Calendario para el Reyno de Valencia...: Año 1844

Microfilme. Valencia: BV, ca. 1990

A vueltas con el fraude científico en la figura y obra ornitológica de José Arévalo Baca (1844-1890)

En un artículo anterior nos planteamos si el catedrático José Arévalo Baca había cometido un fraude científico con la publicación de su obra Aves de España (1887) (Reig-Ferrer, 2014). Las sospechas y pruebas de utilización de diverso tipo de material de autoría que no cita, ni reconoce o ningunea, así como la apropiación de observaciones ajenas, sitúa su libro como la obra de una persona de comportamiento científico poco ejemplar, en lo que podríamos denominar un naturalista tóxico. Lo que podía haber sido una obra señera de la ornitología ibérica se convirtió en manos de una persona poco preparada, y peor documentada, en un trabajo de escasa calidad, un trabajo científico obsoleto y defectuoso. Se repasan aquí nuevas pruebas y documentos que ayudan a centrar la naturaleza e importancia real de la obra ornitológica de Arévalo Baca, así como advertir en las publicaciones de su principal biógrafo y apologista, Manuel Garrido Sánchez, algunos aspectos reprochables y malas prácticas.

Address of the Trustees of a London Charity School to the Parent of a proposed scholar, 1776 June 24

This two-and-a-half-page handwritten document contains a copy of a set of rules for a parent of a school identified as "Saint Mary Rotherhith United Society."

Payment order for Joseph Belknap on behalf of Samuel Sewall, 1776 July 1

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Joseph Belknap for use by student Samuel Sewall (Harvard AB 1776), signed by Charles Chauncey, Jonathan Williams, and Daniel Marsh. The student's name is spelled "Samuel Sewal" in the document.

Quarter bill book for the Classes of 1776-1779, 1775

Three folded sheets containing quarter bill tallies for the Classes of 1776-1779 for the quarters ending on March 1775, June 1775, and September 1775, with totals for all students in each category also provided.

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, 1775-1776

This is a small, paper-bound "waste book" containing minutes taken by the Secretary pro tempore, Samuel Cooke, at meetings held on the following dates: July 31, 1775; August 8, 1775; August 22, 1775; September 5, 1775; October 3, 1775; October 23, 1775 (fragmentary); November 5, 1775; April 16, 1776; and April 23, 1776. Because these meetings took place during the American Revolutionary War, they were held in the "Council chamber at Watertown."

Meeting minutes maintained by the Secretary, May 7, 1776; June 4, 1776; and July 2, 1776

Because the Secretary was absent from the May 7, 1776 meeting, John Winthrop was chosen as Secretary pro hac vice (for that occasion only). Samuel Cooke, Secretary pro tempore, recorded the minutes for the June 4, 1776 meeting, and the minutes from the July 2, 1776 meeting are in an unknown hand.

Annotated almanac, 1776

Almanac with one interleaved page and minimal annotations of household activities on the calendar pages in the hands of John and Hannah Winthrop. The interleaved page contains a monthly accounting for January -December 1776 by John Winthrop of payment received in his capacity as a Judge of Probate. Common entries include "Probat at Concord," "citation,"and "will & warrant."

A Chaldee grammar, founded upon the writings of Daniel and Ezra, ca. 1776

This manuscript grammar notebook, written in Chaldean Aramaic and English, appears to have originally belonged to William Bentley (Harvard A.B. 1777); Bentley's name and a date, "December 1776," appear on the volume but have been struck through, and the handwriting appears to be his. The names of Elisha Parmele and Polly Parmele are also on the volume; presumably it was given to Elisha by Bentley, and upon Elisha's death in 1784 it was passed to Polly.