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Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, K. G....

Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, K. G....

Reviews of books

EUROPE The Scotland of Our Fathers. By Elizabeth S. Haldane. London : A. Maclehose and Co., 1933. Price 18s. 6d. net. Fifty Tears and More of Sport in Scotland. By the Duke of Portland. London : Faber and Faber, 1933. Price 21s. The Woodlands and Marshlands of England. By H. A. Wilcox. University Press of Liverpool; London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1933. Price 6s. The Face of Scotland. By Harry Batsford and Charles Fry. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1933. Price 7s. 6d. net. The Charm of Brittany. By R. A. J. Walling. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1933. Price 7s. 6d. Poland. By Roman Dyboski. London : Ernest Benn Ltd, 1933. Price 21s. Rumania : Its History, Politics and Economics. By George Glenton Logio Manchester : Sherratt and Hughes, 1932. Price 5s. Belgium : The Land and its People. By Clive Holland. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1933. Price 5s. Pavements and Peaks. By Anthony Bertram. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1933. Price 7s. 6d. AFRICA My Farm in Lion Country. By Joyce Boyd. London : Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1933. Price 12s. 6d. AMERICA The Explorers of North America, 1492–1806. By J. B. Brebner. London : A. and C. Black Ltd., 1933. Price 18s. Land of Feast and Famine. By Helge Ingstad. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1933. Price 16s. From Pacific to Atlantic: South American Studies. By Kenneth G. Grubb. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1933. Price 10s. 6d. True North. By Elliott Merrick. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Price 10s. 6d. AUSTRALASIA Gold Dust and Ashes. By Ion L. Idriess. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1933. Price 6s. GENERAL Light on the Dark Continent. By Garveth Wells. London : Jarrolds Ltd., 1933. Price 16s. The Horse and the Sword. By Harold Peake and H. J. Fleure. London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. Price 5s. The Problem of Disarmament. Edited by R. Schmidt and A. Grabowsky. Berlin : Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1933. N.p. Nansen of Norway. By C. Turley. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1933. Price 5s. Voyage of the “ Parma.” By A. J. Villiers. London : Geoffrey Bles, 1933. Price 25s. Come Easy, Go Easy. By Arthur Mason. London : Jonathan Cape, 1933. Price 7s. 6d. Far Vistas. By Sir Percival Phillips. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1933. Price 12s. 6d. Round the World to Freedom. By Major Paul Stoffa. London : John Lane (The Bodley Head) Ltd., 1933. Price 7s. 6d. Seaplane Solo. By Francis C. Ghighester. London : Faber and Faber, 1933. Price 10s. 6d. Thames to Tahiti. By Sidney Howard. London : George Bell and Sons Ltd., 1933. Price 10s. 6d. Scamper Tour to Rhodesia and South Africa. By Mrs. Maude Speed. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1933. Price 7s. 6d. Trade Winds. By Louis Kornitzer. London : Geoffrey Bles, 1933. Price 10s. 6d. Historical Geology. By Raymond C. Moore. New York : McGraw‐Hill Book Co. Inc., 1933. Price 24s. A Political Geography of the British Empire. By C. B. Fawcett, B.Litt., D.Sc. London: University of London Press, 1933. Price 18s. EDUCATIONAL Economic and Social Geography. By Ellsworth Huntington, Frank E. Williams and Samuel van Valkenburg. New York and London : John Wiley and Sons, 1933. Price 23s. The Story Atlas. Edited by John Stirling. London : Ivor Nicholson and Watson, n.d. Price 31s. 6d. Our World To‐day. By W. R. Kermack. Edinburgh : W. and A. K. Johnston Ltd., 1933. Price 2s. 6d. This Land of Ours. By Wm. Platt. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1933. Price 2s.

Report on the Manuscripts of His Grace, The Duke of Portland, K. G., Preserved at Welbeck Abbey. Vol. X

Report on the Manuscripts of His Grace, The Duke of Portland, K. G., Preserved at Welbeck Abbey. Edited by R. F. Isaacson. Vol. X. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1931. ix+551 pp. 12s. 6d.) Get access Donald Barnes Donald Barnes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 18, Issue 3, December 1931, Page 438, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891444 Published: 01 December 1931

British Empire Cancer Campaign

British Empire Cancer CampaignPublished Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-3-36-566SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractIn the absence of Lord Reading, Sir Charles Gordon-Watson presided at the quarterly meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, held on October 13th at the new offices at 12 Grosvenor Crescent. Hyde Park Corner, S.W.On the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Committee a further grant of £150 was made to Dr. J. C. Mottram, pathologist at the Radium Institute, London; £300 to Mrs. E. K. Dawson, M.B., Ch.B., of Edinburgh, for the continuance of investigations into mammary cancer; and £250 to Mr. E. Nevill Willmer at the Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge University.An application for affiliation from the Natal Radium and Anti-Cancer Fund, South Africa, was acceded to, thus completing the representation of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, either by way of branches or affiliated bodies, in every one of the British Dominions. It was also reported that, owing to the success attained by the Nottinghamshire Council of the Campaign, its work was being extended by associating with the counties of Derby, Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland, thus forming the East Midland Council, and that the Duke of Portland had agreed to act as president of this new combined council. Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 3, Issue 36December 1930Pages: 533-580 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF

The Proposed University for the East Midlands

THE movement for securing a charter for University College, Nottingham, with the view of making the College the seat of a University for the East Midlands, has been carried further forward an important stage. A large conference of representatives of the counties of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, Nottingham, and Rutland was held in the Grand Jury Room of the Guildhall, Nottingham, on Thursday, January 9. The Duke of Portland, who is the president, of University College, took the chair, and the meeting included representatives of the leading civic and educational bodies and institutions throughout the whole area.

On two early Australian ornithologists

John William Lewin was the author of the first work published on Australian Birds. He arrived in New South Wales in 1798 by H.M.S. "Buffalo," and is thus referred to by the Duke of Portland in a communication to Governor Hunter) under date 6th February, 1798. "Mr. Lewin is a painter and drawer in natural history, and being desirous of pursuing his studies in a country which cannot fail to improve that branch of knowledge, you will allow him the usual Government rations during his residence in the settlement." In 1801 Lewin accompanied Lieutenant Colonel Paterson, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony, and others in an exploring expedition up the Hunter and Paterson Rivers, the latter previous to the visit being known as Cedar Arm Surgeon Harris, writing from the Hunter River on 25th June 1801, to Governor King remarks: "The Colonel says he has found several new plants here, and Mr. Lewin also says he has met with new birds. If so, they are above my comprehension, as I see nothing new about them, one hawk excepted, and that only -in colour being red with a white head."

XI. —Note on a Gold Standing Cup in the possession of the Duke of Portland, K.G.

Gold plate is of such rare occurrence that I have thought it would be agreeable to the Society to see the very handsome example that the Duke of Portland has been good enough to send up at my request from Welbeck for exhibition. (Plate LXIV.) The metal is evidently of high quality, and the form is by no means inelegant for the period at which it was made. The bowl is beaten into a shell-like form, with elaborate projecting scroll-work enamelled and set with jewels, and having at the back a figure of Pan with Cupid seated astride of his neck all modelled in the round; the stem is formed of a pair of lovers embracing, and the foot is of a lozenge form made up of a number of enamelled scrolls alternating with jewelled bands. The whole of the work is of the most minute finish, not only as regards the chasing and engraving of the gold, but the figures that form so important a feature of the design are modelled with unusual vigour and artistic perfection, and there can be no reasonable doubt that they are the work of a master. I have not, however, been able to trace the artist during the short time the cup has been in my custody. The enamelled work is of interest in the history of the craft, for it well illustrates the transition from the method that characterised the jewellery of the sixteenth century to that prevalent in the seventeenth. The former is commonly found during the last three quarters of the sixteenth century, and consists in cutting away the ground of the design down to a certain depth, and the engraved portions are then filled in with enamel, leaving the design itself in the metal. This style of work required great dexterity on the part of the engraver, for the dividing lines of gold were often of great thinness, and the slightest deviation of the graver would instantly catch the eye and destroy the quality of the work. This class of enamelled decoration for jewellery was succeeded in the seventeenth century by another of a similar effect, but not requiring anything like the same care.

Political Memorandums, 1792

This part of the Memoranda refers to a supposed attempt at coalition between the followers of Pitt and Fox. The main object was to oppose a more united front to the internal disturbances resulting from the French Revolution, and to intervene with more effect in case England was forced to take part in the European war. Historians have generally taken their information with regard to these matters from Lord Malmesbury's Diary; but it will be found, on close examination, that most of Lord Malmesbury's statements rest solely on the authority of Lord Loughborough, who was himself very eager for office. His trustworthiness has not been borne out by the verdict of succeeding generations.On Thursday, July 19th, in the afternoon, I received an Express at Minis from Sir Ralph Woodford with a letter from him inclosing one to me from the Duke of Portland wishing to call upon me in Grosvenor Square if in town. I returned for answer I would come up the next morning and should be happy to see his Grace either at my own house or at Burlington House or anywhere else most convenient to him.