Cases contributed

1881 ◽  
Vol 26 (116) ◽  
pp. 551-554
Author(s):  
Mackenzie Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reasonable Inference ◽  
External Injury

This case has several points of interest, alike for the surgeon and the asylum physician, and may be worthy of record. It is not often that trephining is had resort to except in cases of serious external injury, and then generally at the time of the accident. In the present instance, the mental symptoms dated from the time the patient received a blow on the head, and they disappeared quickly after the operation—nineteen months later. Although it would be absurd to say that the cure of the patient could be due to nothing but the operation, I think it is a fair and reasonable inference that the trephining was the means of restoring the man to health. Subjoined are the principal facts in the history of the case:—

scholarly journals On the floral mechanism of Welwitschia mirabilis , hooker

1914 ◽  
Vol 87 (596) ◽  
pp. 354-355
Keyword(s):  
Previous History ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Welwitschia Mirabilis ◽  
Floral Form

1. In the preparation of sectional schemes for the flowers of Welwitschia mirabilis , in different stages of development, several points of interest were noted as tending to throw light on the previous history of this unique floral form. 2. Evidence is adduced to show that the primary structural features of the flowers are referable to an anthostrobiloid condition closely comparable with that of Cycadeoidea , now expressed in a phase of minimum reduction, and to be regarded as an example of heterophyletic convergence to a simple floral construction in the gymnospermic condition.

The Red Crag Shell Portrait: a Comment on the Report of the Committee

1914 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-449
Author(s):  
Miller Christy
Keyword(s):  
British Association ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of

I have read with much interest the Report of the Committee appointed on 12th February, 1913, to examine such evidence as exists bearing upon the question whether the shell from the Red Crag of Walton-on-the-Naze (a single valve of Pectunculus glycimeris which belonged to the late Mr Henry Stopes, and has rude human features engraved upon it) is a genuine work of art of the Crag or pre-Crag period or a modern fabrication; and I desire to offer a few remarks thereon.I may say at the outset that I have been familiar with this very puzzling shell for a long period; for I was present, on the 6th September, 1881, in the Anthropological Section of the British Association, during its Jubilee Meeting at York, when Mr. Stopes exhibited the shell and read an account of its known history. As to the Walton Cliffs and the Red Crag sections appearing therein, I knew them well years before.The Committee has not only examined minutely and discussed fully in its Report the shell itself, the amount of staining it presents, the manner of the cutting of the lines incised upon it, the amount of sand lodged in them, and other points of interest which it presents, but has also enquired exhaustively into the history of the discovery of the shell, so far as this can now be ascertained. It has done all this with an amount of care and thoroughness which deserves high praise.

scholarly journals Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennings Anderson ◽  
Dipto Sarkar ◽  
Leysia Palen
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Road Networks ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
Map Data ◽  
Information Project

OpenStreetMap (OSM), the largest Volunteered Geographic Information project in the world, is characterized both by its map as well as the active community of the millions of mappers who produce it. The discourse about participation in the OSM community largely focuses on the motivations for why members contribute map data and the resulting data quality. Recently, large corporations including Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook have been hiring editors to contribute to the OSM database. In this article, we explore the influence these corporate editors are having on the map by first considering the history of corporate involvement in the community and then analyzing historical quarterly-snapshot OSM-QA-Tiles to show where and what these corporate editors are mapping. Cumulatively, millions of corporate edits have a global footprint, but corporations vary in geographic reach, edit types, and quantity. While corporations currently have a major impact on road networks, non-corporate mappers edit more buildings and points-of-interest: representing the majority of all edits, on average. Since corporate editing represents the latest stage in the evolution of corporate involvement, we raise questions about how the OSM community—and researchers—might proceed as corporate editing grows and evolves as a mechanism for expanding the map for multiple uses.

scholarly journals XIX.—The City of Cumæ, and the recent Excavations there

Archaeologia ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Ashpitel
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

There is scarcely a district in the world endowed with such singular beauty, and possessing such deep points of interest, as that extending about ten or twelve miles westward from Naples. A sky of such brilliancy as only Italy can shew; a sea of colours like the transparent hues of the sapphire and emerald; mountains on land and mountainous islands rising from the sea twice and thrice the height of those in Wales, and crowned with snow for a third of the year. The air of extraordinary clearness and purity, and redolent with the odours of the myrtle, orange, and citron. The earth covered with rich crops of maize, the vine hanging in a cordage of festoons from tree to tree, huge groves of figs and olives twisted in every fantastic form, and interspersed with the feathery palm, forests of pine, leccio, and cypress, all form a scene of beauty difficult to describe. But how is the interest heightened when we reflect on the history of the spot! We are in the scene so exquisitely described by Virgil in the Æneid. Here are the Isles of the Sirens and of Circe, the Tomb of Misenus, the Grotto of the Sibyl, the mysterious River Cocytus, the Lake Avernus, and the Elysian Fields. Here, too, the great poet is supposed to have been interred. The heights are crowned with the remains of sumptuous villas, where Caesar, Crassus, Pompey, Lucullus, and Augustus feasted, and where Cicero penned his best philosophical works.

scholarly journals II. The convolutional pattern of the brains of identical twins: a study on hereditary resemblance in the furrows of the cerebral hemispheres

1918 ◽  
Vol 208 (348-359) ◽  
pp. 37-61 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Correct Description ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Value

The study of the similarity of the convolutional pattern of the brains of relatives has been the subject of considerable attention in the Pathological Laboratory at Claybury, under the direction of Dr. F. W. Mott. At his request Dr. Fisher has been forwarding to the Laboratory a number of fœtuses and children born dead that have occurred in his practice at Shoreditch Infirmary. It has thus happened that full term identical twins came into Dr. Mott’s possession. Realising the scientific value of a correct description of the similarity of the convolutional pattern in the brains of these twins, he has handed them to me and I have carefully studied the same on the lines previously adopted by Schuster in his description of the brains of relatives dying in the London Asylums. I have also made a study of the nervous plexuses and other morphological points of interest. I have been able to give my whole attention to laboratory research owing to the liberal grant made by the Medical Research Committee, and this study is a small part of the work which I have accomplished during the last year. But it was thought by the Director to be of sufficient scientific interest to present to the Royal Society, especially having regard to its being a morphological contribution to the important observations of the late Sir Francis Galton on the history of twins.

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