Muqaddimah fī al-shudūd al-ḥarīr al-khāliṣah wa-bayʻihā li-man yalbasuhā / lil-Shaykh ʻUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī : manuscript, 1760

Unbound.

Central Asia on New Delhi's Geostrategic Radar. EUCAM Commentary No. 18, October 2011

Central Asia today holds much strategic interest for India as an emerging 21st Century regional and global power. Despite being a latecomer in what some see as a new ‘Great Game’, New Delhi is keen to reconstruct the ‘Silk Route’. While Indo-Central Asian relations go back to antiquity when cultural, commercial and political ties thrived, post-independence India was physically cut off from Afghanistan and West Asia. It remained embroiled in domestic preoccupations and the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, all of which led to a limited foreign policy until the early nineties and a belated rediscovery of the region.

Spatial distribution of key zooplankton species using continuous plankton recorder (CPR) data from the North Atlantic (2000-2009)

The continuous plankton recorder (CPR) survey is an upper layer plankton monitoring program that has regularly collected samples, at monthly intervals, in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas since 1946. Water from approximately 6 m depth enters the CPR through a small aperture at the front of the sampler and travels down a tunnel where it passes through a silk filtering mesh of 270 µm before exiting at the back of the CPR. The plankton filtered on the silk is analyzed in sections corresponding to 10 nautical miles (approx. 3 m**3 of seawater filtered) and the plankton microscopically identified (Richardson et al., 2006 and reference therein). In the present study we used the CPR data to investigate the current basin scale distribution of C. finmarchicus (C5-C6), C. helgolandicus (C5-C6), C. hyperboreus (C5-C6), Pseudocalanus spp. (C6), Oithona spp. (C1-C6), total Euphausiida, total Thecosomata and the presence/absence of Cnidaria and the Phytoplankton Colour Index (PCI). The PCI, which is a visual assessment of the greenness of the silk, is used as an indicator of the distribution of total phytoplankton biomass across the Atlantic basin (Batten et al., 2003). Monthly data collected between 2000 and 2009 were gridded using the inverse-distance interpolation method, in which the interpolated values were the nodes of a 2 degree by 2 degree grid. The resulting twelve monthly matrices were then averaged within the year and in the case of the zooplankton the data were log-transformed (i.e. log10 (x+1).

The athenaeum.

1830-1921, The Athenæum ... (Subtitle varies).

Ornament in European silks /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dell' origine e de' progressi dell' Instituto delle scienze di Bologna : e di tutte le accademie ad esso unite, con la descrizione delle più notabili cose, che ad uso del mondo letterario nello stesso Instituto si conservano : operetta in grazia degli eruditi /

Signatures: A-G⁸ H⁴.

[Calligraphic specimen, 1205?, i.e. 1790 or 1791?].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) of Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).

Report of the Tariff commission .

Vol. 1, pt. 1 of v. 2, and v. 3 are complete reports. The remaining volumes are each an analysis and summary of the industry studied. Full reports on these industries were not published.

Trade agreement digests. Prepared for use in connection with trade agreement negotiations.

Some of the vols. Issued in pts.

A Chance medley of legal points and legal stories.

Includes index.

A treatise on printing and dyeing silks : shawls, garments, bandanas, and piece goods, in the different colours /

Spine title: McKernan on printing and dyeing silks.

Recent improvements in textile machinery /

Spine title (pt. 3): Wool, cotton, silk from fibre to fabric.

Nuova macchina per la trattura della seta di Giannantonio Santorini : descritta per commissione de S.E. il signor Ministro dell' interno del regno d'Italia.

Detailed description of a silk reeling machine invented by Santorini.

Recent improvements in textile machinery /

Spine title (pt. 3): Wool, cotton, silk from fibre to fabric.

Panel with Hunting Scene

1 ft. 11 5/8 in.x 1 ft. 6 7/64 in.x 63/64 in.; silk, flat metal thread; cut and voided velvet