THE EARLY CHARTERS OF ST. JOHN'S ABBEY, COLCHESTER

The Colchester Medical Society, 1774

THE COLCHESTR MEDIcAL SocIrY was founded in 1774 by Robert Richardson Newell (1750-1814), a surgeon and apothecary practising in the town. It is the oldest provincial medical society in Great Britain.' The earliest minute books have been lost, but the date is confirmed in Dr. Newell's obituary notice in the local press," and by the Medical Register for 1779, which lists all the members at that ...

Authors: Abbey, Bob

Adaptive management is a management approach to address uncertainty in natural resources. The origin of the adaptive approach as a tool, the need for an adaptive process and its relationship to environmental management will be described. Variations of adaptive management will be reviewed as well as the definition and institutional role of adaptive management within the BLM. This will include th...

Dating medieval English charters

Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be used by historians to study the evolution of social, economic and political changes. This study is concerned with charters (written in Latin) dating from the tenth through early fourteenth centuries in England. Of these, at least one million were left undated, largely due to administrative changes ...

Characterization of shallow groundwater quality in the Lower St. Johns River Basin: a case study.

Characterization of groundwater quality allows the evaluation of groundwater pollution and provides information for better management of groundwater resources. This study characterized the shallow groundwater quality and its spatial and seasonal variations in the Lower St. Johns River Basin, Florida, USA, under agricultural, forest, wastewater, and residential land uses using field measurements...

The plague in Colchester-1579-1666.