scholarly journals : Natural History of the West Indies . Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, Sterling A. Stoudemire.

1960 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-711
Author(s):  
Irving Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Natural History of the West Indies

1960 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-307
Author(s):  
Benjamin Keen
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of

Anti-Slavery, African Colonization, and the Natural History of Ballooning

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
West Africa ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of

Henry Smeathman (1742–86) was a self-taught naturalist who collected naturalia in West Africa and the West Indies for wealthy London sponsors. In 1783 he travelled to Paris with letters of introduction to Benjamin Franklin with the aim of finding supporters in either France or America for a free African settlement which would undermine the slave trade through ‘legitimate’ commerce. His arrival coincided with the launch of the Montgolfier balloons, followed by the race to invent a mode of aerial transportation. Drawing on Smeathman's eye-witness accounts of the ascents, many of which have never been published, this essay explores his use of biomimetics to design a steerable balloon which would fund his return to Africa at the head of a mixed-race colony. His collaborators in Paris and London included Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Le Marquis d'Arlandes, Paolo Andreani, and Jean-Pierre Blanchard.

scholarly journals Helminth parasites and diet of Leptodactylus petersii (Steindachner, 1864) (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Amapá state, Eastern Amazon, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-393
Author(s):  
A. E. Oliveira-Souza ◽  
M. M. Salviano Santana ◽  
T. Dos Santos Reis ◽  
C. E. Costa-Campos ◽  
C. Albuquerque de Miranda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Stomach Contents ◽  
The State ◽  
Helminth Parasites ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Taxonomic Categories

SummaryLeptodactylus petersii is a species of anuran found in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats and occurs from South America to southern North America and the West Indies. Studies involving the fauna of anuran parasites offer complementary information related to ecology. Thus, since there are few studies on the natural history of this species, this research aims to analyze the diet and the presence of endoparasitic helminths of Leptodactylus petersii from the state of Amapá, Brazil. We found 10 different taxonomic categories of prey in stomach contents, with the categories Hymenoptera (Formicidae) with 32.26 % (n = 12) being the most representative. Among the 12 individuals of L. petersii that were analyzed for helminth parasites, 83.3 % were infected with at least one species of helminths allocated to Phylum Nematoda. Our results report a new occurrence site for Rhabdias breviensis, originally described for Leptodactylus petersii in the state of Pará, as well as the second report of Ortleppascaris sp. in Brazil.

The Achievements of the Douglass Company in North America: 1758–1774

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Mays
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
The West ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Theatre History ◽  
A Company

On Monday, October 16, 1758., Hugh Gaine reported a novelty. “Friday last,” he told his readers in the New-York Mercury, “arrived here from the West Indies, a Company of Comedians; some Part of which were here in the Year 1753.” This brief notice, which went on to assure its readers that the company had “an ample Certificate of their Private as well as publick Qualifications,” marks the beginning of the most significant event in American theatre history: the establishment of the professional theatre on this continent. The achievements of the Company of Comedians during its sixteen-year residence in North America are virtually without parallel in the history of the theatre, and have not received sufficient recognition by historians and scholars.

1. Drinking and temperance

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
W. J. Rorabaugh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Viable System ◽  
The Revolution

‘Drinking and temperance’ describes the history of alcohol consumption in the United States and the introduction of the temperance movement. From the earliest European settlers to the fighters of the Revolution, Americans were among the world’s heartiest drinkers, producing their own corn beer and importing rum from the West Indies. The British blockades during the war meant access to rum was lost. Americans began to distill whiskey from corn instead, which became the country’s patriotic drink. Problems associated with heavy drinking resulted in reformers creating the temperance movement, a cause that was then taken up by Protestant preachers. In the 1850s, evangelicals lobbied for statewide prohibition laws, but there was no viable system of enforcement.

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