Notes on Early British Pottery

Some Notes on British Bats

reed warbler here and never an icterine, a bird whose notes are firmly fixed in my head. The Norfolk coast, in addition to furnishing breeding grounds for some large colonies of terns, is a good place to see migrants, many of which find temporary shelter in the low growth on the saltings and sandhills. Sometimes, especially in foggy weather, a hold-up of migrants occurs. This autumn, for instan...

Notes on Cinchona Cultivation in British Sikkim (Near Darjeeling)

By Joseph Ewart, M. D., Trofessor of Physiology, Medical College of Bengal. Among the many substantial and enduring benefits conferred upon India by English rule, the introduction of the " quinineyielding" cinchonas will not be considered by posterity the least important. Already the enterprise has passed beyond the boundary line of an experiment, and reached the goal of success. A few short ye...

Notes on the Additions Made to the British Pharmacopœia, 1890

Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology

INTRODUCTION.1 Many Austronesian (An) languages—particularly those of Taiwan, the Philippines, and northern portions of Borneo and Sulawesi—have elaborate systems of verb morphology. To choose just one of many possible examples, Thao, spoken by fewer than 2fteen persons around Sun-Moon Lake in central Taiwan, has over 200 pre2xes, in2xes, suf2xes, circum2xes, reduplication patterns, and the lik...

Notes on an early Virginia physician.

London-born Dr. John de Sequeyra ( 17 12-1 795), who arrived in Virginia around 1745, was no ordinary newcomer to America. His distinguished family of Portuguese Jewish origin produced several noted physicians during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' A descendant of the de Sequeyras who possesses and has access to extensive family records has provided some genealogical data.2 The first ...