Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Jabez Kimball, 1797 December 10

Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter to his friend Jabez Kimball on December 10, 1797. The letter was addressed to Kimball in London-Derry, where he was studying law. The letter is lighthearted, and Longfellow recounts various happenings at Harvard since Kimball's graduation the year before. Longfellow informs him of developments in Phi Beta Kappa, the Hasty Pudding Club, and his "attention to the ladies."

Mr. Cline's lectures on anatomy & surgery, 1799-1800 (inclusive)

Volume containing notes on the lectures of Henry Cline (1750-1827), a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, England, that were kept by American medical student John Collins Warren in 1799 and 1800. The lectures were on topics including blood, blood vessels, absorbents, cellular membranes, and the nerves. There are annotations in pencil in an unknown hand throughout the volume.

Kitāb ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt : manuscript, [circa 1650-1700]

On wonders of creation.

Rawda al-Ushshaq (Garden of Lovers) of Arifi, with three paintings : manuscript, ca. 1560-1575

Artist unknown.

Composition of airborne material from yellow snow fallen in the Russian North

Large amounts of dust responsible for bright colors of atmospheric precipitation in the temperate, subpolar and polar zones of the northern hemisphere have been rarely observed. In the twentieth century and in the beginning of the twenty first century in the Northern European Russia such events were not registered up to March 25-26, 2008. At that time in some parts of the Arkhangel'sk region, Komi Republic, and Nenets Autonomous Area atmospheric precipitation as sleet and rain responsible for sand- and saffron colors of ice crust formation on the snow surface was observed. During detailed mineralogical, geochemical, pollen, diatom and meteorological investigations it was established that semidesert and steppe regions of the Northwest Kazakhstan, Volgograd and Astrakhan' regions, and Kalmykia are the main sources of the yellow dust.

Diccionario historico e geographico da provincia de S. Pedro ou Rio Grande do Sul contendo a historia e a descripção da provincia em relação aos tres reinos da natureza ...

Microfiche. Louisville, Ky., Lost Cause Press, 1966. 6 sheets. 7.5 x 12.5 cm.

The Witham Shield

3 ft. 7 in.x 1 ft. 1 37/64 in.; repoussé, inlaid, engraved, coral, copper alloy

Qingxi xian zhi : 4 juan /

Ex Libris: J. F. Rock.

Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British museum. Pt. I. Testudinata (tortoises)

Accompanied by "Supplement to the Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British museum. Pt. I. Testudinata (tortoises). With figures of the skulls of 36 genera. By John Edward Gray." (ix, [1], 120 p. illus. 31 x 25 cm.) Published: London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1870.

Sovremennik.

Vol. for 1847 starts with t. 1 again.

Dazhu xian zhi : Mu lu : 40 juan, [di 41 juan : xing shi] /

Ex Libris : J. F. Rock.

Fragm. lat. I 94 - Tonarius (PL 142,1111 - 1116)

Vorbesitzer: Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main

Costs increase as ritualized fighting progresses within and between phases in the sierra dome spider, Neriene litigiosa

Magnitudes and patterns of energy expenditure in animal contests are seldom measured, but can be critical for predicting contest dynamics and understanding the evolution of ritualized fighting behaviour. In the sierra dome spider, males compete for sexual access to females and their webs. They show three distinct phases of fighting behaviour, escalating from ritualized noncontact display (phase 1) to cooperative wrestling (phase 2), and finally to unritualized, potentially fatal fighting (phase 3). Using CO2 respirometry, we estimated energetic costs of male-male combat in terms of mean and maximum metabolic rates and the rate of increase in energy expenditure. We also investigated the energetic consequences of age and body mass, and compared fighting metabolism to metabolism during courtship. All three phases involved mean energy expenditures well above resting metabolic rate (3.5 X, 7.4 X and 11.5 X). Both mean and maximum energy expenditure became substantially greater as fights escalated through successive phases. The rates of increase in energy use during phases 2 and 3 were much higher than in phase 1. In addition, age and body mass affected contest energetics. These results are consistent with a basic prediction of evolutionarily stable strategy contest models, that sequences of agonistic behaviours should be organized into phases of escalating energetic costs. Finally, higher energetic costs of escalated fighting compared to courtship provide a rationale for first-male sperm precedence in this spider species. (C) 2004 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.