Stratford hall and the Lees connected with its history; biographical, genealogical and historical,

Mode of access: Internet.

Hoffman Family collection.

Offprint on the "Jews in Altenmuhr" by Wielfried Jung. Manuscript commissioned by Richard Hoffman "A History of the Hoffman Family in Germany and the United States (1988). Pictures of Kleinbardorf and Massbach. Biographical material on Benjamin Hoffman. Democratic Party leaflet for Rebecca Hoffman. Report on family of David Louis Hoffman. Notes on the Heinemann branch. Manuscript by Douglas Hoffman "A History of Economic and Social Change in the Hoffman Family."

John Rogers: the compiler of the first authorised English Bible; the pioneer of the English reformation; and its first martyr. Embracing a genealogical account of his family, biographical sketches of some of his principal descendants, his own writings, etc. etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Mather family /

Issued with Cranfield, R. Memoir of Thomas Cranfield, of London. Boston, 1846.

First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?

The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji ( Lipotes vexillifer), an obligate freshwater odontocete known only from the middle-lower Yangtze River system and neighbouring Qiantang River in eastern China, has long been recognized as one of the world's rarest and most threatened mammal species. The status of the baiji has not been investigated since the late 1990s, when the surviving population was estimated to be as low as 13 individuals. An intensive six-week multivessel visual and acoustic survey carried out in November-December 2006, covering the entire historical range of the baiji in the main Yangtze channel, failed to find any evidence that the species survives. We are forced to conclude that the baiji is now likely to be extinct, probably due to unsustainable by-catch in local fisheries. This represents the first global extinction of a large vertebrate for over 50 years, only the fourth disappearance of an entire mammal family since AD 1500, and the first cetacean species to be driven to extinction by human activity. Immediate and extreme measures may be necessary to prevent the extinction of other endangered cetaceans, including the sympatric Yangtze finless porpoise ( Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis).

Additional Beckwith notes : including Avery, Ely, Gilbert, Holmes, Lee, Smith (Nehemiah, Richard, and Simon), Southerland, Wightman, and Williams families, with miscellaneous historical data ... /

Includes index.

Cedric Gael Bryant, Lee Family Professor of English

Cedric Gael Bryant, Lee Family Professor of English, reading Beloved: A Novel, by Toni Morrison (PS3563 O8749 B4 1987)

The letters of Richard Henry Lee,

Photocopy.

Minnie Lee Garrison Papers - Accession 291 - M124 (157-158)

The Minnie Lee Garrison Papers consist of genealogy materials relating to the Oates and Cherry families; letters and a poetry journal kept by Minnie Lee Garrison (1882-1942) while a student at Winthrop (Class of 1905); newspaper clippings concerning Ms. Garrison who was the first home extension agent in York County; survey or map of a tract of land in Rock Hill that was owned by a member of the Oates family; and other genealogical records.