De Pourtales Research Articles

Redescription ofStichopathes pourtalesiBrook, 1889 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Antipathidae)

Abstract Stichopathes pourtalesi Brook, 1889, the type species of the genus Stichopathes Brook, is redescribed on the basis of an examination of the type material originally identified by de Pourtales as Antipathes desbonni Duchassaing and Michelotti and as Antipathes spiralis Pallas. Because the type series consists of multiple species, it was necessary to select a lectotype to clearly define the species. The species is characterized by a spiral, unbranched corallum; triangular, compressed spines, some of which have one or more lobes at the apex; very faint elongate papillae on the surface of the spines extending from near the apex to as much as one-half the distance to the base; and large polyps with long tentacles (in preserved specimens). The species is similar to Stichopathes gracilis (Gray); however, scanning electron microscopy indicates that there are distinct differences between the two species in the microscopic surface ornamentation of the spines.

I-Tinerary: The Romantic Travel Journal after Chateaubriand

In May, 1832, Washington Irving returned to this country after a seventeen-year stay in Europe, and found his readjustment scarcely less difficult than Rip Van Winkle's after a comparable period away from the scene. Disconcerted, restless, he left in early Julyjust over a month after his return-on a journey west, with two men he had met while crossing the Atlantic, Charles Joseph Latrobe of England, and Latrobe's high-spirited Swiss valet, the nineteen-year-old Count de Pourtales. En route to the western frontier, which it was their intention to explore, they encountered Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, member of a presidential commission for the relocation of certain native American tribes from southern

The Noble Eloquent Savage

The myth of the noble savage has been related historically to the myth of the eloquent savage. Those testifying to the eloquence of Indian speech have included traders, travelers, missionaries, Indian agents, military men, historians and anthropologists. They have contributed unwittingly to the perpetuation of the idea of the eloquent savage even into the 20th century. This notion is likely to persist until it is explored by scholars who are trained in rhetorical criticism. They probably didn't plan it that way, but the perpetrators of the noble savage concept in 18th and 19th century America were doing the rhetorical criticism that more specialized rhetorical critics were ignoring. While the followers of the Rousseau point of view may have originally been the philosophers, as writing on the American Indian came to dominate such discussions other considerations took precedence. There is evidence to show that some of the earliest missionaries and traders had their own causes to consolidate. The early Jesuits were interested in proving that the Indian was redeemable under their terms, of course, and that they were doing a good job of redeeming him (Healy 1958:143 ff.). The traders were interested in showing how well they were getting along with the source of their supplies of valuable skins (Saum 1963:554 ff). Some of the early travelers were simply eager to show how very courageous they were in being able to survive in this country, so different from the Europe they knew. They alternated between admiration for the ease and simplicity of life which they envisioned every Indian enjoying and fear that they might very soon meet some tragic end. The explanation.given for the visit of Count de Pourtales, one of Washington Irving's companions on his western tour, is typical: It was quite the thing to do for those who could afford such an expensive time-consuming journey. America was a new and exciting 227 ETHNOHISTORY 19/3 (Summer 1972) This content downloaded from 207.46.13.111 on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 04:27:59 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

On the Western Tour with Washington Irving: The Journal and Letters of Count de Pourtales

On the Western Tour with Washington Irving: The Journal and Letters of Count de Pourtales

On the Western Tour with Washington Irving: The Journal and Letters of Count De Pourtales

On the Western Tour with Washington Irving: The Journal and Letters of Count De Pourtales

Deltocyathus Italicus, Ed. and H.

I FIND that Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S., President of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, has lately written as follows in an anniversary address. “On the other hand the Geelong coral, Deltocyathus italicus, Ed. and H., better known from the Italian Miocenes, is considered by Count Pourtales and Sir Wyville Thomson to be specifically distinct from its living analogue inhabiting the deep waters of Florida—an opposite, opinion to that held by Prof. Duncan.” During the last conversation I had with the late M. de Pourtales he informed me that after having seen and studied the Italian types, he was satisfied that I was correct in the statement I had made regarding the specific identity of the Tertiary and recent forms.

The late Count L. F. de Pourtales

EVERY naturalist must have noticed with regret the news of the death of M. de Pourtales, of Cambridge, Mass., U.S., but those who have had the pleasure of his friendship and who have been fellow-labourers with him feel a most sincere sorrow at the loss which science has sustained.

Count Pourtales

“IN the death of Louis François de Pourtales science has met a heavy loss. He was the Swiss representative of an old family, which had branches also in France, Prussia, and Bohemia. Trained as an engineer, he cmigrated in early manhood to the United States at nearly the same time as the late Prof. Agassiz, to whom he was much attached, and whose pupil and fellow-worker he was. He entered the Government service in the department of the Coast Survey, and continued in it many years. His talents and industry made him a man of mark, to whom was intrusted much work that required original thought. Especially did he show interest in the problems of deep-sea soundings and the structure of the ocean bottom, an interest that led to profound observations on the physical geography of the Carribean Sea and the Gulf Stream. His papers on this subject were of the first order, and established his reputation in Europe as well as in America.

XIV. The Croonian lecture. —On the structure of the stylasteridæ, a family of the hydroid stony corals

In the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 172, 1876, I published a preliminary note on the present subject, and gave a short account of the results which I had arrived at from a somewhat hurried examination of the material at disposal. After this short account had been written, I devoted my time during the remainder of the homeward voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ to the further study of the structure of the Stylasteridæ, and the preparation of drawings illustrating it. I have supplemented this work by additional work in England, and the results are embodied in the present paper. The main part of the specimens of Stylasteridæ, from the study of which the anatomical details were determined, was obtained at a single haul of the trawl-net taken on February 14th, 1876, in lat. 37° 17'S., long. 53° 52' W., off the mouth of the Bio de la Plata in a depth of 600 fathoms. The specimens then obtained included six genera of the family of the Stylasteridæ. They were in most excellent preservation, although they had been slowly raised from the bottom, and in all the genera but one the generative organs were in full development. It was the examination of this set of specimens which first convinced me that the Stylasteridæ were Hydroids and not Anthozoans, a fact which I had already been led to suspect from the structure observed in the case of a species of Astylus obtained from 500 fathoms off the Meangis Islands, and that of a Cryptohelia , a short reference to which was given in a paper “On the Structure and Relations of certain Corals” (Proc. Roy. Son, No. 64, 1875, p. 64, and Phil. Trans., Vol. 166, Pt. I., 1876, p. 116). I have examined also other specimens of Stylasteridse obtained by the dredge and trawl of the ‘Challenger’ in various parts of the world, and a few specimens from those obtained by the United States dredging expeditions, which have been generously placed at my disposal by Mr. Alexander Agassiz and Count de Pourtales of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Literature of the Subject. The family Stylasteridæ was formed by the late Dr. Gray in his "Outline of an Arrangement of Stony Corals” (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xix., 1847, p. 127). The family was made to contain the genus Stylaster alone, and was thus characterized:— “Coral minutely porous, cells deep, cylindrical, with six grooves, each ending in a pore and a central style.”

Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College No IV Deep-sea Corals

COUNT POURTALES had the good fortune to be one of that band of naturalists who, dredging for the first time in deep water between Key West and Havana, came to the conclusion that “animal life exists at great depths in as great an abundance as in shallow water.” This opinion was published in his “Contributions to the Fauna of the Gulf Stream at great Depths” (Cambridge, U.S., 1867). Moreover as a zoophytologist he had the credit of obtaining the first true stony corals from great depths. Numerous corals were dredged up under his superintendence in 1868 and 1869 from off the sea floor of the so-called Straits of Florida in the course of the Gulf Stream, and they were carefully described by him in Nos. 6 and 7 of the last-mentioned work. Now the results of the Deep-sea Dredging so far as the Corals are concerned, appear in the handsome essay in quarto before us; the specific descriptions have been revised, new forms are described, and the illustrations in lithography testify to the excellence of American printing from stone. The interesting coral fauna in the deep sea of Florida has already to a certain extent been compared with that of the cold and warm area of the North Atlantic, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, March 24, 1870; and the new species described by M. de Pourtales, together with the remarks upon the classification of the corals, will probably enhance the importance of the labours of those English naturalists who have undertaken the description of the results of our abyssal dredgings. The great horizontal range of some of the deep-sea corals is as remarkable as the vertical range of others; and M. de Pourtales, although strongly impressed with the importance of some structural characters in the distinction of specific differences which are not thought so valuable and important in England, leans to the belief in these ranges. The American deep-sea coral fauna is not so rich in species, and apparently in individuals, as that of the North Atlantic and Lusitanian Coasts, but there is one form which is found in the globigerina mud off Bahia Honda, Florida, in 324 fathoms, which will always be of interest to the naturalist who studies palæontology. Haplophyllia paradoxa Pourtales, possesses all the essential characters of the Rugosa, and is allied to the simple coral, Calophyllum profundum Germar—the Permian Polycælia profunda of King, but it has been shown to be also allied to Guynia annulata Duncan, a small rugose coral dredged off the Adventure Bank in the Mediterranean. Both Haplophyllia and Guynia have a strong central axis or columella, the existence of which is of generic importance, and it is therefore necessary to ally these two modern representatives of the old Rugosa which dominated in the coral fauna of the Palæozoic age with the Cyathaxonidæ of the Carboniferous rocks. M. de Pourtales is so gentle a critic that if one wished to differ from him in print, the desire would fail. When the Zoological Society print, which they are about to do, the Essay on the deep-sea corals dredged from H.M.S. Porcupine, nothing will be more satisfactory than that an interchange of notes and specimens should take place, so that in a supplement the American and English authors may terminate their unimportant little differences in classification. The beauty and correctness of the illustrations are extreme, and they do the artist, and especially the printer, great credit. It is to be hoped that some English lithographic printer will see the American triumph in this particular, and will forthwith mend his ways. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. No. IV. Deep-sea Corals. By L. F. de Pourtales, Assistant U.S. Coast Survey. 1871.

The Brachiopoda of the Coast Survey ExpeditionReport on the Brachiopoda obtained by the U. S. Coast Survey Expedition in Charge of L. F. de Pourtales, with a Revision of the Craniidae and Discinidae.W. H. Dall

Previous articleNext article FreeReviewsThe Brachiopoda of the Coast Survey Expedition Report on the Brachiopoda obtained by the U. S. Coast Survey Expedition in Charge of L. F. de Pourtales, with a Revision of the Craniidae and Discinidae. W. H. Dall PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 5, Number 10Oct., 1871 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/270841 Views: 84Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Report on the Brachiopoda obtained by the United States Coast Survey Expedition, in charge of L. F. de Pourtales, with a Revision of the Craniidæ and Discinidæ

THIS is another important instalment of the published results of the deep-water dredgings made by our Transatlantic cousins and friends in the Gulf of Mexico. The first was issued in 1869, and consisted of a Preliminary Report on the Echini and Starfishes, by Prof. Alexander Agassiz. A report by Dr. Stimpson on the Crustacea procured in the same expedition is announced as nearly ready; and that distinguished zoologist has also undertaken the still greater charge of a report on the Moliusca. It is impossible to over-rate the impulse which will be every where given by such explorations to the study of marine Natural History. We are now entering on quite a new phase of research, and commencing a survey of the hitherto unknown world beneath the waters. Regarded not merely in a biological, geological, or physical aspect, but also as a basis of sound education, these investigations ought not to be neglected by any civilised nation, especially by Great Britain, which, it is hoped, will never cede her well-earned maritime prestige, and her laudable ambition of discovery. This has been forcibly urged as a duty on the Government in an admirable article which appeared in the Spectator of the 22nd of July. In the pages of NATURE (meaning, of course, the present periodical, and not the mythical book to which fanciful writers are wont to allude), some of the results obtained in our deep-sea explorations of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean have been already noticed; and next year will in all probability inaugurate an expedition on a more extensive scale, and worthy of this rich and intellectual country. Sweden has performed her part most nobly, by sending out, in 1869, the Josephine frigate for the exploration of the sea-bed lying between the coast of Portugal and the Azores, and this year a corvette and tender to Baffin's Bay and Davis's Straits. Russia despatched, last year, a frigate to New Guinea for a similar purpose, under the scientific charge of an experienced naturalist, Mr.N. M. v. Maclay. We are now informed on good authority that Drs. Noll and Grenadier, two German naturalists, are projecting a dredging expedition along the coasts of Portugal and Morocco to the Canaries. Even France, in the midst of her troubles, devoted some of her energy and vast resources to the peaceful object of dredging in the lower part of the Bay of Biscay, under the personal superintendence of the Marquis de Folin, the Commandant at Bayonne. In Canada a Government schooner has been lately placed at the disposal of the Natural History Society of Montreal for dredging the deeper part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. But the United States, not content with the laurels she had gained in the Gulf of Mexico, has this year promoted two separate expeditions; one, under the charge of the veteran and celebrated Professor Louis Agassiz, and Count Pourtales, to proceed along the south-eastern coasts of the Atlantic from Bermuda, through the Straits of Magellan to the Galapagos and San Francisco, dredging all the way; and the other, under the charge of Mr. Dall, the author of the Report above cited, has already gone from California to the Aleutian Islands. Report on the Brachiopoda obtained by the United States Coast Survey Expedition, in charge of L. F. de Pourtales, with a Revision of the Craniidæ and Discinidæ. By W. H. Dall. (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.) With two plates. (Cambridge, U.S., 1871, 8vo.)

Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream off FloridaPreliminary Report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida.L. F. de Pourtales

Previous articleNext article FreeReviewsCrustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream off Florida Preliminary Report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida. L. F. de Pourtales PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 5, Number 3May, 1871 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/270731 Views: 29Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

On the madreporaria dredged up in the expedition of H. M. S. 'Porcupine'

Professor Wyville Thomson, Dr. Carpenter, and Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys have placed the collection of stony corals dredged up by them in the 'Porcupine’ Expedition in my hands for determination. They have kindly afforded me all the information I required concerning the localities, depths, and temperatures in which the specimens were found. My report has been rendered rather more elaborate than I had intended, in consequence of the great consideration of Professor A. Agassiz and Count de Pourtales in forwarding me their reports and specimens relating to the deep sea-dredging off Florida and the Havana. They have enabled me to offer a comparison between the British and American species, which I had not hoped to do before the publication of this communication.

Results of Deep Sea Dredging between Cuba and FloridaBulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, No.9, Preliminary Report on the Echini and Starfishes Dredged in Deep Water between Cuba and the Florida Reef.L. F. de Pourtales

Results of Deep Sea Dredging between Cuba and Florida<i>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, No.9, Preliminary Report on the Echini and Starfishes Dredged in Deep Water between Cuba and the Florida Reef.</i>L. F. de Pourtales