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Peter Sourian and Lucy Ferris
No full textReading given by Lucy Ferris and Peter Sourian at Bard College, 1985. Introduced by Robert Kelly. The reading contains excerpts from their novel-in-progress, discussing themes of family, relationships, and the human condition. They cover the opening chapters and provide insight into the author\u27s writing process.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard/1230/thumbnail.jp
Lease Purchase Financing Memorandum
No full textabstract: This memorandum from Theodore A. Ferris, Staff Director of the State of Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee, to Senator John Mawhinney and Representative Sterling Ridge discusses the lease purchase financing that the state was trying to pass to build ASU West. In particular, the issue was raised that by using this option, ASU West would be built only two years ahead of the proposed schedule, but at an additional cost of $57 million
Ferris M. Weddle papers
No full textFerris Weddle was an American author of western stories, juvenile fiction, non-fiction and outdoor columns. Collection comprises personal and professional correspondence, diaries and journals, manuscripts of books, short stories and non-fiction articles. The collection also contains research materials related primarily to conservation and wildlife as well as correspondence with experts and activists in those fields
Eucosma aurilineana Ferris, New, New Species
No full textEucosma aurilineana Ferris, New Species (Figs. 1, 3–5, 8 a) Diagnosis. This species is distinguished from the superficially similar E. ridingsana (Fig. 2 a) by its much larger size (1.2– 2 X) and a forewing pattern lacking an apical transverse line while having 34 oblong distally located spots on the costa. The similarly sized crambitana (Fig. 2 b) lacks costal spots and the diagonal basetoapex gold line of aurilineana. Description. MALES (Figs. 1 a, b). Head: Frons and vertex white with small indistinct patch of golden tan scales anterior of each antennal base; length of labial palpus 2 X diameter of eye, white dorsally with goldentan scales laterally and at tip. Antenna weakly bipectinate, golden tan. Ocellus and chaetosema present. Thorax: Dorsum white with middorsum patch of golden tan scales, patagia and tegulae golden tan. Legs dorsally clothed with golden tan scales and ventrally with creamy white scales. Abdomen: Clothed with whitish scales with occasional light tan dusting, dense longitudinal white scaling of 8 th abdominal segment forming an anal tuft. Forewing: Length, measured along costa from base to apex, 13.0– 17.5 mm (holotype 17.0 mm), mean = 15.9 mm (n = 75); costal fold extending approximately 0.35 forewing length; dorsal ground color lustrous white, with over lying lattice pattern of golden tan (the color of old gold) broad lines and spots, consisting of two longitudinal stripes extending from base to outer margin with lower line rather irregular, upcurved at tornus then tapering toward apex along terminal margin; a diagonal line extending from base below lower longitudinal line across both longitudinal lines to apex, costa with three, small, oblong spots (sometimes conjoined) between apex and midwing, terminal line very thin, dark; fringe lustrous white with just a suggestion of golden tan at scale tips; ventrally brownish fuscous with repetition of costal spots, pale submarginal band, and thin brownish terminal line, fringe scales white with brownish tips (darker than above). Hindwing: Lustrous pale fuscous; fringe with two layers of scales, a lustrous white layer of long scales and an overlying basal layer of short faintly colored golden tan scales; venter fuscous fading to white along margins; wing venation as shown in Fig. 1 d. Genitalia (Fig. 3 a) [4 specimens dissected from Wyoming and California]: Socii well developed and densely setose; valva flat, slightly setose basad; cucullus with coronabearing stout spines; aedoeagus with a central slender cornutus tapering toward tip and 23 sockets indicating shed cornuti. FEMALES (Fig. 1 c). External morphology as in males, but antenna less pubescent. Forewing: Length 13.0– 15.5mm, mean = 14.5 mm (n = 7), costal fold absent; costa with 3 or 4 spots with basal spot sometimes weakly connected to upper longitudinal line; abdominal anal tuft absent. Genitalia (Figs. 3 b–e, 8 a): Ovipositor lobes densely setose, very few setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca 0.55 length of anterior apophysis; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with bursa seminalis; corpus bursae ellipsoidal; anterior signum thornlike, larger posterior signum an open cone with rounded apex (3 specimens dissected from California, Nevada, Wyoming). Holotype: male: WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.886 ’N, 105 ° 31.519 ’W, 2285 m, ca. 1.6 km SE of Laramie, 10.ix. 2004, to be deposited in NMNH. Paratypes: 77 ɗ, 5 Ψ. CALIFORNIA, Mono Co., dunes NE of Mono Lake, 23.ix. 1995, R. Robertson (1 ɗ), Tom’s Place, larva vii. 9.1968, eclosed viii. 28.1968, J. A. Powell No. 68 G 11 (1 Ψ). NEVADA, Humboldt Co., dunes 9.7 mi. NW of Winnemucca, 1495 m, 928 64 (28.ix. 1964), C. Henne (2 Ψ). WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.886 ’N, 105 ° 31.519 W, 2285 m (all C. D. Ferris), 1.ix. 2001 (1 ɗ), 30.viii– 2.ix. 2002 (10 ɗ), 15.ix. 2003 (1 ɗ); 1.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ), 6–11.ix. 2004 (45 ɗ, 2 Ψ), 13.ix. 2004 (3 ɗ), 17–18.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ); 41 ° 17.820 ’N, 105 ° 31.334 ’W, 2289 m (all J. S. Nordin), 27.viii. 1990 (1 ɗ), 3.ix. 1992 (1 ɗ), 11.ix. 1993 (1 ɗ), 29–31.viii. 1996 (2 ɗ), 31.viii.04 (1 ɗ), 1.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ), 7–10.ix. 2004 (3 ɗ), 18.ix. 2004 (1 ɗ). Additional specimens examined: 7 ɗ, 2 Ψ. ARIZONA, Mohave Co., Rosy Canyon Rd., 0.6 mi. S. Utah line, 22.ix. 2000, G. J. Balogh (1 ɗ). UTAH, Uintah Co., 3 mi. N. of Vernalon [Rd.], 2500 W, 1886 m, 4.ix. 2000, D. J. Wright (5 ɗ, 2 Ψ). WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.820 ’N, 105 ° 31.334 ’W, 2289 m, 30.viii. 2002, J. S. Nordin (1 ɗ). Paratypes are currently placed in the collections of the author, J. S. Nordin (Laramie, WY), Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, University of Wyoming Insect Collection, Laramie, WY, and C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropods Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Etymology. The specific epithet aurilineana is derived from a combination of the Latin words for gold and line, reflecting the maculation of this moth. Biology. An adult female was reared by J. A. Powell from a larva found boring in roots of Ericameria viscidiflora (Hooker) L. C. Anderson (Asteraceae) in Mono Co., CA. This plant does not occur at the type locality, but there is a concentration of the related Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britton & Rusby (Asteraceae) that may serve as the larval host. Ericameria viscidiflora does occur some kilometers distant in the same county. The type locality (Fig. 4) is sagebrushsteppe high plains in which the principal vegetation is grasses and forbs with the woody shrubs Gutierrezia sarothrae and two species of Artemisia. Flight period. Based upon specimens examined, adults fly from 27 August to 23 September, depending upon locality and annual weather conditions. Distribution. This species is presently known from sites in five western states as indicated by the solid circles in Fig. 5, but the vast majority of the specimens are from the type locality. Variation. There is little variation other than forewing length and number of costal margin spots, as noted in the description. The color intensity varies to some degree with a few specimens being very pale. Female genitalia of Eucosma crambitana (Figs. 6 a–c, 8 b): Ovipositor lobes strongly setose, setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca. 0.43 length of anterior apophyses; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding slightly with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with small bursa seminalis; corpus bursae ellipsoidal; one thimblelike signum (1 specimen dissected from Albany Co., Wyoming). Female genitalia of Eucosma ridingsana (Figs. 7 a–c, 8 c): Ovipositor lobes moderately setose, setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca. 0.46 length of anterior apophyses; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with large bursa seminalis; corpus bursae nearly spherical; two conical thornlike signa (1 specimen dissected from Albany Co., Wyoming). Comparison of sterigma: Fig. 8 illustrates the sterigma of E. aurilineana, E. crambitana, and E. ridingsana.Published as part of Ferris, Clifford D., 2005, A new species of Eucosma Hübner from the Western United States (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)., pp. 1-8 in Zootaxa 806 on pages 2-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17057
Passadenoides montanus Ferris 2004, New Species
No full text<i>Passadenoides montanus</i> Ferris, New Species <p>(Figs. 1, 3–6)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The dorsal forewing of <i>montanus</i> (Fig.1) is darker gray than in either <i>donahuei</i> or <i>pullus</i> (Fig. 2), without the brownish cast of the latter. The contrast between the transverse bands and overall wing color is less pronounced than in <i>donahuei</i>, and not so sharp as in <i>pullus</i>. The male genitalic components are closer to <i>donahuei</i> than <i>pullus</i> with regard to the form of the basal process on the valva (Fig. 3) and the three chitinous pieces that comprise the armature of the vesica (Figs. 4–5).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> MALES (Fig. 1a). <i>Forewing length:</i> 11–14 mm (holotype 13 mm), mean = 13 mm. <i>Head:</i> Frons and vertex with white­tipped medium gray scales; labial palpus laterally covered by white­tipped charcoal gray scales. <i>Thorax:</i> Dorsum and collar clothed with white­tipped medium gray and charcoal gray scales, and a few scattered brownishorange scales. <i>Abdomen:</i> Clothed with mixture of whitish and pale gray and brownish gray scales. <i>Legs:</i> Clothed with mixture of whitish and dark gray to brownish gray scales; femur, tibia, tarsi with alternating pale and dark bands in fresh specimens, faded in worn specimens. <i>Forewing:</i> Basal area generally medium gray with a weak darker basal band; irregular gray antemedial band bordered by thin black border basad and thicker black border distad that is wider at the costa than at inner margin; median area medium gray with the color produced by peppering of charcoal grey and very pale gray scales, with a few brownish­orange scales along the length of costa; crescentic reniform spot composed of black scales and dusting of brownish­orange scales in lower cusp and bordered outwardly by narrow band of white scales, the lower portion of which extends distally beyond the lower cusp producing the illusion of a small somewhat obscure pale horizontally oblong spot; a diffuse dark irregular spot located below the reniform just above the inner margin; pale gray postmedian band bordered by black scales heavily on the basal side and moderately on marginal side; thin black terminal line; fringes composed of whitish­tipped medium gray scales. <i>Hindwing:</i> Translucent pale fuscous with darker marginal shading, wider at apex and tapering to anal angle; very thin dark terminal line; fringe composed of uniform pale fuscous (dirty white) scales. <b>Genitalia</b> (Figs. 3–5) [10 specimens dissected from Wyoming and New Mexico]: Uncus subtriangular with rounded apex; apical process of gnathos a strongly pointed hook curved upward toward uncus; valva with basal process a broad low ridge with large thorn­like spine near costa and a smaller broad triangular process inward (not clearly visible when valva is flattened for photography as in Fig. 3; digitally outlined in inset), valva slightly constricted in area where spine arises; transtilla absent; juxta a broad U­shaped plate with smooth margins; aedoeagus short and stout; vesica armed with large broadly lanceolate cornutus, a smaller scobinate plate, and smaller yet chitinous piece; everted and inflated vesica reveals a scobinate plate resembling a rooster comb arising separately from membrane, with smaller chitinous piece attached near base of large cornutus (Figs. 4–5).</p> <p> FEMALES (Fig. 1b). <i>Forewing length:</i> 11–15 mm, mean = 13 mm. Wing maculation and color, head, thorax, abdomen and leg color as in males. <b>Genitalia</b> (Fig. 6) [3 specimens dissected from different Wyoming localities]: Ostium bursae with broad sclerotized plate; ductus bursae wide with irregularly­shaped scobinate, sclerotized plate originating about midway and extending into corpus bursae, where it is covered with long inwardlydirected spines; corpus bursae outwardly produced at site of a large sclerotized circular plate armed with numerous short, stout, inwardly­directed spines; ductus seminalis very slender, transparent, and originating from the corpus bursae near junction of corpus bursae and the ductus bursae. Location of circular plate on corpus bursae displaced relative to the plate positions in <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i>.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male: WYOMING, Albany Co., 41°15.09’N, 105°24.48’W, 2525 m, Sherman Range, ca. 16 km east of Laramie, 14.viii.2002, to be deposited in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Paratypes currently deposited in collections of the author, J. S. Nordin (Laramie, WY), the University of Wyoming Insect Collection, Laramie, WY, and C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropods Diversity, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet <i>montanus</i> is derived from the masculine form of the Latin adjective meaning mountain dweller and reflects the montane habitat of this moth.</p> <p> <b>Biology.</b> Unknown. The habitat (Fig. 7) is moderately dry aspen–coniferous forest at 2290 to 3100 m; all but one specimen from 2440 m and above. Douglas Fir, <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i> (Mirbel) Franco, and Ponderosa Pine, <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> Dougl. ex Laws. are common to all of the collection sites. One of these trees may be the larval host.</p> <p> <b>Flight period.</b> Based on the specimens collected to date from 14 July to 6 September, depending upon locality and annual weather conditions.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Presently known from several areas in the mountainous environs east (Sherman Range) and west (Snowy Range) of Laramie, Wyoming, and from Signal Peak (Pinos Altos Mts.), Grant County, New Mexico.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> 89 male and 28 female specimens (collectors C. D. Ferris = CDF and J. S. Nordin = JSN): WYOMING: Albany Co.: Sherman Range: 41°17.88’N, 105°31.51’W, 2290 m, 15.viii.1999, JSN (1f); 41°15.09’N, 105°24.48’W, 2525 m, 14.viii.2002, CDF (6m incl. HT, 8f); 41°11.569’N, 105°23.509’W, 2516 m, 3.viii.2001, JSN (1m), 8,16. viii.2002, JSN (9m, 1f), 2.ix.2002, JSN (1f), 6.viii.2003, CDF (1m, 1f), JSN (1m), 19.viii.2002, JSN (1m); 41°13.5’N, 105°22.5’W, 2545 m, 5.ix.2003, JSN (1m); 41°15.09’N, 105°24.52’W, 2515 m, 15,24. viii.1999 (2f), 25.viii.2001 (1m), 24.viii.2002 (1m), 21–22.viii.2003 (1m, 1f), 21.viii.2003 (1f), all JSN; Snowy Range: 41°07.4’N, 106°02.5’W, 2440 m, 24.vii.2000, JSN (2f); 41°00.10’N, 106°12.69’W, Pelton Creek Rd., 2670 m, 24.viii.1998 (2m), JSN, 18.viii.2001, JSN (56m, 9f); 41°00.28’N, 106°13.14’W, 2700 m, 21.vii.2004, CDF (4m), 41°04.8’N, 106°09.1’W, 2757 m, 29.viii.1997, JSN (1m); 31.viii.2002, JSN (1m); 41°21.07’N, 106°12.55’W, 3100 m, 14.vii.2000, CDF (1f). NEW MEXICO: Grant Co.: 32°35.64’N, 108°09.98’W, 2450 m (Signal Peak, Pinos Altos Mts.), 6.ix.2002, CDF (2m).</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Other than the forewing length as noted in the description, there is little variation. The main variation is in the size and darkness of the forewing basal band and spot just above the inner margin and below the reniform. The two males from New Mexico are somewhat darker in color than the Wyoming specimens, but the genitalia are identical to the Wyoming moths.</p> <p> <b>Discussion.</b> In habitus <i>montanus</i> is similar to <i>pullus</i>, but a darker gray; its male genitalia, however, are closer in appearance to those of <i>donahuei.</i> The spines on the scobinate plate in the vesica of <i>donahuei</i> are randomly scattered, while in <i>montanus</i> they are aligned in two closely­spaced rows producing the aspect of a rooster comb. The small chitinous plate is smooth in <i>montanus</i>, while in <i>donahuei</i> there are several small spines. In all specimens examined, the end of the valva has a distinct curl not seen in <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i>. Females of <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i> were not available for genitalic study.</p> <p> The disjunct known geographic distribution of this species (southern Wyoming and southwestern New Mexico) parallels the known distribution of <i>donahuei</i> (eastern California and central New Mexico). One would expect to find colonies in intervening regions at suitable elevation and habitat.</p>Published as part of <i>Ferris, Clifford D., 2004, A new species of Passadenoides Neunzig from Wyoming and New Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae), pp. 1-8 in Zootaxa 705 (1)</i> on pages 2-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.705.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5451777">http://zenodo.org/record/5451777</a>
The whole shebang: A state of the universe(s) report
No full textFrom the prizewinning author who has been called the greatest science writer in the world comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers - who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is expanding , or that space is curved - and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-personal-research/1057/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1910 Feb 26.
No full textAlthough technically under the contract the balance of $812.19 is not due until July 1st, we should of course be glad to anticipate that payment in case it would suit your convenience to have all or part of the sum at an earlier data.Please believe usSincerely yours,[Illegible]John Muir, Esq.4 Park Street BostonFebruary 26, 1910.Dear Mr. Muir,We take pleasure in enclosing herewith a copyright statement showing the sales of your books on our list for the six months ending January 31st. We hope the showing will be as pleasing to you as it has been to us. We shall be particularly glad if we may have that journal of your first summer in the Sierra for next fall, for. needless to say, nothing is so useful in promoting the sustained life of an author\u27s books as a new volume by the same hand.04715https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/32174/thumbnail.jp
Shimada Masahiko “Miira ni naru made”: Ibunka no me de mita
No full textEdición interna del I Simposio Internacional sobre Literatura Japonesa de la Universidad Ferris (Yokohama) en 2003.The anthology of short story by Shimada Masahiko (1961), a representative author of the postmodern age in Japan, Miira ni naru made (1987-1990) has been published in Italian as Mi farò mummia in 1995, and then in Spanish as Me convertiré en momia in 1999. In Spain there is no other publication of Shimada’s oeuvre, but this anthology is available in pocketbook format. In the Italian version we find an afterword to the four selections of stories taken from the Japanese original anthology, Armadillo ō. There we have a self-introduction by Shimada, where he shows his own position of extra-centrality in Japanese letters. I. e., the characters in Shimada’s stories reckon no identity references such as country, culture or family. They only have selfhood. But this does not mean one single personality per individual. These postmodern characters show multiple personalities in a positive sense, although the whole may present some fractures. This is how it works in the global era. Moreover, the typical circle of meaning in modernity, i. e. from the author (= creator) through the work (= meaning) to the reader (= interpreter), is sublated. In Shimada’s literature, the author and the work as well as the reader are all deconstructed. The author becomes the programmer, the work becomes the game, and the reader is nothing else but the player. If this is so, the character who decides to become a mummy in the main story is not particularly acting on religious purpose nor he wants to confront society. He just is involved in what we might call a life-game. Looking at his own suicide from the point of view of game-playing, he gets some pleasure from it. In conclusion, Shimada’s literature is not understood from the category of Japanese literature as opposed to world literature. Its universality is essentially related to the author’s postmodern attitude
Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1909 May 25.
No full textEDITORIAL ROOMSHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY4 PARK. STREET BOSTONMay 25, 1909.Dear Mr. Muir,We have been greatly interested here in the report that comes to us from Mr. Ticknor that you are at work upon an autobiography. We can think of few books which we should take more pride and satisfaction in publishing than this. It seems to us that there would be a special appropriateness in your giving it to us, and you may be sure that we should make every effort to arrange for its publication upon terms entirely satisfactory to you, and that the sale of the book would not suffer in our hands through any lack of enthusiasm for the author and his works. Furthermore, the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly are keenly interested in the news of the Autobiography, and would like to consider the possibility of serializing it in that magazine. Can we not, perhaps, all cooperate, then, in its publication in both serial and book fbrm ?We should be grateful if you would let us know the present situation of your work upon the Autobiography and tell us your wishes in regard to the arrangements for its publication.Please believe usSincerely yours,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.04507https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/31190/thumbnail.jp
Benjamin Ferris / Proceedings of the meeting of the Historical Society of Delaware, held on the evening of May 19, 1902, to commemorate the eminent services rendered to the state by Benjamin Ferris, the author of "Early settlements on the Delaware."
No full textIncludes papers by Lewis P. Bush, David Ferris, and Pennock Pusey.Mode of access: Internet
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