Contribution to our knowledge of the physiological anatomy of some Indian hydrophytes

Author(s):  
M. V. Mirashi
BJHS Themes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
NICK HOPWOOD

AbstractRetirement can be a significant period in modern academic careers, and emeritus professors have shaped the fates of collections in departments and disciplines. This is evidenced by reconstructing the meanings of Alfred Benninghoff's remarkable memoir of Ferdinand Count Spee, sometime director of the anatomical institute in the University of Kiel. Thematizing the ‘tragedy’ of the emeritus, Benninghoff's 1944 article recalls his predecessor's possessive interactions with his collections as these approached assorted endings. With nostalgia and humour, it places the old aristocrat physically, intellectually and emotionally in a building that bombing would soon destroy. Benninghoff's Spee retained control over the microscope slides with which he engaged colleagues in conversations about research in embryology and physiological anatomy. He lost authority over the teaching charts and wet preparations, but still said a long farewell to these things; he tried, like a conductor alone after a concert, to recapture an experience he had once shared. The elegy is interpreted as apologetic about anatomy under National Socialism, and as offering a model of collegiality. It illustrates how collections have mediated relations between scientific generations at the end of a career.


1860 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 643-645

I. “On Boric Ethide.” By Edward Frankland, Ph.D., F. R. S., and B. Duppa, Esq. (See p. 568.) II. “On Cyanide of Ethylene and Succinic Acid.”— Preliminary Notice. By Maxwell Simpson, Ph.D. (See p. 574.) III. “Results of Researches on the Electric Function of the Torpedo.” By Professor Carlo Matteucci of Pisa. In a Letter to Dr. Sharpey, Sec. R.S. (See p. 576.) IV. “Natural History of the Purple of the Ancients.” By M. Lacaze Duthiers, Professor of Zoology in the Faculty of Sciences of Lille. (See p. 579.) V. “Contributions towards the History of Azobenzol and Benzidine.” By P. W . Hofmann, Ph.D. (See p. 585.) VI. “On Bromphenylamine and Chlorphenylamine.” By E. T. Mills, Esq. (See p. 589.) VII. “New Compounds produced by the substitution of Nitrogen for Hydrogen.” By P. Griess, Esq. (See p. 591.) V III. “Contributions towards the History of the Monamines.” — No. III. Compound Ammonias by Inverse Substitution. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 594.) IX . “Notes of Researches on the Poly-Ammonias.”— No. IX. Remarks on anomalous Vapour-densities. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 596.) X. “Notes of Researches on the Poly-Ammonias.”— No. X On Sulphamidobenzamine, a new base; and some Remarks upon Ureas and so-called Ureas. By A. W . Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 598.) XI. “Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases.”— No. VIII. Oxide of Triethylphosphine. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 603.) XII. “Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases.”— No. IX. Phospharsonium Compounds. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 608.) XIII. “Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases.” —No. X . Metamorphoses of Bromide of Bromethylated Triethylphosphonium. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 610.) XIV. “Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases.”— No. XI. Experiments in the Methyl- and in the Methylene-Series. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 613.) XV. “Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases.”— No. X II. Relations between the Monoatomic and the Polyatomic Bases. By A. W . Hofmann, LL.D., F. R. S. &c. (See p. 619.) XVI. “On the Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs.” By James N ewton Heale, M.D. Communicated by Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. Received August 28, 1860.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
L. P. Renaud ◽  
Howard W. Blume ◽  
Robert E. Kearney ◽  
Brian W. MacKenzie ◽  
Quentin J. Pittman

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