scholarly journals Sidnie Milana Manton, 4 May 1902 - 2 January 1979

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Wood Carving ◽  
Natural Inclination

Sidnie Milana Manton, one of the outstanding zoologists of her time, and the elder of the two daughters of George Sidney Frederick Manton and Milana Angele Terese ( née d’Humy), was born in London on 4 May 1902. Both sides of the family seem to have produced craftsmen of one sort or another and this ability to use, and enjoy using, her hands she inherited in full measure. Her father, a dental surgeon, was skilled in wood-carving and also worked with metals and enamels. One of his ancestors was Joe Manton, the gunsmith, a celebrated maker of flintlock guns, who also ran a fashionable London shooting range in the early 19th century. Her mother, of mixed Scottish and French ancestry, came from a family with a strong artistic bent, and was herself gifted in this direction, being skilled at drawing and needlework and did design work for Liberty’s. Sidnie enjoyed a comfortable home in which the constant example of two manually skilled parents who were always making things, from jewellery to lenses and furnishings, and who encouraged youthful assistants, had a great influence on her. Not surprisingly, as a child much of her spare time was spent making things, and she was also interested in pets, and in drawing creatures that she had collected. A probably natural inclination to collect plants and animals was encouraged from an early age, especially by her mother, who aroused an interest in natural history in both Sidnie and her sister. This led to remarkable results for not only were both destined to become professional biologists, Sidnie a zoologist and Irene a botanist, but both were eventually elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society—the only case in its histoiy of two sisters achieving this distinction.

The Multifarious Mr. Banks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
British Science ◽  
George Iii

As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the “father of Australia,” and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Joseph Banks was integral to the English Enlightenment. Yet he has not received the recognition that his multifarious achievements deserve. This book reveals the true extent of Banks's contributions to science and Britain. From an early age Banks pursued his passion for natural history through study and extensive travel, most famously on the HMS Endeavour. He went on to become a pivotal figure in the advancement of British scientific, economic, and colonial interests. With his enquiring, enterprising mind and extensive network of correspondents, Banks's reputation and influence were global. Drawing widely on Banks's writings, the book sheds light on his profound impact on British science and empire in an age of rapid advancement.

scholarly journals Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, 1891-1970

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Sea Of Azov ◽  
Private Lessons ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
The University

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch was born at Berdjansk, on the Sea of Azov, on 24 January 1891, the fourth child of the family of four sons and two daughters of Samuel and Eva Besicovitch. By descent the family belonged to the Karaim people, whose ancestors were the Khazars. The once powerful kingdom of the Khazars (from the 7th to the 11th centuries) stretched between the Volga and the Dnieper. The conversion of sects of the Khazars by the Karaite Jews led to their taking the name Karaims. Their language was originally Turkish of the Qipchaq group but is now mostly Russian. Samuel Besicovitch was a jeweller by trade but, after losses by theft, he gave up his shop and took employment as a cashier. He married Eva when she was 15, and they had to live frugally to bring up their large family. All the children were talented. Moreover, they were united by strong bonds of affection. They all studied at the University at St Petersburg, the older ones in turn earning money in their spare time by giving private lessons and helping to support the younger. All the children gained high qualifications, one brother of A.S. being the author of a number of mathematical books, and another a doctor of medicine. The two daughters both kept up independent careers after marriage. In later life the sons and daughters bore witness to the intelligence of their mother and agreed that, if she had not been cut off from higher education by marrying so young and having children, she would have shown conspicuous ability, notably in mathematics. A.S. acknowledged that he owed to his father (twenty-five years older than his mother) a stern encouragement to persevere to the highest standards. From an early age the boy had shown extraordinary aptitude for solving mathematical problems. One day he brought a textbook to his father saying ‘I have been able to solve every problem except one in this book’. His father withheld praise for this achievement until A.S. had successfully solved the remaining problem.

scholarly journals X. The hyoid and larynx of the Anura

1932 ◽  
Vol 222 (483-493) ◽  
pp. 401-527 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
King's College ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Research Scholar ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
First Time

FOREWORD. Some years ago Dr. Tate Regan suggested to me that a study of the hyoid region of the tailless Amphibia would be of value. This paper is the outcome of that suggestion. It was begun when I was Gilchrist Research Scholar in Zoology at King’s College of Household and Social Science (1 9 2 5 -2 6 and 1 9 2 7 -2 8 ), working under Dr. P . C. Esdaile, to whom I am very grateful for her help during my two and a half years in her department. At this time I was also assisted by a Government Grant from the Royal Society. Since March, 1 9 2 8 ,1 have held a post at the British Museum (Natural History), and the work on frogs has been relegated to spare time. My main purpose has been to discover and make known the structures of the hyolaryngeal apparatus in a large and representative series of the Anura, in order that an idea may be gained of the range of diversity of these organs in the group, and of the extent to which resemblances in their structure are indicative of relationship. In all, I have studied sixty species, belonging to thirty-six genera ; in fifty of these species and twenty-three of the genera the larynx is now described for the first time.

scholarly journals VIII. On the feeding mechanism of the Branchiopoda : Appendix on the Mouth Parts of the Branchiopoda

1932 ◽  
Vol 222 (483-493) ◽  
pp. 340-352 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Feeding Mechanism ◽  
King's College ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Research Scholar ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
First Time

FOREWORD. Some years ago Dr. Tate Regan suggested to me that a study of the hyoid region of the tailless Amphibia would be of value. This paper is the outcome of that suggestion. It was begun when I was Gilchrist Research Scholar in Zoology at King’s College of Household and Social Science (1 9 2 5 -2 6 and 1 9 2 7 -2 8 ), working under Dr. P . C. Esdaile, to whom I am very grateful for her help during my two and a half years in her department. At this time I was also assisted by a Government Grant from the Royal Society. Since March, 1 9 2 8 ,1 have held a post at the British Museum (Natural History), and the work on frogs has been relegated to spare time. My main purpose has been to discover and make known the structures of the hyolaryngeal apparatus in a large and representative series of the Anura, in order that an idea may be gained of the range of diversity of these organs in the group, and of the extent to which resemblances in their structure are indicative of relationship. In all, I have studied sixty species, belonging to thirty-six genera ; in fifty of these species and twenty-three of the genera the larynx is now described for the first time.

James Wilfred Cook, 10 December - 21 October 1975

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 71-103 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Large Family ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early Age ◽  
World War ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Family ◽  
First World

James Wilfred Cook, eminent chemist and university administrator, was born in South Kensington, London, on 10 December 1900.* His father, Charles William Cook, who died in 1947, aged 82, was one of a large family from Hitchin in Hertfordshire. His mother (nee Frances Wall) was the daughter of Aaron Wall of Kimbolton, Herefordshire. Neither parent had much education, and the family of two boys and a girl living in London were never affluent. The father’s weekly wage did not exceed thirty shillings until the first World War, when it was increased to forty-two shillings. But they were well fed, well clothed and comfortably housed. Cook mentions that his main childhood influence was his mother who was highly intelligent and entirely devoted to her family. She died in 1962 at the age of 88. It was certainly a remarkable achievement for a boy and a great tribute to his parents that in these circumstances, without family or financial influence, he should attain such eminence in science that he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society at the early age of 37.

Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Hodgkinson ◽  
John E. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
History Museum ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT: In spite of his many other interests, Edward Heron-Allen also worked for nearly 50 years as a scientist on minute shelled protists, called foraminifera, much of it in an unpaid, unofficial capacity at The Natural History Museum, London, and notably in collaboration with Arthur Earland. During this career he published more than 70 papers and obtained several fellowships, culminating in 1919 in his election to the Royal Society. Subsequently, he bequeathed his foraminiferal collections and fine library to the Museum, and both are housed today in a room named in his honour. In this paper, for the first time, an assessment of his scientific accomplishments is given, together with a full annotated bibliography of his publications held in the Heron-Allen Library. This is part of a project to produce a bibliography of his complete publications, recently initiated by the Heron-Allen Society.

The Dupont family: collectors, dealers and naturalists in nineteenth-century Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mearns ◽  
Laurent Chevrier ◽  
Christophe Gouraud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Small Collection

In the early part of the nineteenth century the Dupont brothers ran separate natural history businesses in Paris. Relatively little is known about their early life but an investigation into the family history at Bayeux corrects Léonard Dupont's year of birth from 1795 to 1796. In 1818 Léonard joined Joseph Ritchie's expedition to North Africa to assist in collecting and preparing the discoveries but he did not get beyond Tripoli. After 15 months he came back to Paris with a small collection from Libya and Provence, and returned to Provence in 1821. While operating as a dealer-naturalist in Paris he published Traité de taxidermie (1823, 1827), developed a special interest in foreign birds and became well known for his anatomical models in coloured wax. Henry Dupont sold a range of natural history material and with his particular passion for beetles formed one of the finest collections in Europe; his best known publication is Monographie des Trachydérides (1836–1840). Because the brothers had overlapping interests and were rarely referred to by their forenames there has been confusion between them and the various eponyms that commemorate them. Although probably true, it would be an over-simplification to state that birds of this era named for Dupont refer to Léonard Dupont, insects to Henry Dupont, and molluscs to their mother.

‘On some precipice in a dream’: Representations of Guilt in Contemporary Young Adult Gay and Lesbian Fiction

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-194
Author(s):  
Kate Norbury
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Survivor Guilt ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depressive Episodes

This article explores the representation of guilt in six recent young adult novels, in which it is suggested that teen protagonists still experience guilt in relation to their emerging non-normative sexual identities. The experience of guilt may take several different forms, but all dealt with here are characterised by guilt without agency – that is, the protagonist has not deliberately said or done anything to cause harm to another. In a first pair of novels, guilt is depicted as a consequence of internalised homophobia, with which protagonists must at least partly identify. In a second group, protagonists seem to experience a form of separation guilt from an early age because they fail to conform to the norms of the family. Certain events external to the teen protagonist, and for which they cannot be held responsible, then trigger serious depressive episodes, which jeopardise the protagonist's positive identity development. Finally, characters are depicted as experiencing a form of survivor guilt. A gay protagonist survives the events of 9/11 but endures a breakdown, and, in a second novel, a lesbian protagonist narrates her coming to terms with the death of her best friend.

Konsep Orang Tua Yang Durhaka Dalam Perspektif Islam

AKADEMIKA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-124
Author(s):  
Siti Suwaibatul Aslamiyah
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Good Person ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
Expectant Mothers

Many are peeling many of wich explore the child’s ungodly behavior to parents, but few who explore the opposite phenomenon of the ungodly behavior of parents against their children. Children is a grace from God of Allah swt to his parents to be grateful, educated and fostered to be a good person, strong personality and ethical Islamic. While, the development of religion in children is largely determined by the education and their experience, especially during the pre-election period of expectant mothers and fathers and the first growth period from 0 to 12 years. For that, the author is moved to explore and examine (about) the concept of elderly parents in the perspective of Islam. This is the author thoroughly to know who exactly the child in his existence according to Islam? What is the rule and rule of education in family and family roles in children’s education? What are the preparations (actions) that are classified as the ungodly behavior of parens against the child? In this study shows there is an effect (impact) between the family environment (parents) on the formation of islamic character and ethics in children from an early age mainly from the factors of prospective fathers and prospective mothers so the authors get the correlation that the failure of good personality planting in early childhood will turn out to form a problematic person in his adulthood (his grow up). While the success of parents guiding their children will determine the formation of character and their morals so that the family environment conditions are crucial for the success of children in social life in their adult life later (after grow up).  In this study resulted in the conclusion that there are some things that make the parents become ungodly against their children and it has been conceptualized in the holy book of the Qur’an which at least in this study collected there are 14 components of eldery behavior of the lawless to their children.

Family Disease of Alcoholism

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
H. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
Emotional Conflict ◽  
Open Mind ◽  
The Family

To speak of alcoholics and alcohol abuse is one thing, and we quite often tend to stick to that area, perhaps because, among other things, it is easier to see and treat. Here I wish to speak of alcoholism, the disease, as it affects the family, mainly the children, and also highlight the early age at which the children are affected. I ask you to try to keep an open mind right from now, because I may not be saying what you expect, but, what you will identify and understand.We all know a lot about alcoholism, although we do not always identify it. We find comfort in diagnosing and treating its symptoms, whilst the disease itself continues to run wild, often to the extent of mental and physical injury, as well as insanity and death.We often overlook alcoholism in a family because there is no obvious drunkenness. Drunkenness is only a symptom of the disease. It is the alcoholic’s attempt to ease the pressures of the illness, which is, briefly, the inability to cope with irregular but constant periods of emotional conflict.

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