Oxford studies in social and legal history

Mode of access: Internet.

United States. Report on the constitution, attributes, and legal status of "trusts" in the United States. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. July, 1890.

Mode of access: Internet.

Administrative and legal source materials workbook /

"BLM-AZ-AE-88-001-2000."

Current labor market conditions in engineering, scientific, and technical occupations

Title varies slightly

Scientific and technical personnel in the Federal Government

Mode of access: Internet.

Standard for descriptive cataloging of government scientific and technical reports.

Mode of access: Internet.

The farmer's guide to scientific and practical agriculture : detailing the labors of the farmer, in all their variety, and adapting them to the seasons of the year as they successively occur /

Includes index.

Plant names, scientific and popular, including in the case of each plant the correct botanical name in accordance with the reformed nomenclature,

Mode of access: Internet.

The boy's own book. A complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific, and recreative of boyhood and youth ...

Contains added engr. t.-p.

DDT : a review of scientific and economic aspects of the decision to ban its use as a pesticide : prepared for Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives.

Includes bibliographies.

Speciation of Antechinus stuartii and A. subtropicus (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae) in eastern Australia: molecular and morphological evidence

This paper evaluates the systematic status of the Antechinus populations of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, using a combined morphological and molecular (allozymes and mitochondrial DNA) approach. Analysis of the d-loop section of the mitochondrial DNA control region revealed two highly supported clades within A. stuartii sensu lato that were sympatric in the Border Ranges of northern New South Wales. However, genetic distances between these clades were small ( approximately 3%), indicating that time of divergence was probably relatively recent. Allozyme electrophoresis also showed very small differences between clades/ species. Analyses of cranial and dental characters showed that the members of each of these clades differed morphologically and that the clades corresponded to A. stuartii and the recently described A. subtropicus. The combined results support the species status of A. stuartii and A. subtropicus, and suggest that speciation was likely a result of a recent vicariant event.

Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease

Disease in wildlife raises a number of issues that have not been widely considered in the bioethical literature. However, wildlife disease has major implications for human welfare. The majority of emerging human infectious diseases are zoonotic: that is, they occur in humans by cross-species transmission from animal hosts. Managing these diseases often involves balancing concerns with human health against animal welfare and conservation concerns. Many infectious diseases of domestic animals are shared with wild animals, although it is often unclear whether the infection spills over from wild animals to domestic animals or vice versa. Culling is the standard means of managing such diseases, bringing economic considerations, animal welfare and conservation into conflict. Infectious diseases are also major threatening processes in conservation biology and their appropriate management by culling, vaccination or treatment raises substantial animal ethics issues. One particular issue of great significance in Australia is an ongoing research program to develop genetically modified pathogens to control vertebrate pests including rabbits, foxes and house mice. Release of any self-replicating GMO vertebrate pathogen gives rise to a whole series of ethical questions. We briefly review current Australian legal responses to these problems. Finally, we present two unresolved problems of general importance that are exemplified by wildlife disease. First, to what extent can or should 'bioethics' be broadened beyond direct concerns with human welfare to animal welfare and environmental welfare? Second, how should the irreducible uncertainty of ecological systems be accounted for in ethical decision making?