The Rev. John Bowle's Quixotic Woes Further Explored

Las Anotaciones de Bowle, que le han merecido elocuentes elogios de parte de los cervantistas, llegaron a ser objeto de un ataque feroz por parte de Giuseppe Baretti. Éste formó una alianza de rencor con John Cruickshanks, antiguo capitán en la Armada Británica y, más recientemente, entrañable amigo y dedicado colaborador de Bowle, por haber sufrido ambos por parte de él, y de una manera muy pública, una falta de sensibilidad y de buen juicio personal que tenía forzosamente que provocar un resentimiento profundo. Se rastrean aquí las causas y etapas del creciente enfrentamiento entre Bowle y los otros dos, aprovechándose, entre otros, de materiales de suma rareza existentes en la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford. Todo culminó en el Tolondron de Baretti, libro lleno de desprecio y oprobio por la labor que había ocupado a Bowle durante tantos años. Un amigo de Bowle escribió que Tolondron le había causado una profunda pena, minándole la salud y abreviándole la vida, pero no antes de que perdiera la amistad de su colaborador más apreciado, John Dillon: otra obra de sus dos antagonistas

Annual Report of the Farm Management Service for Veterans Taking On-the-Farm Training in Southwestern Minnesota 1947

Farm Management,

Dynamics of leprosy in Nine-Banded Armadillos: Net reproductive number and effects on host population dynamics

Leprosy (or Hansen’s disease) remains an important public health challenge globally, with an estimated 5.5 million total number of cases and 200,000–300,000 new cases reported annually. The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is the only known natural non-human vertebrate host of Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy, in the Americas, yet gaps in knowledge remain regarding the dynamics of leprosy in wild populations. Here, we used data from a six-year study of a population of armadillos in Mississippi, USA to quantify the influence of leprosy on armadillo population dynamics, and to investigate leprosy dynamics within the host population. Leprosy reduced annual survival of adult armadillos by ∼15%, and growth rate of the population by ∼13%. The annual infection rate for adult armadillos (i.e., probability that a non-leprous adult armadillo seroconverts, conditional on survival) was 0.18, with no possibility of recovery. Assuming frequency-dependent transmission of leprosy, 18% to 25% of the adult armadillos will acquire leprosy infection in the long run. Finally, the basic reproductive ratio (R0) was 1.36, suggesting 36% increase in seroprevalence per leprosy generation. Assuming that leprosy generation time is 3–5 years, M. leprae will spread within the armadillo population at the rate of 7–12% per year. Our results are consistent with recent evidence that leprosy infection in armadillos in the USA is spreading rapidly with a concomitant increase in risk for zoonotic transmissions