John Edwards Holbrook's illustrations of fishes in the Bibliothèque centrale, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
William D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North American ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Histoire Naturelle

John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871), zoologist and medical doctor, residing in Charleston, South Carolina, apparently sent eight colour plates of North American fishes to the museum in Paris because they were found in the Bibliothèque centrale, Muséum national d' Histoire naturelle, with known Holbrook material, most significantly a copy of his 1855 edition of the Ichthyology of South Carolina. Herein, I comment upon the illustrations of the 16 fishes rendered in those plates.

A NEW RACE OF BASILARCHIA ARCHIPPUS CRAMER FROM LOUISIANA (RHOPAEOCERA—NYMPHAEIDAE)

1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 243-243
Author(s):  
Cyril F. Dos Passos
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
New Race

The latest revision of the North American Basilarchia (Gunder, 1934, Can. Ent. LXVI: 39) recognizes three races of archippus Cramer (1779, Pap. Ex. I, t. 16 a, b) i.e. a. archippus inhabiting southern Canada and the Atlantic states as far south as North Carolina and west to Illinois, a. floridensis Strecker (1878, Cat. p. 143) found from South Carolina to the tip of Florida and a. obsoleta Edwards (1882, Fapilio 2: 22) occuring in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

John McCrady of South Carolina: pioneer student of North American Hydrozoa

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
LESTER D. STEPHENS ◽  
DALE R. CALDER
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Darwinian Theory ◽  
Louis Agassiz

South Carolina naturalist John McCrady (1831–1881), a protégé of Louis Agassiz, was a pioneer in the study of Hydrozoa in North America. McCrady undertook investigations on hydrozoan life cycles, and provided thorough descriptions of most taxa. At least 20 of the families, genera, and species that he described and named are still recognised as valid. His ideas concerning classification and nomenclature within the Hydrozoa were remarkable for their time. As a result of the American Civil War, personal problems, cultural predilections, and preoccupation with other scientific interests, McCrady discontinued his hydrozoan research after 1860. Thereafter, his efforts in science were devoted to formulating a “Law of Development”, and to criticism of Darwinian theory.

scholarly journals Azana sinusa Coher, 1995 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae): remarks on range extension and collection records

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary L. Burington
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North American ◽  
New Records ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
The North ◽  
Fungus Gnat

I present a summary of the range of the North American sciophiline fungus gnat Azana sinusa Coher based on previous publications, and new records of the species from South Carolina, USA. These new records result in a ~1200 km range extension.

Masquerading as Colonists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Young Women ◽  
North American ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
British North American

This chapter studies a series of portraits of young women dressed for the masquerade, completed by English artist John Wollaston in Charleston, South Carolina. Although Wollaston painted the sitters in historic costume appropriate for a public masked ball, no masquerades were held in the British North American colonies. Instead, these fictional portrayals allowed colonial women to vicariously participate in the sexually riotous assemblies. For male colonists, the paintings underlined the need to contain women’s sexuality. In a colonial environment, many feared women’s proximity to native Americans would spur savage behaviors and compromise civil society. Most of the portraits feature young women about to be married, connecting their masked visages with the metaphor of a woman in courtship who masked her affections to attain the best husband. Wollaston’s adoption of mask iconography also resonates with the tumultuous 1760s, marked by the growing political crisis between Great Britain and her American colonies, when colonists questioned the nature of their identity as imperial subjects and feared British duplicity.

Origins of North American Biogeographic Affinities

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Graham
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Bipolar Distribution ◽  
Imaginative Thinking ◽  
George Gaylord Simpson

An aspect of plant distribution that has intrigued biogeographers for over 200 years is the occurrence of similar biotas in widely separated regions. The North American flora has affinities with several such areas: the Mediterranean, the dry regions of South America, eastern Asia, and eastern Mexico. The origin of some patterns is relatively clear, while for others hypotheses are just now being formulated. During times when the dogma of permanence of continents and ocean basins held sway, explanations for these disjunctions required imaginative thinking that often bordered on the bizarre. The pendulum or schwingpolen hypothesis was offered to explain the perceived bipolar distribution of several taxa (Gnetum, Magnolia, Pinus section Taeda; Simroth, 1914). By this view, the Earth swings in space like a pendulum, creating regular fluctuations in environments and often causing the symmetrical placement of taxa at two points on opposite sides of the Earth. Other disjunctions were explained by casually placing geophysically impossible land bridges at any point in time between any two sites where the presence of similar communities seemed to call for land connections (see review in Simpson, 1943). The presence of teeth of Hipparion, an ungulate related to the horse, in Europe and South Carolina-Florida prompted French geologist Leonce Joleaud to propose a land bridge extending from Florida through the Antilles to North Africa and Spain. Subsequently, to accommodate eight new passengers, it was broadened to encompass the entire region from Maryland and Brazil across to France and Morocco and its life was prolonged to include virtually all of the Tertiary. With the later discovery that there were periodicities in similarity between Old World and New World Cenozoic faunas, the continents were envisioned as moving back and forth like an accordion. George Gaylord Simpson, who favored the North Atlantic land bridge to connect North America and Europe, was beside himself with these theories and characterized Joelaud’s as “the climax of all drift theories.” The bridge became well established in the literature even though it never existed in the Atlantic Ocean (Marvin, 1973). Udvardy (1969) plotted all the Cretaceous and Tertiary land bridges postulated for the South Pacific up to 1913.

Late Paleocene glyptosaur (Reptilia: Anguidae) osteoderms from South Carolina, USA

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Cicimurri ◽  
James L. Knight ◽  
Jean M. Self-Trail ◽  
Sandy M. Ebersole
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North American ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Calcareous Nannofossils ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
The Us ◽  
Vertebrate Assemblage ◽  
Land Mammal ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

AbstractHeavily tuberculated glyptosaur osteoderms were collected in an active limestone quarry in northern Berkeley County, South Carolina. The osteoderms are part of a highly diverse late Paleocene vertebrate assemblage that consists of marine, terrestrial, fluvial, and/or brackish water taxa, including chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fish, turtles (chelonioid, trionychid, pelomedusid, emydid), crocodilians, palaeopheid snakes, and a mammal. Calcareous nannofossils indicate that the fossiliferous deposit accumulated within subzone NP9a of the Thanetian Stage (late Paleocene, upper part of Clarkforkian North American Land Mammal Age [NALMA]) and is therefore temporally equivalent to the Chicora Member of the Williamsburg Formation. The composition of the paleofauna indicates that the fossiliferous deposit accumulated in a marginal marine setting that was influenced by fluvial processes (estuarine or deltaic).The discovery of South Carolina osteoderms is significant because they expand the late Paleocene geographic range of glyptosaurines eastward from the US midcontinent to the Atlantic Coastal Plain and provide one of the few North American records of these lizards inhabiting coastal habitats. This discovery also brings to light a possibility that post-Paleocene expansion of this group into Europe occurred via northeastward migration along the Atlantic coast of North America.

scholarly journals The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Schaefer ◽  
Mark E. Hostetler
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
South America ◽  
North American ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Dasypus Novemcinctus ◽  
Northern Boundary ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Major Revision

Armadillos are prehistoric-looking animals that belong to a family of mammals found primarily in Central and South America. The earliest fossil ancestor of our North American armadillo occurred about 60 million years ago; it was as large as a rhinoceros. Our present-day nine-banded or long-nosed armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, is much smaller; adults normally weigh from 8-17 pounds (3.5-8 kilograms). This species occurs in Texas and east, throughout the South. It occasionally is found in Missouri and South Carolina. However, cold weather limits the northern boundary of the armadillo's range. This document is WEC 76 and was previously published under the title "Control of Armadillos." It is one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecologyand Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida. First published: January 1998. Reviewed: 2001. Major revision: October 2003. WEC 76/UW082: The Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) (ufl.edu)

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