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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
No full textThe thesis is a local-scale study which aims to place the Isle of Wight in the English landscape. It examines the much discussed but problematic concept of ‘islandness’, identifying distinctive insular characteristics and determining their significance but also investigating internal landscape diversity. This is the first detailed academic study of Isle of Wight land use and settlement from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century and is fully referenced to national frameworks. The thesis utilises documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. It employs the techniques of historic landscape characterisation (HLC), using synoptic maps created by the author and others as tools of graphic analysis. An analysis of the Isle of Wight’s physical character and cultural roots is followed by an investigation of problems and questions associated with models of settlement and land use at various scales. Specifically, national-scale models by Oliver Rackham and by Brian Roberts and Stuart Wrathmell are critically assessed for their value as frameworks within which Isle of Wight data may be examined, as is the local-scale Isle of Wight HLC model. Historic Ordnance Survey maps, royal surveys, manorial surveys and other sources are used to define the Isle of Wight’s territorial units and patterns of land use, enclosure and settlement; to create a new model of 1790s HLC Areas; and to construct a database listing all settlements by size and form. Nucleation and dispersion densities are calculated from this database, compared with Isle of Wight densities mapped by Roberts & Wrathmell and discussed in relation to densities elsewhere in England. Regional-scale patterns of settlement and land-use within central southern England are considered and the relevance of national-scale models of settlement and land use to this region is discussed. The origins and evolution of Isle of Wight settlements are then explored, using evidence from early sources including place-names, Domesday Book, tax lists and surveys. Subsequent analysis defines discrete cultural zones within the Isle of Wight, confirming the diversity and ancient origins of its cultural landscapes. The final chapter provides a synoptic assessment of models, emphasising the value of the local-scale 1790s HLC Areas model and recognising the compatibility of Roberts & Wrathmell’s national-scale settlement model with detailed local data for the Isle of Wight. It is found that Rackham’s model of Ancient Countryside conforms partially with local attributes but that this model may now need some revision. The paradoxical status of the Solent as both a gateway and a cultural boundary is proposed, as is the Island’s affinity with other ‘peripheral’ areas of England
National World War I Museum
No full textEast lateral building on the terrace; The Liberty Memorial is a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War I and houses the official National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004. The memorial was completed and dedicated on November 11, 1926. The memorial in Penn Valley Park was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle who won a design competition. The approaches were designed by Wight and Wight. Among the sculptors involved were Robert Aikten, Edmond Amateis and John Donnelly. The grounds were designed by George Kessler. The building is designed in a classical "Beaux-Arts monumentalism", with Egyptian Revival details including two sphinx sculptures. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/2/2010
A Neoselachian shark from the non-marine Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: early Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England
No full textBulk screening of Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation strata exposed on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, southern England, has resulted in the recovery of neoselachian shark teeth referred to the scyliorhinid Palaeoscyllium. These are the first neoselachian remains from the British Wealden Group and represent the geologically oldest neoselachian yet recovered from a freshwater deposit. This is also the only known example of a non-marine occurrence of a member of the Scyliorhinidae
[Letter from Allen Wight to T. N. Carswell - February 7, 1941]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, c/o Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, from Allen Wight, Touchstone, Wight, Gormley & Touchstone, Dallas, Texas, dated February 7, 1941. Wight advises Carswell that there is no newspaper mat available. " I am very sorry, but I ain't pretty." The reverse side includes miscellaneous handwritten notes
Measuring woodland connectivity for wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) on the Isle of Wight, UK
No full textSpatial modelling approaches are increasingly used to design and direct management and conservation plans at the landscape scale. One of the main developments is buffer-radius approaches that use information on the dispersal ability of species to create buffers around distinct habitat patches to assess habitat connectivity within the landscape. In this study, Euclidean and least-cost buffers were used to predict functional ecological networks for wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) within the wooded landscape of the Isle of Wight, UK. Compared to the Euclidean buffer approach, the least-cost method revealed a higher number of functional networks indicating a high level of habitat fragmentation for wood cricket and similar woodland invertebrate species. Recent habitat network development increased network connectivity in 3 out of 4 cases. The results further highlight the demand for detailed information, both in terms of species specific and in terms of land cover data, for using least-cost modelling tools effectively in conservation planning
[Letter from Allen Wight to T. N. Carswell - January 20, 1941]
No full textA letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, from Allen Wight, Touchstone, Wight, Gormley & Touchstone, Dallas, Texas, dated January 20, 1941. Wight confirms that he is available to speak at the meeting and is "by no means a famous man" but, complying with the request by Carswell for a personal sketch, details his background: Born in 1889, a great grandson of Lyman Wight, who brought a colony to Texas in the days of the Republic; graduated Austin College in 1909 and spent 1912-1913 in Panama in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission then engaged in building the canal; graduated the University of Texas (in Law) in 1915 and practiced law under Ellis Douthit in Sweetwater 1915-1917. "I went to the First Officers' Training Camp at Leon Springs in 1917; was commissioned captain, assigned to the Regular Army, going Overseas with the First Trench Mortar Battalion, which was engaged as Infantry at Chateau Thierry; operated two batteries of French Artillery at St. Miheil; and both operated as Infantry and used its Mortars in the Argonne. I was promoted to Major after the Armistice, remaining in the Reserve Corps until 1937." Wight called the first meeting in Texas to organize for aid to the Allies and was one of the original organizers in Texas of the No Third Term Democrats
Wildlife of the Isle of Wight An audit and assessment of its biodiversity
No full textProduced in association with Island Agenda 21Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m00/31936 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Embelia gardneriana Wight (1848: 1208
No full text<i>4</i>. <i>Embelia gardneriana</i> Wight (1848: 1208) <p> <b>Lectotype</b> (designated here):— INDIA: Western slope of Sispara, <i>s. ann.,</i> Wight, R. <i>s. n.</i> (K barcode K000756502 [digital image!]), isolectotype: (K barcode K000756501 [digital image!], K000756503 [digital image!]). <b>Fig. 2</b></p> <p> Wight (1848) collected and described the species <i>E. gardneriana</i> from western slopes of Sispara, Nilgiri and named the species in the honor of Mr. Gardner of Ceylon (who accompanied him and collected the first flowering specimen). According to Stafleu and Cowan (1988) type specimens of Wight is available at K and further materials at A, ADB and B. Authors found three specimens available in K two with HRWP label (Herb. R. Wight. Prop) annotated by Wight (K000756502, K000756503) and one by Gardner (K000756501), who collected the specimen while accompanying Wight while collecting the specimen. Moreover, Noltie (2005) stated the same in his work “ <i>Botany of Robert Wight”</i>. Hence, the specimen with barcode no. K000756502 is designated here as lectotype.</p>Published as part of <i>Prasanth, Arun & Sardesai, Milind M., 2021, Nomenclatural notes on type materials of eight names in Embelia (Primulaceae) from Peninsular India, pp. 230-238 in Phytotaxa 491 (3)</i> on page 232, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.491.3.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5754432">http://zenodo.org/record/5754432</a>
Arthur Wight; WWI
No full textPortrait of Private Arthur Wight of Birchy Head in his WW I army uniform
Premna wightiana Schauer, Wight 2650
No full text<p> <i>Premna wightiana</i> Schauer (1847: 635)</p> <p> ≡ <i>Gumira wightiana</i> (Schauer) Kuntze (1891: 508); <i>Premna thyrsoidea</i> Wight (1849: t. 1485), <i>pro syn.</i></p> <p> <b>Type:—</b> INDIA, Dindigul, 10 th July 1837, <i>Wight 2650</i> (lectotype K, barcode K001114132 [digital image!], designated here). <b>Figure 3</b> <b>.</b></p> <p> <b>Residual</b> <b>syntype</b>: INDIA, Soratoor, s.d, <i>Wight s.n.</i> (K, barcode K001114134 [digital image!]).</p> <p> <b>Nomenclatural notes:—</b> Schauer published the name <i>P. wightiana</i> in 1847 based on Wight’s heterogenous collections from Soratoor and Dindygul (=Dindigul) (Wallich’s catalogue no. 1770B). Unaware of this, Wight proposed another name for the same plant as <i>P. thyrsoidea</i> (because of the thyrse or panicle nature of the inflorescence) in his <i>Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis</i> (t. 1485) and wrote “ <i>before Schauer’s Monograph reached me I have named this plant P. thyrsoidea, a name which, being anticipated, must now give place to the older name</i> ”. Hence the name <i>P. thyrsoidea</i> will consider as a ‘ <i>pro syn.</i> ’ as per Art. 36.1 and 50.A(1) of Shenzhen code (Turland <i>et al.</i> 2012). During the study, we have traced a single sheet of Wight’s collections <i>viz</i>. Soratoor (K001114134) and Dindigul (K001114132) from Kew herbarium. Both two specimens were mounted on a single sheet [Soratoor-left side upper portion (two fruiting twigs), Dindigul-left side bottom and right side (three flowering and fruiting twigs)]. Both specimens are well preserved and but the Dindigul collection having both flowers and fruits compared to the Soratoor collection (bear only fruits). According to Art. 9.3 of Shenzhen code (Turland <i>et al.</i> 2012) the collection from Dindigul (barcode No. K001114132) is considered as the best choice among the other original material, which is congruent to the description provided and provenance mentioned in the protologue, hence designated here as the lectotype.</p> <p> <b>Specimens examined:—</b> India. Kerala: Idukki district, Bodymettu, 15 October 2017, <i>V.V. Naveen Kumar 10717</i> (CMPR). Tamil Nadu: Villupuram district, Gingee, Pakkamalai RF, 350 m, 01 October 2002, <i>Paul Blanch 3200</i> (AURO); 08 August 2001, <i>Paul Blanch F 7964</i> (AURO); 15 March 2000, <i>Paul Blanch & Walter F. Gastmans 5608</i> (AURO); Travancore, 1837, <i>R. Wight 2577</i> (K001067688); Courtallum, <i>R</i>. Wight 644 (K001067687).</p>Published as part of <i>Kumar, Vannaratta Veettil Naveen, Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta, Cheriyath, Mohammed Shameer, Jagadeesan, Raveendran, Sunil, Chandrasseril Narayanan & Balachandran, Indira, 2023, Lectotypification of the name Premna wightiana Schauer (Lamiaceae) and notes on its distribution in India, pp. 250-254 in Phytotaxa 619 (3)</i> on pages 250-251, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.619.3.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8426077">http://zenodo.org/record/8426077</a>
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