A Handbook of the Mosquitoes of North America—Their structure ; How they live; How they carry disease; How they may be studied; How they may be controlled; How they may be identified—By Robert Matheson, Professor of Entomology, Cornell University; Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois—Baltimore, Maryland; price, $5.50 post paid.

1930 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
Arthur Gibson
Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/dlll ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 73-139
Author(s):  
Scott Gwara

Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.


2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Vine

Since 2015, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has designed and delivered eight2 one-to-two day liaison institutes to participants from a dozen ARL libraries across North America. Modelled on the 2015 institute held at Cornell University,3 institutes are designed for liaison librarians, functional specialists, and managers who engage regularly with faculty, students, and academic administrators. Participants work in small groups to understand the changing landscape of librarian-faculty engagement by examining possible future scenarios for research libraries by placing themselves “in the shoes” of specific user groups to understand their needs and challenges. Through those insights, they consider new and needed ways to advance teaching and research excellence at their local institutions.


1952 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
John C. Martin

In revising the genus Triaspis Haliday, as found in North America north of Mexico, the author studied an undescribed species from Mexico. This form is a parasite of Apion godmani Wagner, a weevil of economic importance. This paper provides a name and a description for this new parasite.The author is most grateful to Dr. V. S. L. Pate of Cornell University for his helpful criticism of the manuscript, and also to Mr. C. F. W. Muesebeck of the U.S. National Museum for the loan of material, and to Dr. Arthur C. Smith of Cornell University for the specimens collected while he was studying the biology of the host in Mexico.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wood

First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of Baalbek are a remarkable record of an expedition to the Levant by three antiquarians - Robert Wood, John Bouverie and James Dawkins - along with a draftsman, Giovanni Battista Borra. With over 100 engravings of the classical architecture of the two ancient cities of Palmyra and Baalbek, the volumes represent the earliest-known examples of monographs on archaeological sites. They were unique in providing systematic discussion of the sites’ physical and human geography alongside two kinds of pictorial evidence: views of the ancient sites in their then-present state and detailed plans, with measurements, of architectural features. This new approach was immediately copied by antiquarians in the later 18th century and also had great influence upon Neoclassical architecture in Britain, Europe and North America. This new edition features reproductions of all the engravings from the original publications and includes a new introduction by noted scholar, Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University, USA).


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