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Maps illustrating Mr. R. Gordon's paper [cartographic material].
No full textFrom: The Irawadi River / by Robert Gordon in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. VII. London : Edward Stanford, 1885 (New monthly series); In lower left margin: H.A. Milne, R.G.S., del.; In lower right margin: Edw'd. Weller, lith.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3423. Chinese official map of 1770 & 1866 & Danville of 1830-1840 -- Klaproth 1825 -- Wilcox 1832 -- Rennell 1782 -- Anderson 1870 -- India Office 1874 -- Hassenstein 1882
Gordon W. Lillie "Pawnee Bill"
No full textA photograph of Gordon W. Lillie "Pawnee Bill" in a wool business suit and cowboy hat. This photograph has an inscription that says, "To H.A. Wiedemeier. G.W. Lillie. "Pawnee Bill"
RRS James Cook Cruise 62, 24 Jul-29 Aug 2011. Porcupine Abyssal Plain – sustained observatory research
No full textScience rationale for the activities comes from the fact that during the EU Framework programme IV project BENGAL (1996 to 1999) radical changes were noted in fauna living on the abyssal seafloor (Progress in Oceanography, Billett 2001). The changes appeared to be related to changes in upper ocean productivity and the flux of organic matter to the abyss (Wigham et al., 2003). Various hypotheses have been created concerning the effect of total organic carbon input, shown by Lampitt et al (2010) to vary by an order of magnitude between years, the quality (organic geochemistry) of the organic material, and the timing (episodic or regular) of the inputs of organic matter. Large-scale changes in the abundance of the large epibenthic invertebrates by greater than two orders of magnitude, are now known to be mirrored by similar changes, but of a lower magnitude, in the protozoan meiofauna (c. 50 to 250 um in size) (Gooday et al. 2010), metazoan meiofauna (notably nematode and polychaete worms) (Kalogeropoulou et al. 2010) and macrofauna (250 to 1000 um in size) (Soto et al. 2010). The results have been brought together in a Special Volume in Deep-Sea Research II (Lampitt, Billett, and Martin 2010). The work below will help detail how deepsea ecosystems change naturally with time and space and in response to climate-change phenomena. It will be useful in predicting how deep-sea ecosystems will change under various climate change scenarios. In addition, coupled with other time series studies in the NE Pacific (e.g. Smith et al. 2009) and sampling around the Crozet Islands (Wolff et al. 2011), it will indicate how deep-sea ecosystems might change in relation to potential geo-engineering solutions for carbon sequestration by the oceans
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
No full textMany years ago, two Jewish artists from Germany met in Brazil, started a business, fell in love, and got married. The Brazilians could not pronounce their German names, so the couple shortened them to H.A. and Margret Rey. While honeymooning in Europe, the Reys decided to stay in Paris so H.A. could pursue a career as a children\u27s book author and illustrator. During this time, H.A. started developing stories about a curious little monkey, influenced by the many monkeys he saw in Brazil. But Hitler\u27s forces delayed H.A.\u27s plans for the little monkey until he and Margret could safely escape Europe
Out and All About: Fables for Old and Young
No full textThe title-page is missing in this book, and the only reference on the web is to a reprint of a book before 1923. At least this reference gives us an author. “Routledge” appears on the spine. I read only the first fable, “The Spider and the Ants,” which lasted some 20 pages and seemed to me to lose some of its focus along the way. The book is generously illustrated with partial-page black-and-white illustrations of various sizes along the way. As the beginning T of C shows, there are here some 31 fables on 256 pages before 18 pages of advertisements. Pretty cover and spine, including gold and black on red cloth.H.A. Pag
Neaporia christy Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
No full text11. Neaporia christy Gordon and Hanley, new species Description. Male holotype. Length 1.7 mm, width 1.3 mm; body somewhat elongate, elytral sides rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color greenish black, lateral border of pronotum yellow (Fig. 104); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3, basal 1/4 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, legs yellow; ventral surface black except abdomen dark brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on head, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent with frons as wide as an eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3 (Fig. 106). Pronotum widest at apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, slightly narrowed in basal ½, not as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, with basal margin strongly produced, nearly concealing mouthparts, male anterolateral projection small, barely visible, slightly setose (Fig. 107). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrow, angulate, extended 2/3 distance to apical margin of ventrite (Fig. 105). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, parallel sided, slightly narrowed to emarginate apex in apical 1/4; paramere widest medially, gradually narrowed in basal 2/3 except abruptly narrowed at 3/5 length, apical 1/3 strongly bent downward, strongly narrowed to abruptly rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations medially (Fig. 108, 109); sipho nearly equal in width throughout, apex broadly rounded, broken in image (Fig. 110). Female. Unknown. Variation. Unknown. Type material. Holotype male; COSTA RICA: Heredia, Pr: La Selva Biol. Sta., 3 km S Pto. Viejo, 10 o 26' N 84 o 01' W, 24.VIII.1999, H.A. Hespenheide. (USNM). Remarks. Male genitalia of this species are nearly identical to those of N. myrtle, but the expanded apical prosternal margin is distinctive. See remarks under N. lena.Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: systematic revision of Western Hemisphere Cephaloscymnini (Coccinellinae) with description of a cryptic new genus and species of Coccidulini (Coccinellinae), pp. 1-158 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (601) on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517003
RRS Discovery Cruise 377 & 378, 05 - 27 Jul 2012, Southampton to Southampton. Autonomous ecological surveying of the abyss: understanding mesoscale spatical heterogeneity at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain
No full textDetermining the distribution and abundance of life is challenging, especially in the deep sea where high pressure and other logistical challenges limit data availability to a tiny fraction of what is available for other systems. Most of Earth’s surface is nonetheless covered by water > 2000 m deep. Life in these abyssal regions influences the burial of carbon and nutrient cycling. Long-term research has now shown that even larger animals in the deep sea can vary in density by orders of magnitude, with concurrent changes in average body size, over periods as short as months. These variations are widely believed to be linked to climate-driven variation in the food supply to the deep sea. Similarly, biogeography studies have found that over distances approaching 100 km or more, the abundance of deep-sea life is related to surface productivity in the waters above. Thus the deep sea could be readily impacted by processes that alter surface ocean conditions like climate change, fishery activity, or ocean iron fertilisation.
While there has been an increase in the understanding of how climate and surface processes affect deep-sea communities, the ability to understand these links further is thought to be limited by sampling error from undetected habitat heterogeneity (i.e. irregular or uneven habitat distributions). Features like hills, valleys, depressions, small rock outcrops, and biogenic mounds add to habitat complexity, but links between such features and the animals that live among them are very poorly resolved in abyssal plain habitats using current methods. We proposed a new approach using the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Autosub6000 to survey ecologically the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) Sustained Observatory to address a key question: Are spatial patterns in abyssal habitat features (like bathymetry, seafloor cover of phytodetrius [i.e. food availability], suspended solid concentration) related to spatial patterns in photographed life (density, dispersion, or biodiversity) at spatial scales from <1 m^2 to about 100 km^2?
Objectives
1. We created high-resolution ecological maps at scales of <1 m^2 to 100 km^2.
2. We will then test tractable hypotheses focusing on if any observed faunal distributions are linked with the spatial patterns of other fauna, habitat, food availability, or environmental conditions.
3. We will use the results to improve estimates of deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem function of megafauna and relate the findings to factors such as food availability.
4. We will enhance UK capability in evaluating abyssal ecology and facilitate future time-series ecological research surveys.
Activities
• Crude oil spill impact experiments
• CTD rosette-based prokaryotic sampling.
• Megacoring
• Box coring
• Seabed High Resolution Imaging Platform (SHRIMP) surveys
• Autosub6000 surveys including acoustic mapping and photograph
Neaporia irma Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
No full text1. Neaporia irma Gordon and Hanley, new species Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0, width 2.2; body short, wide, elytra much wider than pronotal base, widest at anterior 1/3 of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color red except head black with 3 yellow vittae, lateral vitta extended from basal 2/3 of eye to clypeus, triangularly widened at antennal insertion, middle vitta extended from apical 1/3 of eye to clypeus, weakly widened from base to apex (Fig. 47); pronotum black except narrowly reddish brown on reflexed lateral margin; elytron with dark brown macula occupying apical 1/3 of apical declivity (Fig. 45); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3 of apical maxillary palpomere and apical labial palpomere dark brown; antenna, venter and legs yellow. Head punctures coarse, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than pronotal punctures, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter, nearly contiguous; metasternal punctures large, dense anteriorly and laterally, finer and sparser medially; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 large, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, inside of postcoxal lines lacking punctures, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons about as wide as an eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short, barely visible; apical maxillary palpomere narrowed to apex in apical ½ (Fig. 48). Pronotum widest at apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum short, wider then long, same length as mesosternum, with apical margin medially emarginate, anterolateral projection large, round setose (Fig. 49). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrow, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 mostly truncate, slightly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, wide and slightly divergent in basal ½ then narrowed in apical ½ to bluntly rounded apex; paramere widest medially, narrowed to narrowly rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially (Fig. 50, 51); sipho narrowed, sinuate in apical 1/8 (Fig. 52). Female. Similar to male except head entirely black, without maculation. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, standard form (Fig. 43). Variation. Length 2.3 to 3.0 mm, width 1.7 to 2.20 mm. Dark macula on apical declivity brown to black in color, varying slightly in size, rarely completely absent. Type material. Holotype male; COSTA RICA; Heredia, Pr: La Selva Biol. Sta., 3 km S Pto. Viejo, 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W. 11.VII.1994, balsa trunk, H. A. Hespenheide. (USNM). Paratypes; 30, 11, same data as holotype except dates 28, 29,30, III.1988, 19.IV.1988, 25.IV.1989, 25.vi.1991, 31.VII.1993, 10.vii.1994, 6.vii.1996, 18.vii.1998, host data tree trunk, Heliocarpus trunk; 16, COSTA RICA: Prov. Heredia, F. La Selva, 3 km S. Pto. Viejo, 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W., 19.vii.1982 H.A. Hespenheide, zypgopine trunk, same data except dates 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28 vii.1982, 5, 13.iv.1983, 26.vi.1985, 9.vii.1985, 23, 30.iii.1987; 2, Turrialba, Costa Rica, June 5 June 1951, 4Vi–1951, OL Cartwright; 1, CANAL ZONE PANAMA: 100m, 5.0 mi. NW Gamboa, 09 o 10'00 N 079 o 45'00W, 23–24Oct1975, Canopy fogging experiment in Luehea seemannii Pyrethrin fog, Sample 2b 23 X 1975. (USNM). Remarks. This Central American species is similar to the Ecuadorean N. mabel, see remarks under that species.Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: systematic revision of Western Hemisphere Cephaloscymnini (Coccinellinae) with description of a cryptic new genus and species of Coccidulini (Coccinellinae), pp. 1-158 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (601) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517003
Changes in the provision of physical education for children under twelve years. 1870-1992
No full textA chronological survey over 120 years cannot fail to illustrate the concept of change, as history and change are intertwined and in some ways synonymous. Issues arising from political, social, financial, religious, gender and economic constraints affecting the practice and provision of Physical Education for all children under 12 in the state and independent sectors, including those with special needs are explored within the period. The chapter divisions are broadly determined by the Education Acts of 1870,1902,1918,1944 and 1988 to illustrate developing changes. The survey of relevant literature is followed by an introductory chapter outlining pre-1870 provision and practice, identifying pioneering efforts by physical educationalists to meet significant needs. Changes in the evolution of the subject are shown to reflect changes within contemporary society throughout the period of study. Chapters 2,3 & 4 span the period from 1870-1939 and trace the first official provision in elementary schools, the contest between military drill and Swedish gymnnastics, and the strong therapeutic element in Physical Education linking it to the School Health Service, A parallel development in the independent sector shows differing priorities. Chapter 5,covering World War II highlights in particular the impact of evacuation, which acted as a catalyst for reviewing provision and practice as a serious management consideration, Plowden's assessment of Physical Education in the Report on Primary Education,1967,halfway between the end of the war and the Education Act of 1988,is seen as a watershed between the cumulative effects of war, and the build up to massive reforms in the Acts of 1981(Special Needs)and 1988.The model of the independent sector becomes a target for legislation in State schools under Conservative administration. This is examined in Chapters 6 & 7,whilst Chapter 8 summarizes the legislation and subsequent Physical Education entitlement for all children. However, in conclusion, it is pointed out that legislative changes, incumbent on social historical progress, are also dependent on human and financial resources which are finite, and therefore need to be managed, in order to maximise present provision and practice, and as a basis for future planning
Epistemology, Kaufman, Barbour, Sagan, etc.; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2001-09-25)
No full textLecture was recorded on a Lapel Microphone, using a Cassette Tape.Epistemology, Gordon Kaufman, Ian Barbour, Carl Sagan, the Genesis account from the Bible, H. and H.A. Frankfort Before Philosophy, personalized nature, myths, an example of a scientific myth.1_n12szqy
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