scholarly journals Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus; or, Coloured plates ... of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America ...

1811 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Jowit Titford
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

The Background of Brazilian History

1946 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
William B. Greenlee
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South America ◽  
New World ◽  
World History ◽  
The West ◽  
Accurate Knowledge ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Brazilian History ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

To understand the setting of the discovery and of the early voyages to Brazil we must go back to some of the circumstances which preceded, and review the conditions in Europe at that time. The discoveries of the Portuguese navigators mark an epoch in world history. Had Columbus not persuaded the Spaniards to finance his voyage to the Spice Islands by a western route, the Portuguese might easily have claimed the discovery of both North and South America within a decade following Columbus’ landfall. Both continents would probably have been visited in 1500 when Gaspar Corte-Real reached Newfoundland and Pedro Alvares Cabral, Brazil. The former voyage was but a continuation of others westward over the Atlantic and the latter was only an incident in the Voyages to India. Furthermore, the delusion of reaching Asia would have been avoided. The exploration of the Americas would then have been carried on in an orderly manner with the realization that a new world had been found. However, the Portuguese are not best known for their voyages to America, but for the first accurate knowledge of both the West and East coasts of Africa, of the Indian Ocean and of the Spice Islands. They continued these voyages even farther, up the coast of China, and in 1542 they were the first Europeans to set foot in Japan. These achievements, of which any nation might justly be proud, were made by a country which then numbered between one and two million people.

Leptosphaeria coniothyrium. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Punithalingam
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Records ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Leptosphaeria Coniothyrium ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South ◽  
Cane Blight

Abstract A description is provided for Leptosphaeria coniothyrium. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Rosa and Rubus spp. and a wide range of hosts which it attacks as a wound parasite or saprophyte. DISEASES: Cane blight of raspberry, boysenberry, blackberry (43, 798; 56, 753; 56, 5722); graft canker of roses (49, 3349). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa, Asia, Australasia & Oceania, Europe, North and South America, Central America and West Indies (CMI Map 185, ed. 3, 1978). New records not mapped are: Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zambia); Asia (Bangladesh, Burma, Israel, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Turkey); South America (Venezuela). TRANSMISSION: By air, soil and waterborne-conidia (28, 340). Infection through wounds caused by mechanical injury, pruning or hailstones (39, 426; 52, 1753g; 56, 5721; 57, 4554).

Facilities for research in the University College of the West Indies 1

1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-377
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Biological Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
The North ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

The University College of the West Indies is situated in Jamaica on the Liguanea Plain, seven miles by road from Kingston. The site is between 500 and 600 feet above sea-level and covers an area of 700 acres. The foothills of the Blue Mountains rise to the north and east, whilst Long Mountain, a limestone ridge almost 1,500 feet high, provides the southern boundary of the site and separates it from the sea (figure 1, plate 6). The College started teaching in October 1948 when the Faculty of Science comprising the Departments of Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Zoology began classes for thirty-four undergraduates who came to study for the 1st M.B. of the University of London. In October 1949, the Department of Mathematics was included and students were accepted for the general B.Sc. degree. For the last three years, various departments, which now include those in the Faculties of Arts and Medicine, have been housed in temporary quarters consisting of wooden huts erected during the war. The huts have been converted into classrooms, laboratories and offices and have proved very suitable for this purpose. Permanent buildings are now nearing completion and will be occupied during the latter part of 1951 and early 1952 (figure 2, plate 6). The situation of this new University College in the West Indies offers a unique opportunity for biological study in this area. In the description that follows, the biological potentiahties of the area are discussed mainly with regard to Jamaica but it should be borne in mind, if one wishes to cover a wider sphere, that Jamaica is a good centre and is linked by air and shipping services with the other West Indian islands and the mainland of North and South America. Jamaica, itself, is well supplied with roads so that most areas are readily accessible.

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