic resource on a series of three CD-ROMs in April 2005. It was updated in July 2006 and completely revised in May 2009 and released on a single DVD totalling some 3.68 GB of data and images. The ITSD has been designed as a free access academic tool to promote and facilitate undergraduate and postgraduate research into the species. It can be accessed through the offices of the curators and heads of department of the universities and museums that hold thylacine material or alternatively through the libraries of several of the major zoological societies. The ITSD lists all available catalogue data for each individual specimen e.g. holding institution, catalogue identification number, sex, date of acquisition, specimen type, source, locality, collector, field number, old or additional catalogue numbers, purchase or exchange information and finally any additional remarks pertaining to the specimen. To support the data component and to significantly enhance its educational worth, high-resolution digital images of the specimens are included. The ITSD specimen image bank forms the largest single photographic resource of its kind anywhere in the world. The primary justification for including digital images was to: #Give researchers remote visual access to thylacine specimen material and to the accompanying data thus encouraging and promoting continued research into the species. #Conserve source specimen material from excessive handling hence directly contributing to its long-term conservation. #Assist with the security of source material in that a photographic record exists for all specimens within the database. #Preserve digital images of the specimens in their current state of preservation. Specimen material within the ITSD comprises skins, skeletons, skulls, taxidermy mounts and wet specimens. Wet specimens are whole animals, organs or body parts that have been preserved in either alcohol or formalin. Specimens of the thylacine are spread extensively around the globe so the search to locate these specimens was from the outset an international search involving a total of 106 museum, university and private collections in 23 countries. The master copy of the ITSD is held at the Zoological Society in London with mirror copies held within the University of Tasmania in Hobart, the Australian National Wildlife Collection in Canberra and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. The master and mirror copies are kept constantly revised and updated as new information comes to light. The Zoological Society was chosen to hold the master copy of the ITSD because of its historic association with the thylacine. The bulk of the early scientific papers on the species were published within its "Proceedings" and the society's zoo in Regent's Park exhibited more thylacines than any other zoo outside Australia. Each year the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales hosts the Whitley Awards. These awards are a tribute to Gilbert Whitley, the eminent Australian ichthyologist and are presented for outstanding publications that contain a significant amount of new information relating to the fauna of the Australasian region. In September 2005 the International Thylacine Specimen Database was awarded the Whitley Award for the best zoological database. This was the first time in the history of the awards that a Whitley citation had been presented for a database. References *Australian Zoologist 33: 419. Whitley Awards 2005 - The International Thylacine Specimen Database. *Moeller, H. F. (1997). Der Beutelwolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus. Die Neue Brehm – Bucherei Vol. 642, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeberg. *Sleightholme, S. & Ayliffe, N. (2005). International Thylacine Specimen Database. CD-ROM. Master Copy: Zoological Society, London *Sleightholme, S. & Ayliffe, N. (2006). International Thylacine Specimen Database. CD-ROM. Master Copy: Zoological Society, London *Sleightholme, S. & Ayliffe, N. (2009). International Thylacine Specimen Database. CD-ROM. Master Copy: Zoological Society, London External links * Presentation about the ITSD, at The Thylacine Museum Category:Natural history of Australia Category:Mammal genetics Category:Biodiversity databases Category:Databases in Australia Category:Mammals of Tasmania "