scholarly journals A letter of Marcus Antonius Kappus to Eusebius Franciscus Kino (Sonora in 1690)

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Tomaž Nabergoj
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
North West ◽  
West Mexico ◽  
The Subject

The life and work of the Slovene Jesuit, Marcus Antonius Kappus (1657 -1717) who, three centuries ago, worked as a missionary in Sonora, north-west Mexico, has, in recent years, been the subject of several short studies in Slovenia. In this journal, Professor Janez Stanonik has, so far, published five letters which Kappus sent home to his relatives and friends, and one letter which he sent to hi s friend in Vienna, as well as a study on the collection of poems (276 chronograms) in Latin, which Kappus published in Mexico City, in 1708, entitled IHS. Enthusiasmus sive solemnes ludi poetici. Prompted by the above publications, the author of this paper spent a month in Sonora while journeying in Mexico in 1991. In Archivo General de la Nación (the general Mexican archives) in Mexico City, he happened to find another letter written by Marcus Antonius Kappus.

scholarly journals A letter of Marcus Antonius Kappus to Eusebius Franciscus Kino (Sonora in 1690)

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Tomaž Nabergoj
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
North West ◽  
West Mexico ◽  
The Subject

The life and work of the Slovene Jesuit, Marcus Antonius Kappus (1657 -1717) who, three centuries ago, worked as a missionary in Sonora, north-west Mexico, has, in recent years, been the subject of several short studies in Slovenia. In this journal, Professor Janez Stanonik has, so far, published five letters which Kappus sent home to his relatives and friends, and one letter which he sent to hi s friend in Vienna, as well as a study on the collection of poems (276 chronograms) in Latin, which Kappus published in Mexico City, in 1708, entitled IHS. Enthusiasmus sive solemnes ludi poetici. Prompted by the above publications, the author of this paper spent a month in Sonora while journeying in Mexico in 1991. In Archivo General de la Nación (the general Mexican archives) in Mexico City, he happened to find another letter written by Marcus Antonius Kappus.

‘Caribe’ (Cnidoscolus angustidens Torr.), a promising oilseed geophyte from north-west Mexico

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis León-de la Luz ◽  
Enrique Troyo-Diéguez ◽  
M.Magdalena Ortega-Nieblas ◽  
Francisco López-Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
North West ◽  
West Mexico

A Smiling Head Complex from Central Veracruz, Mexico

1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Alfonso Medellin Zenil ◽  
Frederick A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Village

Various authors in the past have speculated on the epoch and culture to which the so-called “Laughing Faces” belonged. But with only a small number of sporadic finds they have not been able to explain satisfactorily their origin, cultural epoch, symbolism, or typological evolution. There exist, however, some useful works on the subject, such as those by Phillip Drucker, C. W. Weiant, J. L. Melgarejo, Vladimiro Rosado Ojeda, Alfonso Medellin Zenil, and Fredrick Peterson.In the fall of 1952 the antiquity market of Mexico City was suddenly flooded with sculptured pieces of which the “Laughing Faces,” or “Smiling Heads,” formed the chief part. Their source was made known when the Presidente Municipal (Mayor) of the village of Joachin, in the municipality of Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, denounced illegal excavations in his territory. The looting of the archaeological zones had taken place in the small communities of Los Cerros and Dicha Tuerta.

Virgil's Location of Corythus

1976 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-295
Author(s):  
E. L. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Subject

In a recent article JRS (1973), 68 f. Nicholas Horsfall sought to demonstrate that Corythus, which Virgil makes the original home of Dardanus (Aen. iii, 167 f.), should be identified with Tarquinii, some 50 miles north-west of Rome, on the coast of Etruria, rather than with Cortona, roughly twice as far away, to the north, and inland. In doing so he expressed surprise that the Virgilian evidence should have been completely ignored by previous writers on the subject (p. 68): and, using the Aeneid as the main source on which his own argument was based, he supported his conclusion with a careful examination of several other aspects of the problem.

The verb in northern Najdi Arabic

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Abboud
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Najdi Arabic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Object Pronouns

The dialects spoken in the Najd of Saudi Arabia have striking features which not only are unknown or unreported in other dialects but also retain some characteristics of the 'Arabiyya and of ancient dialects of the peninsula reported by the Arab grammarians. On both these counts, they are of paramount importance for synchronic, comparative and historical dialectology. Yet little is known of them and published materials remain scanty. It is the purpose of this article to describe in some detail the morphology of the verb, i.e., the stem, the subject markers and the object pronouns, and in the process, present phonological features and processes, in a dialect spoken in the North of the Najd, specifically that of Hāyil. This is an important town on the edge of the Jabal Shammar mountains just south of the Nafud, and some 350 miles to the north-west of Riyādh. Although the dialect manifests features which are typically Najdi, in the sense that investigation shows them to exist in other dialects of the Najd, it also possesses peculiarities all its own.

scholarly journals The Bakerian Lecture. On the best kind of steel and form for a compass needle

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 141-142
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Force ◽  
Magnetic Pole ◽  
North West ◽  
The Subject

On the return of the first expedition from the discovery of a North-west Passage, the compasses were reported to have become nearly useless, from the diminution of the directive force consequent upon the near approach to the magnetic pole. The azimuth compasses on that occasion being of the author’s invention, he was anxious that the second expedition should be furnished with instruments combining the utmost power and sensibility; and was consequently led to the researches, the mode of conducting which, with their results, form the subject of this lecture. In respect to the best material for the construction of compass needles, Captain Kater found that clock springs made of sheer steel were capable of receiving the greatest magnetic force, and that in forming the needle it should be exposed as little as possible to heat, by which its capability of receiving magnetism is diminished.

On Heptaphyllum, a New Genus of Carboniferous Coral

1924 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 416-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Clark
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
West Of Ireland

A few years ago Mr. Carruthers described an aberrant coral, Cryptophyllum hibernicum, from the Lower Carboniferous of Bundoran, Donegal. Cryptophyllum occurred in the Lower Calp shales, which are considered to be about at the horizon of Vaughan's C2 to S1 beds. Another aberrant genus, Heptaphyllum, also from the north-west of Ireland—Lower Carboniferous shales, Sligo—forms the subject of this paper. Cryptophyllum is remarkable, first for the manner in which the earlier major septa appear—irregularly, and nearly simultaneously, instead of regularly, and in consecutive pairs, as is typical for Rugose Corals; and also in the development of only five septa instead of the normal six in the earliest growth stages. Heptaphyllum, as its name implies, develops seven septa in the young corallum. It resembles Cryptophyllum in having an early aseptate corallum, and in the way in which the earlier septa appear.

scholarly journals Disturbance sources, human predation and reproductive success of seabirds in tropical coastal ecosystems of Sinaloa State, Mexico

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. MUÑOZ DEL VIEJO ◽  
X. VEGA ◽  
M. A. GONZÁLEZ ◽  
J. M. SÁNCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Sula Nebouxii ◽  
North West ◽  
Sterna Antillarum ◽  
West Mexico ◽  
Least Tern ◽  
Human Predation

From March to July 2000, four seabird colonies in coastal ecosystems of Sinaloa, north-west Mexico were visited: on islets, a sandy beach and a long-abandoned salt-panning flat. There were partial and total breeding failures, most of them due to human activity. Amongst colonies of nine species, the breeding success of three was severely affected. All 250 Royal Tern Sterna maxima eggs were taken for direct consumption; 50% (75) of Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii chicks were killed for crab (Portunidae) fishing; and in a Least Tern Sterna antillarum colony (97 pairs), 50% failed due to disturbance from a fishing championship. Some of these species have priority status within Mexican and international conservation regulations. Certain aspects of these problems are discussed, and actions are suggested to balance conservation and the development of economic activities.

First Report of Botrytis cinerea Pers. on Salicornia bigelovii Torr. in North-West México

2013 ◽  
Vol 162 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 513-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar O. Rueda Puente ◽  
Luis G. Hernandez Montiel ◽  
Jaime Holguin Peña ◽  
Bernardo Murillo Amador ◽  
Francisco J. Rivas Santoyo
Keyword(s):  
Botrytis Cinerea ◽  
First Report ◽  
North West ◽  
Salicornia Bigelovii ◽  
West Mexico

Irrigation of Dwarf Wheats in the Yaqui Valley of Mexico

1977 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Fischer ◽  
J. H. Lindt ◽  
A. Glave
Keyword(s):  
Potential Evapotranspiration ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Plant Water ◽  
Wheat Cultivars ◽  
Irrigation Regime ◽  
North West ◽  
Yaqui Valley ◽  
Heavy Soil ◽  
West Mexico ◽  
Plant Water Potential

SUMMARYThe response of the latest wheat cultivars to irrigation regimes was studied between 1970 and 1975 in a heavy soil of the Yaqui Valley of north-west Mexico. Yield showed greatest sensitivity to water shortage in the period 65–110 days after seeding (spike emergence around 90 days), due largely to responses in grains/m2. More frequent irrigation increased yields 5–10% over the average of 7 t/ha obtained with the commonly-adopted five irrigation regime. Various irrigation criteria were tested: potential evapotranspiration calculations seemed the most useful. Measurement of leaf permeability (with an air flow porometer) showed more promise than the use of plant water potential (measured with a pressure chamber).

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