DURING an investigation of the blood system in polychaetes of the families Serpulidae and Sabellidae the musculature of the alimentary canal has been studied. In the following species the only muscle coat, which consists of fibres lying transverse to the main axis, lies outside the blood sinus which envelops the canal: Serpula vermicularis L., Hydroides norvegica (Gunnerus), Vermiliopsis infund...

This paper is an attempt to assess the attitude of a modernist work towards popular culture and the social changes that transformed the United States during the twenties. Its main contention is that modernism's emphasis on epistemology has tended to obscure the conservative stance of many of its creations, apparent in their reaction against the new reconsideration of class and gender brought ab...

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Protected areas are vital tools to safeguard the remaining strongholds of biodiversity, championed by High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework as one main instruments protect nature help save species from extinction (Jetz et al., 2007) (HAC: www.hacfornatureandpeople.org, global biodiversity framework: https://www.cbd.int/conferences/post2020). Howev...