XLV.—The Cape Colony Quaggas

The conservation and utilisation of the natural world: silviculture in the Cape Colony, c. 1902-1910.

The period between the culmination of the South African War in May 1902 and the Union of South Africa eight years later witnessed a significant phase in the development of the Cape’s Forestry Department. The Colony’s scientific foresters articulated a rhetoric of crisis, based on the assumption that global timber supplies were almost exhausted, in order to encourage politicians to take action t...

Agents of empire: the medical profession in the Cape Colony, 1880-1910.

British imperial control and the civilizing mission of the empire were imposed by a variety of means in the nineteenth century. The role of the missionary in this process has been well studied. By contrast, the contribution of the doctor has been curiously neglected. H. A. C. Cairns, in Prelude to imperialism for instance, has referred extensively to David Livingstone and to Robert Laws, one of...

On the Epidemiology of Cape Colony and Natal in 1862-63

Cape Colony, and towards the end of the year at Natal. It continued at various points in the beginning of 1862. Diphtheria was seen among the children of the civil population at Keisham Hoeck, in March 1862; and what is denominated ulcerated sore throat, with a tendency to catarrhal and bronchitic affections, was frequent at Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Fort Beaufort. Fever, mostly of the typ...

An Extraordinary Series of Outbreaks of Plague in Cape Colony. Due to Case to Case Infection

Cape Verde Praia , Santiago , Cape Verde

We prove a Noether’s theorem for fractional variational problems with Riesz-Caputo derivatives. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations are obtained. Illustrative examples in the fractional context of the calculus of variations and optimal control are given.