I.— On some new forms of Arachnida

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Rebirth, devastation and sickness: analyzing the role of metaphor in media discourses of nuclear power

International audienceNuclear power plays an important but controversial role in policies to ensure domestic energy security, fuel poverty reduction and the mitigation of climate change. Our article construes the problem of nuclear power in terms of social discourse, language and public choice; specifically examining the role that metaphors play in the policy domain. We empirically analyze metaphors as framing devices in nuclear energy policy debates in the UK between April 2009 and March 2013, thereby capturing the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. We employ documentary analysis of major UK national broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, using electronic bibliographic tools to extract the metaphors. We then map these metaphors using a Type Hierarchy Analysis, which examines how elements of the target domain (energy technologies and policies) originate from a different source domain. Type hierarchies identify and categorize metaphors, defining the affectual and emotional responses associated with them, providing us with grounded insight into their role in shaping discourse and as a consequence influence public engagement with energy policy. Our analysis highlights three emergent domains of discourse metaphors and discusses the implications of their deployment. Metaphors were found to be classified into three different categories: Rebirth (Renaissance), Devastation (Apocalypse, Inferno, Genie and Bomb) and Sickness (Addiction and Smoking)

XXXIX.—On doubts respecting the Existence of Bird-catching Spiders

Volume: 8Start Page: 324End Page: 32

Notice of Ceratitis citriperda, an insect very destructive to oranges

Volume: 4Start Page: 475End Page: 48

Remarks on the Identity of certain general Laws which have been lately observed to regulate the natural Distribution of Insects and Fungi

Volume: 14Start Page: 46End Page: 6

XXIV.—On the Natural Arrangement of Fishes

Volume: 9Start Page: 197End Page: 20

Notice of a new genus of Mammalia discovered by J. Stuart, Esq., in New South Wales

Volume: 8Start Page: 241End Page: 24

Modelling the Potential Distribution of the Native Woodland Resource in the Cairngorms

This paper describes the application of MLURI's natural Habitat Restoration Model to predict the distribution of NVC woodland communities in the Cairngorms Partnership Area. Approximately 60% of the area is predicted to have the potential to sustain a woodland cover, while a further 20% has the potential to have scattered scrub. W18 (Scots pine woodland with heather) has the greatest potential, reflecting the dominance of acid, freely drained, podzolic soils under fairly homogeneous slopes of heather moorland in the eastern Grampians. W11 (Upland oak-birch woodland with bluebell wild hyacinth) is projected to be the most extenive single broadleaved woodland type. The two types of montane scrub (juniper and birch/willow dominated communities) occur at high altitudes as a fringe between the woodland zone on the lower ground and the montane environment of the high tops. Future developments of the model are described and potential applications of the model to guide native woodland design under the Woodland Grant Scheme are highlighted

I. Remarks on the Comparative Anatomy of certain Birds of Cuba, with a view to their respective Places in the System of Nature or to their Relations with other Animals

Volume: 16Start Page: 1End Page: 4