Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson: A Study Based on His Journals

The revival of fine bookmaking in England during the last decades of the nineteenth century is well represented in the collection at the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse Uuiversity. The excellent work of the private presses became a major expression of the Arts and Crafts movement, led by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press. Morris\u27s work still dominates our impressions of the period. However, the movement\u27s basic purpose, to beautify useful everyday objects, resulted in books from one of the private presses as restrained in design as the others were exuberant. Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, following the same artistic tenets as William Morris, created books at the Doves Press that in their unadorned perfection became the concrete expression of their maker\u27s philosophical concept of the universe

Syracuse University Library Associates: The Early Years

This paper chronicles the beginning of the friends of the Syracuse Library group, founded in 1953, that went on to become the Syracuse Library Associates. The Associates gave a great deal of support to Syracuse over the years, and founded The Courier, among other accomplishments

Library Associates 1958-1968: The Years of Growth and Change

This article details the early history of The Courier and its support through the years by the Library Associates, written by the editor at that time, Elizabeth Mozley

Library Associates: 1968-1978 Transition and Renewal

This article chronicles the Library Associates of Syracuse University in the late 1960s thtrough the late 1970s. The Library Associates supported Syracuse University, the ongoing publication The Courier, and the construction of the Bird Library during these critical years

Reconstructing the early evolution of fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

The ancestors of fungi are believed to be simple aquatic forms with flagellated spores, similar to members of the extant phylum Chytridiomycota (chytrids). Current classifications assume that chytrids form an early-diverging clade within the kingdom Fungi and imply a single loss of the spore flagellum, leading to the diversification of terrestrial fungi. Here we develop phylogenetic hypotheses for Fungi using data from six gene regions and nearly 200 species. Our results indicate that there may have been at least four independent losses of the flagellum in the kingdom Fungi. These losses of swimming spores coincided with the evolution of new mechanisms of spore dispersal, such as aerial dispersal in mycelial groups and polar tube eversion in the microsporidia (unicellular forms that lack mitochondria). The enigmatic microsporidia seem to be derived from an endoparasitic chytrid ancestor similar to Rozella allomycis, on the earliest diverging branch of the fungal phylogenetic tree