Pollen, women, war and other things : reflections on the history of palynology

I am grateful to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien; KVA), Stockholm, for hosting the conference at which the themes in this paper were presented. For archival material, I appreciate access to (and the assistance of): Gunnar Erdtman papers, Center for History of Science, KVA (Maria Asp); Thomas Woodhead papers, Kirklees Museums and Galleries (Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield; Chris Yates); Harold Hyde papers, Botany Section Correspondence, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales (Heather Pardoe); Kathleen Blackburn papers, Natural History Society of Northumbria Archive, Great North Museum (Hancock), Newcastle upon Tyne (Alan Hart); material concerning Florence Campbell James, Aberystwyth University (Julie Archer). Richard Bradshaw, Paul Buckland, Andrew Cameron, Peter Coxon, Egill Erlendsson, Michael Grant, Alan Hart, Angus Lunn, Limi Mao, Heather Pardoe, Ed Schofield and Richard West are thanked for advice and assistance. I appreciate the constructive comments on a draft of this paper by John Birks. Jenny Johnston assisted with artwork.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Shieling activity in the Norse Eastern Settlement : palaeoenvironment of the 'Mountain Farm', Vatnahverfi, Greenland

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The biogeographical status of Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursch in sub-Arctic southern Greenland : Do pollen records indicate local populations during the past 1500 years?

The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. We also thank the referees for their constructive comments that helped to improve the paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

A multiple profile approach to the palynological reconstruction of Norse landscapes in Greenland's Eastern Settlement

Acknowledgments The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. Gordon Cook provided radiocarbon dates. Thanks are also due to Andy McMullen for botanical identifications and assistance in the field, and to Sikuu Motzfeld for hospitality during fieldwork. We are also grateful to Emilie Gauthier, Mike Kaplan, Pete Langdon and Alan Gillespie for their comments.Peer reviewedPostprin

Competing hypotheses, ordination and pollen preservation : landscape impacts of Norse landnám in southern Greenland

We thank the Leverhulme Trust for financial support, and Gordon Cook and staff at SUERC for the provision of radiocarbon dates. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers and Shinya Sugita for valuable comments which improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPostprin

James Croll and 1876 – an exceptional year for a ‘singularly modest man’

I am very appreciative for the provision of information, and permission to publish, from a number of individuals and institutions: Rachel Hart, Keeper of Manuscripts and Muniments and Deputy Head of Special Collections, University of St Andrews; Vicky Hammond, formerly Journals and Archives Officer, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Virginia Mills, Archivist and Katherine Marshall, Picture Curator, Royal Society of London; Douglas Braaten, Chief Scientific Officer and Ellis Rubinstein, President Emeritus, New York Academy of Sciences; Sally Boardman, Intellectual Property Rights, British Geological Survey; Fabienne Michaud, Head of Library and Information Services, the Geological Society of London. Laura Brassington, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and two anonymous referees are thanked for their constructive comments on the manuscript. Open Access via Cambridge Press agreementPeer reviewedPublisher PD

High-resolution palynology reveals the land-use history of a Sami renvall in northern Sweden

Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust through the Footprints on the Edge of Thule project, and was written under the auspices of the ERC-funded project Arctic Domus. Thanks are offered to Audrey Innes for laboratory assistance; Ian Foster for 210Pb dating; Gordon Cook for AMS radiocarbon analyses; and Martin Konert and the late Sjoerd Bohncke for assistance with LOI and related analyses. The comments of Tim Mighall, Jeff Blackford, Mari Kuoppamaa, two anonymous referees and the editor helped to improve the paper.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Understanding Hope: A Review of Measurement and Construct Validity Research

Hope has been discussed by philosophers, theologians, educators, and scientists, to name but a few groups of people, over the preceding two millennia. During the last 15 years, C. R. Snyder and his colleagues at the University of Kansas have developed a theory and associated measures of the hope construct that have received extensive, detailed attention both within and outside the field of psychology. In this chapter, we describe Snyder\u27s hope model and some of the research findings that have supported the validity of this construct. Beginning with a conceptual definition of hope, we move to relevant findings about the usefulness of hope in the lives of individuals in various life arenas. We describe measures developed for assessing hope in children and adults, as well as current issues associated with the validity of hope measurement. Finally, we discuss future directions for further investigation of hope

Centenary of the Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen

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How palynology could have been paepalology : the naming of a discipline

For access to archival information, we would like to thank Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales (Hyde papers and correspondence), Nigel Morgan of Cardiff University Library, Maria Asp and the Center for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Pia Östensson and the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Erdtman papers), along with those bodies granting permission to use the portrait photographs. We are grateful to Anne Bryan for the photograph of her father (D.A. Williams) and the valuable background information, to Angela Lord for advice on Greek orthography and to Pat Wiltshire for Pitman shorthand interpretation. We are indebted to Richardson’s former colleague, Nick Fisher, for drawing the Starkie autobiography to our attention. The Royal Irish Academy, the Classical Association (Claire Davenport) and Trinity College Dublin (Aisling Lockhart) provided additional information on Richardson. We are appreciative of comments from Ed Schofield and Evan Zimroth on an early draft of the paper, to two referees, and we thank Jim Riding for his encouragement.Peer reviewedPostprin