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Watson, W P (William Phillip), NX112723
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/424320Surname: WATSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: W P (WILLIAM PHILLIP). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX112723. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 53299.252183
Item: [2016.0049.56581] "Watson, W P (William Phillip), NX112723
Phillip Panek Biar
Get PDFabstract: Phillip was nine years old when his village was attacked.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Bahr al GhazalThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Lewis Phillip Hall, Local Historian and Author
No full textLewis Phillip Hall-local historian and autho
Phillip Hoose: 2025 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Phillip Hoose gives an acceptance speech for Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!, illustrated by Bea Jackson (Straus and Giroux)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1019/thumbnail.jp
Two new species and a new record of hydroids (hydrozoa: hydroidolina) from Port Phillip, Australia
No full textWatson, Jeanette E. (2016): Two new species and a new record of hydroids (hydrozoa: hydroidolina) from Port Phillip, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 75: 1-5, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2016.75.01, URL: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-75-2016/pages-1-5
Phillip Herring
No full textPhillip Herring (1936- ) is a scholar and biographer, who taught English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison for over twenty five years. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1966, and later worked at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Herring is the author of Joyce's Uncertainty Principle (1987), Djuna: the Life and Work of Djuna Barnes (1995), and is the co-editor of Djuna Barnes's Collected Poems: With Notes Towards the Memoirs (2005). His papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and other materials accumulated during the writing of his Barnes biography. Subjects include Djuna Barnes, her family and friends, and locations relating to Barnes's life
Syntomodrillia hypsela Watson 1881
No full textSyntomodrillia hypsela (Watson, 1881) (Plate 171) Pleurotoma (Mangelia) hypsela Watson, 1881: 433: Watson (1886, 341 – 342, pl. 21, figs. 4 a–b). Not this species, or unconfirmed extralimital reports. Syntomodrillia hypsela (Watson, 1881): Rios (2009: 314, sp. 800 [Watson’s fig. 4 a]). Type material. The holotype (by monotypy) 4.8 x 1.7 mm, 10 Sep 1873 (MNHUK 1887.2.9.1058). Type locality. H.M.S. Challenger ! Sta. 122, off Pernambuco state, Brazil, 9.08 °S, 34.83 °W, in 350 fms [640 m]. Range and habitat. Known only from the holotype. Description. Watson’s original description was brief because of the poor condition of the shell: “Shell. —High, narrow, and conical, with very short whorls, of which there are 6; the last whorl exceptionally small, with a short conical base and very small snout; the suture very slight, but extremely oblique; the apex blunt and rounded; there are narrow, high, rounded, curved, and very oblique ribs, which run continuously from the apex to the point of the base, but not to the snout; there are obsolete spiral striae, which become stronger on the point of the pillar. H. 0.19 in. B. 0.067 [4.8 x 1.7 mm]. Penultimate whorl, height 0.033. Mouth, height 0.078, breadth 0.033. “The specimen of this very marked species is in too bad condition for more minute description. It is very like Pleurotoma (Drillia) exilis, Pease, [= Iredalea exilis (Pease, 1868) from Tahiti] but is much more attenuated, and the last whorl is much shorter.” Remarks. Taxonomy. Placement in Syntomodrillia is based on the presence of ribs suture-to-suture, a short anterior canal, and faint spirals that are barely discernable in the photograph of the type, the spirals described as “obsolete” by Watson. Dall synonymized this taxon with Splendrillia lissotropis (Dall, 1881) but despite the poor condition of S. hypsela it is considered very unlikely to be a synonym. Watson’s shell is too eroded to give a full description and to make a detailed comparison with S. lissotropis. Identification. Specimens from the general area of the type locality are not available for comparison as possibly the same and a better representative of the species. As such, this species remains enigmatic, the taxon only partially described at this time.Published as part of Fallon, Phillip J., 2016, Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species, pp. 1-363 in Zootaxa 4090 (1) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4090.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/26329
Campanulina cliftonia Watson, 2011, sp. nov.
No full textCampanulina cliftonia sp. nov. Fig. 1 A–E Material examined. Holotype, NMV F 171352, infertile colony on dead bryozoan on floating pontoon, Clifton Springs boat harbour, Port Phillip, depth 0.3 m, coll: J. Watson, 7 /04/ 2009. Paratype, NMV F 171353, infertile colony on serpulid tube, on floating pontoon, Clifton Springs boat harbour, Port Phillip, depth 0.2 m, coll: J. Watson 22 /02/ 2010. Paratype, NMV F 171354, infertile colony on mussel shell, St Leonards pier, Port Phillip, depth 3 m, coll: J. Watson, 20 /01/ 2010. All material ethanol preserved. Description from holotype and paratype (live material). Colony minute, stolonal, hydrorhiza loosely attached to substrate, stolons tubular. Hydrothecal pedicels arising irregularly from stolon, diameter about same as stolon; pedicels variable in length, weakly corrugated to almost smooth, cylindrical or expanding slightly to base of hydrotheca, perisarc thin. Hydrotheca slender bud-shaped to almost tubular, variable in length, operculum comprising up to 20 thin segments arising in distal half to quarter of hydrotheca and converging in a tuft; no demarcation with body of hydrotheca; perisarc of hydrotheca and opercular segments thin; hydrothecal diaphragm usually indistinct but concave in paratype; no nematophores. Hydranth very extensile with a whorl of 16–20 long moniliform tentacles with rings of nematocysts; tentacles extended in an amphicoronate pattern, base of tentacles connected by a conspicuous web with groups of large nematocysts; hypostome small, conical. Column of extended hydranth 0.5–1.0 mm long, tentacles to 0.7 mm long. Cnidome comprising: i) anisorhizas, capsule bean-shaped, 17–19 x 6 µm, shaft ~ 20 µm long, finely spinous, thread very long, probably in intertentacular web. ii) anisorhizas, narrow canoe-shaped, 8–11 x 2.5– 3 µm, shaft ~ 15 µm long, in tentacles. Colony transparent white, hypostome white. Hydrorhiza, width 52–60 Pedicel length 104–180 Diameter 48–56 Hydrotheca length, diaphragm to apex 300–360 maximum diameter 144–160 diameter at diaphragm 52–60 Remarks. Campanulina is a poorly known genus with few described species, some of which have been assigned to the genus merely as a convenient repository for difficult material. Authors’ opinions differ widely about the validity of the genus: Cornelius (1995 a) included it in the family Campanulinidae Hincks, 1868 whereas Calder (2003) referred it to the Phialelliidae Russell, 1953. Campanulina tenuis Van Beneden, 1847 (see Rees 1939) lacked an operculum but possessed an intertentacular web. Later concepts included species with an operculum and webbed tentacles. Until the ramifications of the genus are unravelled I follow Bouillon et al. (2006), who describe Campanulina as uniting ‘campanulinid type’ hydroids with unknown or incompletely known life cycles. Species of Campanulinia listed by Bouillon et al. (2006) are: Campanulina panicula G.O. Sars, 1874, C. pumila (Clarke, 1875), C. rugosa Nutting 1901, C. humilis Bale, 1924, C. ramosa Fraser 1938, C. maduraensis Billard 1940, and C. paucilaminosa Billard, 1940. Campanulina maduraensis, C. rugosa, C. panicula and C. paucilaminosa form relatively tall branched colonies, some species are fascicled and most have fewer opercular segments than Campanulina cliftonia. Campanulina humilis Bale, 1924 was described from Professor Chilton’s collection in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch of material from the hull of the Terra Nova when in Lyttleton Harbour, New Zealand. Ralph (1957) examined the type microslide and provided a detailed supplementary description of the species as Opercularella humilis. Unfortunately this slide of C. humilis was destroyed in a mail robbery in New Zealand when being returned to the Canterbury Museum (P.M. Ralph, pers. com., 1960). There is no more known material of the type. Trebilcock (1928) described and figured stolonal and branched specimens he identified as Campanulina humilis from Dunedin, New Zealand, speculating that the branching habit and closely annulated pedicels bring it close to Campanulina turrita Hincks, 1868 (now included in Phialella). I have examined Trebilcock’s microslide in the collection of Museum Victoria and find it identical with Phialella quadrata (Forbes, 1848). Pennycuik (1959) recorded fertile colonies of? Opercularella humilis from rock pools in southern Queensland, her figures of the gonothecae, each containing a developing medusa, brought O. humilis close to Phialella quadrata. However, neither she, nor Vervoort & Watson (2003) took the final step of synonymising Campanulina (Opercularella) humilis with Phialella quadrata. Infertile pedicellate colonies of Campanulina cliftonia slightly resemble Phialella quadrata but that species has more deeply corrugated, strictly cylindrical pedicels and smaller hydrothecae with fewer opercular flaps that do not meet in an apical tuft (see Watson 1994 b). Ralph (1957) examined a specimen of the medusa Eucope annulata von Lendenfeld, 1885 held in the Australian Museum. She found Lendenfeld’s description misleading and identified the medusa as that of P. quadrata. Although infertile, the new species is referred for the present to Campanulina. Reconsideration of its taxonomic position must await the finding of fertile material. Etymology. The species is named for the type locality of Clifton Springs in Port Phillip, Victoria.Published as part of Watson, Jeanette E., 2011, New species, new records and redescriptions of Thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from Southern Australia, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3122 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20396
Life cycle changes in p-y stiffness for a conductor pile installed in carbonate silt
No full textLateral soil stiffness has a strong influence on the overall strength and fatigue life of well conductors and piles. This paper reviews data from centrifuge testing of a short model pile embedded in carbonate silt, which was subjected to packets of cyclic lateral displacement. Key conclusions are that (i) cyclic lateral stiffness is significantly affected by prior loading history due to the generation and dissipation of pore pressure, (ii) the generation process leads to the well recognized softening of p-y curves, (iii) the dissipation process leads to a less recognised stiffening of the response, and (iv) carbonate silts show a different shape of cyclic lateral response compared to non-carbonate clays, meaning that existing ‘fully degraded’ steady state p-y models are not appropriate. Future ideas to capture these improvements in lateral response modelling are set out, with the aim of allowing more accurate and reliable design of conductors and piles
Obelia spongicola Watson, 2011, sp. nov.
No full textObelia spongicola sp. nov. Fig. 13 A–F Material examined. Holotype, NMV F 171370, St Leonards pier, Port Phillip, preserved colony and microslide from colony on soft yellow sponge, depth 2 m, coll: J.Watson, 26 /03/ 2008. Paratype, NMV F 171371, colony on sponge, alcohol preserved, and one microslide, St Leonards pier, on digitate orange sponge, depth 2 m, coll: J. Watson, 11 / 11 / 2009. Description. Hydrorhiza creeping on sponge; stolons tubular, rugose to smooth, spicules of the sponge embedded in the hydrorhizal perisarc but not penetrating coenosarc. Colony a mixture of simple pedicels interspersed with taller erect stems to 4 mm high. Pedicillate stems short, variable in length with a single distal hydrotheca; stems deeply ringed below hydrotheca, typically with 6–8 annulations or sometimes annulated throughout. Erect stems straight to weakly sympodial, base of stem with several deep annulations, following internodes narrowly cylindrical, each with up to 10 proximal annulations. Hydrothecal pedicels of erect stems arising alternately at an acute upward angle to internode from a distal thickening of internode; pedicels variable in length but always shorter than cauline internode, typically annulated throughout. Hydrotheca long and slenderly conical, perisarc thin and smooth, very thin at margin. Basal chamber deep, almost rectangular, diaphragm thin, visible as a concave ring of tissue supporting the hydranth. Margin of hydrotheca circular, fragile, with 6–10 sharp bimucronate cusps separated by shallow embayments. Hydranth with 8–10 long tentacles. Gonotheca borne on hydrorhiza among pedicellate stems; erect stems on an annulated pedicel in axil between stem internode and hydrothecal pedicel. Gonotheca narrowly top-shaped to conical, walls smooth, thin; apex a broadly cylindrical neck, aperture closed by a thin sheet of tissue. Gonophore with 4–5, sometimes up to 8 developing medusae. Cnidome comprising nematocysts of one size: microbasic mastigophores (see Bouillon et al. 2006) capsule 8– 9 x 2–3 µm, shaft 5–8 µm, tubule to 85 µm long. Medusa typically obeliate at release, tiny and fragile with 24 transparent equidistant tentacles and a goldenbrown manubrium. Colonies translucent white. Remarks. Obelia spongicola resembles Obelia bidentata but is distinguished from that species by its smaller size and fragile, strictly monosiphonic colonies and smaller hydrothecae. The species is very common in Port Phillip where it grows on several species of soft-textured yellow and orange sponges (? Clathria spp.). It occurs in sheltered shallow water habitat of jetty pilings and reef. The colonies are very fragile and easily brushed from the sponge and can only be successfully collected by sealing samples of the sponge and hydroid in situ in a container. The undersides of the stolons retain rows of embedded needle-shaped sponge spicules. Colonies are present in the warmer months of the year becoming fertile in late summer (March) with water temperatures of 18 to 20 º C. Obelia spongicola was reported by Watson (2003) from the Isles of St Francis, South Australia, as Obelia spinulosa Bale, 1894. Etymology. The species is named for its association with sponges. Distribution. Port Phillip, Victoria and South Australia. The species is probably more widely distributed in suitable habitat in southern Australia. Hydrorhiza, diameter 52–60 Stem, internode length 640–1160 Pedicel length to basal hydrothecal segment 120–400 diameter 44–48 basal section, length to diaphragm 44–76 Hydrotheca length, margin to diaphragm 300–360 width at diaphragm 60–76 diameter at margin 160–184 height of cusp 20–24 width of saddle 24–26 Gonotheca length of pedicel 80–120 length excluding pedicel 600–680 maximum width 192–256 width of orifice 124–152Published as part of Watson, Jeanette E., 2011, New species, new records and redescriptions of Thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from Southern Australia, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3122 on pages 28-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20396
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