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The Excavations at Yanik Tepe, Azerbaijan, 1961 Second Preliminary Report

THE third and final season of excavations at Yanik Tepe, near Tabriz, was carried out from ioth August until 5th October, I962. The work was made possible by the following contributions, which are gratefully acknowledged: the University of Manchester (f6oo); the University Museum, Cambridge (?z5o); the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (?250); the Russell Trust (2zoo); the British Academy (fIso); the City MIuseum, Liverpool (,(ioo); the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (UP). This amounted to a total for the I962 season of Ci,6oo. The total sum of contributions for the three seasons of work at Yanik Tepe is ?3,35o. The staff during the I962 season comprised the following: the Director and his wife, who was responsible for the register of finds, the greater part of the object-drawing and the house-keeping; Mr. Edward Keall (Surveyor and Draughtsman); Messrs. David Biernoff, Mark Davie, Patrick Guthrie-Jones and Ian Todd (Archaeological Assistants). Mr. Biernoff also recorded the animal bones, and he and Mr. Keall repaired the pottery; Mr. Todd was responsible for the photography of the objects. Mr. Sarafaraz was appointed by the Director-General of the Archaeological Service of Iran as Inspector to accompany the expedition during the I962 season, and he also acted as an Archaeological Assistant. Thanks are due to the Archaeological Service of Iran, and especially to Dr. Ezatollah Negahban, for help and cooperation in the work of the expedition. Thanks are likewise due to the friends in Tabriz and Teheran whose help and hospitality facilitated our work: to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Popplestone (of the British Council, Tabriz); to Mr. and Mrs. W. Holloway (Point Four, Tabriz) and to others; to the British Institute of Persian Studies, for hospitality in Teheran. The expedition owes a special debt of gratitude to the Department of Education in Tabriz, for loan of equipment and provision of free accommodation during two seasons in the Ferdowsi School at Khosrowshah. Mr. Ahad Darbani, Director of the Tabriz Museum, gave unstintingly of his time and hospitality to help us at the end of the excavations. Among our visitors were Messrs. Robert Dyson and T. Cuyler Young Jnr., from the excavations at Hasanlu, whose hospitality enabled the whole expedition to visit Hasanlu in August I962. We were fortunate to be visited briefly each season by Mr. David Stronach, Director of the British Institute of Persian Studies. An archaeological expedition in the Near East, especially one based on England, requires help from several quarters,

Observations on Mosquito Populations of an Intermittent Foothill Stream in California

Mosquitoes are well known from the west-slope foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada in California (Freeborn and Bohart 1951) but, as populations, are most notable for their unobtrusiveness. The small to moderate-sized streams which provide virtually all of the natural breeding sites in this zone are dry during the hot, rainless summer and so can be used effectively by mosquitoes only during the brief transition periods between that season and the cool-wet winter. The alternatives are for breeding to be carried on in winter waters which are flushed frequently by storms and in which temperatures average 100 C or less for months at a time or in the restricted and faunistically crowded bits of water that remain scattered along these watercourses through the summer. A general study (Abell 1956) of the seasonal development of the macrofauna in and around one such stream through 1953-1955 has yielded information on larval mosquito occurrence during the calendar year of 1954 that appears to be worth reporting separately at this time. This work was conducted while the author was on a National Science Foundation Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Special thanks are due to the California Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vector Control, for their generous loan of equipment and working space at their Fresno Field Station and to E. C. Loomis and H. F. Bormann, who critically read the manuscript.

Habits of the White-Tailed Kite

(Elanus leucurus majusculus) the authors have condensed and combined their notes to give the salient features in one paper. Responsibility for each observation is shown by reference to numbered paragraphs (senior author responsible for paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14; junior author responsible for paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12). (1) The nest was found in southern California by Mr. James Dixon of Escondido. On April 2, 1939, his son, Ralph Dixon, the junior author and two friends, James Fassero and Gus Hanson, visited the nest and found that it contained eggs, which could not be seen clearly through the limbs by Ralph, who believed they were four in hum. bet. On April 16, Ralph again climbed the tree and reported that the eggs had hatched, and that there were three young in the nest. A special forty-foot ladder was guyed straight into the air, fifteen feet away from the nest on April 23 and a crate, formerly used for shipping a refrigerator, was placed without camouflage on top of it. On April 30, the senior author, as return courtesy for the loan of equipment, was invited to join the party. Ascending a second forty-foot ladder fastened to the main one, so that it extended obliquely toward the nest, the junior author obtained the first unobstructed view of the young and discovered that there were only two remaining. (2) At this time the young were approximately two weeks old. They were covered with a slate-blue down, the eyes were light brown, the feet pale flesh-color and the inside of the mouths unusually pink. The nest was lined with grass and a considerable amount of fur from meadow mice (Microtus californicus anctidiegi). When the junior

Reverse faulting in the Sawatch Range

Research Article| December 31, 1934 Reverse faulting in the Sawatch Range J. T. STARK J. T. STARK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information J. T. STARK Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 07 Feb 1934 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Online Issn: 1943-2674 Print Issn: 0016-7606 © 1934 Geological Society of America GSA Bulletin (1934) 45 (6): 1001–1016. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-45-1001 Article history Received: 07 Feb 1934 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation J. T. STARK; Reverse faulting in the Sawatch Range. GSA Bulletin 1934;; 45 (6): 1001–1016. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-45-1001 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract INTRODUCTIONDuring the field seasons of 1931–1933, geologists from Northwestern University were engaged in a study of the pre-Cambrian formations of the Sawatch Range in central Colorado. The present paper is the result of more detailed study in the summer of 1933 of reverse faults along the western slope of the range.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSGenerous co-operation of the U. S. Geological Survey, both in the loan of field equipment and in valuable professional assistance, is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks are due to C. H. Behre, Jr., B. S. Butler, and T. S. Lovering for field conferences and criticism. The use of unpublished maps and other data has been most helpful. Thanks also are given to the following graduate students of Northwestern University for field assistance : F. F. Barnes, R. S. Cannon, D. V. Harris, A. D. Hoagland, E. F. Osborn, and E. H. Rainwater.GENERAL GEOLOGYAs a description . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.