Annie B. Bowers

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Satisfaction of Mortgage

Satisfaction of Mortgage between J. J. Freeze to G. M. D. Bowers and B. R. Colson. The document is dated 11 April 1914

The Isaqueena - 1906, December

Contributors include: Ola Gregory, Virginia Felder, Carrie Wideman, Eunice Gideon, H. W. B. Barnes, Pattie Bowers, Marguerite Geer, Helen D. Mauldin, Ruth Pettigrew, Sallie McGee, Bertha Eubankshttps://scholarexchange.furman.edu/isaqueena/1006/thumbnail.jp

The Isaqueena - 1906, December

Contributors include: Ola Gregory, Virginia Felder, Carrie Wideman, Eunice Gideon, H. W. B. Barnes, Pattie Bowers, Marguerite Geer, Helen D. Mauldin, Ruth Pettigrew, Sallie McGee, Bertha Eubankshttps://scholarexchange.furman.edu/isaqueena/1006/thumbnail.jp

Letter from the Trustees of Dixieland College to Theophilus Brown Larimore

Letter to Theophilus Brown Larimore from the Trustees of Dixieland College. The letter is dated 31 March 1913 and outlines nine points that the trustees wished to communicate to T. B. Larimore. G. M. D. Bowers was the chairman and B. R. Colson was the secretary of the board

1 May 1913 property agreement

Agreement between G. M. D. Bowers, W. W. Colson, and B. R. Colson to hold Dixieland Park land for Theophilus Brown Larimore. The one-page typewritten document is dated 1 May 1913

[Warranty Deed to a piece of property sold by J. J. and Emma Freeze to G. M. D. Bowers and B. R. Colson as trustees]

Warranty deed to a piece of property sold by J. J. and Emma Freeze to G. M. D. Bowers and B. R. Colson as trustees of Dixieland College. The deed is dated 28 September 1912

[Unsigned agreement to hold land unchanged for Larimore]

Unsigned agreement on Our Florida Friend letterhead where G. M. D. Bowers, W. W. Colson, and B. R. Colson agree to hold land for Theophilus Brown Larimore unchanged. The agreement is one-page typewritten and dated 1 May 1913

Freeze Tract statement

Duplicate copy of Statement of the purchase of the FREEZE TRACT of land by G. M. D. Bowers and B. R. Colson, Gainesville, Florida. The statement is dated 11 April 1914 and is on letterhead from the Alachua County Abstract Company located in Gainesville, Florida

Decoration supplementation and male–male competition in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis): a test of the social control hypothesis

Many animals use signals to communicate their social status to conspecifics, and the social control hypothesis suggests that social interactions maintain the evolutionary stability of status signals: low-quality individuals signal at a low level to prevent high-quality individuals from “punishing” them. I examined whether the numbers of decorations at bowers are socially controlled in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis). In two populations, I supplemented males with decorations to determine whether they (a) rejected supplemental decorations and (b) experienced increased bower destruction from rivals. In contrast to the social control hypothesis, males in both populations accepted most supplemental decorations. Though the mean destruction rate did not increase during supplementation in either population, one of the study populations (Townsville) exhibited a negative correlation between the numbers of decorations naturally displayed at bowers and the change in destruction rate during the experiment. Townsville males that naturally had few decorations at their bowers also had more decorations stolen by other males during supplementation than males that naturally had many decorations. These results suggest that the numbers of decorations at bowers are an honest signal of the male's ability to defend his display site from rivals in at least one population of the great bowerbird (Townsville), but they do not support the social control hypothesis because males at both sites failed to limit signal expression. I discuss how the external nature of bower decorations and their availability in the environment may influence the costs and benefits of decoration theft and social control