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Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from John. H. Manley to H. Kempner Cotton Co. enclosing the recent reports that their research department prepared since the last letter
The naked eye: vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
No full textThis thesis takes as its subject vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889. Because Hopkins's poetry displays so evident a fascination with the particulars of language, it is unsurprising that the critical tradition on his work has thus far been heavily dominated by matters of sound: by the verbal, the rhythmic, the musical, and the aural. However, in this thesis I move from the sounded to the seen, identifying in Hopkins's work a central preoccupation with the visual, with looking and seeing, and the possibilities and dangers inherent in each. Here was a man driven to look for beauty, yet this compulsion to look was matched only by a desperate desire to look away. I shall argue that it is this dichotomy, and the excitement of the many and various possibilities it engenders, that so characterises Hopkins's engagement with the visual world.
Born into a rapidly-changing late Victorian world, Hopkins was fascinated by sight and by the increasingly problematic act of seeing. He frequently characterises himself in explicitly visual terms, and his poetry is littered with numerous references to eyes, eyeballs, eyelashes, eyelids, and eyesight, in addition to many metaphors of sight in its various forms. He demonstrates a recurring notably obsessive anxiety over the health of his eyes and the acuity of his sight, yet repeated medical reassurance does nothing to quell his fears over his perceived loss of vision. Counter to, but inextricably linked with, this fear for the loss of sight is an intense awareness of the danger of sight. This paradox is central to Hopkins's conception of himself and of his roles as both poet and priest.
Chapter One considers Hopkins's engagement with the intensely visual Victorian cultural environment. Hopkins was a keen draughtsman and painter in his youth and for a while considered becoming a professional poet-painter like Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whose family he was well acquainted. Although he decided to relinquish his artistic ambitions in favour of the priesthood, he remained a keen critic of art and architecture throughout his life. His diaries and journals, littered with sketches and accounts of visits to galleries and exhibitions, are fascinating for what they reveal of this intensely eye/I-driven individual, and the acute anxieties he experienced when confronted by beauty, in whatever form.
Chapter Two continues this concern with beauty and its inherent dangers, but now moves to consider Hopkins's often anxious visual encounters with other people. As a vigilant social observer, his writing ranges from delightedly detailed depictions of other individuals, particularly young men, to deeply uneasy descriptions of massed crowds and formless groups of people. This chapter shows a particular concern, as Hopkins did, with the purpose of mortal beauty, and the dangers and challenges it could pose.
Chapter Three develops the concerns of the previous chapter, by pursuing the additional dimension of people looking. In this chapter I consider a group of Hopkins's strangest and yet most celebratory poems, united by a concern with people looking at others who are themselves looking. With the uneasy concept of the voyeur never far away, this chapter raises questions about the moral, psychological and social dimensions of seeing within Hopkins's work, and thus I assess the meaning of licit and illicit sight, whether on the part of the benevolent or neutral observer, the systematic enquirer, the voyeur or the enlightened seer. This chapter argues that the dynamic nature of this relationship between perceiver and object, the seer and the seen, is central to his endlessly complex dialectic of vision and visuality. It closes by moving to consider the ultimate unseen seer, God. In the figure of Christ we find the ultimate exemplar of mortal beauty, and the chapter returns to the concerns explored in Chapter Two, now from a Christological perspective.
In Chapter Four, the concluding chapter, the concerns elicited in the previous chapters are pulled together in a discussion of Hopkins's longest and greatest symphonic poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875-1876). This poem has at its heart an intense concern with seeing and the seeing of seeing, with the act of witness, and the role of the martyr, while foregrounding the reciprocal qualities of beauty and danger. The thesis concludes with a close reading of this electrifying poem about vision and sight in the many senses explored in the course of the study as a whole
Activity patterns of cochlear ganglion neurones in the starling
No full text1. Spontaneous activity and responses to simple tonal stimuli were studied in cochlear ganglion neurones of the starling.
2. Both regular and irregular spontaneous activity were recorded (Figs. I to 5). Non-auditory cells have their origin in the macula lagenae. Mean spontaneous rate for auditory cells (all irregularly spiking) was 45 spikes s-1.
3. In half the units having characteristic frequencies (CFs) <1.5 kHz, time-interval histograms (TIHs) of spontaneous activity showed regularly-spaced peaks or 'preferred' intervals. The spacing of the peak intervals was, on average, 15% greater than the CF-period interval of the respective units (Fig. 11).
4. In TIH of lower-frequency cells without preferred intervals, the modal interval was also on average about 15% longer than the CF-period interval (Fig. 11). Apparently, the resting oscillation frequency of these cells lies below their CF.
5. Tuning curves (TCs) of neurones to short tone bursts show no systematic asymmetry as in mammals. Below CF 1 kHz, the low-frequency flanks of the TCs are, on average, steeper than the high-frequency flanks. Above CF 1 kHz, the reverse is true (Fig. 15).
6. The cochlear ganglion and nerve are tonotopically organized. Low-frequency fibres arise apically in the papilla basilaris and are found near non-auditory (lagenar) fibres (Figs. 2 and 19).
7. Discharge rates to short tones were monotonically related to sound presure level (Fig. 20). Saturation rates often exceeded 300 spikes s- 1.
8. 'On-off' responses and primary suppression of spontaneous activity were observed (Figs. 22 and 23).
9. A direct comparison of spontaneous activity and tuning-curve symmetry (Fig. 15b) revealed that, apart from quantative differences, fundamental qualitative differences exist between starling and guinea-pig primary afferents
Joseph Homan Manley, Maine Politician
No full textAn image scanned from a black and white portrait labeled J. H. Manley in handwriting, circa 1901.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/3633/thumbnail.jp
Dasymutilla niphopilis Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla niphopilis Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype female, Mexico, Sonora, Guaymas, VI-12-62, D. H. Janzen [CISC]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C7C). This species can be diagnosed by the following combination of characters, including coloration. It has the head broad and quadrate, but not as broad as the mesosoma. The antennal scrobe is very weakly carinate, and a genal carina is absent. The mesosoma is distinctly broader than long, and lacks a scutellar scale. The integument is dark, burgundy-colored. Sternum II is not scabrous, and the pygidium is rugose. The setae are predominantly whitish yellow, with black setae on the posterior face of the propodeum and anterior margin of tergum II. Description. Female: Length, 10–11 mm. Head. Burgundy, broad, quadrate, with yellow setae; mandible acute at apex, lacking inner tooth; clypeus transversely concave, anterior margin emarginate; scape carinate, clothed with yellow setae; flagellomere I long, as long as II and III united, remaining segments subequal in length; antennal scrobe very weakly carinate; front and vertex with coarse contiguous punctures, sculpture concealed by dense setae; gena shining, with shallow contiguous punctures, genal carina absent; head 2.3–2.9 mm, relative width of head to mesosoma about 0.85:1. Mesosoma. Burgundy, distinctly broader than long (2.7–3.3 mm wide X 2.4–2.9 mm long); anterior margin slightly convex, not emarginate medially; scutellar scale absent; dorsum and propodeum with coarse contiguous punctures, sculpture concealed by dense setae; entirely with dense appressed yellow setae, except posterior face of propodeum with sparse black setae. Legs burgundy, clothed with yellow setae. Metasoma. Burgundy; disk of tergum I glabrous, bordered by shallow contiguous punctures; tergum II with shallow contiguous punctures, sculpture concealed by dense setae; sternum II shining, with shallow separated punctures, not at all scabrous; sternum I lacking an obvious median carina; pygidium rugose; all specimens have median arrow-shaped area of appressed black setae on anterior margin of tergum II; all specimens but one with yellow setae on remainder of segment; remainder of setae in all specimens yellow. Male. Unknown. Paratypes. 4♀, MEXICO, Baja California Sur, Cabo Falso, 7 km W. Cabo San Lucas, I-1-79, P. Rude (1♀, CISC); Sierra de la Laguna, VII-31-87, R. E. Wells (1♀, DGMC); Sonora, 27 mi N Guaymas, VIII-20- 60, R. L. Westcott (1♀, LACM); N. of Guaymas, III-27-61, D. F. Veira (1♀, EMUS). Distribution. Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora). Etymology. From the Greek nipho "snow" and Greek pilis "hair," referring to the whitish yellow coloration of this species. Remarks. This species is known only from the female. The dorsum of the body is predominantly concolorous and yellow. The yellow setae are not long and shaggy (as in D. albiceris). Tergum II has a spot of black setae anteromedially. One specimen has the apical fringe of setae on tergum II narrowly interrupted medially with black setae. One specimen has the yellow setae on terga III and IV narrowly interrupted medially with black. In another specimen, only tergum III is narrowly interrupted medially with black setae.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
Dasymutilla rufipilis Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla rufipilis Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype female, Mexico, Puebla, Cacaloapan, VIII-20-1968, F. D. Parker and L. A. Stange [UCDC]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C8A). This species has the mesosoma as broad as long, with the head quadrate, and almost as broad as the mesosoma. It lacks a scutellar scale and genal carina, but has the antennal scrobe carinate. The pygidium is rugose. The head and posterior half of the mesosoma have white setae; the anterior half of the mesosoma has black setae. Tergum II has a bilobed pattern of black setae anteriorly, with the remainder of the segment having primarily red setae. Description. Female: Length, 9–12 mm. Head. Black, quadrate, clothed entirely with dense white recumbent setae, except posterior margin with scattered long black erect setae; mandible acute at apex, with inconspicuous inner tooth about 0.25X distance from apex; clypeus evenly convex on anterior margin, but concealed by long white setae; scape weakly carinate, smooth and shining, clothed with white setae; flagellomere I long, about length of II and III united, remaining flagellomeres subequal in length; antennal scrobe distinctly carinate; front and vertex coarsely punctate, but with dense white setae concealing sculpture; gena smooth and shining, with shallow well-separated punctures, lacking genal carina, and concealed with white setae; head width about 2.8–3.0 mm; relative width of head to mesosoma about 0.95:1. Mesosoma. Reddish, broader than long (2.4–3.3 mm wide X 2.3–3.2 mm long); scutellar scale absent; anterior margin of mesosoma evenly transverse, not emarginate medially; anterior half of dorsum with semicircular pattern of black setae, remainder of mesosoma with white setae; propodeum with large contiguous punctures, remainder of sculpture concealed by dense setae. Legs reddish, clothed with white setae, except apices of femora with black setae. Metasoma. Reddish, first and last segments darker; tergum I with coarse contiguous punctures; anterior and lateral portions of tergum II smooth and shining, with shallow well-separated punctures, remainder of sculpture concealed by setae; pygidium rugose, somewhat longitudinally rugose; sternum I with blunt carina nearly entire length of segment; tergum I with long erect white setae and posterior fringe of dense white setae; tergum II with bilobed pattern of dense recumbent and scattered erect black setae anteriorly, remainder of segment with dense recumbent red setae and scattered erect white setae, except subapical fringe of white setae and apical fringe of black setae bordered by white; terga III to IV with black setae bordered by white; terga V to VI with white setae; sternum entirely with white setae, except last sternum with black setae. Male. Unknown. Paratypes. 3♀, MEXICO, Puebla, Tehuacan, VII-1955, N. L. H. Krauss (1♀, CISC); Tejupilco, Temescaltepec, VI-25-1933, H.E.Hinton and R.L. Usinger (1♀, CISC); 1♀ with label only Mexico, Wm. Brodie (DGMC). Distribution. Mexico (Puebla). Etymology. From the Latin rufus "red" and Greek pilis "hair," in reference to the red setae on tergum II. Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It resembles D. dugesii, but can be distinguished by a bilobed pattern of black setae on tergum II anteriorly.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
Dasymutilla loreto Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla loreto Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype male, Mexico, Baja California Sur, Puerto Escondido, Loreto, VI-23-91, R. Shaver [UCDC]. Diagnosis of Male (Plate C5O). This species can be diagnosed by the following combination of characters, including coloration. The mandible is bidentate and the antennal scrobe is not carinate. Sternum II lacks a pit filled with setae. The pygidium is glabrous and possesses an apical fringe of setae. This species has the integument entirely black. The metasoma, from the apical fringe of tergum II, and the scutellum are clothed with scarlet setae. The head, pronotum, and mesonotum are clothed with contrasting gray and black setae. The remainder of the body is clothed entirely with black setae. Description. Male: Length, 7–9 mm. Head. Black; mandible acute at apex, with inconspicuous inner tooth about 0.25X distance from apex; clypeus flat, anterior margin bidentate; scape carinate, clothed with gray setae; flagellomere I slightly shorter than remaining segments; antennal scrobe ecarinate; front and vertex with coarse contiguous punctures; vertex with raised conical area bearing ocelli; occipital region compressed laterally; front and vertex with contrasting gray and black setae. Mesosoma. Black; anterior margin slightly emarginate medially, anterior face of emargination glabrous; mesosoma, except metapleuron, with coarse contiguous punctures; tegula black, posterior half glabrous, shining, anterior half with appressed black setae; pronotum and mesonotum with contrasting gray and black setae; scutellum with scarlet setae; remainder of mesosoma with black setae. Legs black, clothed with black setae. Wings fuscous. Metasoma. Black; tergum I with coarse contiguous punctures; remainder of metasoma with shallow separated punctures; pygidium glabrous, shining, with apical fringe of black setae; sternum I with sharp longitudinal carina most of length of segment; sternum II lacking pit filled with setae; posterolateral angle of last sternite not dentate, with shallow separated punctures, except apical margin glabrous and produced into median tooth. Genitalia (Plate 2C). Paramere with apex dorsally curved, ventral margin of basal 0.3 densely pubescent, remainder with short sparse setae; cuspis with basal 0.3 cylindrical and slightly lobate ventrally, remainder somewhat laterally flattened, ventral and internal surface of flattened portion with thick long setae, external margin slightly dorsal also with row of thick long setae, dorsal and external surface of flattened portion with dense short setae, length about 0.6X free length of paramere, densely pubescent basal lobe present; digitus linear, tapering towards apex, length slightly less than 0.5X free length of paramere; penial valve bidentate, teeth separate and roughly equal in size. Female. Unknown, may be D. lachesis. Paratypes. 3♂, MEXICO, Baja California Sur, Hwy 1 S. El Rosario at 115 marker, VIII-24/25-92, D. E. Russell (1♂, UCDC): Puerto Escondido, Loreto, VI-23-91, R. Shaver (1♂, DGMC); Todos Santos, VI-15-75, H. Evans, W. Rubink, and D. Gwynne (1♂, DGMC). Distribution. Mexico (Baja California Sur). Etymology. In reference to the type locality of Loreto, Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur, Mexico; the specific-epithet is a noun in apposition. Remarks. This species is described on the basis of the male, but its pattern of color and distribution make it likely to be the male of D. lachesis. This male is characterized by having the apical fringe of tergum II, and terga III through VI entirely, clothed with long, red setae, while the head and mesosoma are clothed with white setae.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
Dasymutilla citromaculosa Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla citromaculosa Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype female, Mexico, Puebla, 3 mi. NW Petlalcingo, IV-2-62, F. D. Parker [UCDC]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C3I). This is a striking species characterized by coarse contiguous punctures, a long narrow mesosoma, a color pattern made up of contrasting silver and black setae, and four conspicuous yellow maculae on tergum II. Also, the head is black, with the antennal scrobe and gena strongly carinate, and a strong genal carina. It lacks a scutellar scale, and the pygidium is coarsely rugose. Description. Female: Length, 10–14 mm. Head. Black, clothed with dense appressed silver setae; coarsely punctate throughout; mandible acute at apex, with conspicuous inner tooth about 0.3X distance from apex, apical third black, remainder ferruginous; clypeus small, convex, broadly emarginate medially; antennae ferruginous, sharply contrasting black head; scape weakly carinate, smooth and shining, with sparse silver setae; flagellomere I slightly longer than remaining flagellomeres; antennal scrobe with sharp strong carina; gena with sharp strong carina; head distinctly narrower than mesosoma, head width 1.9–2.3 mm, about 0.75 width of mesosoma. Mesosoma. Ferruginous, distinctly longer than broad (2.6–2.9 mm wide X 3.2–4.0 mm long), gently sloping into propodeum, with coarse contiguous punctures throughout, except mesopleuron smooth; scutellar scale absent; with strong humeral carina; anterior margin evenly transverse, not emarginate medially; anterior half with dense black setae, followed by "Y" -shaped pattern of dense silver setae bounded laterally by sparse black setae. Legs ferruginous, smooth and shining, with sparse silver setae, except apices of middle and hind femora with few black setae. Metasoma. Ferruginous, except terminal segments black, and tergum II with four conspicuous yellow maculae, anterior two smaller than posterior two; metasoma with coarse contiguous punctures throughout; pygidium coarsely rugose; sternum I with sharp median carina about 0.5X length of segment; tergum I with appressed silver setae; tergum II with sparse black setae, except broad apical margin with dense black setae narrowly bordered laterally with silver; tergum III entirely with dense black setae narrowly bordered laterally with silver; terga IV to V entirely with dense silver setae; remainder of dorsum with dense black setae; sterna I to II with sparse silver setae, apical margins of sterna with dense fringes of silver setae, except last segment with dense black setae. Male. Unknown. Paratypes. 3♀, MEXICO, Jalisco, Chamela, VII-20/27-84, J. A. Chemsak and J. T. Doyen (CISC); Chamela, X-1/8-85, F. D. Parker and T. L. Griswold (EMUS); USA, Arizona, 8 mi S. Globe, VI-1-58, G. H. Nelson (DGMC). Distribution. USA (Arizona); Mexico (Jalisco, Puebla). Etymology. From the Greek citrin "lemon" and Latin maculosus "spotted," in reference to the yellow integumental maculations on tergum II. Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It is easily identified by the four yellow maculae on tergum II, the conspicuous "Y" -shaped pattern of silver setae on the dorsum of the mesosoma, and the body coarsely sculptured throughout.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
J. H. H. Weiler
No full textJ. H. H. Weiler, Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard Law School. Rolapp Scholar 2001
Pachyschelus confusus Wellso, Manley, and Jackman 1976
No full text94. Pachyschelus confusus Wellso, Manley, and Jackman, 1976 County Records (n = 29): Anoka, Isanti, and Ramsey. Collection Dates: 30 May–19 August. Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Adults recorded on Lespedeza capitata Michx. (Fabaceae). Collection Method: Unspecified and sweeping in mixed meadow.Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/483708
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