A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture.

Work has 3 title-pages; 1st has at head of title: The cabinet cyclopædia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ... Useful arts; 2d has at head of title: The cabinet of useful arts. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ...; 3d is engraved and has no series note.

French furniture and decoration in the XVIIIth century,

Appendix: List of artists and workmen leaving Paris for St. Petersburg in 1716.--Spaendonck, G. van. Salons.--Oudry, J. B. Salons.--List of officials at the Gobelins.--Caffieri, J. Chronological list of his work for the crown.--Oeben and Reisener. Detailed agreement for the Bureau du roi.--Gouthière. Entries in the sale catalogue of the duke d'Aumont.--Duplessis. Entries in the livre-journal of Lazare Duvaux.--List of French cabinet-makers.

Sir Robert Peel. From his private papers.

Vol. 1 also issued under title: Sir Robert Peel. In early life, 1788-1812; as Irish Secretary, 1812-1818; and as Secretary of State, 1822-1827.

Annual report of the faculty

Mode of access: Internet.

Des origines du pouvoir ministériel de France. Les secrétaires d'etat depuis leur institution jusquʾà la mort de Louis XV

"Ce volume, tire seulement à trois cents exemplaires, est formé de deux fasciciles. Le premier ... a deja paru par articles détaches dans la Revue historique du dron français et étranger. ..."

Biennial Report

Mode of access: Internet.

Annuaire Statistique de la Ville de Paris

Successively issued by: Service de la Statistique Municipale; Service du Travail et de la Statistique Municipale; Bureau de la Statistique Départementale et Communale; Direction du Cabinet du Préfet

Moody's manual of investments : American and foreign.

1911 not published.

American gardening.

Vol. 7-11, 1886-1890, called also old series v. 14-18; v. 12-13, 1891-1892, called also old series, v. 14-15; v. 10-25, 1889-1904, called also combined series v. 43-59.

Flight into oblivion.

Maps on lining-papers.

Progress Report

Mode of access: Internet.

Geheime Geschichte des Hofes und Cabinets zu St. Cloud.

Translation of The secret history of the court and cabinet of St. Cloud.

Development of forest structure on cleared rainforest land in eastern Australia under different styles of reforestation

Rainforests in eastern Australia have been extensively cleared over the past two centuries. In recent decades, there have been increasing efforts to reforest some of these cleared lands, using a variety of methods, to meet a range of economic and environmental objectives. However, the extent to which the various styles of reforestation restore structure, composition and ecological function to cleared land is not presently understood. In this study, we develop and apply a method for quantifying the structural attributes of reforestation sites in tropical and subtropical Australia. The types of reforestation studied were plantation monocultures, mixed-species cabinet timber plots, diverse restoration plantings and unmanaged regrowth. Two age classes of reforestation were examined: 'young' (5-22 years), incorporating sites from all categories, and 'old' (30-70 years), in which only monoculture plantations and regrowth were represented. A total of 104 sites were surveyed including reference sites in intact rainforest and pasture. Intact rainforest was characterised by a suite of complex structural features including abundant special life forms (vines, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes and strangler figs), a dense stand of trees in a range of size classes, a closed canopy, a shrubby understorey and a well-developed ground layer of leaf litter and woody debris. These features were lost on conversion to pasture. While all types of reforestation returned some elements of structural complexity to cleared land, young plantation monocultures, cabinet timber plots and young regrowth had a relatively simple structure. These sites typically had a low density of woody stems, a relatively open canopy and grassy ground cover, and lacked large trees, coarse woody debris and most special life forms. Restoration plantings and old regrowth were more complex, with a high density of woody stems, a relatively closed canopy and shrubby understorey. Old monoculture plantations in the tropics had acquired many of the structural attributes of intact forest, however this was not the case in the subtropics, where plantations were subject to more intensive management. The marked differences in structural complexity between sites suggest that the different types of reforestation practiced in eastern Australia are likely to vary considerably in their value as habitat for rainforest biota. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Designing a methodology for an office communication and information system:for executives in the Malaysian public sector : the Prime Minister's office

Modern managers are under tremendous pressure in attempting to fulfil a profoundly complex managerial task, that of handling information resources. Information management, an intricate process requiring a high measure of human cognition and discernment, involves matching a manager's lack of information processing capacity against his information needs, with voluminous information at his disposal. The nature of the task will undoubtedly become more complex in the case of a large organisation. Management of large-scale organisations is therefore an exceedingly challenging prospect for any manager to be faced with. A system that supports executive information needs will help reduce managerial and informational mismatches. In the context of the Malaysian public sector, the task of overall management lies with the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The Prime Minister's Office is presently supporting the Prime Minister's information and managerial needs, although not without various shortcomings. The rigid formalised structure predominant of the Malaysian public sector, so opposed to dynamic treatment of problematic issues as faced by that sector, further escalates the managerial and organisational problem of coping with a state of complexity. The principal features of the research are twofold: the development of a methodology for diagnosing the problem organisation' and the design of an office system. The methodological development is done in the context of the Malaysian public sector, and aims at understanding the complexity of its communication and control situation. The outcome is a viable model of the public sector. `Design', on the other hand, is developing a syntax or language for office systems which provides an alternative to current views on office systems. The design is done with reference to, rather than for, the Prime Minister's Office. The desirable outcome will be an office model called Office Communication and Information System (OCIS).