On the Ephedra, the Hūm Plant and the Soma

1931 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurel Stein
Keyword(s):  
Short Paper ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Great Scholar ◽  
The Subject

In choosing the subject for this short paper I am guided not solely by the fact that the archæological observations which first drew my attention to it were gathered in that field of my Central-Asian explorations with which I have fortunately been able to associate my old friend Professor Rapson as one of the earliest and most helpful of my collaborators. What invests certain curious finds among modest burial remains of the Lop desert with a special quasi-personal interest for me is the distant and puzzling relation they bear to a much discussed question of Vedic and Avestic research, that of the sacred Soma and Haoma.It is a question which was often touched upon in his lectures by that great scholar and teacher, Professor Rudolf von Roth, during the years 1881–4, when I had the good fortune, figuratively, to sit at his feet as an eager devoted pupil. The question as to the identity of the original Soma plant and its home which he had discussed just at that time in two short papers of masterly clearness, was not to be solved then, and still remains undecided. But Roth's main contention still holds good that a solution for it could be hoped for only by the study of relevant physical facts, if possible, on the ground of early Aryan occupation.

I.—The Complete Building Accounts of the City Churches (Parochial) designed by Sir Christopher Wren

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 1-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Short Paper ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Reference Number ◽  
Building Set ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
The City

Bound up with other additional matter in the heirloom copy of Wren's Parentalia, on which I read a short paper on the 17th June, 1909;, is an engraving by Hulsbergh. It is an emblematical design of a pyramid dotted with medallions, on each of which is written the name of a Wren building and a reference number. At the sides are two tables giving the costs of each building, set out to the uttermost farthing. No doubt many students of Wren have wondered, as I did, where Hulsbergh got these detailed figures, and by good fortune I have found their source in Bodley's Library, Oxford.

The Community and the Aggressive Child

1948 ◽  
Vol 94 (396) ◽  
pp. 623-628
Author(s):  
J. D. W. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Aggressive Child ◽  
The Subject

A subject such as this is much too large to deal with at all fully in a short paper. As it is designed as a preparatory review of this topic as it applies to Great Britain, the subject being dealt with at the International Congress of Mental Health by delegates from overseas, I am placing the emphasis on the community rather than on the aggressive child. It is necessary, however, to consider what the aggressive child does to the community and why, in addition to discussing what the community does to the aggressive child, and the reason for this.

Problems for the architect and town planner caused by air in motion

1971 ◽  
Vol 269 (1199) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Motion Range ◽  
The Subject

This short paper makes no original contribution to knowledge but simply describes and identifies a range of problems encountered in practice by town planners and architects. The term ‘ architectural ’ in the subject title of the Discussion Meeting is taken to imply that the results of aerodynamic research are now as applicable to architectural as to engineering problems. Architecture is broadly interpreted as the coordination of many techniques to give significant form to social programmes. As this is a comprehensive activity, it follows that the problems caused by air in motion range from the location and layout of whole cities at one end of the scale, to the design of a window or the control of an ornamental jet of water at the other. In the middle of this range typical problems arise from the siting of buildings singly and in groups, and in the structure and cladding of high-rise and low-rise buildings to resist wind, rain penetration and air-borne pollution.

Prototype Testing of Aircraft

1950 ◽  
Vol 54 (474) ◽  
pp. 359-370
Author(s):  
D. R. H. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Short Paper ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Flight Tests ◽  
The Subject ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
Small Aircraft ◽  
Prototype Testing

The title of Prototype Testing is taken here to refer to the flight tests carried out on a new aircraft by its constructor. It embraces a wide field of subjects and in a short paper, it cannot be covered in any way comprehensively. I propose therefore to deal mainly with very general aspects of the subject.The paper does not attempt to embrace out of the ordinary types with special problems peculiar to themselves—an extreme example of which is probably the Brabazon I. Most of my experience on this subject has been concerned with small aircraft, many of them single-seaters, and consequently some of my statements may apply more particularly to this type of aircraft, although many will probably apply equally to other types of aircraft.

On the Hermes of Praxiteles

1882 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
A. H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
True Position ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

It is well-known how, in the spring of 1877, the German explorers at Olympia had the good fortune to dig up the chief parts of a statue which had been seen by Pausanias in the same spot, and had been described by him in the following words:—χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον καὶ ἄλλα ἀνέθεσαν ἐς τὸ Ἡραῖον, Ἑρμῆν λίθου, Διόνυσον δὲ φέρει νήπιον, τέχνη δέ ἐστι Πραξιτέλους (Paus. v. 17, 3).The bulk of the statue is in exquisite preservation. The greater part however of the right arm of Hermes is missing. Since the whole motive of the subject depends upon the action of the arm, speculation has been busy as to the most probable restoration of this limb.With a view to the solution of this problem, Benndorf has collected together a series of types of the Hermes and Dionysos group. His list is not exhaustive, and he seems to have passed over certain instances of importance.My principal object in this paper is to attempt to show that a certain group of types contains the clue to the restoration of the missing arm, although they do not represent the arm in its true position; and on the other hand to show that certain types which have the arm in its true position, are untrustworthy guides as to the restoration of the attribute attached to it.

scholarly journals I. On the diurnal variations of the disturbances of the magnetic declination at Lisbon

1876 ◽  
Vol 24 (164-170) ◽  
pp. 373-375
Keyword(s):  
Diurnal Variations ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Total Force ◽  
Vertical Force ◽  
Horizontal Force ◽  
Magnetic Declination ◽  
The Subject

The Observatory of Infante D. Luiz has possessed since 1863 a set of magnetographs giving continuous records similar to those at Kew. In 1870 the results of the declination magnetograph, from the year 1864 to 1867, were published; and in 1874 the results for the same period of the bifilar and balance magnetographs (results embracing the horizontal force, vertical force, total force, and inclination) were published. At present the results of the declination for 1868 to 1871 are in course of publication. The subject of this short paper is the diurnal variations of the disturbances of the declination. The method which has been adopted for reducing the disturbances is that of Sir Edward Sabine. I have taken ± 2 millimetres, or 2'·26, as the limits, beyond which limits all readings are regarded as disturbed.

In Memoriam: Camille Georges Wermuth

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
New Members ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
The Subject ◽  
In Memoriam

Professor Wermuth passed away in September 2015. To the members of IUPAC who have had the chance and good fortune to have met him, Camille will be remembered as a distinguished gentleman. Camille made many outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry, both in research and in supporting the subject, not least in IUPAC. He helped to establish the Medicinal Chemistry Section in 1987 and became Section President. He was President of the Chemistry and Human Division in 1998-99. He was a strong proponent for enlarging the scope of activities and promoted new initiatives through the project system. During his tenure with IUPAC, he invited and nurtured the participation of many new members. It is with gratitude and admiration that many have expressed their sadness, owing much for his leadership during those early times.

Greek Light on World History

1950 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Toynbee
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
World History ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Greek History ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come

Approach.: The subject of this talk is in one sense a rather personal one. I am venturing to say something about my own approach to History. I had the good fortune to be born just not too late to come in for the old-fashioned ‘Early Modern Western’ education in the Greek and Latin languages and literatures; the first grown-up job that I did was to teach Greek and Roman history for the School of Literae Humaniores at Oxford; and, in afterwards exploring other provinces of history, I have always found my way into them through a Greek gate. Greek history has been, for me, the key to world history.

Cyzicus

1902 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 174-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert de Rustafjaell
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Whilst travelling in Asia Minor in 1900 I paid a cursory visit to the peninsula of Cyzicus on the Propontis, in ancient Mysia, and had the opportunity of examining the site of the ancient city, and the canal that has been the subject of considerable controversy in bygone ages, and about which the facts are still only partly ascertained. As the site appeared to promise results of peculiar interest, I applied for a concession to excavate it. I had the good fortune to obtain an Imperial Iradé in February, and began tentative operations in May.From the Admiralty Chart it will be seen that Cyzicus lies on the 30° long. east of Greenwich, and 40°22′ N. lat. and within easy reach of Constantinople. To Panderma there is practically a daily service of steamers, which leave Constantinople at sunset and arrive at about four o'clock the next morning. At Panderma a sailing-skiff takes one in about an hour across the bay to Yeni-Keui, the landing stage immediately outside the walls of the city.

The Churches and the ’45

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 253-262
Author(s):  
Françoise Deconinck-Brossard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Crucial Part

The limits of this short paper will not allow me to give a full account of the question, but only to consider some aspects of the sermons preached on the occasion of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. There was a spate of sermons published at the time, not only by famous whig bishops, understandably eager to prove their zeal for the house of Hanover, but also by unknown members of the inferior clergy who felt the need to express their loyalty to the establishment. In many cases, the sermons they preached were the only ones they ever published. It is worth noting, in this respect, that the names of only five antijacobite preachers are to be found in the DNB. This phenomenon, namely the crucial part played by humble preachers, is all the more remarkable as it is in marked contrast with other fields of eighteenth-century pulpit oratory. (Charity sermons, for instance, could only be delivered by bishops or archdeacons or by well-known speakers with a good preaching reputation). Besides, nonconformist ministers were as anxious as their Church of England counterparts to be regarded as pillars of the Hanoverian cause, so that they too had many sermons printed for the occasion. From the available evidence, it is reasonable to assume that they sold well. On the flyleaf of any one of these pamphlets, John Hildyard, the York printer, with his usual advertising techniques, set out a list of other sermons published on the same theme, as an incentive to buy further books on the subject.

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