Mendelssohn and the Erards

Erard ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Robert Adelson
Keyword(s):  
Important Influence ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn ◽  
Grand Piano ◽  
Made In

One of the musicians who benefited from the Erard pianos made in London was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47). Mendelssohn became close friends with Pierre and Céleste Erard, and may have been one of the few people familiar with Pierre’s homosexuality. Mendelssohn was not an immediate convert to Erard pianos, but developed a more favourable opinion of them on his 1829 tour of the British Isles and especially during his trips to Paris and London in 1832. In 1832, Pierre gave a gift of a grand piano to Mendelssohn and this piano had an important influence on Mendelssohn’s compositions and concert activity. A precious trace of Mendelssohn’s genius was carefully preserved by the Erard family in the form of an autograph manuscript of Mendelssohn’s Andante in A major, published as the fourth piece in the first volume of Lieder ohne Worte, op. 19b [MWV U 73].

The use and distribution of Faience in the Ancient East and Prehistoric Europe

1957 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 37-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. S. Stone ◽  
L. C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Post War ◽  
Made In ◽  
Complex Subject

Twenty years have elapsed since H. C. Beck and the present writer published a preliminary paper on the origin of British faience beads with special reference to those of the segmented variety and, except for the discovery and recognition of many new specimens over much wider areas it may be said that nothing has emerged to alter materially the general conclusions there enunciated that an Egyptian origin was the most likely for a number of the beads and that their dissemination to the British Isles took place during the Eighteenth Dynasty around about 1400 B.C.At the time of writing we not unnaturally concentrated on British specimens, as European analogues appeared to be conspicuously absent, and confined our attention primarily to morphological characters. We had, however, projected a wider study to embrace faience objects in general and, if possible, to adduce spectrographic evidence as further proof of identity or otherwise. Unfortunately the sudden death of Mr Beck in 1939 and the intervention of the war years greatly retarded progress in this direction. But the rapid recognition of old finds and the accumulation of new ones, mostly in Europe, in post-war years, coupled with a number of spectrographic analyses that have since been carried out with the help of Mr L. C. Thomas, now renders it desirable to review such progress as has been made in this most difficult and complex subject.

Gravity measurements in the English Channel

1952 ◽  
Vol 139 (896) ◽  
pp. 426-447 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Channel ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Gravity Measurements ◽  
Made In

In 1948 gravity measurements were made in a submarine at forty-three stations in the English Channel and at Portland, Devonport, Gosport and Cherbourg. There are also five stations in the area at which measurements were made in 1946. The anomalies are shown to be compatible with an interpretation of existing knowledge of the Mesozoic geology of the Channel basin provided that reasonable assumptions are made. An area of strong negative anomalies off the French coast in the Cherbourg-Le Havre area extends about half-way across the Channel. These must be explained by intracrustal masses. The anomalies show the same trend to positive values in the west as is found in the British Isles and northern France.

Studies of Predators of the Balsam Woolly Aphid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.) (Homoptera: Adelgidae) VI. Aphidecta obliterata (L.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), an Introduced Predator in Eastern Canada,

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 596-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Brown ◽  
R. C. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Winter Conditions ◽  
Introduced Predator ◽  
Woolly Aphid ◽  
Adelges Piceae ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Made In

Aphidecta obliterata (L.) is a common predator on conifer-infesting adelgids and aphids in Western Europe, including Scandinavia and the British Isles (Wylie, 1958b). The life cycle in Europe and descriptions of the various stages have been published (Weise, 1892; Portevin, 1931; Van Emden, 1949; Van Dinther, 1951; Wylie, 1958a). Beginning in 1941 several attempts have been made to introduce this species into Eastern Canada against the balsam woolly aphid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.). The initial liberations from England and Germany were apparently unsuccessful due to the inability of the insect to survive the Canadian winter conditions. Later collections were made in Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland (Table I) from areas where the winter conditions more closely resemble those in Canada. These liberations also proved unsuccessful. The present paper brings together all available information on the liberations and related experiments olbtained during the liberation years.

XXX.—Salmon (Salmo salar) of the River Moisie (Eastern Canada)

1926 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. M. Menzies
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Made In

Included in the area of distribution of Salmo salar are the western coasts of Europe as far south as the Franco-Spanish border as well as the British Isles and Iceland, and, in addition, the eastern coast of Canada and the United States down to the State of Maine. A very large number of investigations have been made in Great Britain and various European countries, both by marking the fish in order to trace their subsequent growth and movements, and by reading their age and history from the scales. Length calculations from scale measurements have also been made in Scotland, Norway, and Sweden.

scholarly journals I.—On the Occurrence of Elephant-remains in Ireland

1870 ◽  
Vol 7 (72) ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Robert Harkness
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
Made In

The earliest discovery of Elephant-remains in the British Isles appears to have been made in Ireland, and is recorded in the xxixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions.

Jade Axes from Sites in the British Isles

1963 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 133-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Campbell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
National Museum ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Fine Collection ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Made In

Several years ago during the investigation of neolithic chambered tombs in Galloway a fragment of green jade polished on two opposite flat faces was found in the floor of the ante-chamber to Tomb I at Cairnholy in Kirkcudbrightshire. It was only about 3 centimetres square and 1.5 centimetres thick but, nevertheless, Professor Stuart Piggott and Mr T. G. E. Powell recognized that it had once formed part of a flat triangular axe of a type already known from several places in Scotland. A fine collection of such axes in jade existed in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Edinburgh. In an appendix to their paper on the chambered tombs Piggott and Powell listed the jade axes recorded from British and Irish sites and republished the map compiled by Miss L. F. Chitty and published by Sir Cyril Fox in 1933. This appendix also contained brief notes supplied by me on thin microscope sections of the Cairnholy fragment and of five other British axes reported to be made in jade. Some of these identifications were only partly correct, and have now been revised (see below, pp. 145, 158, 159 and footnote 2, p. 153).Some years later the question of the identification of the material of reputed British jade axes arose again and it was decided to examine as many of the axes in Piggott and Powell's list as could be borrowed and to utilize in their examination determinations of density and refractive index, and, where possible, to obtain X-ray powder photographs and to have thin sections prepared.

A Collection of Early Upper Palaeolithic Artefacts from Beedings, near Pulborough, West Sussex, and the Context of Similar Finds from the British Isles

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 229-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Jacobi ◽  
Nick Debenham ◽  
John Catt
Keyword(s):  
Formal Description ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Recent Selection ◽  
Made In ◽  
Early Upper

This paper provides a first formal description of a collection of lithic artefacts unearthed during the building of a house called Beedings on a scarp crest near Pulborough in West Sussex.The discovery was probably made in 1900. The collection is very obviously multi-period, but it includes the largest group of Early Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from south-eastern England. Attributed to this time are leaf-points, end-scrapers, and burins. While recent selection has much reduced the collection it also appears to contain contemporary cores and debitage and evidence for the production of bladelets. In a British context this find is unique and in a European perspective it is one of the richest assemblages attributable to the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician technocomplex. The age of this technocomplex is poorly constrained, but in this paper it is argued to belong to the earliest part of the Upper Palaeolithic, starting earlier than the local Aurignacian. The Upper Palaeolithic material from Beedings is interpreted as having come from a hunting camp situated so as to exploit the extensive views across the western Weald.

scholarly journals The further spread of Elminius modestus in the British Isles to 1959

1959 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Crisp ◽  
A. J. Southward
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
North West ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
Made In

Since the surveys described in our last report (Crisp, 1958) on the distribution in north-west Europe of the immigrant Australasian barnacle, Elminius modestus Darwin, the species has become much commoner along the western coasts and has finally spread to Ireland (Beard, 1957). In this report we present the results of surveys made in 1958–9 along the eastern side of the Irish Channel and in the Isle of Man, as well as full records of a survey of the Irish coast in 1958. The methods employed were similar to those described previously (Crisp, 1958; Bishop & Crisp, 1958).

The Biology of Eurydice Pulchra [Crustacea: Isopoda]

1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Fish
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Sandy Beaches ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
Intertidal Population ◽  
Made In

Eurydice pulchra Leach is a common intertidal isopod of sandy beaches. Its occurrence around the British Isles has been described by Jones & Naylor (1967), and Salvat (1966) has described the life cycle and intertidal distribution of the species on the west coast of France. There are several records of its intertidal distribution in Britain (Elmhirst, 1931; Pirrie, Bruce & Moore, 1932; Rees, 1939; Watkin, 1942; Brady, 1942; Holme, 1949; Southward, 1953; Colman & Segrove, 1955; Perkins, 1956; M. Ladle, unpublished) and these suggest that its distribution is variable. Watkin (1942) found that the population structure of E. pulchra in late March and early April was comprised of ‘two distinct groups’ and similar findings were made in July by Scott (1960). The present study was made on a large intertidal population in the sands of the Dovey Estuary, Cardinganshire.

Gravity measurements in the English Channel

1952 ◽  
Vol 212 (1111) ◽  
pp. 584-584
Keyword(s):  
Crustal Thickness ◽  
English Channel ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Free Air ◽  
Gravity Measurements ◽  
Made In

In 1948 gravity measurements were made in a submarine, forty-three stations in the English Channel and at Portland, Devonport, Gosport and Cherbourg. There are also five stations in the area at which measurements were made in 1946. Tables are given of the details of the gravity measurements and of the free-air, Bouguer and isostatic anomalies (Airy-Heiskanen, crustal thickness 30 km). The accuracy of the results is estimated. The anomalies are shown to be compatible with an interpretation of existing knowledge of the Mesozoic geology of the Channel basin provided that reasonable assumptions are made. An area of strong negative anomalies off the French coast in the Cherbourg-Le Havre area extends about half-way across the Channel. These must be explained by intra-crustal masses. The anomalies show the same trend to positive values in the west as is found in the British Isles and northern France.

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