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Interview with Ernest H. Swift
No full textAn interview in four sessions, in April and May 1978, with Ernest H. Swift, professor of analytical chemistry, emeritus, in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Dr. Swift received his undergraduate education at Randolph-Macon College and the University of Virginia. He came to Caltech, then Throop College of Technology, as a teaching fellow in 1919 and received his PhD there in 1924. He joined the faculty in 1928, serving as chairman of the chemistry division from 1958 to1963, and became emeritus in 1967.
In this wide-ranging interview, he recalls his upbringing in Virginia, his undergraduate education, and his recruitment to Throop by Arthur Amos Noyes. He discusses Noyes’s influence on the development both of Caltech and its chemistry division and describes the early years of the institute, the establishment of the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory at Corona del Mar, and the contributions of various colleagues, including Stuart Bates, Roscoe Dickinson, James Ellis, William Lacey, and Earnest Watson. Comments on the admission of women, and on playing tennis at Caltech. He discusses Linus Pauling’s chairmanship of the chemistry division, the reactions to Pauling’s political activities, and Pauling’s eventual departure from Caltech. Recalls John D. Roberts’s division chairmanship and his own stint as chairman. Comments on the presidencies of Robert A. Millikan, Lee A. DuBridge, and Harold Brown. The concluding session deals with his own work, including his work on chemical warfare in the run-up to World War II, and he ends with an overview and recap of the chemistry division’s history
A new journey to Paris: together with some secret transactions between the Fr[enc]h K[in]g, and an Eng[lish] gentleman
No full textThe prose works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. / Jonathan Swift
No full textTHE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. / JONATHAN SWIFT
The prose works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. / Jonathan Swift
A tale of a tub. The battle of the books and other early works / ed. by Temple Scott. With a biographical introduction by the late W. E. H. Lecky (Vol. 1) (1
James H. Swift letter to Mrs. Butler, September 9, 1869
No full textWritten from Coupeville, Whidbey Island. Announcement of Louisa Swift and her daughter's death from diptheria.
Typescript of original letter.Captain James Henry Swift, ship owner and whaling captain, bought the Jacob Smith donation claim on Whidbey Island in 1857. He returned to the East coast to prepare for a return to Washington state, but found that his wife’s frail health would not permit her coming to a pioneer land. After resuming his various business enterprises, his wife, Lucinda, died leaving two children; Hattie Meader Swift and Henry Arthur Swift. In 1862 he married Louisa P. Butler, a girl of eighteen. They sailed for Puget Sound on their wedding trip and arrived in Penn’s Cove in 1863, accompanied by the captain’s son, Arthur, then 16 years old, and Lizzie, an Afro-American servant girl who had long been in the service of the family. Hattie, the daughter, remained in the East to complete her education. She came out later with Annie Butler, sister of the second Mrs. Swift. She was later married to Sam Howe, a prominent pioneer. Both Hattie and Louisa died in the diphtheria epidemic that swept the island in August 1869. The following letters were written by Louise, Hattie and Arthur Swift to relatives in Massachusetts. They are written from Coupeville and Coveland on Whidbey Island for the most part. They are filled with news of domestic activity, family relationships, illnesses, children, deaths, the social life on Whidbey Island, and local excursions. In addition, they describe Hattie and Annie's visit to Puget Sound, Hattie’s job as schoolteacher, Annie Butler’s marriage to Capt. Frank Wallington, Capt. Swift's election to the Washington Territory legislature, and Hattie’s marriage to Sam Howe
The Swift satellite and redshifts of long gamma-ray bursts
No full textUntil 6 October 2005 sixteen redshifts had been measured of long gamma-ray bursts discovered by the Swift satellite. Further 45 redshifts have been measured of the long gamma- ray bursts discovered by other satellites. Here we perform five statistical tests comparing the redshift distributions of these two samples assuming as the null hypothesis an identical distribution for the two samples. Three tests (Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) reject the null hypothesis at significance levels between 97.19 and 98.55%. Two different comparisons of the medians show extreme (99.78 - 99.99994)% significance levels of rejection. This means that the redshifts of the Swift sample and the redshifts of the non-Swift sample are distributed differently - in the Swift sample the redshifts are on average larger. This statistical result suggests that the long GRBs should on average be at the higher redshifts of the Swift sample
Fear of fiction: the authorial response to realism in selected works by Swift, Defoe, and Richardson
No full textIf Mrs. Whitehouse produced a pornographic play, it would arouse enormous interest, mainly because of Mrs. Whitehouse’s well known views on pornography. It is an ancient fact of English Literature that two of the best known pioneers of the English realistic novel, Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, were Puritans. And there is an almost equally ancient critical tradition which traces the easy path of Puritan literature, in combination with other cultural forces, towards the production of realistic fiction. The central argument of this thesis is that there was no such easy path. Puritan autobiography was unrealistic in its very nature, while Puritan feeling towards fiction was hostile, with realistic, or verisimilar fiction provoking most hostility because the most deceitful. Thus the writing of a realistic novel was a radical departure for the Puritan, and one that was fraught with tension. It is this tension, or fear of fiction, and its effects on work of the two Puritan novelists, and that odd Anglican Jonathan Swift, that is the subject of this thesis. Swift joins Defoe and Richardson as an author with a special relationship with Defoe, and himself closer to a fearful anti- mimetic "tradition" than the comic tradition in which he is usually placed alongside Fielding and Sterne. Selected works of the three authors reveal their struggle with the intense problems that realism created for them, and their eventual 'solutions'. Hence by the time that Dr. Johnson made his famous critical statement against the fearful potential of realism in his fourth Rambler [31 March 1750), he was actually formalising material that had been well examined in the fiction under discussion, rather than beating an original critical path in response to Fielding's supposedly 'new' verisimilar form
Interview with Elizabeth Allen Swift
No full textAn interview in January and February 1978 with Elizabeth Allen Swift, wife of Ernest H. Swift, instructor of analytical chemistry, 1920-1926, receiving his PhD from Caltech in 1924; professor of analytical chemistry, 1928-1967 and chair of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division, 1958-1963
EUGENIO H. NEARNS, IAN P. SWIFT & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (2023) Three new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on additional taxa. Zootaxa 5228 (2): 137-156.
No full textEugenio H. Nearns, Ian P. Swift, Antonio Santos-Silva (2023): EUGENIO H. NEARNS, IAN P. SWIFT & ANTONIO SANTOS-SILVA (2023) Three new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on additional taxa. Zootaxa 5228 (2): 137-156. Zootaxa 5293 (3): 600-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.1
Monneoncideres Nearns and Swift 2011, gen. nov.
No full textMonneoncideres Nearns and Swift, gen. nov. (Figures 3 a-d) Type species. Monneoncideres cristata Nearns and Swift, sp. nov, here designated. Description. General form elongate-ovate, robust, moderate-sized. Head with frons flat, subquadrate or elongate. Eyes with lower lobes large, oblong, moderately separated. Antennae short, not distinctly longer than body; antennal tubercles prominent, moderately separated; scape clavate, antennomere III longest. Pronotum subcylindrical, wider at base, transverse, sides with acute protuberance each side behind middle; disk with three tubercles, median tubercle glabrous. Elytra with humeri prominent, anterior margin arcuate, angle with several round, shiny tubercles. Legs moderate to short in length; femora clavate apically; tibiae slightly expanded apically. Etymology. This distinctive genus is named for Miguel A. Monné with appreciation for his friendship, encouragement, and inspiration. The name is derived from the surname “Monné” and “ Oncideres;” the gender is feminine. Diagnosis and Remarks. This genus superficially resembles some species of Oncideres Lacordaire, 1830 and Psyllotoxoides Breuning, 1961 but can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: eyes with lower lobes large; frons distinctly flat; pronotum with glabrous median tubercle; and base of elytra with arcuate, strongly elevated cristae.Published as part of Nearns, Eugenio H. & Swift, Ian P., 2011, New taxa and combinations in Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), pp. 1-27 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (192) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516122
Reading Swift and Ireland, 1720-1729 : constituences, contexts and constructions of identity in Jonathan Swift's occasional writings of the 1720s
No full textThe 1720s was a decade of crisis in Ireland. Jonathan Swift's occasional writings from these years extend the country's political and economic crises into
dramas of personal and national identity. Part One of this thesis investigates the material conditions of the relationship between Swift, his Irish audience, and the
underlying problems of identity that such an audience simultaneously poses and occludes. Part Two is an anatomy of the literary modes through which that relationship is figured.
The first chapter offers the 1720 Declaratory Act as an important subtext for Swift's 'inaugural' work of the decade, the 1720 Proposalfor the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture. Challenging retrospective constructions of the author's textual and political authority, the chapter examines how Swift the 'Hibernian patriot' was largely an invention of the crisis surrounding the act. Chapter Two
argues that The Drapier's Letters reconfigure the language that had been used in the past to depict the Catholic threat to Protestant Ireland, and use it to depict the
threat emerging from England.
Part Two moves to the question of identity, which Chapter Three designates a kind of 'style', both a mode of expression and a trend in polite society. The writing of history and the social signification of language are the
main concerns of this chapter, which investigates how Irish historiography becomes the focus for a range of concerns in the 1720s. Chapter Four nominates the pastoral genre as an alternative vehicle for the reading and writing of history
in Swift's Ireland. It identifies a Virgilian dialectic of expropriation and protection by a patron as an important method of 'reading' oneself into history and identity. Looking at various manifestations of crisis in Ireland in 1729 - famine, fuel shortages and emigration, the final chapter argues that A Modest Proposal uses techniques of allegory to produce a crisis of interpretation. By
promoting and perpetuating misreading, it mirrors the pervasive climate of error that produced this text.
As a whole the thesis documents three transitions. It traces the emergence of a parodic method of literary and political representation which eventually overwhelms any claims Swift's writing might once have made to positive
advocacy. Once considered the dominant and definitive voice of 1720s Ireland, Swift is re-appraised as one writer among many, and his writing as a product of his society rather than an authoritative comment on it. Finally, the Presbyterians of Ireland are shown to emerge by the end of the decade as the primary focus for the anxieties and aggressions that animate Swift's occasional writings
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