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Dr William Little (1810-1894) of London and cerebral palsy.

Correspondence to: Professor P M Dunn. William Little was born in 1810 in Whitechapel where his father kept the Red Lion Inn. He was educated at a school near Dover and at the Jesuit College of St Omer in France. A left club-foot following poliomyelitis prevented sporting activities but he excelled academically, especially in languages. In 1825 he was apprenticed to an apothecary, after which h...

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Morphological variation in adult Cromwell chafer beetles Prodontria lewisi

Adult Cromwell chafer beetles (Prodontria lewisi) from the Cromwell area were investigated for sex-specific morphological variation. Material from the National Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research Auckland and the Otago Museum that had been collected since the 1940s was examined. Females were significantly larger than males, but size-related variables were not effective in distinguishing bet...

Conservation of the Cromwell Chafer Prodontria Lewisi (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

The Cromwell chafer, Prodontria lewisi, is a flightless chafer beetle whose natural range appears not to have been more than 500 hectares and which now, because of habitat destruction and modification, is reduced to about 100 hectares. This inhabited area is situated on the terrace on which the town of Cromwell, Central Otago, is built. The continued existence of the Cromwell chafer is threaten...

Chain of friendship. Selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1735–1780

BETSY C. CORNER and CHRISTOPHER C. BOOTH (editors), Chain offriendship. Selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1735-1780, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1971, gvo, pp. xxiv, 538, illus., £14.95. In view of the regard Fothergill (1712-1780) held for North America as well as for Britain it is entirely appropriate that his letters should be edited by an American, the late Betsy C. Co...