scholarly journals Herbert Leader Hawkins, 1887-1968

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 314-329 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scientific Endeavour

Herbert Leader Hawkins died in Reading on 29 December 1968, having lived and worked there all his life. Spatially, he travelled little prior to visiting the West Indies in his retirement. Intellectually, he was a noted voyageur. Adventurous of mind, kindly, young in heart, vividly imaginative and telling a superb tale, he radiated a genuinely joyful dedication to geology. Outwardly, this inner liveliness beamed through a merry twinkle of eye and ready humour—robust or ribald, sensitive or elegant according to the occasion, which he seldom mistimed or misjudged. A consummate actor on life’s stage, he was for ever transmitting a message or moral. Its essence was, I think, that the materials of scientific enquiry should be loved as well as enjoyed, that feed-back from scientific endeavour to the individual and community mattered pre-eminently; that somewhere behind it all there was a meaning. With him, generations learned to question, as well as respect, things held sacred.

scholarly journals Scientific Literacy of Undergraduate Chemistry Students in the University of the West Indies, Barbados: Individual and Joint Contributions of Age, Sex and Level of Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Garner-O’Neale ◽  
Jelisa Maughan ◽  
Babalola Ogunkola
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Age Range

The purpose of this study was two-fold. Firstly, to determine the level of scientific literacy of Chemistry undergraduate students at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and secondly to investigate the individual and joint contributions of sex, age and level of study to the level of scientific literacy of the students. A total of one hundred and one (101) Chemistry undergraduate students from across the preliminary, 1st, 2nd and final years, participated in the study. The instrument chosen for this investigation, was the Basic Scientific Literacy Questionnaire (BSLQ) developed by Richard Carrier in 2001, which consisted of twenty-four (24) „True‟ and „False‟ questions. The instrument was found to be reliable with Crombach Alpha value of 0.6. The contributions of the variables sex, age range and level of study to the level of scientific literacy, were also analyzed and these were done via Independent Sample t-tests, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and linear regression. A confidence level of 95 % was the set level for all of the analyses conducted. It was found that overall, the Chemistry undergraduate students are at a „Good‟ level of scientific literacy. There were no statistically significant differences in the level of scientific literacy based on age range and level of study. However, sex was found to have contributed most and significantly to variations in the level of scientific literacy of the undergraduate chemistry students.

Notes on the West Indies

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pinckard
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

E.A. McDowell in the West Indies

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-56
Author(s):  
Robert G. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West
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