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Eric Fitch Daglish (1892–1966): naturalist, illustrator, author and editor | Archives of Natural History
Eric Fitch Daglish (1892–1966) was a naturalist by inclination, a free-lance author and editor in business and, by practice, a wood-engraver of high repute. Taught wood-engraving skills by Paul Nas...
The states and printing history (1861–1864) of John Henry Gurney's A descriptive catalogue of the raptorial birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum | Archives of Natural History
The first and only part published of A descriptive catalogue of the raptorial birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum by John Henry Gurney (senior) is usually dated 1864. But a copy with a variant ...
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Translating Direction: Illustrations in Native and Translated Japanese Children's Literature | International Research in Children's Literature
This paper examines the interaction of the visual and verbal texts for picture books and illustrated chapter books published in Japan. Japanese picture books are produced in both left-to-right and ...
Tongue-tied Democracy: The Bind of National Language in Tocqueville and Derrida | Derrida Today
My paper examines Derrida's attempts to resist, on the one hand, what he thought of as the increasing international hegemony of American English as the technolanguage of communication, and, on the ...
Audubon's famous banding experiment: fact or fiction? | Archives of Natural History
John James Audubon has been hailed as the progenitor of bird banding in America, but the high rate of natal philopatry in banded Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) that he reported is an outlier whe...
SSPD 2020 Programme and Presentations | Sensor Signal Processing for Defence
Detection and Identification of Radar Waveforms in Electronic Warfare context, Antoine Foucault.
Nicolas Venette's Traité du rossignol (1697) and the discovery of migratory restlessness | Archives of Natural History
We identify the little known, anonymous author of a treatise on nightingales, Traité du rossignol, as Nicolas Venette (1633–1698), a physician based in La Rochelle, France. As well as writing about...
The ornithological observations of James Parsons Burkitt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland | Archives of Natural History
James Parsons Burkitt (1870–1959), a civil engineer and County Surveyor of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, was one of the pioneers of modern ornithology. He was an experienced field ornithologist when...