The earliest known compiled list of North American birds (1582)

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-269
Author(s):  
DAVID W. JOHNSTON
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

ABSTRACT: Richard Hakluyt in 1582 published the names of certain commodities found in the New World from reports of French sixteenth-century explorers. The commodities included a compiled list of birds, the earliest known from North America.

A numerical analysis of morpho-geographic groups of cultivars of Humulus lupulus based on samples of cones

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Small
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Humulus Lupulus ◽  
Numerical Analyses ◽  
Hybrid Origin ◽  
Morphological Examination ◽  
Humulus Lupulus L

Numerical analyses of hop (strobilus) samples showed that the geographical origin of cultivars of Humulus lupulus L. from North America, Britain, continental Europe, and Japan can be identified with considerable reliability on the basis of morphological examination. Samples of hybrid origin between North American and European plants tended to be similar to American cultivars, but often showed combinations of Old and New World characteristics, making their identification problematical.

On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Original Description ◽  
World Species

In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

scholarly journals O Brasil nas Obras de Pero Gândavo e Richard Hakluyt

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-127
Author(s):  
Bianca Batista ◽  
Luiz Montez
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
New World ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

This study’s aim is to analyze the discursive construction of Brazil in the chronicle of Pero Gândavo, História da Província Santa Cruz que Vulgarmente Chamamos Brasil (1576) and in the travel collection of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Trafqques of the English Nation (1589-1600). Printed books played a crucial role during the sixteenth century once the editors built a history of the new-found lands in accordance with their reigns’ economic and ideological interests. For Gândavo, the chronicle assured the Portuguese possession over Brazil whereas for Richard Hakluyt, the travel collection denied Iberians’ kings sovereignty over the New World and extolled the English maritime enterprise in the Americas, especially in the lands not effectively colonized by the Iberians. We suggest that the printed book was a stage in which the European countries struggled for the riches of Americas.

Moving into the Native Ground

2018 ◽  
pp. 122-142
Author(s):  
Zoltán Biedermann
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
Royal Court

Much of the second half of the sixteenth century was spent, even after the brutal looting in 1551 of the most sacred site of Lankan Buddhism at Kōṭṭe, in wars during which Portuguese troops followed Lankan orders. If comparisons with the New World can be made, then it is not so much with reference to the ‘Middle Ground’ paradigm coined by Richard White, as to the ‘Native Ground’ identified by historians such as Kathleen DuVal and Pekka Hämäläinen in other parts of North America. The kingdom of Kōṭṭe itself was constantly besieged by rival Lankan forces. In Colombo, an increasingly complex Mestizo society appeared, especially after this city absorbed the royal court of Kōṭṭe in 1565. The new capital remained politically dependent on the old imperial project of Kōṭṭe, but also became a potential breeding ground for plans of conquest—some inspired by Spanish deeds—that could not be controlled indefinitely by the Lankan elite.

scholarly journals Shakespeare’s The Tempest Revisited: Nietzsche and the Myth of the New World

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-247
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Burzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Combined Analysis ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Colonial Encounters ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

AbstractThe Tempest is the only play in the Shakespearean canon that is open to a purely “Americanist” reading. Although Prospero’s island is located somewhere in the Mediterranean, numerous critics claimed that it deals with the New World (Hulme & Sherman 2000: 171). The paper revisits the existing interpretations, focusing on the turbulent relationship between Prospero and other inhabitants of the island: Caliban, Miranda, and Ariel. In the article I propose a rereading of their relation in the spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche’s perspectivism, utilising Nietzsche’s key philosophical concepts like the Apollonian/Dionysian elements and der Übermensch (the overman). In his vast canon, Nietzsche refers to Native Americans only once and in passing. However, his call for the revaluation of all values seems to be an apt point of departure for a discussion on early colonial relations. Nietzsche’s perspectivism enables to reread both the early colonial encounters and character relations on Shakespeare’s island. Hence, in an attempt at a “combined analysis”, the paper looks at Prospero as the potential overman and also offers a reading of the English source texts that document early encounters between the English and native inhabitants of North America (Walter Raleigh, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Harriot, Robert Gray).

The Sickle in Aboriginal Western North America

1951 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Heizer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Old World ◽  
American Counterpart ◽  
And Function

It is generally accepted that the specialized agricultural implements and techniques, and domesticated plants (with a few possible exceptions) of the Old and New Worlds are unrelated and independently developed. Parallel developments in agricultural accessories have occurred; the hoe and irrigation are obvious exemplars. The hand sickle, used to harvest cereal crops in the Old World, and to cut wild grasses in the New World, may now be pointed out as occurring in both hemispheres. The forms, materials, and function of the Old World sickle distinguish it from that of the New World, and it would appear that there is no specific connection between the Afro-Asian sickle used in farming and its North American counterpart used predominantly by incipient or non-agricultural native groups.

scholarly journals First North American Records of the Old-World Tramp Ant Syllophopsis sechellensis(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
James Wetterer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Arrival ◽  
Tramp Ant ◽  
Old World Tropics

Syllophopsis  sechellensis  (Emery)  (formerly  Monomorium  sechellense) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is a small, inconspicuous ant species native to the Old-World tropics. Syllophopsis sechellensis is widespread in Asia and Australia, and on islands the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. In the New  World,  all  published  records  come  from  West  Indian  islands.  Here,  I report the first records of S. sechellensis from North America: from four sites in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, Florida, more than 1500 km from the closest records in the West Indies. The ants of Florida have been well-studied in the past, so S. sechellensis appears to be a recent arrival.

Megantereon cultridens (Cuvier) (Mammalia, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from Plio-Pleistocene deposits in Africa and Eurasia, with comments on dispersal and the possibility of a New World origin

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1256-1268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Turner
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Single Species ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Species ◽  
Area Of Origin

African machairodont specimens previously referred to three species of Megantereon are considered to represent a single species in turn argued to be conspecific with the Eurasian species Megantereon cultridens (Cuvier). The area of origin of Megantereon remains unclear, but doubt is expressed about claims for an earliest appearance of the genus in North America. It is probable that the North American species M. hesperus is a junior synonym of M. cultridens.

Aspects of teliospore germination in North American smut fungi. II.

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 2569-2574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Duran
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Exotic Species ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
New Records ◽  
Smut Fungi ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Teliospore Germination ◽  
First Time

Teliospore germination is described for 28 additional species of smut fungi, most of which were recently collected in Mexico.Germination for most species is reported here for the first time. Included are some rarely collected species, some recently described by the author, and some previously unknown to exist in the New World. Where new records of exotic species for North America are indicated, germination was used to verify diagnoses, even though reported by previous workers in some instances. In demonstrating germination, family and generic affinities for most species were corroborated, although one required generic transfer.

scholarly journals Cartier, Champlain, and the Fruits of the New World

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Dickenson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Columbian Exchange

Abstract Much has been written of the Columbian exchange, the transfer between New World and Old of people, pathogens, flora and fauna. The biota of two hemispheres, once seemingly irredeemably separated, were interpenetrated, both through accident and through human agency. Part of this exchange involved medicinal and food plants, discovered in the New World and adopted into the Old. This paper examines the translation of a number of New World plants that were part of the 'Cartierian' or 'Champlinian' exchange that followed the voyages to North America by Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) between 1534 and 1541, and the explorations and settlements undertaken by Samuel de Champlain (1580?-1635) from 1603 to his death at Quebec in 1635. During this period, a number of North American plants were propagated in European nurseries and even found their way into everyday use in gardens or kitchens. How were these new plants viewed on their introduction and how were they incorporated into Europe's "vegetable" consciousness? Where did these new plants fit in the classification of the edible and the exotic?

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