Coates's herd book.

Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.

The novels and stories.

v. 1. The late Mrs. Null.--v. 2. The Squirrel Inn. The Merry Chanter.--v. 3. Rudder Grange.--v. 4. The hundredth man.--v. 5. Ardis Claverden.--v. 6. The great war syndicate. The stories of the three burglars. The knife that killed Po Hancy. Dusky philosophy.--v. 7. The house of Martha.--v. 8. Pomona's travels. Euphemia among the pelican's. The Rudder Grangers in England. Pomona's daughter.--v. 9. The adventures of Captain Horn.--v. 10. Mrs. Cliff's yacht.--v. 11. The great stone of Sardis. The water-devil.--v. 12. The girl at Cobhurst.--v. 13. The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine. The vizier of the two-horned Alexander.--v. 14. The associate hermits.--v. 15. Stories. [v.]1: The lady or the tiger? The discourager of hesitancy. The transferred ghost. The spectral mortgage. Every man his own letter-writer. Thar same old coon. Our story. Derelict. On the training of parents. A borrowed month. The baker of Barnbury. The watchmaker's wife.--v. 16. Stories. [v.]2: A tale of negative gravity. Asaph. The remarkable page. The Cloverfield's carriage. A story of assisted fate. My bull-calf. As one woman to another. Our fire-screen. My terminal moraine. Plain fishing.--v. 17. Stories. [v.]3: The griffin and the minor canon. Old Pipes and the dryad. The bee-man of Orn. The queen's museum. The clocks of Rondaine. Christmas before last; or, the fruit of the fragile palm. Prince Hassak's march. The battle of the third cousins. The banished king. The philopena. Amos Kilbright: his adscititious experiences. The Christmas shadrach. The bishop's ghost and the printer's baby. The philosophy of relative existences.--v. 18. Stories. [v.]4: The magic egg. "His wife's deceased sister." The widow's cruise. Captain Eli's best ear. Love before breakfast. The staying power of Sir Rohan. A piece of red calico. The Christmas wreck. My well and what came out of it. Mr. Tolman. My unwilling neighbor. Our archery club.--v. 19. Afield and afloat: The Buller-Podington compact. The romance of a mule-car. The governor-general. Old Applejoy's ghost. Struck by a boomerang. The skipper and El Capitan. "Come in, new year." A sailor's knot. The great staircase at Landover Hall. The ghosts in my toewer. The landsman's tale.--v. 20. Kate Bonnet: the romance of a pirate's daughter.--v. 21. John Gayther's garden.--v. 22. The captain's toll-gate.--v. 23. A bicycle of Cathay. With a memorial sketch of Mr. Stockton and a bibliography of his works.

Hu

Metalwork, Chinese, Western Zhou; 1 ft. 5 29/32 in.x 1 ft. 63/64 in.; bronze

Ewer

Metalwork, Islamic, Abbasid; 11 39/64 in.x 6 11/16 in.; brass, cast, chased and hammered

Ding with tortoise-shell diaper pattern

3 15/16 in.x 5 53/64 in.; bronze

Illinois landowner's guide to amphibian conservation /

The purpose of this guide is twofold. First, the guide provides a brief overview of the amphibians of Illinois, including aspects of their life histories and distributions. Second, technical guidance is given to resource managers, planners, restorationists, and private landowners in Illinois who wish to create, enhance and manage habitat for amphibians.

Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry /

Variant issue: series title on half title; errata slip inserted at p. [ix].

Little Red Riding-Hood, and other stories, based on the tales in the 'Blue fairy book,'

Little Red Riding-Hood.--Toads and diamonds.--Snow-white and Rose-red.--Hansel and Grettel.--The brave little tailor.

When vicars meet: A narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic phylogeographic lineages of the rainforest skink, Carlia rubrigularis

Phylogeographic analyses of the fauna of the Australian wet tropics rainforest have provided strong evidence for long-term isolation of populations among allopatric refugia, yet typically there is no corresponding divergence in morphology. This system provides an opportunity to examine the consequences of geographic isolation, independent of morphological divergence, and thus to assess the broader significance of historical subdivisions revealed through mitochondrial DNA phylogeography. We have located and characterized a zone of secondary contact between two long isolated (mtDNA divergence > 15%) lineages of the skink Carlia rubrigularis using one mitochondrial and eight nuclear (two intron, six microsatellite) markers. This revealed a remarkably narrow (width < 3 km) hybrid zone with substantial linkage disequilibrium and strong deficits of heterozygotes at two of three nuclear loci with diagnostic alleles. Cline centers were coincident across loci. Using a novel form of likelihood analysis, we were unable to distinguish between sigmoidal and stepped cline shapes except at one nuclear locus for which the latter was inferred. Given estimated dispersal rates of 90-133 m x gen(-1/2) and assuming equilibrium, the observed cline widths suggest effective selection against heterozygotes of at least 22-49% and possibly as high as 70%. These observations reveal substantial postmating isolation, although the absence of consistent deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium at diagnostic loci suggests that there is little accompanying premating isolation. The tight geographic correspondence between transitions in mtDNA and those for nuclear genes and corresponding evidence for selection against hybrids indicates that these morphologically cryptic phylogroups could be considered as incipient species. Nonetheless, we caution against the use of mtDNA phylogeography as a sole criterion for defining species boundaries.

Testosterone secretion and pharmacological spermatozoal recovery in the cane toad (Bufo marinus)

The cane toad (Bufo marinus) was used as a model to study male anuran reproductive endocrinology and to develop a protocol for non-invasive sperm recovery. Circulating testosterone concentrations in 6-hourly samples did not vary significantly (P < 0.05) over a 24 h period although there was a tendency (P = 0.06) for testosterone to be elevated at 19:00 h relative to other times of the day, which may be related to the nocturnal activity pattern of this species. Testosterone secretion after intraperitoneal (IP) injection of either a GnRH agonist (5 mu g IP) or hCG (1000 IU) was also examined. While the GnRH agonist did not produce a significant increase above basal plasma testosterone (0.29, 95% C.I. of 0.05-1.10 ng/ml), injection of hCG resulted in an increase (P < 0.01) of plasma testosterone with peak concentrations at approximately 120 min (4.17, 95% C.I. of 2.69-7.44 ng/ml) after injection. Non-invasive pharmaceutical sperm recovery was attempted following IP injection of graded doses of GnRH agonist, hCG or FSH. Urine was collected at 3, 6 and 12 h after treatment to assess sperm quality and quantity. The optimal protocol for sperm recovery in cane toads was injection of either 1000 or 2000 IU hCG; there was no significant difference in the quality of the spermic urine samples obtained using either dose of hCG or with respect to collection time. The findings indicated that hCG can be used to assess testicular steroidogenic status and also to induce sperm recovery in the cane toad. The hCG protocols developed in this study will have application in studies on the reproductive biology of rare and endangered male anurans. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Effect of soil type on burrowing behavior and cocoon formation in the green-striped burrowing frog, Cyclorana alboguttata

This study examined the effect of soil type on burrowing behaviour and cocoon formation during aestivation in the green-striped burrowing frog, Cyclorana alboguttata (Gunther, 1867). Given a choice, frogs always chose to burrow in wet sand in preference to wet clay. Frogs buried themselves faster and dug deeper burrows in sandy soil. However, under my laboratory conditions, there was little difference in the pattern of soil drying between the two soil types. Frogs in both sand and clay soil experienced hydrating conditions for the first 3amonths and dehydrating conditions for the last 3amonths of the 6-month aestivation period, and cocoons were not formed until after 3amonths of aestivation. After 6amonths, there were more layers in the cocoons of frogs aestivating in sand than those aestivating in clay. Frogs were able to absorb water from sandy soil with water potentials greater than -400akPa, but lost water when placed on sand with a water potential of -1000akPa.

Short- and long-term consequences of thermal variation in the larval environment of anurans

To survive adverse or unpredictable conditions in the ontogenetic environment, many organisms retain a level of phenotypic plasticity that allows them to meet the challenges of rapidly changing conditions. Larval anurans are widely known for their ability to modify behaviour, morphology and physiological processes during development, making them an ideal model system for studies of environmental effects on phenotypic traits. Although temperature is one of the most important factors influencing the growth, development and metamorphic condition of larval anurans, many studies have failed to include ecologically relevant thermal fluctuations among their treatments. We compared the growth and age at metamorphosis of striped marsh frogs Limnodynastes peronii raised in a diurnally fluctuating thermal regime and a stable regime of the same mean temperature. We then assessed the long-term effects of the larval environment on the morphology and performance of post-metamorphic frogs. Larval L. peronii from the fluctuating treatment were significantly longer throughout development and metamorphosed about 5 days earlier. Frogs from the fluctuating group metamorphosed at a smaller mass and in poorer condition compared with the stable group, and had proportionally shorter legs. Frogs from the fluctuating group showed greater jumping performance at metamorphosis and less degradation in performance during a 10-week dormancy. Treatment differences in performance could not be explained by whole-animal morphological variation, suggesting improved contractile properties of the muscles in the fluctuating group.

Symmetric operating point for increasing the extinction ratio of semiconductor based optical loop mirrors

Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexors (TOADs) use a semiconductor optical amplifier in an interferometer to create an all-optical switch and have potential uses in many optical networking applications. Here we demonstrate and compare experimentally a novel and simple method of dramatically increasing the extinction ratio of the device using a symmetrical configuration as compared to a ‘traditional’ configuration. The new configuration is designed to suppress the occurrence of self-switching in the device thus allowing signal pulses to be used at higher power levels. Using the proposed configuration an increase in extinction ratio of 10 dB has been measured on the transmitted port whilst benefiting from an improved input signal power handling capability.