scholarly journals John Stanley Gardiner, 1872-1946

1947 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 541-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
Future Career ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
School Career ◽  
Sixth Form

John Stanley Gardiner was born 24 January 1872, in Belfast, the younger son of the two children of the Reverend John Jephson Gardiner of Trinity College, Dublin. His father became Rector of Black Torrington, in Devonshire, a pleasant country village with a nearby trout-stream where the young Gardiner acquired an early love of fishing which remained with him throughout his life. Here he also became a reasonably good shot which proved of value to him when on his expeditions abroad, whether for the collection of specimens or for food. There is no record of his first schooling which begins with his entry in January 1885 to Marlborough College. Here, although he won a prize for English literature and one for science and a laboratory prize, he did not have an outstanding school career in the strict scholastic sense and did not reach the sixth form. On the other hand it was at Marlborough that the seeds of his future career as a zoologist were sown, as is shown by the steady stream of notes, observations and papers read, labelled J. S. G., in the Reports of the School Natural History Society which he joined in 1887, in which year he won the ‘Stanton’ prize for ornithology and also compiled a list of the birds of the district. In 1888 he was elected a member of the committee of the Society.

John Conrad Hansen (1869–1952) and his scientific illustrations

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Museum ◽  
Oil Paintings ◽  
Other Hand

Over the course of his 14-year career at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, artist and engraver John Conrad Hansen rendered hundreds of beautiful and accurate scientific illustrations of animals – mostly extinct fossil vertebrates. His principal media were oil paintings, pencil, pen-and-ink and wash drawings. Many of his illustrations have been published in the scientific literature. His oil paintings, on the other hand, were made for display alongside specimens in the Field Museum's exhibits. Despite the quality of Hansen's full-colour reconstructions, few of them have been seen outside the Museum. A small, representative sample of his work is reproduced here, along with a brief account of his troubled life and career.

Spiders, Ants, and Bees

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Doina-Cristina Rusu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Natural Histories

This paper argues that the methodology Francis Bacon used in his natural histories abides by the theoretical commitments presented in his methodological writings. On the one hand, Bacon advocated a middle way between idle speculation and mere gathering of facts. On the other hand, he took a strong stance against the theorisation based on very few facts. Using two of his sources whom Bacon takes to be the reflection of these two extremes—Giambattista della Porta as an instance of idle speculations, and Hugh Platt as an instance of gathering facts without extracting knowledge—I show how Bacon chose the middle way, which consists of gathering facts and gradually extracting theory out of them. In addition, it will become clear how Bacon used the expertise of contemporary practitioners to criticise fantastical theories and purge natural history of misconceived notions and false speculations.

The Irish court of claims of 1663

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (96) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
The Other ◽  
Land Settlement ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Church

The modification of the Cromwellian land settlement in Ireland which followed the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 was regulated by two acts of parliament, one familiarly known as the act of settlement of 1662, the other as the act of explanation of 1665. They became the principal legal instruments upon which land ownership in the country was to rest for two centuries.The act of settlement was the statutory version, with the major addition of a preamble, of the so-called ‘Gracious declaration’ of 30 November 1660, a royal proclamation which enunciated the broad principles upon which the settlement was to be based. In its statutory form these principles were: the vesting in the king, as trustee for the purposes of the act, of all land confiscated since 23 October 1641 as a consequence of the rebellion, with the general exception of the land held on that date by the church and Trinity College, Dublin; the general confirmation to the adventurers and Cromwellian soldiers of the land they held on 7 May 1659; and the restoration of various classes of dispossessed proprietors, chiefly those catholics who could prove, before the commissioners appointed to execute the terms of the act, that they were innocent of having participated in the rebellion. Those found innocent were to be restored to their estates immediately without having to wait until the Cromwellian planters had first been ‘reprised’ (i.e. compensated) with land of equal value.

scholarly journals Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita Associated with Hemiatrophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alexander K. C. Leung ◽  
Joseph M. Lam ◽  
Kin Fon Leong
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Vascular Network ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Asymmetry ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita ◽  
Entire Limb

Cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita is characterized by the presence of a bluish-purple reticulated cutaneous vascular network on the skin intermixed with telangiectasia and occasionally prominent veins at birth. Areas of the skin within the reticulated cutaneous vascular network may be normal, erythematous, atrophic, and, at times, ulcerated. Areas of ulcerations and focal cutaneous and subcutaneous atrophy occasionally occur resulting in body asymmetry. On the other hand, cutaneous and subcutaneous atrophy, extensive and severe enough leading to hemiatrophy, of the entire limb is rare. A search of the English literature revealed only eight documented cases to which we are adding two more cases.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS IN THE APPLICATION OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE AS A LEARNING MEDIA IN TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 384-389
Author(s):  
Christanta Rejuna Phanes Sembiring Brahmana ◽  
Rudy Sofyan ◽  
Dian Marisha Putri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This paper is concerned with the problems in the application of Google Translate as a translation tool. The discussion focuses on the identification of the problems faced by the translators. This research was conducted by using the descriptive qualitative method with a case study approach. Some theories supporting this research were proposed by Munday, Imre, and also Ghasemi and Hasemian. The data sources in this research were taken from the questionnaires given to students of English Literature Department of USU. From the analysis, it was found that the biggest problems often faced by the students of English Literature Department of USU were the inaccuracy and mismatch of the meaning translated which reached 31%, followed by the inaccuracy of the language structure in the translation result which reached 30%. On the other hand, the findings also showed that the best solution to deal with these problems was to make self-corrections and check the meaning of some suspected words in the dictionary and make the best choice according to the context. With the same percentage of 29%, it could be concluded that the two solutions were claimed to be the best and most efficient for the students. The conclusion was that the use of Google Translate as a learning media in translation could be accepted and applied in the classroom. Based on the results of this analysis, it was revealed that students had already known how to solve the problems of using Google Translate.

scholarly journals Composing in Exile

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
English Literature ◽  
War Poetry ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
National University ◽  
The 1960S

Rosemarie Rowley Rosemarie Rowley was born in 1942. She received a Dublin Corporation scholarship in the fifties, has degrees in Irish and English literature (with Distinction) at Trinity College, Dublin, philosophy, and, later,  psychology (National University of Ireland). While at Trinity College in the 1960s she published her first poems. After working as a teacher, in the nascent film industry in Ireland, and as a European fonctionnaire in Luxembourg, she took early retirement and began to participate in the emerging environmental movement in Ireland. She has published five books of poetry, not counting a Cold War poetry pamphlet, “Politry” and has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition. “The Sea of Affliction” (1987) counts as one of the first works in eco-feminism ( The Irish Literary Revival website). Her most recent books are “Hot Cinquefoil Star” (2002) and “In Memory of Her” (2004, 2008) both published by Rowan Tree Press, Dublin. See also http://www.rosemarierowley.ie/

Protestants, planters and apartheid in early modern Ireland

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (98) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Canny
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Two recent books, one on protestantism, the other on plantation, have much in common. Both are by young authors who as undergraduates at Trinity College, Dublin, identified aspects of the history of early modern Ireland that were in urgent need of investigation and who then proceeded with the necessary research in British universities; in one case under the supervision of Dr Brendan Bradshaw and in the other under the tutelage of Dr Toby Barnard. The enthusiasm and combativeness of their undergraduate years still linger on in these pages but there is even clearer evidence of the skills, interests and approaches to historical study that have been cultivated by their graduate mentors. Furthermore, each book derives its authority from the systematic examination of a mass of source material that has previously been neglected, and each author advances his conclusions in a vigorous fashion and relates them to developments in Britain and on the Continent as well as to what was happening in Ireland. The fact that authors of such ability and accomplishment have been forced to make careers for themselves outside the university world is a sad reflection upon Irish national priorities and raises serious questions about recruitment and tenure practices in universities and other third-level institutions that have a concern for the study of Irish history.

scholarly journals A new genus of Compositae (Eupatorieae, Piqueriinae) from Peru, named Centenaria to honour the 100 th anniversary of the Natural History Museum of the National University Mayor of San Marcos

PhytoKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paúl Gonzáles ◽  
Asunción Cano ◽  
Harold Robinson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
National University ◽  
San Marcos ◽  
A New Species

A little herb from central Peru is recognised as a new species of a new genus. Centenariarupacquiana belongs to the tribe Eupatorieae, subtribe Piqueriinae. It has asymmetrical corollas with two inner lobes smaller, a flat and epaleaceous receptacle and the presence of pappus. In Peru, Centenaria is related to the genera Ferreyrella and Ellenbergia, but Ferreyrella is different by having no pappus and a paleate receptacle; and on the other hand, Ellenbergia is different by having symmetrical corollas.

scholarly journals Acquiring English in EFL Classroom: Role of Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Md. Momin Uddin
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
English Speak

This paper deals with how English literature can help EFL learners acquire English like ESL speakers. EFL learners usually learn English by learning its vocabulary and grammatical rules from books. ESL speakers, on the other hand, pick up the grammatical rules and vocabulary of English by directly getting into the environment where English is the medium of communication and acquire the language like the native. ESL speakers can speak English with native-like fluency and express their ideas in English like the native, but EFL learners, despite being capable of writing and speaking grammatically correct English, most often fail to speak with native-like fluency. Words seem to get stuck in their throats, and they often fumble and falter when speaking because their vocabulary remains poor in content. Nor can they express the true spirit of their ideas in their cultivated, grammatical English because they learn it in isolation without seeing how a native uses it. This paper argues that by studying English literature, EFL learners can grow awareness of the culture of the English and see how the English speak, feel, dream, and express their heart in English, and thus they can learn English like ESL speakers.

Historia and Materia: The Philosophical Implications of Francis Bacon's Natural History

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 62-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Giglioni
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
As If

AbstractThis article examines the philosophical implications underlying Bacon's views on historical knowledge, paying special attention to that variety of historical knowledge described by Bacon as “natural.” More specifically, this article explores the interplay of history (historia) and fable (fabula). In the sphere of thought, fabula is the equivalent to materia in nature. Both are described by Bacon as being “versatile” and “pliant.” In Bacon's system of knowledge, philosophy, as the domain of reason, starts from historiae and fabulae, once memory and the imagination have fulfilled their cognitive tasks. This means that, for Bacon, there is no such thing as a pure use of reason. He advocates a kind of reason that, precisely because it is involved with matter's inner motions (its “appetites,” in Bacon's characteristic language), is constitutively 'impure'. The article shows how the terms historia and fabula cover key semantic areas in defining Bacon's philosophy: historia may mean “history” as well as “story,” fabula “myth” as well “story.” In both cases, we can see significant oscillations from a stronger meaning (close to those of matter and nature) to a weaker one (connected to wit and imagination), as if the power of nature decreases moving from histories and myths to stories. On the other hand, there are cases in which Bacon seems to stick to a diachronic view of the meaning of fables and histories, such that the transition from myths to history, especially natural history, is described as a collective effort towards reality and enlightenment.

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