Favorite recipes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Tongue-ticklers from Austria; being a book of choice recipes,

Mode of access: Internet.

Excavating contractor.

Latest issue consulted: Vol. 83, no. 12 (Dec. 1989).

Police communications manual /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lieutenant William Barton of Morris County, New Jersey, and his descendants.

Privately printed.

G. Mennen Williams with Martin Luther King and Horace Sheffield

[Horace Sheffield is to left of Governor Williams]

Estate of C.W. Seabury...Planting plan.

Red, black ink on linen; location, types, amounts of plantings; gardens, pool, seats, steps (?); residence by White and Christie; signed; 61 x 57 cm.; Scale: 1" = 10' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Plan for grounds of Mr. J.F. Skinner.

Ink on linen; location, type of plantings, tennis court, pool, seats; cross-section of pool area; signed; 62 x 59 cm.; Scale: 1" = 10' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

A planting plan for the grounds of Mr. D.M. Yates and Mr. Norman Smith.

Ink on linen; location, type, amounts of plantings; pond, footpaths, seats; signed; 77 x 54 cm.; Scale: 1" = 10' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

MAGGnet: an international network to foster mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gases.

Research networks provide a framework for review, synthesis and systematic testing of theories by multiple scientists across international borders critical for addressing global-scale issues. In 2012, a GHG research network referred to as MAGGnet (Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Network) was established within the Croplands Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). With involvement from 46 alliance member countries, MAGGnet seeks to provide a platform for the inventory and analysis of agricultural GHG mitigation research throughout the world. To date, metadata from 315 experimental studies in 20 countries have been compiled using a standardized spreadsheet. Most studies were completed (74%) and conducted within a 1-3-year duration (68%). Soil carbon and nitrous oxide emissions were measured in over 80% of the studies. Among plant variables, grain yield was assessed across studies most frequently (56%), followed by stover (35%) and root (9%) biomass. MAGGnet has contributed to modeling efforts and has spurred other research groups in the GRA to collect experimental site metadata using an adapted spreadsheet. With continued growth and investment, MAGGnet will leverage limited-resource investments by any one country to produce an inclusive, globally shared meta-database focused on the science of GHG mitigation.

Niagara Falls Park: Notice to Treat to Sutherland Macklem, Esquire, 1885

The Niagara Parks Commission administrative headquarters are located in Oak Hall which is on the cliff above Dufferin Islands. In 1798 this land was granted by the crown to United Empire Loyalist James Skinner until 1898. A century later it was the home of the Clarks, Streets and Macklems. These families controlled the mills of Bridgewater which was a pioneer industrial village located at Dufferin Islands. Then, it was known as Clark Hill. Colonel Thomas Clark, commander of the Second Lincoln Militia in the War of 1812 is the earliest known occupant of the house. When Clark died in 1837, the house went to Thomas Clark Street who was the son of the Colonel’s partner. Mr. Street was a bachelor and his sister, widow of Dr. T.C. Macklem, managed his household. Mrs. Macklem had 2 sons. The eldest son drowned in the Niagara River at the age of 8 and the younger son, Sutherland became heir to the estate. Mr. Macklem opened Cynthia Islands and Cedar Island to the public and had roads built to reach them. Two suspension bridges connected them to the mainland and tolls were charged on the bridges. The improvements to the land cost Macklem $18,962. He called the bridges “Bridge Castor” and “Bridge Pollux”. There was also an office built at the end of Bridge Castor. Macklem also spent $454 fixing up the Burning Spring Building (the burning spring is enclosed in a barrel which collects gas and lets it out through a tube at the top). Macklem received a yearly income of $56,378.79 from tourists and visitors. In 1887 Cynthia Islands and Cedar Island were deeded to the crown and became part of Queen Victoria Park. The name Cynthia was changed to Dufferin in honour of Lord Dufferin. Sources: www.niagarafrontier.com/parks.html www.niagarafrontier.com/burningsprings.html