Railroads in the Philippine Islands

Monsoon surges trigger oceanic eddy formation and propagation in the lee of the Philippine Islands

[1] Two winter monsoon surge events (northerly and easterly) of January 2005 are captured in a one-way coupled atmosphere (8 km resolution) and ocean (3 km resolution) simulation of the Philippines region. Intensified wind jets and wakes in the lee of Mindoro and Luzon Islands induce the generation and migration of a pair of counter-rotating oceanic eddies in the model, with propagation directi...

Railroads and American Law

Report on a Visit to the Leper Island of Culion and on the Anti-Leprosy Work in the Philippine Islands

This anti-leprosy work which has been carried out in the Philippine Islands during the last 19 years is valuable not only for what it has done to stamp the disease out of these islands, but also for the stimulus which it has given to similar work in India and in other parts of the world. It was, therefore, with keen expectation that I looked forward to my visit to the leper island of Culion. 'T...

The Economic Impact of the Railroads

Passalidae: New Larval Descriptions from Taiwan, Philippine Islands, Brunei and Ivory Coast

The larvae of Didimus africanus (Percheron), D. haroldi Kuwert, D. alvarodoi (?) Corella, D. parastictus (Imhoff), D. nachtigali Kuwert, Erionomus planiceps (Esch.), E. pilosus Arrow, Taeniocerus pygmaeus (Kaup) and Comacupes basalis (Smith) are described for the first time. Larvae of Leptaulax bicolor (F.), L. dentatus (F.) and Aceraius grandis (Burm.) are redescribed and compared with previou...