News and Queries

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (03) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Intensive Search

Inventaire de la Série Mi des Archives de la République Malgache, by Jean Valette, Archivist (Imprimerie Nationale, Tananarive, 1963), 16 pp. reprinted from the Bulletin de Madagascar, No. 201 (February, 1963), pp. 163-176. Useful guide to the recently microfilmed collections deposited at the National Archives of Madagascar after an intensive search for foreign source materials conducted by the Archivist, Jean Valette. The inventory contains such items as photocopies from archives in Mauritius pertaining to Madagascar, 1767-1848; microfilms of the correspondence of General Gallieni, deposited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; microfilms of documents on Madagascar preserved at the Bibliothèque Centrale des Archives du Ministère de la Marine de France; microfilms of documents relating to Madagascar before 1789 deposited at the Archives du Ministere des Affaires Etrangères de France as well as certain political correspondence for the period 1816-1885 from the same collection. In addition to these sources the guide lists manuscripts from the British Museum and the National Archives of the United States of America concerning Madagascar.

George Albert Boulenger, 1858 - 1937

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
The University

George Albert Boulenger was born in Brussels on 19 October 1858 and died on 23 November 1937. He was the son of Gustave Boulenger, notary of Mons, and was educated at the University of Brussels. From boyhood he was interested in animals and whilst at the University became known at the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels, being appointed to the staff as an assistant naturalist in 1880. Two years later he was invited by Dr Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, to join the staff of the British Museum, and was appointed a first class assistant in that year. This appointment he held till his retirement in 1920. He held honorary degrees LL.D. (St Andrews), Ph.D. (Giessen), and D.Sc. (Louvain), and was an honorary member of scientific societies in Belgium, Brazil, Chili, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. He became a naturalized British subject soon after his appointment to the Museum and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. After his retirement he returned to Belgium, working on the systematics of European roses in the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat in Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed to the Belgian Order of Leopold.

NARA

2015 ◽  
pp. 1023-1031
Author(s):  
Kristen Cissne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Official Record ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Changing Times

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is considered the official record keeper of the United States of America. In existence for over 75 years, NARA is responsible for a significant amount of records. With the changing times and technology, NARA has been faced with the challenge of becoming an organization focused on making these records available in a digital format. NARA has risen to the challenge in a multitude of ways. It continues to transform and discover new ways to meet the demands of its customer, the American people. This case study explores the major steps taken towards the digitization effort, and the biggest challenges faced. It covers the successes met thus far and expected plans for growth in the future.

NARA

2014 ◽  
pp. 306-317
Author(s):  
Kristen Cissne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Official Record ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Changing Times

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is considered the official record keeper of the United States of America. In existence for over 75 years, NARA is responsible for a significant amount of records. With the changing times and technology, NARA has been faced with the challenge of becoming an organization focused on making these records available in a digital format. NARA has risen to the challenge in a multitude of ways. It continues to transform and discover new ways to meet the demands of its customer, the American people. This case study explores the major steps taken towards the digitization effort, and the biggest challenges faced. It covers the successes met thus far and expected plans for growth in the future.

British and Allied Archives During the War

1920 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 25-51
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Series ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Supplementary Report

During the Session of 1918–19 a series of communications relating to the national archives of the British Empire and some Allied States was received and has been published in the last volume of the Transactions.1 Since then a further series of communications on this subject has been arranged, and such of these as have come to hand are printed in the following pages. The previous communications dealt with the public records of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and the State archives of the United States of America, France, and Italy. In the present series the Council hoped to include notices of the archives of the British Dominions and Crown Colonies (including the Channel Islands), Belgium, Portugal, and Serbia,2 together with a supplementary report on the French archives.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

Off to a bad start: John Adams’s tussle over titles

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C Alexander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Adams ◽  
The Press ◽  
First Session

From the first days, of the first session, of the first Congress of the United States, the Senate was consumed by an issue that would do immense and lasting political harm to the sitting vice president, John Adams. The issue was a seemingly unimportant one: titles. Adams had strong opinions on what constituted a proper title for important officers of government and, either because he was unconcerned or unaware of the damage it would cause, placed himself in the middle of the brewing dispute. Adams hoped the president would be referred to as, “His highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same.” The suggestion enraged many, amused some, and was supported by few. He lost the fight over titles and made fast enemies with several of the Senators he was constitutionally obligated to preside over. Adams was savaged in the press, derided in the Senate and denounced by one of his oldest and closest friends. Not simply an isolated incident of political tone-deafness, this event set the stage for the campaign against Adams as a monarchist and provided further proof of his being woefully out of touch.

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