Notes on Early Sickles

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 ...

Notes on Early Sanitation in India

officers and sepoys, a large amount of correspondence on tliis subject took place. Suffice it here to observe that the question of 1lill stations for troops was thus early entered upon with much fulness. In 1775, the Governor of Madras in Council wrote thus : "The Board have frequently had under consideration the real necessity there is for caution and attention in the appointment of Surgeons. ...

Historical Notes on Psychiatry. (Early Times—End of Sixteenth Century)

Some Notes on Sabbath Observance in Early Christianity

It seems possible that Sabbath observance among the Copts in Egypt and Ethiopia may have passed through three stages: I) Only the seventh-day Sabbath observed-from apostolic times until the Council of Nicea; 2) Sunday and the seventh-day Sabbath both observed-from the Council of Nicea until perhaps a century or two later; and 3) only Sunday designated as a day of public worship-a practice still...