Bibliothèque britannique.

Description based on: [Vol. 16, no 1] ([janv. 1801]); title from volume t.p.

Voyage de Henri Swinburne dans les Deux Siciles, en 1777, 1778, 1779 et 1780 /

Translated by Jean-Benjamin de Laborde--Cf. Barbier.

Guida alle cascine, e vigne del territorio di Torino e' suoi contorni /

Imprint in vol. 2 colophon: Torino 1791. Presso i libraj Guibert, ed Orgeas ... [e] Ignazio Giuseppe Genova ...

The practice in the courts of law and equity in Virginia /

Includes index.

Pelham, or, The adventures of a gentleman.

In original boards, with paper labels on spines.

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.

The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.

Each vol. has a separate index.

The works of Shakespeare /

"The text ... from MacBeth [v. 31] onwards has been edited by Mr. Walter Raleigh" note in v. 38.

Neue Bilder Gallerie für junge Söhne und Töchter zur angenehmen und nützlichen Selbstbeschäftigung aus dem Reiche der Natur, Kunst, Sitten, und des gemeinen Lebens.

Begun under the editorship of Johann Daniel Friedrich Rumpf, continued by Carl Lang. Cf. Holzmann & Bohatta.

Commercii epistolici Leibnitiani : ad omne genus eruditionis, praesertim vero ad illustrandam integri propemodum seculi historiam literariam apprime facientis : per partes publicandi, tomus prodromus, qui totus est /

Bound in contemporary vellum, tooled in gold on spines. All edges sprinkled red.

History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America /

Includes indexes.

The letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne /

SPEC: Vol. 1: xiv, 303, [1] p. ; v. 2: [4], 295, [1] p.

Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts;

Bookplate of W. S. Appleton.

Urea based osmoregulation and endocrine control in elasmobranch fish with special reference to euryhalinity

Since the landmark contributions of Homer Smith and co-workers in the 1930s there has been a considerable advance in our knowledge regarding the osmoregulatory strategy of elasmobranch fish. Smith recognised that urea was retained in the body fluids as part of the 'osmoregulatory ballast' of elasmobranch fish so that body fluid osmolality is raised to a level that is iso- or slightly hyper-osmotic to that of the surrounding medium. From studies at that time he also postulated that many marine dwelling elasmobranchs were not capable of adaptation to dilute environments. However, more recent investigations have demonstrated that, at least in some species, this may not be the case. Gradual acclimation of marine dwelling elasmobranchs to varying environmental salinities under laboratory conditions has demonstrated that these fish do have the capacity to acclimate to changes in salinity through independent regulation of Na+, Cl- and urea levels. This suggests that many of the presumed stenohaline marine elasmobranchs could in fact be described as partially euryhaline. The contributions of Thomas Thorson in the 1970s demonstrated the osmoregulatory strategy of a fully euryhaline elasmobranch, the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, and more recent investigations have examined the mechanisms behind this strategy in the euryhaline elasmobranch, Dasyatis sabina. Both partially euryhaline and fully euryhaline species utilise the same physiological processes to control urea, Na+ and Cl- levels within the body fluids. The role of the gills, kidney, liver, rectal gland and drinking process is discussed in relation to the endocrine control of urea, Na+ and Cl- levels as elasmobranchs acclimate to different environmental salinities. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Redescription of the gnathostome fish fauna from the mid-Palaeozoic Silverband Formation, the Grampians, Victoria

Gnathostome vertebrate remains from fine-grained sandstones of the Silverband Formation in the Grampians, Victoria include dissociated fin spines, scales and teeth. These elements arc assigned herein to the acanthodians Sinacanthus? micracanthus (fin spines) and Radioporacanthodes sp. cf. R. qujingensis (scales and tooth whorls). This fauna indicates a Late Silurian (?late Ludlow) age for the vertebrate-beating Stratum. Under current systematic groupings, the two gnathostome taxa from the Silverband Formation belong to two different families, the Sinacanthidae and the Poracanthodidae. However. the preserved association could indicate that the three element types derived from the same biological species. The possibility that the Sinacanthidae is a sister group to the Climatiidae and the Poracanthodidae is raised by this scenario. The Sinacanthidae is tentatively reassigned to the Acanthodii, as it is considered to lack diagnostic chondrichthyan characters.