Chemical egg defense in a green lacewing (Ceraeochrysa smithi)

The green lacewing Ceraeochrysa smithi (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), like other members of its family, lays its eggs on stalks, but it is unusual in that it coats these stalks with droplets of an oily fluid. The liquid consists of a mixture of fatty acids, an ester, and a series of straight-chain aldehydes. Relative to the eggs of a congeneric chrysopid that lacks stalk fluid, the eggs of C. smithi proved well protected against ants. Components of the fluid, in an assay with a cockroach, proved potently irritant. Following emergence from the egg, C. smithi larvae imbibe the stalk fluid, thereby possibly deriving nutritive benefit, defensive advantage, or both.

Letter from Samuel Willard, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Solomon Willard, Petersham, September 8, 1802

Willard reports that President Willard “has so far recovered,” and explains that he has changed his vacation plans from Lancaster to Cambridge “as it is excellent weather for studying.” He complains about shoes that were sent to him and also about having a lack of money, and requests that he be sent his woolen coats. He also informs his brother that he has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and asks for money to pay the dues.

Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiæ parte

per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio.

Grain size composition of sediment cores from the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Sedimentary processes in the southeastern Weddell Sea are influenced by glacial-interglacial ice-shelf dynamics and the cyclonic circulation of the Weddell Gyre, which affects all water masses down to the sea floor. Significantly increased sedimentation rates occur during glacial stages, when ice sheets advance to the shelf edge and trigger gravitational sediment transport to the deep sea. Downslope transport on the Crary Fan and off Dronning Maud and Coats Land is channelized into three huge channel systems, which originate on the eastern-, the central and the western Crary Fan. They gradually turn from a northerly direction eastward until they follow a course parallel to the continental slope. All channels show strongly asymmetric cross sections with well-developed levees on their northwestern sides, forming wedge-shaped sediment bodies. They level off very gently. Levees on the southeastern sides are small, if present at all. This characteristic morphology likely results from the process of combined turbidite-contourite deposition. Strong thermohaline currents of the Weddell Gyre entrain particles from turbidity-current suspensions, which flow down the channels, and carry them westward out of the channel where they settle on a surface gently dipping away from the channel. These sediments are intercalated with overbank deposits of high-energy and high-volume turbidity currents, which preferentially flood the left of the channels (looking downchannel) as a result of Coriolis force. In the distal setting of the easternmost channel-levee complex, where thermohaline currents are directed northeastward as a result of a recirculation of water masses from the Enderby Basin, the setting and the internal structures of a wedge-shaped sediment body indicate a contourite drift rather than a channel levee. Dating of the sediments reveals that the levees in their present form started to develop with a late Miocene cooling event, which caused an expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and an invigoration of thermohaline current activity.

Histoire de Bresse et de Bugey : contenant ce qui s'y est passé de memorable sous les Romains, roys de Bourgongne & d'Arles, empereurs, sires de Baugé, comtes & ducs de Sauoye, & roys tres chrestiens, iusques à l'eschange du marquisat de Saluces : auec les fondations des abbayes, prieurés, chartreuses & eglises collegiales, origines des villes, chasteaux, seigneuries, & principaux fiefs & genealogies de toutes les familles nobles ... /

Includes indexes.

The makers of Canada,

[v. 15] Papineau, Cartier; by A.D. de Celles. [1904]--[v. 16] Egerton Ryerson, By N. Burwash. [1903] Selkirk, by Rev. G. Bryce. see Mackenzie.--[v. 17] John Graves Simcoe, by C. Scott. 1905.--[v. 18] Lord Sydenham, by A. Shortt. 1908. Simpson, by Rev. G. Bryce. see Mackenzie. Tilley, by J. Hannay. see Wilmot.--[v. 19] Wilmot and Tilley, by J. Hanney. 1907.--[v. 20] Wolfe and Montcalm, by the Abbé H.R. Casgrain. 1905.--[v. 21] Burpee, L.J. ed. Index and dictionary of Canadian history, ed. by L.J. Burpee ... and A.G. Doughty . 1911.

Dvcvm Brabantiae chronica /

Engraved printer's device on t.p. (compasses), woodcut version on last p. Etched arms of Albrecht, Grand Duke of Austria, to whom with Isabella of Austria his consort the work is dedicated. Bound in before A1 is folded map of Brabant, dated 1599. Ill. are full-length ports. of the dukes of Brabant, with their coats of arms. Head and tail pieces, initials.

How to make a coat /

Mode of access: Internet.

Masters' History of the College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the University of Cambridge. /

Spine title: History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Distaff descent.

An account of the Martin and Price families.

De origine, moribus & rebus gestis Scotorum libri decem : e quibus septem veterum Scotorum res in primis memorabiles contractius ... : accessit nova & accurata regionum & insularum Scotiæ, cum vera ejusdem topographia tabula descriptio /

Numbers 475-488 repeated in paging.

Lettres de madame de Sévigné, de sa famille et de ses amis,

Vols. 13, 14: "Lexique de la langue de madame de Sévigné, avec une introduction grammaticale et des appendices, par E. Sommer. Ouvrage qui a remporté le prix au concours de 1866 à l'Académie française," Paris, 1866 (special title-pages)

J. Siebmacher's grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch : in Verbindung mit Mehreren, neu herausgegeben und mit heraldischen und historisch-genealogischen Erläuterungen /

Title-pages vary slightly.

Corografia portuguesa, e descripçam topografica do famoso reyno de Portugal : com as noticias das fundações das cidades, villas, & lugares, que contem : varões illustres, genealogias das familias nobres, fundações de conventos, catalogos dos bispos, antiguidades, maravilhas da natureza, edificios, & outras curiosas observaçoes /

Title-pages printed in red and black; woodcut title vignettes (coats of arms, and a printer's device); woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials.

Westmonasterium. Or the history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster, containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it. Together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians; & the lives of the deans to this time. An also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723; with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands...

Each volume contains a list of subscribers, together with their coats of arms.