Ecology of the Slug, Girasia crocea (Godwin-Austen) (Stylommatophora : Ariophantidae)

William Godwin : The novel , philosophy , and history

In 1825, Hazlitt described some of the fluctuations which the reputation of William Godwin had already experienced: ‘during his lifetime,’ he had ‘secured to himself the triumphs and the mortifications of an extreme notoriety and of a sort of posthumous fame.’ Godwin’s inspirational role to younger writers and radicals, combined with the vilification of many, after the emergence of An Enquiry C...

Godwin, Fénelon, and the disappearing teacher

The connection between Godwin and Fénelon has traditionally been restricted to the famous and controversial moment in the first edition of Political Justice (1793) in which Godwin presents an example of the interdependence of rationality and ethical action. This paper argues, however, that Fénelon, and particularly his political and educational treatise Telemachus (1699), plays a significant ro...

Jane Austen: A Study of Film Adaptations

Presentation of the 2004 Kober Medal to K. Frank Austen.

The record shows that on February 26, 1924, Karl Arnstein emigrated from Czechoslovakia via Bremen, Germany, on the ocean liner George Washington. Arnstein, an engineer, had been hired to head the newly formed Goodyear-Zeppelin organization in Akron, Ohio. What Frank’s father did with his colleagues was to construct the largest manmade structure in the world, the Airdock, in which was built the...

Sulfhydryl Groups and the Structure of Hemoglobin by Austen

Hemoglobins possess two very striking properties: they combine reversibly with oxygen, and this binding appears to be autocatalytic. Each molecule of vertebrate hemoglobin possesses four heine groups which combine reversibly with oxygen, and are so associated that the binding of oxygen by one heine greatly enhances the affinity of a second heine for oxygen. Two closely related proposals have be...