The texts discussed here are taken from the Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society (vol. III, 1859). The texts appear in this order: Letter dated 30 June 1858 from Charles Lyell and Joshua Hooker presenting the subsequent documents. Extract of an unpublished work on species by Charles Darwin; Extract of a letter from Charles Darwin to A. Gray (Boston), 5 September 1857; Article from Febr...

Five new species of the genus Cnemomis Stål, 1859 are described: C. kondratieffi from Brazil and French Guyana, C. lepida from French Guyana, C. nigroscutellata from Brazil, C. primigena from Peru, and C. refulgens from Venezuela. New distributional records for some previously known species are added. Dorsal view photographs and a key for the 13 known species are included. The male genital caps...

Scientists' interest in religion seems to come in waves. One arrived after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Another followed in the 1930s and 1940s, inspired by surprising revelations from quantum mechanics, which suggested the insufficiency of conventional physical theories of the universe. And now scientists are once again writing about religion, apparently provoked this...

‘Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied. But whenever we have the means of instituting a comparison, the same laws appear to have acted in producing the lesser differences between varieties of the same species, and the greater differences between species of the same genus.’ (Darwin...

Bassac river was an important arterial in the Nguyen dynasty’s defensive policy Southwestern frontier region early nineteenth century. As a result, dynasty attempted to create significant strategic defense base system of interconnected nature that extended from interior. This article focuses on clarifying military along path, which flows through provinces and had numerous key strongholds ensure...

It is customary to begin a talk on Hospital Cross-Infection by quoting the known words of Florence Nightingale. In 1859 s^e sa^ ̂ at maY seem a s\r fae principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital, that it should d? sick no harm". gjg( Her words are still relevant today in spite of all our improvements in as ^jsS Hospitals may still be dangerous places, although much less d...

In a 3-year prospective study, 30 postmenopausal women received transdermal E2 gel and every-other-day vaginal P in capsules. At study completion, endometrial thickness was significantly reduced as compared with baseline (2.7 0.5 vs. 3.4 0.9 mm), endometrial biopsy showed endometrial atrophy in all cases, and amenorrhea was achieved in 92.6% of cycles, while excellent patient satisfaction was a...

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), (3), (5)(D), was in the original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning Pub. L. 101–218, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1859, known as the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 120...

2. Experimental methods (Statistical analysis) (P 1859, L13-19 of the right column) Dunnett’s multiple comparison test was performed for the inter-group comparison of QOL score. To examine whether the effect of b240 on QOL score was independent of common cold experience, we used generalized linear models in which we entered changes in score (Δpost – pre) as the target variable, and group (place...