Elizabeth Finklea Florey Research Collection on Richard Henry Stone, MSS.4098

Abstract: Research papers on Richard Henry Stone, author of In Afric's Forest and JungleScope and Content Note: The collection contains Elizabeth Finklea Florey's research papers (photocopies) on Richard Henry Stone, author of In Afric's Forest and Jungle. Stone published his work in 1899, and in 2001, Florey published a revised edition.Biographical/Historical Note: R. H. (Richard Henry) Stone, born on July 17, 1837, was a Southern Baptist missionary to the Yoruban people in Nigeria, Africa, from 1858-1863. He married Susan James Broaddus on October 21, 1858. The couple had seven children: Lizzie, Lucy, Richard, James, Mary, Ellen, and John. During the Civil War Stone was an unattached chaplain in the Confederate Army drawing his pay and rations from General Gordon's headquarters. He wrote In Afric's Forest and Jungle: or Six years among the Yorubans in 1899. He died on October 3, 1915

Drawing Inspirations

This exhibition looks at the relationship of drawing to an artists work. Curated by Alex McErlain who first explored this theme in 2007 with an exhibition called 'Firing Thoughts' shown at Manchester School of Art - a ceramics focused show, Drawing Inspirations looks at the broader field of practice and examines the myriad approaches that constitute the meaning of drawing to the artist and how their work is conceived and developed. Drawing as a conceptual tool for thinking and creative development also acts as a means of translation and interpretation in material substance. Drawing is viewed as a foundational additive or reductive process to work with material

What influences the timing of the introduction of solid food to infants?

The aim of the present study was to assess the factors which may influence the timing of the introduction of solid food to infants. The design was a prospective cohort study by interview and postal questionnaire. Primiparous women (n 541) aged between 16 and 40 years were approached in the Forth Park Maternity Hospital, Fife, Scotland. Of these, 526 women agreed to participate and seventy-eight were used as subjects in the pilot study. At 12 weeks we interviewed 338 women of the study sample. The postal questionnaire was returned by 286 of 448 volunteers. At 12 weeks 133 of 338 mothers said that they had introduced solids. Those that said that they had introduced solids early (12 weeks) by bivariate and multiple regression analysis. Psychosocial factors influencing the decision were measured with the main outcome measure being the time of introduction of solid food. The early introduction of solids was found to be associated with: the opinions of the infant's maternal grandmother; living in a deprived area; personal disagreement with the advice to wait until the baby was 4 months; lack of encouragement from friends to wait until the baby was 4 months; being in receipt of free samples of manufactured food. Answers to open-ended questions indicated that the early introduction appeared to be influenced by the mothers’ perceptions of the baby's needs. Some of the factors influencing a woman's decision to introduce solids are amenable to change, and these could be targeted in educational interventions