A voyage round the world : including an embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837 /

Published also in London with title: Narrative of a voyage round the world.

American Unitarianism : or, a brief history of "The progress and present state of the Unitarian churches in America" : compiled from documents and information communicated by the Rev. James Freeman, D. D. and William Wells, Jun. Esq. of Boston, and from other Unitarian gentlemen in this country /

Extracted from the author's "Memoirs of the life of the Reverend Theophilus Lindsey" printed in London, 1812, and now published for the benefit of the Christian churches in this country without note or alteration.

A sermon preached in King's chapel, November 22, 1835, the Sunday after the funeral of the Rev. James Freeman, D. D.,

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Ancient geography, as connected with chronology, and preparatory to the study of ancient history; accompanied with an atlas. Compiled chiefly from D'Anville, Adam, Lavoisne, Malte Brun, and other standard works. To which are added problems on the globes, and rules for the construction of maps. To accompany the modern geography by William C. Woodbridge.

Bound with Woodbridge, W.C. A system of universal geography. Hartford 1835.

A list of master's theses, 1920-1962, the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

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Lives of the brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William.

Each biography has also special t.-p.: Alexander von Humboldt: a biographical monument. By Professor Klencke. Tr. from the German, by Juliette Bauer; Life of William von Humboldt. Tr. and abridged from the German of Schlesier, by Juliette Bauer.

Panama canal tolls : Speech of Hon. William Kent, of California, in the House of Representatives May 21, 1912.

Reprinted from the Congressional record.

Memoir of John William Draper. 1811-1882.

"Publications of John William Draper": p. 383-388.

The life of Sir George Pomeroy--Colley, K. C. S. I., C. B., C. M. G., 1835-1881;

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Letters of William von Humboldt to a female friend.

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Data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification: environmental and experimental context of data sets and related literature

The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

Effects of protected area downsizing on habitat fragmentation in Yosemite National Park (USA), 1864 – 2014

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) has been documented worldwide, but its impacts on biodiversity are poorly understood. To fill this knowledge gap, we reviewed historical documents to identify legal changes that altered the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. We identified two downsizes and five additions between 1905 and 1937 that reduced the size of Yosemite National Park by 30%. To examine the effects of these downsizing events on habitat fragmentation by roads, we compared protected, never-protected, and downsized lands at three spatial scales using four habitat fragmentation metrics: road density, fragment (land surrounded by roads) area-to-perimeter ratio, fragment area, and fragment density. In general, lands that were removed from protection, e.g., downsized, were more highly fragmented than protected lands and indistinguishable from never-protected lands. Lands where downsizes were reversed were less fragmented than lands where downsizes were not reversed. These results suggest that protected area downsizing may exacerbate habitat fragmentation, a key contributor to biodiversity loss globally. Furthermore, the case study in Yosemite National Park demonstrates that iconic protected areas in developed countries are not immune to downsizing. These findings underscore the need to account for PADDD and governance histories in ecological research, monitoring, and evaluation. As we move toward more evidence-based conservation policy, a rigorous understanding of PADDD is essential to ensure that protected areas fulfill their promise as a strategy for conserving global biodiversity.