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Deconstruction and ‘Re-Volumization’: The Thomason Collection in the Past, Present, and Future
No full textThe Thomason Tracts that arrived at the British Museum as the gift of George III were in a rigorous chronological order, which was mirrored by Thomason’s own twelve-volume manuscript catalogue. Though Thomason boasted that by means of the catalogue even a single sheet could be found ‘instantly’, even more important was that the collection and catalogue’s organization encouraged chronological browsing, an immersion into the swirling currents of the day. Early readers, having only the manuscript catalogue and the chronology-based numbering of volumes, understood this well. Foremost among the mid-nineteenth century readers and publicists of the collection was Thomas Carlyle, whose correct intuitions about the collection were matched by his frightful manners. Carlyle provoked a mighty conflict with the Museum’s great librarian and cataloguer Antonio Panizzi. Panizzi’s priorities as cataloguer, custodian, and reading room supervisor clashed violently with Carlyle’s - especially in Panizzi’s fortunately aborted design to disbind the collection, whose chronological organization Panizzi never appreciated. The chronological browsing fostered by the collection served readers well from William Godwin, Carlyle, and S. R. Gardiner to the many who read the tracts in the old North Library, and, later, in the microfilm edition. Early English Books Online (EEBO), however, by its very design effectively disbinds the collection. Newer students unfamiliar with the now-buried Thomason volumes have little or no understanding of collection’s value as a chronological collection. But there are research techniques to mitigate the harm - ‘re-volumization’ - and restore the full brilliance of Thomason’s achievement
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites
No full text‘Protection of Civilians’ (PoC) has been a dominant focus of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions in recent decades. At the same time, ‘Protection of Civilians’ is a contested and ambiguous concept, with its practical meanings often established in the realities of implementation. The introduction to this special issue argues that ‘Protection of Civilians sites’ (established in South Sudan in 2013) are important for understanding how protection commitments and policies have worked in practice. Subsequent articles examine the everyday experiences of PoC sites, showing how this is a crucial lens for understanding PoC interventions in South Sudan and more widely
MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news.
No full textThis fifth annual edition of starts with an editorial on the critical importance of International Mycological Congresses (IMCs) to the health of mycology. Items on Counting down to IMC12, the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023, and progress towards Improving nomenclatural stability in medically important fungi follow. Reports are provided of several mycological meetings in 2023: the Asian Mycological Congress, XIX Congress of European Mycologists, a meeting of European Mycological Groups and Societies, the XI Latin American Mycological Congress, Westerdijk Spring Symposium on Fungal Evolution, the Brazilian Society of Mycology, the Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of China, and the Fifth Iranian Mycological Congress. Information is provided on how to make nominations for the various IMA Awards due to be presented at IMC12 in August, the new Future is Fungi Award launched in 2023, and the Adel-Azeem and Stamets Award for work on in Africa. The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute Awards for 2023 were made to Andrey Yurkov and Cathie Aime and the citations to those awards are provided. We include tributes to the passing of two eminent mycologists, Lorelei Norvell and Takashi Matsushima, and also send birthday greetings to Bryce Kendrick who turned 90, and Maria Ławrynowicz, Yu Li, and Anthony Whalley who all became octogenarians. Reviews of seven mycological books published in 2022–2023 are included in the Book News section
Evaluation of Saxifraga stolonifera phenolic extracts as a potential antivenom against Deinagkistrodon acutus venom: In vitro and in vivo studies.
No full textPlant Cryopreservation: Principles, Applications, and Challenges of Banking Plant Diversity At Ultralow Temperatures..
No full textTwo Enlightenment collections of scientific instruments in Hanoverian Britain
No full textThis lecture looks at the long-dispersed eighteenth-century collections of scientific instruments formed by two wealthy Scots noblemen, who turn out to be related to one another. They were Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay, later third Duke of Argyll, and his nephew, John Stuart, third Earl of Bute
Nostalgia in the prehistoric archaeological record
No full textEvidence from the prehistoric archaeological record clearly shows that ancient societies had a sense of and engaged with their own histories, be it by reusing, re-appropriating or recreating past material culture. The affective qualities of materials, places and even human remains would have enabled people to remember and connect with aspects of their immediate and more distant pasts. In some cases, this may have elicited specific emotive responses, similar to how nostalgic triggers operate today. Nostalgia is not a word commonly used by archaeologists, but through exploring the materiality and sensory affect of objects and spaces in the past, we can consider that what we deal with archaeologically may have held nostalgic qualities
