scholarly journals Origins and History of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club

2004 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Brunton
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Club Membership ◽  
Publication Program ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conservation Awareness ◽  
The 1960S

The Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club (OFNC) represents an unbroken chain of organized, non-governmental natural history investigation and education dating back to the early days of the city of Ottawa itself. The Club originated in 1863 with the formation of the Ottawa Natural History Society which became the Natural History branch of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society in 1870, from which the OFNC formally separated in March 1879. Since that time, it has grown into Canada’s oldest and largest regional natural history organization and has produced a diverse and internationally recognized publication program. Since 1880 The Canadian Field-Naturalist and its predecessors have constituted the scientific core of the OFNC’s publication program, with Trail & Landscape being an important Ottawa Valley publication since the late 1960s. The importance of both publications to the growth and health of the organization is reflected in the major surges in Club membership experienced when each of these publications was established. The focus of membership activities has changed over the history of the OFNC, with enlightened natural resource management, then original scientific research and local exploration directing energies in the early decades. By the early years of the 20th century the publications program become the raison d’etre of the Club, almost to the exclusion of local field activities. A renewed interest in field discovery and the growth of conservation awareness in the 1960s, however, rekindled local activities and re-established the balance which has sustained the organization throughout its history. Natural environment education has remained a critical theme within OFNC programs and activities. Over and above inspiring the professional careers and private interests of thousands of individuals for more than a century, the OFNC has had an important and lasting impact on the conservation of natural environment features and landscapes in Canada and North America.

scholarly journals Do euglossine females reside in a single nest? Notes on Euglossa cordata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini)

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Nogueira ◽  
Arianne M. Cavalcante ◽  
Maria da C. Parente ◽  
Alipio J. S. Pacheco Filho ◽  
Breno M. Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Nest Box ◽  
Nest Behavior ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Euglossa Cordata ◽  
History Of ◽  
Single Nest

ABSTRACT Euglossa Latreille, 1802 do not live in large colonies, and these are usually maintained or “reactivated” by new females, subordinate to their mother, which construct and provision brood cells. This study aimed to obtain information about the natural history of Euglossa cordata (Linnaeus, 1758) specially focusing on nest behavior. Our specific objective was to answer the following question: do E. cordata females reside in a single nest? We construct 14 artificial nesting boxes and made them available for E. cordata bees in natural environment for seven months. During this time, we use a re-marking method to identify bee fidelity to a single nest box. More specifically, we record bee permanence in the nests, the time bees take to provision brood to new cells and the time taken to offspring emergence. A total of 12 boxes were colonized by E. cordata and 23 cells were built in an average of 9.78 ± 11 days per cell. Eleven females emerged from the cells in 48.6 ± 11 days. Although adult females moved between nests and sometimes used multiple nests at the same time, E. cordata showed a relatively high fidelity to a single nest (81.1% of the female bees stayed in a single nest more than 50% of time).

Edward Hicks Reads the Book of Nature

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Charlotte Porter
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Art History ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Peaceable Kingdom

The special concern with organized natural history which distinguished the Philadelphia community following the War of 1812 can be found in surprising places. The natural environment of the new nation thoroughly Americanized a biblical subject in the paintings of Edward Hicks (1780-1849), a devoted Quaker who lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Although little is known about his artistic methods, his compositions of the "Peaceable Kingdom" are probably the most famous examples of 19th-century folk art in this country.Hicks' pictorial idiom is so idiosyncratic that it has tended to defy placement within the American developments within art history of his time. However, the geological theories of the period help to clarify some of Hicks' oddly organized compositions, particularly those which introduce the Falls of Niagara, the Natural Bridge of Virginia or the Delaware Water Gap and give a rationale to Hicks' wooden style of painting typical of American folk artists.

Environmental intervention and water resource management in the history of the Mezzogiorno

Modern Italy ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Bevilacqua
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Early Years ◽  
State Control ◽  
Environmental Intervention ◽  
The South ◽  
History Of

SummaryThis article shows how the discovery of electrical energy that could be transmitted and used in industry triggered a huge effort to take advantage of Southern Italy's water resources and improve its natural environment. In the early years of the twentieth century, primarily through the initiative of Francesco Saverio Nitti, the great statesman and environmental expert, the rivers and forests of the South became an object of particular attention in that they were to be the central element in conservation measures whose aim was to produce cheap electricity, but which also necessarily involved reforestation, state control of forestry, the embankment of rivers and other changes. For southern reformers such plans were envisaged as the way to launch industrialization in the South.

‘The televising of science is a process of television’: establishing Horizon, 1962–1967

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY BOON
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Stable Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Television Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
History Of ◽  
Culture Of Science ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Key Participants

AbstractBBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultural account of science. This was a result of televisual factors, notably the determination to follow the format of the successful arts television programme Monitor. It illuminates how the processes of television production, with a handful of key participants – Aubrey Singer, Gerald Leach, Philip Daly, Gordon Rattray Taylor, Ramsay Short, Michael Peacock and Robert Reid – established the format of the programme. This occurred over seventeen months of prior preparation followed by three troubled years of seeking to establish a stable form. This was finally achieved in 1967 when the programme adopted a film documentary approach after extended attempts at making it as a studio-based magazine programme. The story has implications for understanding the social accounts of science that were circulating in the key decade of the 1960s.

scholarly journals El herbario de Cormophyta de Baltasar Merino (1845-1917) en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales “D. Mariano García Martínez” del IES Sánchez Cantón de Pontevedra (España)

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-46
Author(s):  
Rubén Pino Pérez ◽  
Juan José Pino Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Santiago De Compostela ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
Floristic Studies ◽  
Siglo Xx

Resumen Baltasar Merino y Román (1845-1917) fue un botánico español, autor de la obra ‘Flora Descriptiva e Ilustrada de Galicia’ cuya base se encuentra en los herbarios que confeccionó. Son bien conocidas las colecciones conservadas en los herbarios LOU (Lourizán, Pontevedra) y MHN (Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña). Sin embargo, también confeccionó un herbario que donó al Instituto de Pontevedra en los primeros años del siglo XX y que ha pasado relativamente desapercibido en los estudios florísticos de Galicia. En este trabajo se ha realizado un inventario completo de esa colección, procedente de las actividades herborizadoras de Merino en todo el territorio gallego con una selecta representación de los taxones más significativos de su catálogo. Se han reconocido un total de 1.031 pliegos de 90 familias distintas de Cormophyta. Las familias Gramineae y Compositae son las mejor representadas con más de 100 pliegos cada una, pero hasta 21 familias superan la decena de taxones. Sólo el 47,75 % de los taxones de la Flora de Galicia de Merino no se encuentran representados en este herbario, lo que subraya la importancia del mismo. El herbario fue entregado por Merino al Instituto de Pontevedra entre 1900 y 1905, probablemente a través de las peticiones realizadas por Ernesto Caballero Bellido y/o Alejandro de Colomina y Cárolo, por entonces, miembros del claustro de la institución. Abstract Baltasar Merino y Román (1845-1917) was a Spanish botanist, author of the work ‘Flora Descriptiva e Ilustrada de Galicia’. He developed several herbaria. The collections kept in the herbaria LOU (Lourizán, Pontevedra) and MHN (Museum of Natural History of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña) are well known. However, he also produced a herbarium that he donated to the Institute of Pontevedra in the early years of the 20th century. This herbarium has gone unnoticed in the floristic studies of Galicia. In this work a complete inventory of this collection has been made, coming from the Merino collecting activities throughout the Galician territory. It contains a select representation of the most significant taxa in its catalogue. A total of 1,031 sheets of 90 different families of Cormophyta have been recognized. The families Gramineae and Compositae are the best represented. They have more than 100 sheets each and 21 families exceed ten taxa. Only 47,75 % of the taxa of Flora de Galicia de Merino are not represented in this herbarium, which underscores its importance. The herbarium was delivered by Merino to the Institute of Pontevedra between 1900 and 1905, probably through the requests made by Ernesto Caballero Bellido and/or Alejandro de Colomina and Cárolo, at that time, members of the institution.

scholarly journals History of Medicine in Jagodina District

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 184-195
Author(s):  
Marko Jeremić ◽  
Ana Vuković ◽  
Ninoslav Stanojlović ◽  
Rade Vuković ◽  
Dejan Marković
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
First Record ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Health Culture ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
History Of

Summary The first record of scientific medicine in Serbia has been found in the early of 12th century. For centuries lifestyle, nutrition, natural environment, armies passing through, cultural heritage, and prejudice have affected healthcare in Serbia. Until 1820, Serbia has not had any educated doctor. Fourteen district physicians from 1839 and Dr. Karlo Beloni, to the last one, Dr. Selimir Djordjević – have spent part of their professional careers in Jagodina. All of them have had influence on raising health culture of Jagodina and its population and helped to overcome easily and quickly all existing diseases and epidemics. The Jagodina Hospital has been working without interruption for 147 years and represents one of the oldest healthcare institutions in Serbia.

The Return of The Repressed: The Fall and Rise of Emotions in Social Movement Theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Goodwin ◽  
James Jasper ◽  
Francesca Polletta
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Fertile Area

In recent years sociologists have made great strides in studying the emotions that pervade social life. The study of social movements has lagged behind, even though there are few arenas where emotions are more obvious or important. We hope to understand this lag as well as make some suggestions for catching up. To do this we examine the history of scholarship on social movements, finding that emotions were poorly specified in the early years, ignored entirely in the structural and organizational paradigms that emerged in the 1960s, and still overlooked in the cultural era of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite isolated efforts to understand the emotions of social movements, they remain today a fertile area for inquiry.

A SHORT HISTORY OF PALEONTOLOGY IN TURKEY, PART II: PALEONTOLOGY IN THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-243
Author(s):  
VOLKAN SARIGÜL
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Cenozoic Mammals ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

ABSTRACT Succeeding a period of wars and political turmoil, the reassuring policies of the new regime of Turkey positively influenced all branches of science, including geology which provided a basis for the earliest studies in paleontology, as it had done in the former Ottoman Turkey. Although most of the specialists were still foreigners during the early years of the republic, the government of Turkey under the leadership of Atatürk, rapidly established modern institutions in order to train native earth scientists and engineers of all sorts. Turkish paleontologists began to replace their foreign colleagues by the 1940s; and female Turkish paleontologists became especially prominent not only in the universities but also in the national geological surveys and mapping, and in fossil fuel exploration. Subsequent to their separation from departments of natural sciences, teaching fundamentals of paleontology was taken on by geology departments which, by the 1960s, started to evolve into departments of geological engineering. As a result, most Turkish paleontologists are geologists and most of them specialized either in micropaleontology or paleobotany. In contrast, paleontology of late Cenozoic mammals is dominated by graduates of anthropology programs.

scholarly journals Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society: a reciprocal exchange in the making of Baconian science

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HUNTER
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Systematic Data ◽  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
Important Development ◽  
History Of

This paper documents an important development in Robert Boyle's natural-philosophical method – his use from the 1660s onwards of ‘heads’ and ‘inquiries’ as a means of organizing his data, setting himself an agenda when studying a subject and soliciting information from others. Boyle acknowledged that he derived this approach from Francis Bacon, but he had not previously used it in his work, and the reason why it came to the fore when it did is not apparent from his printed and manuscript corpus. It is necessary to look beyond Boyle to his milieu for the cause, in this case to the influence on him of the Royal Society. Whereas the Royal Society in its early years is often seen as putting into practice a programme pioneered by Boyle, this crucial methodological change on his part seems rather to have been stimulated by the society's early concern for systematic data-collecting. In this connection, it is here shown that a key text, Boyle's influential ‘General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or small’, published in Philosophical Transactions in 1666, represents more of a shared initiative between him and the society than has hitherto been appreciated.

The Italian regionalisation: a story of partisan logics

Modern Italy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martino Mazzoleni
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Northern League ◽  
Party Positions ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S

The history of the Italian Republic's territorial structure has always been intertwined with party competition. Partisan logics have notably played a relevant role in the ways regions have been moulded, set up and run. This article illustrates the discourse of Italy's political parties on the ‘ordinary’ statute regions throughout the successive phases of regionalisation. After the consensus reached in the Constituent Assembly, a paralysis due to party contrasts followed. The Centre-left governments in the 1960s re-started the process, which culminated in the 1970s–also thanks to the Communists’ support–in the establishment of the 15 ordinary-statute regions. The 1990s inaugurated a period of further devolution, which reached constitutional status in the early years of the millennium. Once again, partisan motivations were of primary importance, notably because of the electoral threat posed to mainstream parties by the Northern League. In recent years, party positions have differentiated consistently according to inter-coalition competitive dynamics.

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