Bryan Family Letters (SC 3583)

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3583. Letters of the Bryan and associated families of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most are written to Tennessee “Tennie” Bryan and come from friends, relatives, and ardent male admirers. Two correspondents write during their Civil War Confederate service (Click on Additional Files below for typescripts) and a cousin, Fannie Parkhurst, writes from Vermont. Fannie also writes to her cousin Byron in Illinois about local news and her studies, school teaching, social activities and abhorrence of intemperance; she gossips about local courtships and mentions Byron’s brother Sherman, who she would marry after Byron’s death in Union service during the Civil War. Includes the 1832 will of James Adams of Montgomery County bequeathing land to Tennie’s parents; he also recommends the sale of one of his enslaved African Americans, “Jo,” to a certain buyer or to such other buyer as Jo may choose

Carmichael Family Papers (MSS 467)

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 467. Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous material from several related families: Standrod, Campbell, and Carmichael. Includes a claim made after the Civil War for compensation for an enslaved man who joined the Union Army (Click on Additional Files below)

Germination of the seeds of lettuce using the aquaponic method

The present article shows the data about the germination of the seeds of lettuce wetted with various kinds of water, namely, tap water, water from the river, water from fish tanks, and that from a well. The germination rate of the seeds wetted with the tap water was 94 %, with the water from the river — 97 %, and with the water from the well — 99 %. The highest germination rate was observed in the sample wetted with the water from a fish tank; it reached 100 %. At the end of the experiment the sprouts in the test samples 2.2 times exceeded the reference, by 69.0 and 63.7 %, respectively, which is evidence that germination of the seeds wetted with the water from a fish tank, from the river, and from the well accelerates germination of lettuce seeds. At the end of germination, the average number of leaves in the third and the fourth groups exceeded the reference value by 13.6 %; and in the second group, the number of leaves was greater by 11.4 % than in the reference group. This is evidence that the shoots wetted with the water from the river and a fish tank developed most intensively

O acervo colonial das Comissões Geológicas de Portugal, 1857-1918 : nota preliminar

No decurso da exploração científica dos antigos territórios portugueses em África, foram chegando à Comissão Geológica do Reino, com regularidade crescente, diversas colecções de rochas, minerais e fósseis. Esse acervo foi sendo estudado e publicado, permitindo identificar e esboçar, à distância, a distribuição das principais formações geológicas presentes. O reconhecimento da sua importância para a compreensão da geologia das colónias e da África austral no seu todo, levou à constituição, em 1905, de um núcleo colonial do Museu Geológico, que se manteve até meados da década de setenta (séc. XX)

MSS0395. Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee document collection finding aid

The collection comprises business and personal correspondence, deeds, receipts, depositions, promissory notes, estate inventories, and medical remedies from Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee, mostly from the nineteenth century

Physiological phytopathology: Origin and evolution of a scientific discipline

In 1860, the German biologist Anton de Bary (1831-1888) elucidated the life cycle of the pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora infestans, which causes late blight in potatoes and was responsible for severe famines during the 1840s. In a book on this topic published 150 years ago, DE BARY (1861) established the scientific discipline of physiological plant pathology. Here we summarize the life and scientific achievements of Anton de Bary, who coined the terms “symbiosis” and “parasitism”, with reference to Charles Darwin’s (1809-1882) principle of descent with modification by means of natural selection. Then, we outline de Bary’s discovery of the cause of the wheat stem rust disease, which is attributable to infections with the fungus Puccinia graminis. Since ongoing pathogen-host plant co-evolution is well documented in nature, we conclude that “Nothing in phytopathology makes sense except in the light of Darwinian evolution”. Finally, we describe the value of basic research in the plant sciences with reference to practical applications, such as the maintenance and enhancement of crop yields and food quality

The Kansas Pocket Maps of Otis B. Gunn and David T. Mitchell: A Case of Nineteenth-Century Promotional Cartography

Engineer Otis B. Gunn and surveyor, land agent, and lawyer David T. Mitchell each created a map of Kansas and its surrounding lands in 1859. By 1861 the two men were working together to publish Gunn & Mitchell's New Map of Kansas. Scott McEathron, of the T. R. Smith Map Collection at the University of Kansas Libraries, explores the publishing history of the 1861 map and its subsequent editions, which were published until 1866. He suggests that the primary market for the map was immigrants seeking land in eastern Kansas and secondarily participants of the Colorado gold rush

Counter-Devices of Moving Image: The Werner Nekes Collection

If we trace an archaeological perspective on the history of moving image, we will invariably find innumerable visual devices that both belong to the field of science and that have become popular optical toys. Allowing therefore to put in discussion if the nature of cinematic experience is in fact rooted historically in cinema, since this is a diffuse experience, synthesized in devices that wanted to give back anima to what had previously been fixed in an image. It is for this precise reason that it is particularly pertinent to approach in this context the Werner Nekes' collection of optical devices, because it possesses unique qualities as an archive that condenses the history of visual media, cross-referencing it with visual culture in its popular expression, as well as with the universe of fine arts and contemporary art

Les dispositifs de médiation dans le passage de l’architecture au cinéma

Le passage comme type architectural du XIXe siècle et le cinématographe comme mode spécifique de représentation du tournant du siècle dernier sont des dispositifs de médiation permettant aux individus d'inscrire leur rapport au monde dans des processus apparentés et complémentaires l'un de l'autre. Notre réflexion portera ici sur les rapports entre ces deux dispositifs qui, quoique hétérogènes à plusieurs égards, participent, chacun à leur façon, à la structuration des individus.The passage (a narrow street lined with shops) as an architectural type of the XIXth century and the cinematograph as a specific mode of representation which appeared at the end of the last century are both apparatuses of mediation which permit individuals to inscribe their relation to the world in interrelated, complementary processes. In this article we will consider the relationships between these two apparatuses, which, though different in many ways, both participate in their own fashion in the structuring of individuals