scholarly journals The Silchester ‘Nymphaeum’

Britannia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
Michael Fulford
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Arena Wall ◽  
Basal Width ◽  
Formed Part

ABSTRACTA carved coping stone found on the site of a spring near the amphitheatre, Silchester, and first reported in 1873, was rediscovered in 2014. It does not compare in its carved detail with coping stones from the amphitheatres at Chester and London, nor with that recovered from the West Gate, Silchester, in 1890; nor does its basal width correspond with that of the arena wall of the Silchester amphitheatre. It is likely to have formed part of a monumental basin, similar to that found at Coventina's Well, Northumberland, and to have commemorated the location of a spring and its associated (unknown) deity. Similarity with the type and decoration of architectural stone used in the construction of the forum-basilica suggests a Hadrianic–Antonine date.

Experiments on the brain of monkeys.—No. I

1875 ◽  
Vol 23 (156-163) ◽  
pp. 409-430 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
The West ◽  
Medical Reports ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Stimulation Of

The facts recorded in this paper are the results obtained by electrical stimulation of the brain of monkeys, after the method described by the author in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports, vol. iii. 1873. They formed part of a paper “On the Localization of Function in the Brain,” read before the Royal Society on March 5, 1874. This memoir also contained the results of other experiments on the brain of monkeys, chiefly relating to the effects of localized lesions of several parts of the hemispheres, with a view to determine the significance, as regards sensation and motion, of the phenomena caused by electrical irritation.

South America II: The Southern Cone

Horse Nations ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Southern Cone ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Andean Cordillera ◽  
South Central ◽  
Southern Patagonia ◽  
Desert Steppes ◽  
Formed Part

Taking in the Andean cordillera, the Pampas grasslands of Argentina and Uruguay, the desert steppes of southern Patagonia, and the temperate lowlands of south-central Chile (Araucanía), this chapter explores the horse’s arrival and impact in South America’s Southern Cone. Convention divides the Cone along the spine of the mountains between Chile and Argentina. To their east it contrasts the Pampas in the north with Patagonia in the south. I follow most recent scholarship in stressing the historical connections that such boundaries obscure. Similarly, I emphasize not only the acquisition of horses, but also the significance of hunting, taking, and trading feral livestock and the adoption of elements of food production. Both developments formed part of the inclusion of ‘free’ Native Americans within broader international political and commercial systems. At the same time, the work of anthropologists and the comments of contemporary European observers make the Southern Cone one of the most richly documented regions of all for studying the emergence of Horse Nations post-1492. The Southern Cone is environmentally far more complex than a simple tripartite classification into Araucanía, Patagonia, and Pampas suggests. In the north the Pampas reach to the Paraná and Salado drainages, to the south as far as the Río Colorado and its tributaries. They extend east to include Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and in the west reach the Andean foothills. A basic division follows the 500 mm isohyet: to its west the Dry Pampa is increasingly water-deficient, while to the east the Humid Pampa ultimately benefits from as much as 800 mm of rain a year (Plate 23). The Uruguayan Savannah forms a third ecological subdivision that includes areas with palms and some forest enclaves. Generally, the Pampas comprise a gently sloping plain covered by extensive grasslands, but drier-adapted shrub occurs in the west and a wedge of forest penetrates their centre from the north. The Sierra de Tandilia and Sierra de la Ventana south of Buenos Aires are rare areas of higher relief. Climate is temperate, but surface water is often scarce, stone for tool-making rare, game dispersed.

Q. Mucius Scaevola and Oenoanda: a new Inscription

1995 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. F. Eilers ◽  
N. P. Milner
Keyword(s):  
Outer Edge ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
The North ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Th 1

The following inscription was found at Oenoanda, an antique city in north Lycia, by the late Alan S. Hall in 1974. The text (inv. no. YÇ 1014) is inscribed on the short face of a large grey limestone statue base, found lying on its left side at the northern margin of the Upper Agora (the “Esplanade”), directly before the outer edge of the portico of the north stoa (cf. Figs. 1 and 2). Its position suggests that it has fallen forward, with other bases beside it to the west, from its original situation on the pavement of the Upper Agora, immediately fronting the podium of the stoa. There was no evidence that it had been re-used, as originally thought by Hall. Its dimensions are h. 0·73 m.; w. 0·74 m. (slightly broken to the left); th. 1·50+ m. (buried behind). Since it is unmoulded and there are no foot-holes in the top, it is probable that top and bottom sections have become detached. The large base beside it to the west, measuring h. 1·25 m.; w. 2·10 m.; th. 0·60+ m., has two sets of foot-holes and a moulded top; a connection between this and our base is perhaps not unlikely—possibly they formed part of a family monument. On architectural grounds it has been argued that the north stoa was built in either the first century B.C. or the first century A.D. Since it is reasonable to suppose that the base, which we date to the 90s B.C. for reasons that will become clear shortly, was erected after its construction, the stoa should probably be dated no later than second century B.C.

Phytogeography of Passerina (Thymelaeaceae)

Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Bredenkamp ◽  
A. E. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
Cape Floristic Region ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The West ◽  
Winter Rainfall ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Centre Of Diversity ◽  
Anatomical Adaptations ◽  
Formed Part

Passerina L. comprises 20 species and four subspecies of microphyllous. wind-pollinated shrubs. Once considered cos­mopolitan, the genus as currently defined, is endemic to southern Africa. Endemism within the genus is highest in the Cape Floristic Region (CFR), where all members show morphological and anatomical adaptations to the winter rainfall and dry warm summers of the Mediterranean or semi-Mediterranean climate of the region. The Western Cape is the centre of diversity for Passerina, from where certain species extend to the west, north and east. The outlier populations of Passerina montana Thoday on the interior plateau of South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the Auas Moutains in Namibia, most probably origi­nated in the CFR and formed part of a previously wider northern temperate Afromontane grassland-dominated vegetation during the Quartemary, of which relicts remained in the high mountain areas. P. burchellii Thoday and P. paludosa Thoday have the most restricted distribution and are regarded as Vulnerable. All other species are either widespread or under no im­mediate threat.

382. The seasonal distribution of calf and milk sales in north Wales and the probable influence of climatic conditions on the monthly rate of calving and consequent milk production

1949 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Phillips ◽  
J. L. Davies ◽  
E. H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Milk Production ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Breeding Performance ◽  
The West ◽  
North Wales ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Breeding Herd ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Milk Marketing

There appears to be a west to east cline in the four north Wales counties in: (i) the proportion of calves sold during the autumn months September to December; (ii) the proportion of December milk sales in relation to the September sales; (iii) the proportion of the dairy and breeding herd in milk during the winter; (iv) the quarterly rates of conception in heifers during the period 4 December to 4 March. There does not appear to be any relation between percentage winter milk production and percentage tillage area in this region. It is postulated that the west to east cline is dependent mainly upon factors other than husbandry and that climatic conditions, particularly the hours of bright sunshine during the winter months, have a marked influence upon the breeding performance of cows and heifers during the period December to March.This investigation has formed part of the survey of animal health and production in Wales, and thanks are due to the scientific branch of Messrs Cooper, McDougall and Robertson, Berkhamsted, for financial support. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Ministry of Food, Colwyn Bay, for readiness in providing data and helpful advice; to Messrs Pritchard, Auctioneers, Bangor, and Messrs Beardmore, Auctioneers, Abergele, for permission to examine their records; to the Milk Marketing Board for providing the data on milk sales; to Profs. A. N. Worden and E. G. Bowen for the interest they have taken in the work.

Oinoanda: The Water Supply and Aqueduct

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 15-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Stenton ◽  
J. J. Coulton
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Natural Water ◽  
The West ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
British Institute ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The City

The city of Oinoanda is situated on a lofty ridge rising some 300 m. above the surrounding plain, at a point of obvious strategic value. It is a naturally strong site, but it lacks a generous natural water supply. The following investigation of the various water supply arrangements formed part of the survey at Oinoanda conducted by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara under the direction of Mr. A. S. Hall, and with the cooperation and assistance of the Directorate of Antiquities of Turkey.There is a number of small springs on the slopes below the city, and there may have been more, or at least different ones, in antiquity (Fig. 1). There were probably springs at the Leto sanctuary on the west slope of the acropolis and more certainly at the sanctuary of the Nymphs on the east slope, although these do not now function, in summer at least, and perhaps never produced a great deal of water. A third sanctuary, much further down the east slope, also has a small spring, and was apparently devoted to Apollo. However, the only spring which nowadays produces water enough to contribute significantly to the supply of a substantial community lies some 500 m. west of the west gate and over 130 m. lower down, where it would be exposed to any attacking force.

Medieval Paintings from Castle Acre Priory

1937 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Tancred Borenius
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
West Wall ◽  
The North ◽  
Dwelling House ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
North Wall ◽  
Do So

There is no need for me here to stress the extraordinary scarcity of surviving panel pictures of undoubted English origin dating from the fourteenth century, in spite of the fact that at the time they must have been produced in enormous quantities. All the greater is, in consequence, the importance which attaches to the notable examples which I have the honour of exhibiting and commenting upon to-night; and that I am able to do so is due, in the first instance, to the privilege extended to me by the owner of the panels, the Earl of Leicester, G.C.V.O., C.M.G., and H.M. Office of Works; while I owe a further and special debt of gratitude to Mr. F. J. E. Raby, C.B., F.S.A., through whose initiative my attention was first drawn to these panels.The pictures in question (pl. xxix) have come down to us in very fragmentary condition, and are painted on thick boards, three in number, two of which join up satisfactorily enough for us to deduce that they originally formed part of one and the same composition, while the remaining panel, though evidently a unit belonging to the identical scheme, does not link up with the others. All three boards come from Castle Acre Priory, and were discovered there in recent years, though not all at the same time: the panel on the left of the two belonging together on 19th November 1930, and the two other boards on 25th August 1932. The room in which they were found was the outer parlour, underneath the prior's chapel, in the western range of the buildings: they were used as part of the panelling of the wall when this portion of the buildings was occupied as a dwelling-house. The painted side, in each case, was uppermost, clearly indicating that they had been discarded as decorative panels and re-used for structural purposes. The panel found in 1930 was built into the twelfth-century door in the west wall, and the two other boards into the window-head in the north wall.

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

The fight to save Uganda’s White Rhino

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
White Rhino

In the West Nile District of Uganda lives a population of white rhino—those relies of a past age, cumbrous, gentle creatures despite their huge bulk—which estimates only 10 years ago, put at 500. But poachers live in the area, too, and official counts showed that white rhino were being reduced alarmingly. By 1959, they were believed to be diminished to 300.

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