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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textLetter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields
Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTranscript of a letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTranscript of a letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields
Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTyped copy of a letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields. It is typed on yellow paper, and some words or phrases are missing
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTyped copy of a letter from Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Constant, describing divisions of Union and Confederate loyalty amongst friends and neighbors and their own story of being refugees. In addition, their crops are doing well but there aren't enough laborers to work the fields. It is typed on yellow paper, and some words or phrases are missing
D. C. Constant Jr. Collection
No full textPhotograph of Antoinette Snow's (Mrs. D. C. Constant), a missionary to the Seminoles, class she taught at an African-American school
Royal Commission on Human Relationships
No full textThis controversial Royal Commission from the 1970s found that many Australian families were failing to protect their most valuable members, and helped change the shape of public discussion around families, gender and sexuality.
This is the first time a digitised version of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships\u27 five-volume final report has been made publically available.
The Royal Commission was initiated in 1974, following a failed attempt by the Whitlam government to reform abortion law. The terms of reference were:
To inquire into and report upon the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships, so far as those matters are relevant to the powers and functions of the Australian Parliament and Government, including powers and functions in relation to the Territories:
To give particular emphasis to the concept of responsible parenthood, to have regard to experience in other countries and to include in your inquiry the following aspects of the said matters:
(a) the extent of relevant existing education programs, including sex education programs, and their effectiveness in promoting responsible sexual behaviour and providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of male and female relationships in the Australian social environment;
(b) the extent of relevant existing programs in medical schools and their adequacy to provide comprehensive medical training in contraceptive techniques, in the physical, psychological and sexual problems experienced by women in adapting to marriage and before, during and after menstruation and in matters relating to pregnancy, fertility control, spontaneous and induced abortions and childbirth and to encourage acceptance by the medical profession of its responsibilities in the field of contraceptive counselling;
(c) the provision, adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning facilities, educational and activational information on family planning and methods of evaluation of all family planning techniques;
(d) the social, economic, psychological and medical pressures on women in determining whether to proceed with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, having regard to:
(i) the adequacy of housing, child-minding centres, pre-school centres, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, assistance to single parent families, other forms of assistance for mothers employed in industry, and adoption procedures;
(ii) the disabilities of families with handicapped children; and
(iii) the social status of women in the community; the social, psychological and medical results of termination of, or and failure to terminate such pregnancies;
(e) the adequacy and effectiveness of existing medico-legal determinations in relation to termination of pregnancy, the incidence of such terminations, the factors influencing their occurrence, the adequacy of medical training in an evaluation of methods of termination, consultative rights of the family or other persons concerned and the adequacy and effectiveness of pregnancy support services; and
(f) any other matters in relation to the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships to which the attention of the Commission is directed by the Prime Minister in the course of the inquiry.
To make recommendations as to measures that are desirable with respect to the foregoing matters under existing or future laws of the Australian Parliament or of the Territories (including laws providing for grants to the States) and to indicate whether these measures should be implemented through existing bodies or through government instrumentalities to be created.
The final report, presented to Governor-General John Kerr in 1977, contained over 500 recommendations relating to "contraception (access and use), unwanted pregnancies, childbirth, attitudes to sexuality, sexual knowledge, sex education, domestic violence, rape and the police and courts’ treatment of rape victims, the changing roles of women, child care, child abuse, and homosexuality – especially discrimination faced by gays and lesbians."
The report was highly controversial when released and many of its recommendations were not acted on. However, the Royal Commission had a lasting influence. It was said to have brought taboo topics like abortion, rape and child abuse into public discussion, and to have opened up conversations about private life to this day.
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Part of the Policy History Collection. Digitisation of this report has been supported by the National Library of Australia.
Reproduced with permission of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
The Effect of Cyclic Temperatures on Larval Development in the Mud-Crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii
No full textReprinted from Fourth European Marine Biology Symposium, edited by D. J. Crisp. Cambridge University Press 1971Larvae of the mud-crab, Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould), were cultured, from hatching to the first-crab stage, at a constant salinity (25ppt) combined with eight 24h cycles of temperature to determine the effect of cyclic temperatures on survival and length of larval life and to compare the effects of constant and cyclic temperatures.
Length of larval life was not affected by either 5 or 10 deg.C cycles of temperature. The longest period required for complete development to the first crab was at 15 C and as the temperature was increased, either through cycles or through constant temperatures, there was a decrease in the length of larval life.
Survival of larvae within the 10 deg.C. cycles of temperature was similar to that observed to that observed for comparable constant temperatures representing the mean temperature of the cycle. At most of the 5 C cycles of temperature there was no apparent difference in survival from that observed in comparable constant temperatures. In spite of reduced survival at both 30 and 35 C the highest survival was observed at a cycle of 30-35 C. Several possible explanations are given for the increased survival at such a relatively high cycle of temperature.
These studies were partially supported by a grant (GB-5711) from the National Science Foundation. The author are indebted to Mrs. J. Herring and Mrs. Berta Willis for their technical assistance throughout the study
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Olonia rylandae Constant 2018, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Olonia rylandae</i> sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1F0498E0-6DD9-48AD-AB8D-2369364963CE</p> <p>Figs 3, 45–46</p> Diagnosis <p>This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters:</p> <p>(1) hind wings without orange marking (Fig. 45E)</p> <p>(2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae mostly brown (Fig. 45A–D)</p> <p>(3) anal tube of male oblong, with posterior margin slightly concave and lateral margins sinuate (Fig. 46B)</p> <p>(4) centroventral part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process strongly sinuate basally and with small apical hook pointing ventrally (Fig. 46A, C)</p> <p>(5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process slightly curved lateroventrally (Fig. 46A, C–D)</p> <p>(6) rather small size: 7.7 mm</p> Etymology <p> This species is dedicated to Mrs Valry Ryland (Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia) in acknowledgement for all her help and involvement in documenting the natural history of species of <i>Olonia</i>.</p> Material examined <p> <b>Holotype</b></p> <p>AUSTRALIA • ♂; Queensland, Bathurst Head; [14°16′ S, 144°12′ E]; “Bathurst Head, Q., Jan. 1927, Hale & Tindale”; dissected, right anterior leg missing, right posterior wing mounted; SAM.</p> <p> <b>Description</b></p> <p>MEASUREMENTS AND RATIOS. LT: ♂ (n = 1): 7.7 mm; BV/LV = 4.38; BF/LF = 1.7; LP+LM/BT = 0.67; LTg/BTg = 2.5; LW/BW = 2.0.</p> <p> <b>Male</b></p> <p>HEAD (Fig. 45A–D). Vertex concave, with anterior and posterior margins parallel, curved; brown, slightly wrinkled. Frons uniformly brown, slightly wrinkled. Clypeus elongate, brown. Genae yellowish with brown markings around eyes and under antennae. Labium dark brown, reaching metacoxae. Antennae black-brown; scape short, ring-shaped; pedicel subcylindrical, slightly narrowing towards apex.</p> <p>THORAX (Fig. 45A–C). Pronotum brown with small yellowish spot on each side; slightly wrinkled; obsolete median carina and 2 small impressed points on disc. Lateral fields of prothorax brown. Mesonotum brown; yellowish spot on middle of anterior margin and at apex of scutellum; slightly rugulose; median and peridiscal carinae weakly marked; median carina stopping before scutellum; slight impression before scutellum. Red ventrally. Tegulae brown.</p> <p>TEGMINA (Fig. 45A, C). Brown, slightly variegated with yellowish; pale yellowish marking on vein A1 at midlength of clavus; marked with black along costal margin, more broadly so on posterior half, and along posterior margin. Triangular white marking on costal margin on nodal line; no white spot at apicosutural angle. Costal and sutural margins subparallel; costal margin slightly sinuate; apical margin obliquely rounded.</p> <p>POSTERIOR WINGS (Fig. 45E). Brown, paler on anal area and with large blackish area reaching apical margin; elongate, transverse, subtriangular white marking at apicocostal angle, extending on 3–4 cells. Margin of anal area slightly sinuate; sutural margin with 1 cleft, cubital one nearly not marked.</p> <p>LEGS (Fig. 45A–D). All coxae brown. Pro- and mesofemora dark brown. Pro- and mesotibiae brown, turning blackish apically, and with 3 very obsolete paler rings. Pro- and mesotarsi brown, with basal half of third tarsomere paler. Metafemora pale brown with apex darker. Metatibiae brown, with 3 lateral spines paler basally and 8 apical black-brown spines. Metatarsi brown, with a ventral row of 6 black spines on first tarsomere.</p> <p>ABDOMEN. Bright red with genital segments black-brown.</p> <p>MALE GENITALIA (Fig. 46). Posterior margin of pygofer in lateral view strongly sinuate, rather angularly, roundly projecting at dorsal ½ and rather broad ventrally (Fig. 46A, C). Anal tube oblong, 2.9 times as long as broad, broader at apical ¾, with lateral margins sinuate and apical margin concave; lateral margins curved ventrally on apical ¾; slightly curved ventrally near base in lateral view (Fig. 46A–B). Gonostyli fused on slightly less than basal half of length of centroventral part and projecting posteriorly (Fig. 46A, C). Centroventral part broad and dorsoventrally flattened on basal half, then strongly narrowing into elongate, narrow process, strongly sinuate basally in lateral view and ending in narrow hook curved anteroventrally (Fig. 46A, C). Laterodorsal part of gonostyli elongate and slightly curved posteroventrally, posteriorly slightly surpassing level of centroventral part; lateral process elongate, projecting posterolaterally, slightly concave dorsally and longer than spoon-shaped process (Fig. 46A, C–D). Dorsal portion of phallobase with hooked process on each side, narrowing in 2 steps from base to apex, directed posterocentrally and with apex pointing dorsally (Fig. 46E–F). Ventral portion of phallobase elongate and narrow, curved posteroventrally (Fig. 46E–F). Phallus dorsoventrally flattened, medially concave, broadening towards apex and emarginate apically (Fig. 46E–F).</p> <p> <b>Female</b></p> <p>Unknown.</p> Distribution and biology <p>This species is only known from a single male from Bathurst Head, a headland covered with open forest close to Cape Melville on the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula (Fig. 3), in the Cape York Peninsula Tropical Savanna bioregion. It was collected in January, nearly one century ago.</p>Published as part of <i>Constant, Jérôme, 2018, Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-97 in European Journal of Taxonomy 486</i> on pages 72-75, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.486, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2270151">http://zenodo.org/record/2270151</a>
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