scholarly journals Sulla plaquette montaliana La casa dei doganieri e altri versi (1932)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiziano Zanato
Keyword(s):  
Material Characteristics ◽  
Small Collection

The contribution focuses on a small collection of poems published by Montale on 1932. In this booklet poems are alternated with drawings made by some of the artists of the Antico Fattore restaurant in Florence, where they met and found a prize of the same name, which was awarded to Montale on 1931. The contribution examines material characteristics of this plaquette, the connection between poems and drawings, the literary importance of these five Montale’s poems, which are placed between the second edition of Ossi di seppia (1928) and the print of Le occasioni (1939).

Chloropid flies (Diptera, Chloropidae) of Cyprus

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Nartshuk
Keyword(s):  
Small Collection

A small collection of chloropids collected by H. Lindberg on Cyprus in 1939 contains 18 species. Speccafrons cypria sp. n. is described. A lectotype is designated for Scoliophthalmus trapezoides Becker. Most of the species have a Mediterranean distribution.

The Dupont family: collectors, dealers and naturalists in nineteenth-century Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mearns ◽  
Laurent Chevrier ◽  
Christophe Gouraud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Small Collection

In the early part of the nineteenth century the Dupont brothers ran separate natural history businesses in Paris. Relatively little is known about their early life but an investigation into the family history at Bayeux corrects Léonard Dupont's year of birth from 1795 to 1796. In 1818 Léonard joined Joseph Ritchie's expedition to North Africa to assist in collecting and preparing the discoveries but he did not get beyond Tripoli. After 15 months he came back to Paris with a small collection from Libya and Provence, and returned to Provence in 1821. While operating as a dealer-naturalist in Paris he published Traité de taxidermie (1823, 1827), developed a special interest in foreign birds and became well known for his anatomical models in coloured wax. Henry Dupont sold a range of natural history material and with his particular passion for beetles formed one of the finest collections in Europe; his best known publication is Monographie des Trachydérides (1836–1840). Because the brothers had overlapping interests and were rarely referred to by their forenames there has been confusion between them and the various eponyms that commemorate them. Although probably true, it would be an over-simplification to state that birds of this era named for Dupont refer to Léonard Dupont, insects to Henry Dupont, and molluscs to their mother.

On the Small Collection of the Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) of Turkey with Two New Records

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adem Keskin ◽  
Eray Şimşek ◽  
Güray Tayyar Şimşek ◽  
Jean-Claude Beaucournu
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Small Collection

Unraveling the natural durability of wood: revealing the impact of decay-influencing characteristics other than fungicidal components

Holzforschung ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liselotte De Ligne ◽  
Jan Van den Bulcke ◽  
Jan M. Baetens ◽  
Bernard De Baets ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wood Species ◽  
Prunus Avium ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Natural Durability ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Brown Rot Fungi ◽  
Material Characteristics ◽  
The One ◽  
Block Test ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe effect of fungicidal components in wood has been known for ages, yet there is no method to assess the impact of such components on the durability of a wood species, as compared to other material characteristics that influence decay. In this paper, the importance of fungicidal effects on the natural durability of 10 wood species is assessed in relation to other decay-influencing factors with a new test, the so-called ‘paste test’. By comparing results from this test with the ‘mini-block test’, on both heartwood and leached sapwood, insight is gained into the significance of fungicidal components on the one hand and other material characteristics on the other hand. The durability of species such as Prunus avium was attributed mainly to fungicidal components. For species such as Pterocarpus soyauxii, durability seemed to be an effect of both fungicidal components and moisture-regulating components, while the latter seemed to be of main importance in regulating the decay of Aucoumea klaineana and Entandrophragma cylindricum. Wood-anatomical features, such as the parenchyma content (in case of brown rot fungi) and the vessel-fiber ratio, possibly affect degradation as well. This work shows that fungicidal components are not always of major importance for the durability of a wood species. The authors hereby emphasize the importance of moisture-regulating components and wood anatomy on the durability of wood.

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