Repeated flood events and fossil forests at Curio Bay (Middle Jurassic), New Zealand

During the Middle Jurassic, the regional environment of Curio Bay, southeast South Island, New Zealand, was a fluvial plain marginal to volcanic uplands. Intermittent flashy, poorly-confined flood events buried successive conifer forests. With the termination of each flood, soils developed and vegetation was reestablished. In most cases, this developed into coniferous forest. In approximately 40 m of vertical section, 10 fossil forest horizons can be distinguished, highlighting a type of fluvial architecture which is poorly documented. Flood-basin material is minimal, but a short-Lived floodbasin lake is inferred to have developed within the interval of study. Paleocurrent indicators suggest enclosure of the basin on more than one side. Sedimentation style suggests a relatively dry (less than humid but not arid) climate with seasonal rainfall. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

[Illustration de Musicus curio sus oder Battalus, der Voruitzige Musicant...] / [Non identifié] ; Johann Kuhnau, aut. du texte

Comprend : [ Frontispice. Scène dans un jardin. Homme à son instrument : accordage d'un clavecin ? XVIIè siècle.] [ Cote : BNF B 43435. ]

The Curio.

"An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to genealogy and biography, heraldry and book-plates, coins and autographs, rare books and works of arts, old furniture and plate and other colonial relics."

Three new species of Isospora Schneider, 1881 (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the lesser seed-finch, Oryzoborus angolensis (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) from Brazil

Three new coccidian (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) species are reported from the lesser seed-finch, Oryzoborus angolensis from Brazil. Sporulated oocysts of Isospora curio n. sp. are spherical to subspherical; 24.6 × 23.6 (22-26 × 22-25) mum, shape-index (SI, length/width) of 1.04 (1.00-1.15). Oocyst wall is bilayerd, ~ 1.5 mum thick, smooth and colourless. Micropyle and oocyst residuum are absent. The sporocysts are ovoid, 13.2 × 10.9 (15-17 × 10-13) mum, SI = 1.56 (1.42-1.71), with a small Stieda body and residuum composed of numerous granules scattered among the sporozoites. Sporozoites are elongated and posses a smooth surface and two distinct refractile bodies. Oocysts of Isospora braziliensis n. sp. are spherical to subspherical, 17.8 × 16.9 (16-19 × 16-18) mum, with a shape-index of 1.06 (1.00-1.12) and a smooth, single-layered wall ~ 1 mum thick. A micropyle, oocyst residuum and polar granules are absent. Sporocysts are ellipsoid and slightly asymmetric, 13.2 × 10.8 (12-14 × 9-12) mum, SI = 1.48 (1.34-1.61). Each sporocyst contains a barely visible Stieda body and a residuum composed numerous of granules. Sporozoites are elongated and each of them contains two distinct refractile bodies. Oocysts of Isospora paranaensis n. sp. are subspherical to broadly ellipsoid 24.3 × 19.8 (22-26 × 18-22) mum, SI = 1.22 (1.15-1.38) with smooth single-layered wall ~ 1.5 mum thick. A micropyle and oocyst residuum are absent, but one distinct ellipsoid polar granule (2.5-3.5 × 1.5-2.5 mum) is present. Sporocyst are ovoid, 15.7 × 10.1 (14-18 × 8-12) mum, SI = 1.46 (1.31-1.72), with distinct Stieda and sub-Stieda bodies. Each sporocyst contains a spherical sporocyst residuum, 4 mum in diameter. All described isosporan species represent a possible cause of acute coccidiosis for O. angolensis in captivity.

De conservanda bona valetudine opusculum Scholae Salernitanae ([Reprod.]) / cum Arnoldi Novicomensis, medici & philosophi antiqui enarrationibus utilissimis ; denuo recognitis & auctis per Joan. Curionem & Jacob Crellium

[Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (latin). 1553]

The human thalamus processes syntactic and semantic language violations

Numerous linguistic operations have been assigned to cortical brain areas, but the contributions of subcortical structures to human language processing are still being discussed. Using simultaneous EEG recordings directly from deep brain structures and the scalp, we show that the human thalamus systematically reacts to syntactic and semantic parameters of auditorily presented language in a temporally interleaved manner in coordination with cortical regions. In contrast, two key structures of the basal ganglia, the globus pallidus internus and the subthalamic nucleus, were not found to be engaged in these processes. We therefore propose that syntactic and semantic language analysis is primarily realized within cortico-thalamic networks, whereas a cohesive basal ganglia network is not involved in these essential operations of language analysis.

Annotationes Philippi Melanchthonis in Euangeliu[m] Matth[a]ei iam recens in gratiam studiosorum editae.

Erasmus, Desiderius, m. 1536. Exomologesis siue modus confitendi. Basileae : apud Ioannem Frob., 1524. [72] h. : il. Sign.: A-I8

Annotationes Philippi Melanchthonis in Euangeliu[m] Matth[a]ei iam recens in gratiam studiosorum editae.

Hojas imp. por ambas caras

Theodori Gazae introductionis grammaticae libri quatuor : una cum interpretatione latina, eorum usui dicati, qui vel citra praeceptoris operam graecari cupiunt.

Adams,

Hieronymi Cardani ... Quaedam opuscula, artem medicam exercentibus utilissima : vt sunt, De Aqua & Aethere; De Cyna radice, seu de decotis, nunc locupletatum & castigatum; Consilium pro illustri Hieronymo Palauicino ... difficultate spirandi laborante; Consilium pro Fluxu sanguinis coërcendo; Consilium pro Mantuano lepram patiente; Medicine encomium; praeterea, eiusdem in calumniatorem librorum de subtilitate, actio.

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Onomasticon propriorum nominum /

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Onomasticon propriorum nominum, primum /

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Medicina salernitana id est Conseruandae bonae valetudinis praecepta /

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Gothrici & Rolfi Westrogothiae regum historia lingua antiqua gothica conscripta; quam e m. s. vetustissimo edidit,

Contains also Joh. Buraeus' Monumenta lapidum aliquot runicorum, with woodcuts of runic stones.

Schola Salernitana, de valetudine tuenda. Opus nova methodo instructum;

A reprint of the 1625 edition.