From H. Christ’s Die Farnkräuter der Erde : beschreibende Darstellung der geschlechter und wichtigeren Arten der Farnpflanzen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Exotischen (1897).
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We’re well into October now — in the United States, we’re looking forward at November and December which, for many of us, involve a bout of cooking unlike anything seen in the rest of the year.
To help you out with this, we offer up this handy guide.
And if you haven’t done it yet, please take five minutes out of your Friday and fill out our quickie user survey!
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From volume 12, number 2 of The Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1907).
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Title page from the Webbs’ book.
Sidney and Beatrice Webb were pioneer social researchers in England at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. They published indefatigably, both together and separately, to create an impressive historical and analytical body of material, including multiple volumes on English legal history, the poor law, and modern sociological topics. Continue reading
From the YMCA Yearbook and Official Roster (1891).
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With the exciting news last week of the finding of one of the ships from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition, we decided to pull together some of the MHL’s resources on Arctic exploration in case this news stimulates your interest and while it’s still warm enough out that reading about the Arctic can be fun!
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From Hanau W. Loeb’s Operative surgery of the nose, throat, and ear, for laryngologists, rhinologists, otologists, and surgeons (1917).
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Modern food packaging regulations did not come from thin air: one of the parent pieces of legislation in the United Kingdom was the Adulteration Act of 1860. Previous to formal legislation on the subject, adulteration of foodstuffs — bread, coffee, tea, cheese, processed meats, alcohol — was a widespread problem. Continue reading
From John E. Bowman’s A practical handbook of medical chemistry, illustrated (1855).
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From Robert H.A. Plimmer’s Practical organic and biochemistry (1918).
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