Este artigo aborda o tratamento que Estado brasileiro deu às questões relacionadas à língua portuguesa e ao ensino desta de 1808 a 1830. A pesquisa foi realizada em documentos legislativos oficiais publicados entre os anos 1830, cujo marco histórico compreende chegada da família real colônia (1808) até fim do Primeiro Reinado (1830). Como objetivo geral, pretendemos analisar as políticas linguí...

and documents, no less than nine commemorate the centenary of Bichat's death. Other papers deal with Fontenelle's prot6g6, Daniel Tauvry, history of pre-Vesalian anatomy, history of malaria, Hindu medicine, medical bibliography, etc. Reading through this volume, it is interesting to view how the history of medicine was conceived at the beginning of the century as compared with present trends. I...

On several occasions since 1830 Southern Belgium Meuse Basin caves yielded Neandertal remains, some of them having a major influence on the development of palaeoanthropology as a distinct scientific discipline; in particular, the discovery of human fossils in 1829–1830 at Engis, of a mandible in 1866 at La Naulette and of skeletons in 1886 at Spy. Yet to this day the context of these old finds ...

Using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope we have detected the rotational ground-state transitions of orthoammonia and ortho-water toward the redshift ≈ 0.89 absorbing galaxy in the PKS 1830−211 gravitational lens system. We discuss our observations in the context of recent space-borne data obtained for these lines with the SWAS and Odin satellites toward Galactic sources. We fin...

The nominal taxon Acanthosoma chrysalis Mayer, 1844 is revised, and a lectotype is designated. The species, which was described from Germany from a number of alleged parasites encysted in the peritoneal wall of the stomach of edible frogs, is shown to be based on first instar larvae of blow flies (Calliphoridae). Argued from the shape and configuration of mouthhooks and abdominal cuticular spin...