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Historical Perspectives. A World of Thought: and Charles Elton's Life's Work / Roger L Kitching -- Charles Elton: Neither Founder Nor Siren, but Prophet / Daniel Simberloff -- The Inviolate sea? Charles Elton and Biological Invasions in the World's Oceans / James T Carlton -- The Rise and Fall of Biotic Nativeness: A Historical Perspective / Matthew K Chew, Andrew L Hamilton -- Evolution and Current Dimensions of Invasion Ecology. Patterns and Rate of Growth of Studies in Invasion Ecology / Hugh J Macisaac, Rahel A Tedla, Anthony Ricciardi -- Invasion Ecology and Restoration Ecology: Parallel Evolution in Two Fields of Endeavour / Richard J Hobbs, David M Richardson -- New Takes on Invasion Patterns. Biological Invasions in Europe 50 Years after Elton: Time to Sound the ALARM / Petr Pycek, Philip E Hulme -- Fifty Years of Tree Pest and Pathogen Invasions, Increasingly Threatening World Forests / Michael J Wingfield, Bernard Slippers, Jolanda Roux, Brenda D Wingfield -- The Nuts and Bolts of Invasion Ecology. A Movement Ecology Approach to Study Seed Dispersal and Plant Invasion: An Overview and Application of Seed Dispersal by Fruit Bats / Asaf Tsoar, David Shohami, Ran Nathan -- Biodiversity as a Bulwark Against Invasion: Conceptual Threads Since Elton / Jason D Fridley -- Soil Biota and Plant Invasions: Biogeographical Effects on Plant-Microbe Interactions / Ragan M Callaway, Marnie E Rout -- Mutualisms: Key Drivers of Invasions Key Casualties of Invasions / Anna Traveset, David M Richardson -- Fifty Years on: Confronting Elton's Hypotheses about Invasion Success with Data from Exotic Birds / Tim M Blackburn, Julie L Lockwood, Phillip Cassey -- Is Rapid Adaptive Evolution Important in Successful Invasions? / Eleanor E Dormontt, Andrew J Lowe, Peter J Prentis -- Why Reproductive Systems Matter for the Invasion Biology of Plants / Spencer C H Barrett -- Impacts of Biological Invasions on Freshwater Ecosystems / Anthony Ricciardi, Hugh J Macisaac -- Expanding the Propagule Pressure Concept to Understand the Impact of Biological Invasions / Anthony Ricciardi, Lisa A Jones, Asa M Kestrup, Jessica M Ward -- Poster-Child Invaders, Then and Now. Elton's insights into the ecology of ant invasions: lessons learned and lessons still to be learned / Nathan J Sanders, Andrew V Suarez -- Fifty years of Waging war on cheatgrass: research advances, while meaningful control languishes / Richard N Mack -- New Directions and Technologies, New Challenges. Researching invasive species 50 years after Elton: a cautionary tale / Mark A Davis -- Invasions and ecosystems: vulnerabilities and the contribution of new technologies / Peter M Vitousek, Carla M D'antonio, Gregory P Asner -- DNA barcoding of invasive species / Hugh B Cross, Andrew J Lowe, Frederico D Gurgel -- Biosecurity: the changing face of invasion biology / Philip E Hulme -- Elton and the economics of biological invasions / Charles Perrings -- Modelling Spread in Invasion Ecology: A Synthesis / Cang Hui, Rainer M Krug, David M Richardson -- Responses of Invasive Species to a Changing Climate and Atmosphere / Jeffrey S Dukes -- Conceptual Clarity, Scientific Rigour and The Stories We Are: Engaging with Two Challenges to the Objectivity of Invasion Biology / Johan Hattingh -- Changing Perspectives on Managing Biological Invasions: Insights from South Africa and the Working for Water programme / Brian W van Wilgen, Ahmed Khan, Christo Marais -- Conclusions. Invasion Science: The Roads Travelled and the Roads Ahead / David M Richardson -- A Compendium of Essential Concepts and Terminology in Invasion Ecology / David M Richardson, Petr Pycek, James T Carlton -- Taxonomic Index -- General Index.

. Though self-educated, Innes-Taylor understood the difficulties and challenges of scientific research, having so often critically supported it. He valued new scientific techniques and encouraged newcomers in their application. He was especially helpful in pointing out unforeseen problems. As one biologist from this period has remarked, Innes-Taylor was an inspiration in the practical solution of applied research problems. After 1956, Innes-Taylor applied his knowledge of polar survival as a consultant to international airline companies, especially Scandinavian Airlines which pioneered the transpolar air route in 1957. He trained many air crews for this mission, and wrote for SAS the highly acclaimed manual "This is the Arctic." He also introduced special survival gear such as exposure suits and circular, multi-person sleeping bags. . [His vast knowledge was acquired through his experiences while living in Eagle, Alaska, and later in Dawson and Whitehorse, Yukon, running Yukon River trips.] . It was this northern experience which uniquely qualified Innes-Taylor to journey south in 1929, providing fresh sled dogs to BAE I [the expedition on which] Admiral Byrd, piloted by Bernt Balchen, made the first flight over the South Pole. . Innes-Taylor returned to Antarctica in 1933 as chief of field operations for BAE II. . At the start of World War II, Innes-Taylor was commissioned, by Special Act of Congress, as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force. His first assignment was to southeastern Greenland where he helped to rescue air crews downed on the ice sheet. After mid-1942 and for the remainder of the war, he trained arctic and mountain troops in Colorado and Canada. . his most dispiriting experience, . was his service as executive officer at Isachsen land, latitude 78° N on Ellef Ringnes Island in the Canadian Arctic. . Innes-Taylor and his party of six spent almost a year at this station, which had been visited only once before - by Stefansson, thirty years earlier - and which was inaccessible during the summer. In addition to supervising daily weather observations, Innes-Taylor banded birds and observed tidal and sea ice fluctuation. But he lamented the loss of simplicity, almost of innocence, that this new, spiritless, mechanized exploration brought to the unchanged land. . In 1950 he was recalled by the U.S. Air Force to command survival training schools for Korean War flight crews . This work eventually brought him to . Fairbanks, where in October 1953 he became a researcher in charge of the Environmental Protection Section of the USAF Arctic Aeromedical Lab. . [In addition to his many accomplishments, he was awarded a medal for heroism, documented historical sites all along the Yukon's rivers, was instrumental in saving the Dawson archives when they were flooded in 1966, received the Order of Canada in 1977, and the Yukon Commissioner's Medal in 1982, and as a Fellow of the Arctic Institute acted as factotum for the Arctic Institute's field operations out of Whitehorse and later Kluane Lake.] . Innes-Taylor [has been described as] a remarkable mixture of the practical and theoretical, domestic and exotic, realistic and romantic, old and new.

CONTENT: Listing of measurements for a mans' coat and vest ordered from Charles L. Day. The measurements are written on Meadows Trading Company stationary. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) arrived in Arizona in 1883 to survey extensions to eastern and southern boundaries of the Navajo reservation for the federal government. At the time his wife, Anna, and their three boys Sam, Jr. (1889-1944), Charles Day (1879-1918) and William remained in Colorado. The family joined Sam, Sr. in Arizona, where they staked out a homestead at Cienaga (Sinagee). He was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1906 and served two terms in the Arizona House. From 1920 until his death in 1925 he held the post of United States Indian Commissioner. Sam, Sr., moved from Sinagee in 1901. His Sinagee ranch became part of the St. Michaels Mission. He joined son Charlie at Bill Meadows trading post, but eventually moved to the mouth of Canyon de Chelly and with his sons, Sam, Jr. and William, established what was to become the famous Thunderbird Trading Post. Sam's sons also entered into the Indian trade. Charlie operated the Meadows trading post until his untimely death in an automobile accident in 1918.

"I do not think I ever reflect in words: I employ visual diagrams [...]" Diese Selbstbeschreibung von Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine neue Sicht auf das Denken des amerikanischen Naturwissenschaftlers, Philosophen und Begründers des Pragmatismus und der Semiotik. Peirce war ein obsessiver Zeichner. Neben einer graphischen Logik entwickelte er eine zeichnerische Praxis, die untrennbar mit seinem Denken verwoben war, in ihrer philosophischen Relevanz aber bislang übersehen wurde. Der Band versammelt konkrete Fallstudien zu zahlreichen hier erstmals publizierten Zeichnungen von Peirce. Auf der Basis dieses Materials fragt er nach der allgemeinen Bedeutung dessen, was es heißt, in Bildern zu denken. Mit Beiträgen von John Michael Krois, Helmut Pape, Sun-Joo Shin, Frederik Stjernfelt u.a.