Cassini's Compositae genera: A nomenclatural and taxonomic assessment

Work on the Global Compositae Checklist has highlighted uncertainties and errors in the nomenclatural parameters of many genera and subgenera described by Henri Cassini. Problems concern rank (subgenus vs. genus); type designation; correct place of valid publication; alternative names; and other miscellaneous issues. An annotated list with correct nomenclatural information for 391 generic names or designations is provided, including types (newly designated here for 17 names) and one new combination (Gyptis tanacetifolia). The current taxonomic disposition of Cassini's genera and the accepted names for the listed typonyms are consistently mentioned. The familiar names Felicia and Chrysopsis, already conserved, are threatened by unlisted earlier synonyms, and currently used Fulcaldea turns out to be illegitimate. Proposals to deal with these problems by conservation are being presented separatel

Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century

The climate of the early nineteenth century is likely to have been significantly cooler than that of today, as it was a period of low solar activity (the Dalton minimum) and followed a series of large volcanic eruptions. Proxy reconstructions of the temperature of the period do not agree well on the size of the temperature change, so other observational records from the period are particularly valuable. Weather observations have been extracted from the reports of the noted whaling captain William Scoresby Jr., and from the records of a series of Royal Navy expeditions to the Arctic, preserved in the UK National Archives. They demonstrate that marine climate in 1810 - 1825 was marked by consistently cold summers, with abundant sea-ice. But although the period was significantly colder than the modern average, there was considerable variability: in the Greenland Sea the summers following the Tambora eruption (1816 and 1817) were noticeably warmer, and had less sea-ice coverage, than the years immediately preceding them; and the sea-ice coverage in Lancaster Sound in 1819 and 1820 was low even by modern standards. © 2010 Author(s)

The financial crisis of 1825 and the restructuring of the British financial system

Banks and banking - History ; Banks and banking - Great Britain ; Great Britain ; Financial crises - Great Britain

James Hogg

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Nueva localidad para <i>Liolaemus wiegmannii</i> (Duméril & Bibrón, 1837) en la provincia de Río Negro (Argentina)

República Argentina. Provincia de Río Negro. General Conesa. Depto. Gral. Conesa, 40º 06' 50,26" S; 64º 27' 11,10" O. Colectores: Oscar Stellatelli, María Susana Bo y Enrique Madrid. Durante un relevamiento faunístico realizado en dicha localidad los días 29 y 30 de octubre de 2011 entre las 10:00 y las 18:00 hs se colectaron a mano cuatro individuos, dos hembras adultas y dos machos adultos que fueron depositados en la Colección Herpetológica de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP 1819, UNMdP 1820, UNMdP 1821, UNMdP 1822).Asociación Herpetológica Argentina (AHA

Nueva localidad para <i>Liolaemus wiegmannii</i> (Duméril & Bibrón, 1837) en la provincia de Río Negro (Argentina)

República Argentina. Provincia de Río Negro. General Conesa. Depto. Gral. Conesa, 40º 06' 50,26" S; 64º 27' 11,10" O. Colectores: Oscar Stellatelli, María Susana Bo y Enrique Madrid. Durante un relevamiento faunístico realizado en dicha localidad los días 29 y 30 de octubre de 2011 entre las 10:00 y las 18:00 hs se colectaron a mano cuatro individuos, dos hembras adultas y dos machos adultos que fueron depositados en la Colección Herpetológica de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP 1819, UNMdP 1820, UNMdP 1821, UNMdP 1822).Asociación Herpetológica Argentina (AHA

Nueva localidad para <i>Liolaemus wiegmannii</i> (Duméril & Bibrón, 1837) en la provincia de Río Negro (Argentina)

República Argentina. Provincia de Río Negro. General Conesa. Depto. Gral. Conesa, 40º 06' 50,26" S; 64º 27' 11,10" O. Colectores: Oscar Stellatelli, María Susana Bo y Enrique Madrid. Durante un relevamiento faunístico realizado en dicha localidad los días 29 y 30 de octubre de 2011 entre las 10:00 y las 18:00 hs se colectaron a mano cuatro individuos, dos hembras adultas y dos machos adultos que fueron depositados en la Colección Herpetológica de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP 1819, UNMdP 1820, UNMdP 1821, UNMdP 1822).Asociación Herpetológica Argentina (AHA

Religious liberty in the 'liberal', 1822-23

A survey of the negative twentieth- and twenty-first-century critical reception of the Liberal; a summary of the history of the journal and a re-evaluation of the philosophical and political coherence of the journal, focusing on its defence of religious liberty and suggesting that religious free thought is a previously overlooked component in the politics of liberalism. The criticism of doctrinal rigidity and advocacy of different forms of religious toleration evident in the four issues of the Liberal support the claim that the journal forms a lucid and intelligible cultural intervention.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe