The Conway Expedition to Spitzbergen

Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The "Thor" Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea

BACKGROUND This article describes the digitization of a series of historical datasets based οn the reports of the 1908-1910 Danish Oceanographical Expeditions to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. All station and sampling metadata as well as biodiversity data regarding calcareous rhodophytes, pelagic polychaetes, and fish (families Engraulidae and Clupeidae) obtained during these expeditions ...

Notes on the Indian Expedition to Egypt

announced that their work was first completed, and at 1 P.M,, we left Bombay. Our ship was a vessel of only 1,000 tons register, and had always been used for carrying cargo,?very often coals; in fact she was nothing more or less than what is known among sea-faring men as a " ditcher," i. e., a steamer employed in the coal trade . between England and India via the Suez Canal, hence the name. The...

Liverpool University Expedition to Jamaica

An Introduction to Conway ’ S Games

Combinatorial Game Theory is a fascinating and rich theory, based on a simple and intuitive recursive definition of games, which yields a very rich algebraic structure: games can be added and subtracted in a very natural way, forming an abelian GROUP (§ 2). There is a distinguished subGROUP of games called numbers which can also be multiplied and which form a FIELD (§ 3): this field contains bo...

The Expedition towards Venus

A project of an expedition towards planet Venus, which is carried out in two stages, is considered. At the first stage, a space train, consisting of a locomotive and a tank with working substance, delivers onto Venus orbit the landing capsule with the Venus plane and the Venus rover, as well as the tank-container with liquid hydrogen, which is used subsequently for return of the expedition onto...