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Lehigh Gap Nature Center Library Book Catalog Title Year Author(s) Publisher Keywords Keywords Catalog No. National Geographic, Washington, 100 best pictures. 2001 National Geogrpahic. Photographs. 779 DC Miller, Jeffrey C., and Daniel H. 100 butterflies and moths : portraits from Belknap Press of Harvard University Butterflies - Costa 2007 Janzen, and Winifred Moths - Costa Rica 595.789097286 th tropical forests of Costa Rica Press, Cambridge, MA rica Hallwachs. Miller, Jeffery C., and Daniel H. 100 caterpillars : portraits from the Belknap Press of Harvard University Caterpillars - Costa 2006 Janzen, and Winifred 595.781 tropical forests of Costa Rica Press, Cambridge, MA Rica Hallwachs 100 plants to feed the bees : provide a 2016 Lee-Mader, Eric, et al. Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA Bees. Pollination 635.9676 healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive Klots, Alexander B., and Elsie 1001 answers to questions about insects 1961 Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY Insects 595.7 B. Klots Cruickshank, Allan D., and Dodd, Mead, and Company, New 1001 questions answered about birds 1958 Birds 598 Helen Cruickshank York, NY Currie, Philip J. and Eva B. 101 Questions About Dinosaurs 1996 Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY Reptiles Dinosaurs 567.91 Koppelhus Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N. 101 Questions About the Seashore 1997 Barlowe, Sy Seashore 577.51 Y. Gardening to attract 101 ways to help birds 2006 Erickson, Laura. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA Birds - Conservation. 639.978 birds. Sharpe, Grant, and Wenonah University of Wisconsin Press, 101 wildflowers of Arcadia National Park 1963 581.769909741 Sharpe Madison, WI 1300 real and fanciful animals : from Animals, Mythical in 1998 Merian, Matthaus Dover Publications, Mineola, NY Animals in art 769.432 seventeenth-century engravings. -
A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists
L Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists. TTTEN & BOULGER, A BIOaEAPHICAL INDEX OF BKITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS COMPILED BY JAMES BEITTEN, F.L.S. SENIOR ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BBITISH MUSEUM AKD G. S. BOULGEE, E.L. S., F. G. S. PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, CITY OF LONDON COLLEGE LONDON WEST, NEWMAN & CO 54 HATTON GARDEN 1893 LONDON PRINTED BY WEST, NEWMAN AND HATTON GAEDEN PEEFACE. A FEW words of explanation as to the object and scope of this Index may fitly appear as an introduction to the work. It is intended mainly as a guide to further information, and not as a bibliography or biography. We have been liberal in including all who have in any way contributed to the literature of Botany, who have made scientific collections of plants, or have otherwise assisted directly in the progress of Botany, exclusive of pure Horticulture. We have not, as a rule, included those who were merely patrons of workers, or those known only as contributing small details to a local Flora. Where known, the name is followed by the years of birth and death, which, when uncertain, are marked with a ? or c. [circa) ; or merely approximate dates of "flourishing" are given. Then follows the place and day of bu'th and death, and the place of burial ; a brief indication of social position or occupation, espe- cially in the cases of artisan botanists and of professional collectors; chief university degrees, or other titles or offices held, and dates of election to the Linnean and Eoyal Societies. -
Karl Jordan: a Life in Systematics
AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kristin Renee Johnson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of SciencePresented on July 21, 2003. Title: Karl Jordan: A Life in Systematics Abstract approved: Paul Lawrence Farber Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the modem evolutionary synthesis. These accounts, while useful, have primarily examined the natural history of the period in view of how it led to developments in the 193 Os and 40s, removing pre-Synthesis naturalists like Jordan from their research programs, institutional contexts, and disciplinary homes, for the sake of synthesis narratives. This dissertation redresses this picture by examining a naturalist, who, although often cited as important in the synthesis, is more accurately viewed as a man working on the problems of an earlier period. This study examines the specific problems that concerned Jordan, as well as the dynamic institutional, international, theoretical and methodological context of entomology and natural history during his lifetime. It focuses upon how the context in which natural history has been done changed greatly during Jordan's life time, and discusses the role of these changes in both placing naturalists on the defensive among an array of new disciplines and attitudes in science, and providing them with new tools and justifications for doing natural history. One of the primary intents of this study is to demonstrate the many different motives and conditions through which naturalists came to and worked in natural history. -
The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886
The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886 Sascha Nolden, Simon Nathan & Esme Mildenhall Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H November 2013 Published by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand Inc, 2013 Information on the Society and its publications is given at www.gsnz.org.nz © Copyright Simon Nathan & Sascha Nolden, 2013 Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H ISBN 978-1-877480-29-4 ISSN 2230-4495 (Online) ISSN 2230-4487 (Print) We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust which has provided financial support for this project. This document is available as a PDF file that can be downloaded from the Geoscience Society website at: http://www.gsnz.org.nz/information/misc-series-i-49.html Bibliographic Reference Nolden, S.; Nathan, S.; Mildenhall, E. 2013: The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886. Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H. 219 pages. The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886 CONTENTS Introduction 3 The Sumner Cave controversy Sources of the Haast-Hooker correspondence Transcription and presentation of the letters Acknowledgements References Calendar of Letters 8 Transcriptions of the Haast-Hooker letters 12 Appendix 1: Undated letter (fragment), ca 1867 208 Appendix 2: Obituary for Sir Julius von Haast 209 Appendix 3: Biographical register of names mentioned in the correspondence 213 Figures Figure 1: Photographs -
Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Syracuse University SURFACE The Courier Libraries Spring 1989 Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Eileen Snyder Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Recommended Citation Snyder, Eileen. "Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries." The Courier 24.1 (1989): 13-32. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 1, SPRING 1989 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES COURIER VOLUME XXIV NUMBER ONE SPRING 1989 The Marcel Breuer Papers and Michael Ventris: A Biographical Note By Isabelle Hyman, Professor of Fine Arts, 3 New York University Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries By Eileen Snyder, Physics and Geology Librarian, 13 Syracuse University "Interviewing" Mr. Larkin By Robert Phillips, poet, critic, and author 33 Past and Present in Hope Emily Allen's Essay "Relics" (with the inclusion of the heretofore unpublished manuscript) By John C. Hirsh, Professor of English, 49 Georgetown University The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two) By Gwen G. Robinson, Editor, Syracuse University Library 63 Associates Courier News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates 101 Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries BY EILEEN SNYDER It is perhaps not realized by the modem armchair naturalist what hardships attended his 'explorer naturalist' predecessor in the early 1800s. -
The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear1
The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear1 ROBERT McCRACKEN PECK Senior Fellow The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Introduction Although he is best remembered today as a whimsical nonsense poet, adventurous traveler, and painter of luminous landscapes, Edward Lear (1812–1888) is revered in scientific circles as one of the greatest natural history painters of the 19th century (Figure 1). During his brief immer- sion in the world of science, he created a spectacular monograph on parrots, and a body of other work that continues to inform, delight, and astonish us with its remarkable blend of scientific rigor and artistic finesse. In 1988 the British government honored Lear with a set of postage stamps featuring four of his whimsical ink drawings. These included a self-caricature of the bearded artist flying on improbably miniscule wings and the wedding scene from his best-known poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat” (Figure 2). The affable Lear would have been pleased—and probably astonished—by his country’s philatelic atten- tion, but almost certainly disappointed by the Royal Mail’s choice of images marking the centennial of his death. He considered the illus- trated verse in his Book of Nonsense (1846), which ultimately earned him a place in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey, a sideline to his more serious focus: natural history and landscape painting. The artist so feared that these flights of fancy would undermine his reputation in the scientific world that he hid behind the pseudonym “Derry-Down- Derry” until 1861, by which time his nonsense verse and illustrations had already won him a devoted following around the world. -
Buceros Vol-9 No-3 Year-2004
Buceros Vol. 9, No. 3 (2004) A bibliography of the Anatidae of south Asia Aasheesh Pittie 8-2-545 Road No. 7, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. Email: [email protected] INTRODUCTION This bibliography has been extracted from my larger a distribution pattern of the Anatidae.Accuracy in bibliographic database (Pittie 2005) and covers the transcribing is a basic tenet of bibliography and though political boundaries of the following south Asian great care has been taken to ensure it, mistakes may countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the have crept in and pertinent papers, notes, reports, books, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri etc., may have been inadvertently left out.This is the Lanka. Tibet is also covered. It comprises papers, popular more likely in that I have not seen all the entries listed articles, books, published and un-published reports, and below in the original, but have freely taken them second chapters, in which members of the avian family, Anatidae hand from the ‘References’ or ‘Further Reading’ sections (ducks, geese, swans), find mention. It covers a period of papers and books. of over two and a half centuries, from 1750 up to 2004. Authors have been arranged alphabetically and their Of the 49 genera and 158 species that comprise the work chronologically. Multi-author papers have been family Anatidae worldwide (Dickinson 2003), 19 genera listed under the name of the senior author(i.e., the first and 46 species are found in south Asia. Of these, the author, not the oldest). Separate entries have not been Pink-headed Duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea is made for co-authors. -
List of Books Available on Calibre Software
LIST OF BOOKS AVAILABLE ON CALIBRE SOFTWARE (PLEASE CONTACT LIBRARY STAFF TO ACCESS CALIBRE) 1. 1.doc · Kamal Swaroop 2. 50 Volume RGS Journal Table of Contents s · Unknown 3. 1836 Asiatic Researches Vol 19 Part 1 s+m · Unknown 4. 1839 Asiatic Researches Vol 19 Part 2 : THE HISTORY, THE ANTIQUITIES, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE ASIA . · Asiatic Society, Calcutta 5. 1839 Asiatic Researches Vol 19 Part 2 s+m · Unknown 6. 1840 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 8 Part 1 s+m · Unknown 7. 1840 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 8 Part 2 s+m · Unknown 8. 1840 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 9 Part 1 s+m · Unknown 9. 1856 JASB Index AR 19 to JASB 23 · Unknown 10. 1856 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 24 s+m · Unknown 11. 1862 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 30 s+m · Unknown 12. 1866 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 34 s+m · Unknown 13. 1867 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 35 s+m · Unknown 14. 1875 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 44 Part 1 s+m · Unknown 15. 1875 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol 44 Part 2 s+m · Unknown 16. 1951-52.PMD · Unknown 17. 1952-53-(Final).PMD · Unknown 18. 1953-54.pmd · Unknown 19. 1954-55.pmd · Unknown 20. 1955-56.pmd · Unknown 21. 1956-57.pmd · Unknown 22. 1957-58(interim) 1957-58-1958-59 · Unknown 23. 62569973-Text-of-Justice-Soumitra-Sen-s-Defence · Unknown 24. ([Views of the East; Comprising] India, Canton, [And the Shores of the Red Sea · Robert Elliot 25. -
Ctt0wk1dar Ctt0wk1dar
ISSN 0141-6588 Ctt0WK1DAR Vol. 4. No. 6 Autumn 1987 Editor: Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones THE GUIDESCHAPEL, MARDAN BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CEMETERIES IN SOUTH ASIA (BACSA) On Sunday5th April 1987 the Centenary of the Corps of Guides Chapel was celebrated in Mardanat a service attended by some 150 visitors. PRESIDENT CHAIRMAN from the United Kingdom as well as various parts of the North West Mr. H.M. Stokes Frontier of Pakistan. Sue Farrington was present and she has compiled Sir John Cotton, KCMG, OBE the following report. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COUNCIL Mr. F.O. Bell OBE 'It dawned a brilliant sunny Spring day. and the chapel looked as im Mr. J.S. Hewitt, MBE maculate as it must have done a hundred years earlier when its builder, Mr, B.C. Bloomfield Miss S.M. Farrington Colonel Robert Hutchinson. would have been putting the finishing tou Mr. V.E. Davies, OBE Major A.G. Harfield, BEM, FRHistS ches to his creation. He would have been proud of the scrubbed head Sir John Lawrence Bt., OBE Mr. E.A. Johnston stones and paths which now surround the chapel, and from his own plot Mrs. K.L. Lewis CBE, MA, FSA Mrs. C. Langdon-Davies in the old cemetery near the Commandant's House. astonished at the Sir Hugh Mackay-Tallack Mr. R.N. Lines MBE large turn out. and reception given to the congregation by the Punjab Sir Cyril Pickard, KCMG Mrs. P. Mccandlish Regimental Centre. The service was conducted by the Norwegian Pastor, The Rt. Hon. Lord Rees, PC, QC Mr. R.B. -
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
X<> )i'?i{ <?. iqo^ PROCEEDINGS ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL Sk EDITED DY THE GENERAL SECRETARY. JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1 16 5. 'a. 5£- iN= CALCUTTA : PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 1866. CONTENTS. Page Proceedings for January, 1865, ... 1 List of Members for December, 1864, 17 Proceedings for February, 1865,... 31 „ March, 1865, 39 Abstract Statement of Accounts for 1864, 49 Proceedings for April, 1865, ... 65 „ May, i865, 75 June, ,, 1865, 93 July, 1865, ... 111 August, • • 141 ,, 1865, *•* „ September, 1865, •• ••• 157 „ November, 1865, 181 193 ,, December, 1865, Index, ... i List of Papers received, vii „ Donations, xii s^Ar* m } In accordance with the announcement of the Council in the Annual Report read at the Annual General Meeting held on the 11th January, 1865, the Proceedings of the Society's meetings will henceforth he printed in parts separate from the Journal, to be issued monthly to all members and subscribers. They will be paged and indexed separately, so that at the close of each year, they may, at the option of members, be bound up either in a small separate volume, or as a third division of the Journal. The original papers which will henceforth form the Journal proper, will be classified under two heads, viz., Historical, Archaeological, Numismatic, Philological and Literary on the one hand, and Natural and Physical Science on the other. With the latter will appear the Meteorological registers as heretofore. These two divisions will be paged and indexed separately, forming respectively parts I. and II. of the volume for the year. They will also be issued in separate numbers, alternately or simultaneously, according to the number and character of the communications awaiting publication. -
Did Darwin Plagiarize His Evolution Theory? — Bergman
Countering the critics Did Darwin plagiarize his evolution theory? — Bergman this book de Maillet Did Darwin suggested that fish were the precursors of birds, mammals, plagiarize his and men.7 Yet an- other pre-Darwin evolution theory? scientist was Pierre- Louis Maupertuis Jerry Bergman (1698–1759) who in 1751 concluded in his Some historians believe that all of the major contri- book that new species butions with which Darwin is credited in regard to may result from the Courtesy TFE Graphics Courtesy evolution theory, including natural selection, actually fortuitous recombin- were plagiarized from other scientists. Many, if not ing of different parts most, of Darwin’s major ideas are found in earlier of living animals. works, especially those by his grandfather Erasmus At about this Darwin. Charles Darwin rarely (if ever) gave due same time the French credit to the many persons from whom he liberally encyclopedist, Denis Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) ‘borrowed’. This review looks at the evidence for Diderot (1713–1784), this position, concluding that much evidence exists taught that all animals evolved from one primeval organ- to support this controversial view. ism. This prototype organism was fashioned into all those types of animals alive today via natural selection. George Louis Buffon (1707–1788) even expounded the idea at length that ‘the ape and man had a common ancestry’ and, A common (but erroneous) conclusion is that Charles further, that all animals had a common ancestor.8 Macrone Darwin conceived modern biological evolution, including concluded that, although Darwin put evolution on a firmer natural selection.1 An example of statements commonly scientific basis found in the scientific literature indicating this would be the ‘ … he was hardly the first to propose it. -
Edward Blyth, Charles Darwin, and the Animal Trade in Nineteenth-Century India and Britain
Journal of the History of Biology 30: 145±178, 1997. 145 c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Edward Blyth, Charles Darwin, and the Animal Trade in Nineteenth-Century India and Britain CHRISTINE BRANDON-JONES 11 York Road London SW11 3PX England Introduction Early professionals in the natural sciences found great dif®culty in establish- ing their social level and a steady income.1 The pursuit of science ± unlike other professions, such as law or medicine ± did not overcome low status, nor did it confer high status. Naturalists also differed from other professionals in that their profession did not usually generate income through fees: they required salaried employment, which in itself diminished their social standing. There was still the assumption that scientists were gentlemen of independent income. This resulted in the pitiful salaries that forced practitioners to take on more than one position, or to accept socially degrading side employment. Many naturalists, such as William Swainson, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Bates, John Gould, and Edward Blyth, found it necessary to supplement a scanty income with mercantile activities. Victorian society generally frowned on such activities and they could be easily held against a social marginal scien- tist on his uppers. This state of affairs led Edward Forbes to complain bitterly: ªPeople without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.º2 This paper will illustrate the problems faced by early professional natural- ists, and the way in which they were forced to make a living, by examining the animal trading of the zoologist Edward Blyth, curator of the museum of 1 David Elliston Allen, ªThe Early Professionals in British Natural History,º in From Lin- naeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the History of Biology and Geology, ed.