scholarly journals Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856 : including a journey to the capital : with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people /

1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

The Minister and His People

1908 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Phillips Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Free Will ◽  
William James ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The University ◽  
Phillips Brooks

The Faculty of the Harvard Divinity School provided for their students in 1883 six lectures by oflBcers of the University representing other departments of government and instruction, as follows:The Minister and the People: Phillips Brooks, D.D., of the Board of Overseers.The Evolution of a Christian Minister: J. F. Clarke, D.D., of the Board of Overseers.One Word more about Free-Will: William James, M.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy.Plato's Idea of Immortality: W. W. Goodwin, LL.D., Professor of Greek.The Natural History of Altruism: N. S. Shaler, S.D., Professor of Palaeontology.Vivisection: H. P. Bowditch, M.D., Professor of Physiology, and Dean of the Medical Faculty.

2. On the Natural History of Lewis

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 615-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duns
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Indigenous Plants ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The People ◽  
Outer Hebrides ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Moral Condition ◽  
The University

Comparatively little attention has been given to the natural history of Lewis. Stray notices of the geology, botany, and zoology of the Outer Hebrides are to be met with, but, with one or two exceptions, these are not of much value. Martin's “Description of the Western Islands (1703),” is chiefly interesting for its full account of the industrial and moral condition of the people. Little, however, can be made of his incidental references to the natural history of the islands. Two volumes on the “Economical History of the Hebrides,” by Rev. Dr Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, were published in 1808, after Dr Walker's death. This work contains a good deal of information on indigenous plants, but almost none on zoology. Dr Maculloch's “Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (3 vols., 1819)” is in every way an abler and better work than either of the two now named. Its notices of the geology and mineralogy of the Outer Hebrides are even still valuable.

scholarly journals Science, Fashion, Knowledge and Imagination: Shopfront Natural History in 19th-Century Sydney

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Coote
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Natural history dealers' shops offered colour, interest and occasional sensation to the people of mid-nineteenth century Sydney. This essay examines the nature of shop-front natural history enterprise in this period, and its significance in the history of the city and the wider colony. It begins by discussing dealers and their businesses, going on to argue for the role both played in the ongoing process of colonisation. In particular, it highlights the contribution made to those aspects of territorial appropriation which were taking place in the imaginations of Sydney's inhabitants.

Some evidence for a Dark Age trading site at Bantham, near Thurlestone, South Devon

1955 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Fox
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Market Town ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Bantham is a small hamlet in the parish of Thurlestone, South Devon, five miles west of the market town of Kingsbridge. During the summer of 1953, to celebrate the Coronation, the people of Bantham arranged an exhibition of material illustrating their village history. The organizer, Mrs. Clare Fox, asked me to help in identifying some ‘Roman’ pottery and other objects that had been collected from the sand-dunes at the mouth of the river Avon near by, by Mr. H. L. Jenkins of Clanacombe in the late nineteenth century. The finds had been presented subsequently to the Torquay Natural History Society's Museum by Mrs. M. Radcliffe, his daughter-in-law, and were lent by the museum for the Bantham exhibition. The finds were found to include fragments of imported amphorae of Dark Age date, similar to those found at Garranes and Tintage and therefore to merit wider recognition. I am much indebted to Mrs. Fox for guidance to the site and for the history of the discoveries; to the Council and Curator (Mr. A. G. Madden) of the Torquay Museum for the loan of the objects; to Miss Theo Brown for their illustration; to my husband Cyril Fox for help with the map (fig. 5); and to Mr. G. C. Dunning for his description and drawing of the medieval finds.

Quest for Permanence in the Tropics: Portuguese Bioprospecting in Asia (16th-18th Centuries)

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines G. Županov ◽  
Ângela Barreto Xavier
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
British Experience ◽  
The Tropics

The history of agricultural, botanical, pharmacological, and medical exchanges is one of the most fascinating chapters in early modern natural history. Until recently, however, historiography has been dominated by the British experience from the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, with Kew Gardens at the center of the “green imperialism.” In this article we address the hard-won knowledge acquired by those who participated in early modern Portuguese imperial bioprospecting in Asia. The Portuguese were the first to transplant important economic plants from one continent to another, on their imposing colonial chessboard. In spite of this, the history of Portuguese bioprospecting is still fragmentary, especially with respect to India and the Indian Ocean. We argue not only that the Portuguese—imperial officials, missionaries, and the people connected with them, all living and working under the banner of the Portuguese empire—were interested in gathering knowledge but also that the results of their endeavors were relevant for the development of natural history in the early modern period and that they were important actors within the larger community of naturalists.

Robert Plot: Britain's 'genial father of county natural histories'

1985 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Small Area ◽  
Great Benefit ◽  
Regional Study ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Natural Histories ◽  
John Leland

Robert Plot (1640—1696) has deservedly been called the ‘genial father of County Natural Histories in Britain’ for his work in this Field. Like his friend John Aubrey, Plot was interested in promoting useful knowledge, emphasizing how his own work would contribute ‘to the great benefit of Trade, and advantage of the People’. Also like the famous Aubrey he was interested in the supernatural and therefore he included accounts of occult phenomena in his natural histories. His Natural History of Oxfordshire, published after a lengthy period when natural history was still experiencing some difficulty in firmly superseding the chorographic element in the field of regional study, was chiefly responsible for popularizing regional natural history. It was deliberately intended by its author to supplement the ‘Civil and Geographicall Historys’ which up to that time still managed to exert an influence on the field as a whole. These ‘Civil and Geographicall Historys’ were generally called ‘chorographies’ by most of Plot’s fellow virtuosi, a name originally derived from the Classical Greek art of chorography whose purpose, according to Ptolemy, was to treat the geography and history of a relatively small area of the Earth’s surface. This genre was practiced by W illiam Camden, John Leland and other sixteenth and early seventeenth-century men, who adapted it to their own particular purposes. Plot, however, was one of the first ‘regional writers’ to discard many of the methods and interests of the chorographers, preferring rather to scientifically investigate the natural history.

scholarly journals Grundtvigs skoleverden ved K. E. Bugge

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-94
Author(s):  
Søren Holm
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
General Education ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Solid Piece

Grundtvigs skoleverden, i tekster og udkast. Ed. by K. E. Bugge. I—II.Rev. by Søren HolmThis edition is a collection of the most important parts of Grundtvig’s writings on education, and it has been made by a very competent editor. Mr. Bugge knows Grundtvig’s ideas as well as their historical background, the selection is reasonable, and the get-up is very attractive. Grundtvig’s belief in the spoken word was too strong for him to trust a particular method. Methods may be delusions and mistakes, and, like forms of government, they belong to specific periods. In “Lærebog i verdenshistorien for de tvende øverste klasser i Schouboes Institut” ( 1807) (A History of the World for the two Upper Forms in Schouboe’s School), which he dictated to the pupils, his view on examinations is quite sober: they should be kept in mind, but our real aims are higher. In the same period Grundtvig says about country schools that the villager has the same ultimate objectives as other people. He does not have the time to ponder everything, but then he is entitled to demand that other people should make their results accessible to him. He needs geography rather than natural history. But the clergymen, who were to be the pioneers of knowledge, seem to be more interested in farming. Judging from his “Leksjons- og karakterbog for den unge Stensen Leth” (Report on the lessons of young Stensen Leth) from 1806—here published for the first time—Grundtvig appears to have done a solid piece of work for his salary at Egeløkke. - Several of the later essays are concerned with “the school at Sorø”, others with universities, education of the people, citizenship, and general education. Grundtvig’s capacity for work was inconceivable.

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