'A CASKET OF SAVAGE CURIOSITIES': Eighteenth-century objects from north-eastern North America in the Farquharson collection

Abstract. The changes in precipitation in north-eastern North America caused by chemistry – and particularly anthropogenic aerosols – are investigated using the Weather Research Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF/Chem v3.2) model. The simulations were carried out for a five-month period from April to August 2009. The model results show that non-negligible changes in both convective and cloud-resolved (non-convective) precipitation are caused by chemistry and/or aerosols over most parts of the domain. The changes can be attributed to both radiative and microphysical interactions with the meteorology. A chemistry-induced change of approximately −15% is found in the five-month mean daily convective precipitation over areas with high convective rain; most of this can be traced to radiative effects. Total convective rain is greater than total non-convective rain in the domain, but a chemistry-induced increase of about 30% is evident in the five-month mean daily non-convective precipitation over the heavily urbanized parts of the Atlantic coast. The effects of aerosols on cloud microphysics and precipitation were examined for two particle size ranges, 0.039–0.1 μm and 1–2.5 μm, representing the nucleation and accumulation modes respectively. Strongly positive spatial correlation between cloud droplet number and non-convective rain are found for activated (cloud-borne) aerosols in both size ranges. Non-activated (interstitial) aerosols have a positive correlation with cloud droplet number and non-convective rain when they are small and an inverse correlation for larger sizes.

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The Last Glaciation. With special reference to the ice retreat in north eastern North America. By Ernst Antevs. American Geographical Society Research Series No. 17. Shaler Memorial Series. New York, 1928. 8˚. Pp. vi + 292, pis. ix. $3.50

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ◽

10.1002/qj.49705523016 ◽

1929 ◽

Vol 55 (230) ◽

pp. 212-213

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North America ◽

Special Reference ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Geographical Society ◽

Last Glaciation ◽

North Eastern ◽

Ice Retreat ◽

Society Research

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A revision of the genus Orchestia Leach, 1814 with the reinstatement of O. inaequalipes (K.H. Barnard, 1951), the designation of a neotype for Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas, 1776) and the description of three new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae: Talitrinae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4808.2.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4808 (2) ◽

pp. 201-250

Author(s):

ALAN A. MYERS ◽

JAMES K. LOWRY

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

North America ◽

South America ◽

Type Species ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Species Group ◽

Eastern North America ◽

The Pacific ◽

North Eastern ◽

Three New Species

The amphipod genus Orchestia is revised. It now includes 10 species of which three are new: O. forchuensis sp. nov. from north-eastern North America and Iceland., O. perezi sp. nov. from Chile and O. tabladoi sp. nov. from Argentina. Orchestia inaequalipes (K.H. Barnard 1951) is reinstated. The type species of the genus, O. gammarellus is redescribed based on material from Fountainstown, Ireland and a neotype is established to stabilize the species. The species was originally described from a garden in Leiden, far from the sea. Its true identity is unknown and no type material exists. Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas, 1776) is shown to be a sibling species group with members in both hemispheres of the temperate Atlantic as well along the Pacific coast of South America. A hypothesis for the establishment of the current distribution of Orchestia species is presented that extends back to the Cretaceous.

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When recent and evolutionary histories meet: deciphering temporal events from contemporary patterns of mtDNA from fishers (Martes pennanti) in north-eastern North America

Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research ◽

10.1111/jzs.12060 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 331-337 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paul Hapeman ◽

Emily K. Latch ◽

Olin E. Rhodes ◽

Charles W. Kilpatrick

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Martes Pennanti ◽

North Eastern ◽

Temporal Events

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The Galium trifidum group (Galium sect. Aparinoides, Rubiaceae)

Canadian Journal of Botany ◽

10.1139/b76-206 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 54 (16) ◽

pp. 1911-1925 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. Puff

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Great Lakes Region ◽

Western North America ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Chromosome Counts ◽

New Classification ◽

North Eastern ◽

North Western

By using morphology, karyology, pollen size, leaf flavonoids, ecological observations, and modification experiments, a new classification of the Galium trifidum group is proposed. Nine taxa in five species are recognized: (1) G. tinctorium, with ssp. tinctorium and sap. floridanum (new comb.) in eastern North America; (2) G. brevipes, a rare species centered in the Great Lakes region; (3) G. trifidum, with ssp. trifidum in northern North America. Asia, and Europe, ssp. columbianum (new comb.) in (north)western North America and (north)eastern Asia, and ssp. subbiflorum (new comb.) and ssp. halophilum (new comb.) in northern North America; (4) G. innocuum in southeastern Asia; (5) G. karakulense in central Asia.New chromosome counts of n = 12 and 2n = 24 are reported for G. tinctorium ssp. tinctorium and ssp. floridanum; and G. trifidum ssp. trifidum, ssp. columbianum, and ssp. subbiflorum.

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Skating in the New World

10.5406/illinois/9780252039065.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James R. Hines

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

North America ◽

American Revolution ◽

New World ◽

East Coast ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Recreational Activity ◽

Figure Skaters ◽

The World ◽

Important Center

This chapter discusses the development of skating in the New World. There is much evidence of skating activity throughout the Colonies in the years before the American Revolution. It was a recreational activity, with racing being especially popular, but as a discipline little is known about it. Bone skates as a practical solution for travel across frozen landscapes were discovered independently in various parts of the world. French trappers who worked in eastern North America learned from the Iroquois Indians the practice of tying bones to their feet to traverse frozen rivers. Thus, in North America as in Europe and Asia, skating on bones must have existed for thousands of years. Bladed skates, however, were probably unknown in the New World before the eighteenth century, perhaps introduced by British officers stationed in Nova Scotia following its seizure from the French in 1713. By the mid-eighteenth century, skating was practiced along the East Coast whenever ice was available. Philadelphia became skating's first important center and could boast of competent figure skaters.

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