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Veterinary RecordVolume 192, Issue 12 p. 490-490 Profession Clinical assessment Bruce Vivash Jones, Corresponding Author Bruce Vivash Jones veterinary historian [email protected] Cirencester, GloucestershireSearch for more papers by this author Bruce Vivash Jones, Corresponding Author Bruce Vivash Jones veterinary historian [email protected] Cirencester, GloucestershireSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3202Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume192, Issue1217 June–1 July 2023Pages 490-490 RelatedInformation

On the basis of corpus and experimental evidence, this paper claims that the ongoing process of change affecting the use and interpretation of the [Present under Past] pattern in subjunctive argument clauses in some Spanish varieties is sensitive to the syntactic/semantic type of the clause. The pattern deviates from Sequence-of-Tense grammar in not giving rise to double access effects. In the variety explored in this paper, this only happens in the argument clauses of causative, directive, and volitional predicates, i.e. in a type of clause which is held to be lower in a scale of clausehood than the argument clauses of predicates of belief and assertion.@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent:"";margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;}div.Section1{page:Section1;}

Mires are characterized by plant communities of high conservation and societal value, which have experienced a major decline in area in many parts of the world, particularly Europe. Evidence suggests that they may be particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and nutrient addition. Although they have been the focus of extensive paleoecological research, few attempts have been made to examine the dynamics of mire vegetation during the current era of anthropogenic environmental change.To assess long‐term change in the spatial structure and composition of a lowland mire community, in 2016 we resurveyed plots first surveyed in 1951. Measures of species richness and composition were compared between the two surveys, and changes in community composition were related to plant traits.Overall, mean species richness declined by 26%. The area of occupancy declined in 37% of species, which were primarily oligotrophic species typical of nutrient‐poor bog communities. Conversely, occupancy increased in 21% of species, especially those that were more tolerant of higher nutrient availability. These changes were associated with variation in plant functional traits, as indicated by an increase mean Ellenberg trait values for nitrogen and mean temperature, and a decline in values for precipitation. These results suggest that eutrophication and climate change have been key drivers of floristic change on this site.Synthesis. This investigation provides a rare assessment of the dynamics of a mire community over a multi‐decadal interval. Results indicate that substantial change has occurred in the composition of the community, and the distribution of species within it. The investigation provides evidence of the impact of environmental change on the composition and structure of a lowland mire community, and highlights challenges for its future conservation.

The Vet Record issue of 7 July 2018 dedicated to cat care is both timely and of interest. Andy Sparkes provided useful background on feline research based on the PubMed database with an earliest date given of 1868.1 A more extensive search of the historical literature for reports on feline disease yields an earliest date of 1414, when a ‘severe form of dysentery’ in cats was observed in Germany, a better substantiated report is from 1514 in England when a ‘severe epizooty’ in cats was described. These are followed by an increasing number of reports over the following years, mostly from Europe but also Egypt, Turkey and the USA, up to the 1800s, when a veterinary discipline was being established. > Before veterinary education was formalised there was an increasing interest in feline disease by medical clinicians …

THE recent articles in Veterinary Record on testing for glanders in equids are to be welcomed (Laroucou and others 2016, Malik 2016). It is largely forgotten that this dreadful disease, also known in its cutaneous form as ‘farcy’, was only finally eradicated in Britain in 1928. It had a long and fearful history in this country, one of the first records being by Fitzherbert in his ‘Boke on Husbandry’ in 1523; it was also listed by Shakespeare as a familiar equine disorder (The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2). It was almost certainly the cause of the early death in 1793 of Benoit Charles Vial, the first professor at the newly established Veterinary College at Camden Town, as a result altering the planned course of veterinary education in this country. One should also not forget the name of the man more responsible than any other single individual for the introduction of legislation to …

The range, evolution, and historical sequence of farm transport on the Island from the seventeenth to the twentieth century is discussed in this paper, in the context of the development of the road system and capacity of horse power. Human power resources included the use of the creel; thereafter the sledge and various forms of early cart, specifically the slide carr and the Irish carr, Island variations on the Celtic diaspora of such vehicles. The influence of the spread of the ‘Scotch cart’ is considered, and the evolution of the hay bogey and especially the ‘stiff cart’, a distinct type of cart (or at least a distinct nomenclature) associated with the Isle of Man. The collections of Manx National Heritage are briefly surveyed. As George Sturt pointed out, wagon (and so, too, cart) builder’s lore was ‘a tangled network of country prejudices’, with ‘each handing on his own little bit of understanding’, so that ‘the whole body of knowledge was mystery, a piece of folk knowledge, residing in the folk colle...