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204 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE and for the 19th century, contains much new and detailed information. So too do the catalog entries proper. These are models of their kind, providing a complete technical description of the instrument in ques­ tion, details of the life of its maker, and careful consideration of dating problems, which are always present since few chronometers carry dates. In some cases this has led Anthony Randall to go well beyond the existing literature to provide, as in the cases of Thomas Earnshaw and Josiah Emery, numbering sequences plotted against date for their entire output. Only detailed use of the book can allow the reader to appreciate the wealth of detailed knowledge and authorial skills and acumen that are here displayed. Although the catalog is demandingly technical, assuming a good knowledge of horology on the part of its reader, help for the uninformed and the forgetful is provided by the long and detailed glossary, the dozens of impeccably clear diagrams by David Penney, and the generally excellent and occasionally outstanding photographs by Steven Pitkin. An extensive, though not complete, bibliography and a generally reliable index (which, however, excludes anything and everybody mentioned in the glossary) complete the book, which is clearly printed and pleasant to use, despite an unfortunate choice of background for the diagrams on the endpapers and the quite hideous blue used for the half-titles to the different sections of the book. The binding, although probably stain-resistant, is perhaps rather weak for a book of this size and weight. In combination with R. T. Gould’s classic work on the technical evolution of the chronometer of 1921 and with a number of more recent, detailed studies of individual makers such as the three volumes by Vaudrey Mercer devoted to the Arnolds, the Frodshams, and Dent, ample, if still incomplete, materials are now available for more interpre­ tative analyses to be undertaken not only of the technical development of the chronometer, but also of the socioeconomic context in which this development took place. Apart from the massive quantity of new material that this excellent book makes available, thus revitalizing the subject, it challenges exploitation of it in a manner worthy of the way in which it is here presented. A. J. Turner Mr. Turner writes on the history of precision technology in Europe from antiquity to the 19th century. Knoiuledge, Culture, and Science in the Metropolis: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1817-1970. By Simon Baatz. NewYork: NewYork Academy of Sciences, 1990. Pp. ix+269; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth or paper). This well-written history of a major urban scientific institution is much broader in scope than one usually expects from a sponsored study. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 205 Simon Baatz, who has previously studied scientific organizations in Phila­ delphia, uses the academy as a focus for an account of the institutions and individuals that have shaped science in New York City over the 150 years following the founding in 1817 of the Lyceum ofNatural History, the name by which the New York Academy of Sciences was first known. Founded as an organization that was to be “democratic, egalitarian, and non-exclusive” (p. 9), the lyceum had dreams of serving as a multipurpose scientific institution for the city—at once museum, re­ source for scientific research, and disseminator of scientific knowledge. As Baatz pursues its history, especially as he details its relationships with other city institutions, one sees each of these roles being assumed by some other entity more attuned to changes in the world of science—the American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, specialist societies. In 1876, the lyceum responded by changing its name to the NewYork Academy of Sciences and began its evolution into a modern umbrellatype organization, or federation of societies. This process was basically complete by 1907, when an earlier “alliance” died and the academy became an official “parent” society with specialist societies serving as “sections” while maintaining their own individuality. In recent years the academy has carved out a new role for itself which takes account of key features of modern science—its ubiquity, its huge size, and its tendency to be...

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Journal Article The effects of experimental lathyrism on oral tissues, being Vol. 118, Art. 5 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Edited by H. E. Whipple. 9 × 6 in. Pp. 98, with 43 illustrations. 1964. New York: The Academy of Sciences. $5.00 Get access The effects of experimental lathyrism on oral tissues, being Vol. 118, Art. 5 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Edited by H EWhipple. 9 × 6 in. Pp. 98, with 43 illustrations. 1964. New York: The Academy of Sciences. $5.00 British Journal of Surgery, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 1966, Page 81, https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800530132 Published: 08 December 2005

Fecal hormone analysis has become a powerful noninvasive tool for the study of animal endocrine status and stress physiology (Graham and Brown 1997; Wasser et al. 1997a; Whitten et al. 1998; Goymann et al. 1999; Mostl et al. 1999; Foley et al. 2001; Creel et al. 2002; Lynch et al. 2002; Morrow et al. 2002). Variation in field and storage conditions makes it essential to know whether fecal steroid concentrations change with the method and duration of sample storage. Lyophilization (freeze-drying) with subsequent storage at or below 20 C is generally regarded as the most reliable method of long-term fecal hormone preservation (e.g., Wasser et al. 1988; Terio et al. 2002). However, lyophilizers are not widely available, and therefore investigators have turned to a variety of other fecal storage methods, including freezing at 20 C, preservation in ethanol, and/or drying the feces with silica, ovens, solar radiation, fires, or other drying methods (Wasser et al. 1988; Whitten et al. 1998; Foley et al. 2001; Tecot 2001). Yet, some of these preservation methods may result in significant changes in immunoreactive hormone concentrations, varying with the preservation method, species, and hormone. In this article, we report effects of several commonly used fecal preservation methods on immunoreactive glucocorticoid concentrations in feces of two species, African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), over a 2-yr period. Five different preservation methods were chosen for comparison: no preservative, oven-drying at 45 C, silicadrying, 90% ethanol, and lyophilization, each with subsequent storage either at room temperature or in a 20 C freezer. Con-

Journal of American CultureVolume 22, Issue 2 p. 53-58 Tattooed: A Participant Observer's Exploration of Meaning Shannon Bell, Shannon Bell Received her BA in anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley. After graduating from UCB, she spent three months interning at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in the Social History Department's Costume Collection, and another month at the Oakland Museum of California through a generous award from the Region-V Costume Society of America. Shannon recently relocated to New York City to pursue her MA in Visual Culture: Costume Studies at New York University and a career in the field of Costume History and Curation, Visual Culture and the Anthropology of Adornment. She is currently a curatorial intern at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for the upcoming exhibit “Armani,” an examination of work by Italian fashon designer Georgio Armani, opening in October 2000.Search for more papers by this author Shannon Bell, Shannon Bell Received her BA in anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley. After graduating from UCB, she spent three months interning at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in the Social History Department's Costume Collection, and another month at the Oakland Museum of California through a generous award from the Region-V Costume Society of America. Shannon recently relocated to New York City to pursue her MA in Visual Culture: Costume Studies at New York University and a career in the field of Costume History and Curation, Visual Culture and the Anthropology of Adornment. She is currently a curatorial intern at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for the upcoming exhibit “Armani,” an examination of work by Italian fashon designer Georgio Armani, opening in October 2000.Search for more papers by this author First published: 22 March 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1999.2202_53.xCitations: 24AboutPDF 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 Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume22, Issue2Summer 1999Pages 53-58 RelatedInformation

In 1934, as part of a survey organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, in association with the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Froelich Rainey excavated several infant burials at Barrio Coto and Monserrate in which the infant is either under, or contained in, a pottery vessel. Documented urn burials in the Virgin Islands are noted. This practice is unusual and seems to be limited to a few locations in the Caribbean.

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RECENT acquisition of a copy of Johann David Schoepf's1 Naturgeschickte der Schildkriten for my personal library has prompted some investigation into the nomenclature of turtles and of Schoepf's background. The Historia Testudinum is extensively quoted, although it appears that in many instances authors have not consulted it directly but have copied synonymies compiled by other writers. The Naturgeschichte is a German rendition of the Historia, but is lengthier textually, due to the greater verbosity of German as compared to Latin, and also because of the inclusion of some extra discussions under the respective species headings. As far as can be determined, both editions were published simultaneously; neither bears any reference to the other, and the publication dates of the individual fascicles and plates in both editions are the same. Both editions were published with the plates colored, or black-and-white. The publication dates of the separate fascicles of each edition are as follows: Naturgeschichte der Schildkriten Heft 1 & 2; text A-D; tab. 1-10; 1792. Heft 3 & 4; text E-L; tab. 11-16, 18-20; 1793. Heft 5; text M-R; tab. 17, 21-25; 1795. Heft 6; text S-U; tab. 26-31; 1801. Historia Testudinum Fasc. I et II; plag. A-D; tab. I-X; 1792. Fasc. III et IV; plag. E-K; tab. XI-XVI; XVIII-XX; 1793. Fasc. V; plag. L-0; tab. XVII, XXI-XXV; 1795. Fasc. VI; plag. P-R; tab. XXVI-XXXI; 1801. The Historia has a 12 page foreword, followed by 136 pages of text, while the Naturgeschichte also has a 12 page foreword (unnumbered) but is followed by 160 pages of text. In both editions there are 34 plates, although they are numbered only up to 31; plates 16, 18, and 30 are double plates. Both texts make mention of plates numbered 32-34, but these were never published, due, no doubt, to the posthumous appearance of the final signatures of both editions. The numbering of the plates is identical in both editions. The difference between the numerical designations of the plates and their actual number has resulted in some errors in bibliographic works (Sherborn, 1902; Wood, 1931). It is to be noted that plate 17 did not appear in its proper sequence, but was published with plates 21-25 in 1795. Both editions are rarities, the German one more so. Inquiries made to twenty-three of the leading university and private libraries in the United States and Canada reveal eleven copies of the Historia (several of them incomplete) located in the libraries of the University of California, Cornell University, Academy of Natural Sciences, Chicago Natural History Museum, American Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, United States National Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, New York Public Library, Lawrence M. Klauber, and the Redpath Library of McGill University. Of the Naturgeschichte I was able to locate only eight copies in the following libraries and institutions: University of California, Academy of Natural

The limbic system is the border zone where psychiatry meets neurology. The authors provide a model of limbic function that combines phylogenetic, anatomic, functional, and clinical data to interpret diseases relevant to neuropsychiatry. They provide evidence supporting two major divisions in the limbic system: a paleocortical division with the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex at its center, and an archicortical division with the hippocampus and cingulate cortex at its center. The implicit integration of affect, drives, and object associations is the function of the paleocortical limbic division; explicit sensory processing, encoding, and attentional control is the function of the archicortical limbic division. The two work in concert to integrate thought, feeling, and action. Understanding their development and organization informs us about how best to care for our patients.

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Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksThymosins in Health and Disease: First International Symposium. Based on a conference held in Washington, D.C., 21–24 March 2007. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1112. Edited by Allan L. Goldstein and, Enrico Garaci. Published by Blackwell Publishing, Boston (Massachusetts), on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York. $145.00 (paper). xii + 468 p.; ill.; index of contributors. 978‐1‐57331‐701‐6. 2007.Changyi (Johnny) ChenChangyi (Johnny) ChenSurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Search for more articles by this author Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TexasPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 83, Number 4December 2008 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/596292 © 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The SciencesVolume 21, Issue 7 p. 27-29 Recognition, Response Quantum mechanics can account for the affinities of drugs and receptors Jack Peter Green, Jack Peter Green Jack Peter Green and Harel Weinstein are in the department of pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. In June 1980, they organized a conference on quantum chemistry in the biomedical sciences, the proceedings of which were published as volume 367 in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. David Crossen, in the department of public affairs at Mount Sinai, helped in the preparation of this article.Search for more papers by this authorHarel Weinstein, Harel Weinstein Jack Peter Green and Harel Weinstein are in the department of pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. In June 1980, they organized a conference on quantum chemistry in the biomedical sciences, the proceedings of which were published as volume 367 in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. David Crossen, in the department of public affairs at Mount Sinai, helped in the preparation of this article.Search for more papers by this author Jack Peter Green, Jack Peter Green Jack Peter Green and Harel Weinstein are in the department of pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. In June 1980, they organized a conference on quantum chemistry in the biomedical sciences, the proceedings of which were published as volume 367 in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. David Crossen, in the department of public affairs at Mount Sinai, helped in the preparation of this article.Search for more papers by this authorHarel Weinstein, Harel Weinstein Jack Peter Green and Harel Weinstein are in the department of pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. In June 1980, they organized a conference on quantum chemistry in the biomedical sciences, the proceedings of which were published as volume 367 in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. David Crossen, in the department of public affairs at Mount Sinai, helped in the preparation of this article.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1981 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1981.tb01987.xCitations: 2 AboutPDF 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 Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume21, Issue7September 1981Pages 27-29 RelatedInformation

Simon Baatz, Knowledge, culture, and science in the metropolis: the New York Academy of Sciences, 1817–1970, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 584, New York Academy of Sciences, 1990, 8vo, pp. ix, 269, illus., $55.00. - Volume 36 Issue 1

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