Local Collector Research Articles

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

I am moved to write you because I believe it is important that the facts I am going to relate be generally known to pediatricians. Sooner or later every mentally retarded child comes to the attention of a physician. The cost of care for these children, particularly the burden of expense involved in their supervision at "schools" n a part- or full-time basis, is a permissible deduction as medical expense on Federal Income Tax returns. The propriety of this deduction is not generally known either to physicians or the parents of their patients. The pertinent language of the Internal Revenue code bearing on this problem is as follows: "Sec. 23 (x). The term `medical care,' as used in this subsection, shall include amounts paid for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, or for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body (including amounts paid for accident or health insurance.) "Reg. 111, Sec. 29.23 (x)-1. Allowable deductions under section 23 (x) will be confined strictly to expenses incurred primarily for the prevention or alleviation of physical or mental defect or illness." With a thorough understanding of the likely areas of difficulty in interpretation of the term, "medical care," by non-medical persons, the following letter was sent to the local Collector of Internal Revenue by the president of the board of a local private school for exceptional children.

Evidence for the Antiquity of Scalping from Central Illinois

Just before the archaeological party of the University of Chicago moved camp to the extreme southeastern part of Fulton County, Illinois, during the summer of 1933, the writer visited the aboriginal site (designated Fv896 by the archaeological survey) on the Norman Crable farm located on the high Illinois River bluff about two miles north of Bluff City. Here for several years Mr. Glenn McGirr, a local collector, had opened a large number of graves to secure artifacts, and on that afternoon had opened six of them. The burials were extended on the back with the arms to the sides and accompanied by typical Middle Mississippi pottery and other artifacts that were assigned to the Spoon River focus of the Monk's Mound aspect after excavations had been carried on by the field party.

The Food and Nesting Habits of the Bald Eagle

WHEN in June, 1782, the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) was chosen for our national emblem, the bird was fairly common throughout most of the United States where conditions were suitable. Since then it has been exterminated over most of its original range and is found today only where law or seclusion give it protection. It has been my fortune to observe the Eagle in one of these remaining strongholds and to study its food habits at two nests. One of these nests which it was possible to examine carefully yielded much interesting information about the food and habits of the Eagle in this type of environment. The location of the nests was the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which with two counties of Virginia and the state of Delaware, constitutes the peninsula of land which cuts Chesapeake Bay off from the Atlantic Ocean. The land in the area where the nests were located is very low and much of it consists of marsh and swamp land. It is drained by Blackwater River, a sluggish stream, fresh at its head but brackish and nearly salt at its mouth. The river flows through the great Blackwater Marshes which are dotted with ponds and small pine-clad elevations known as islands. Along the borders of the marsh are growths of trees which in some places extend back for several miles. These areas are flooded at every heavy rain and during the winter months, and are known as swamps. The chief trees in these swamps are loblolly pine, sweet gum, holly, and white and willow oaks. The one in which the first Eagles' nest was located is known as Gum Swamp. The Blackwater marshes are famous for their muskrat population and for the great number of water-fowl that winter in the ponds and on the river. The river also has an abundance of fish. The old Eagles evidently had an eye on these bounties of nature when they established their lofty eyrie at the edge of the marsh so long ago. The nest was located some two hundred yards from the open marsh and less than a mile from Blackwater River. It was about seven miles to the waters of Chesapeake Bay and less than three quarters of a mile to the nearest house. The original nest had been located for no one knows how long in a big pine far back in the swamp. Some thirty years ago the tree was cut and the Eagles then moved to the giant pine near the edge of the marsh. Here for over thirty years their nest was located until the hurricane of August 22, 1933, came sweeping across the marsh and tore the great nest from its place. The nest was not in use when destroyed, in fact no attempt had been made to rear a brood there for three years. A local egg collector had paid it yearly visits until the Eagles ceased to breed there. They still

Correlation of the more important marine Permian sequences

Research Article| January 31, 1935 Correlation of the more important marine Permian sequences CHARLES SCHUCHERT CHARLES SCHUCHERT Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information CHARLES SCHUCHERT Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 18 Jun 1934 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Online Issn: 1943-2674 Print Issn: 0016-7606 © 1935 Geological Society of America GSA Bulletin (1935) 46 (1): 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-46-1 Article history Received: 18 Jun 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 CHARLES SCHUCHERT; Correlation of the more important marine Permian sequences. GSA Bulletin 1935;; 46 (1): 1–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-46-1 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 INTRODUCTIONA synopsis of this paper was presented before the Sixteenth International Geological Congress at Washington in July, 1933, but as the paper itself was too long to appear in the Compte Rendu of the Congress, the Geological Society of America kindly consented to publish it.Since the writer’s lengthy review of the Permian of the world was published by the Society in 1928,1 a flood of Permian literature has appeared, from which he has gathered much information; also, he has been in correspondence with local workers on the Permian in many parts of the world. Furthermore, he has recently received, through coöperation with the Geological Survey of India, a large collection of fossils from the Productus limestone of the Salt Range, made by a trained collector, Austin M. N. Ghosh. Through another local collector, Guiseppe Bonafede, of Palermo, he has received a representative collection from the Middle Permian of . . . 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.

The Condition of Kent's Cavern

SINCE a recent visit to Kent's Cavern I have been wondering if it would be possible for something to done by which any important finds that may be made there could be brought to the notice of those interested in ancient man. The cave now seems to one of the sights of Torquay which any curious visitor can see, just as he visits the caves elsewhere when on a holiday. There is a well-informed man who shows the sights to visitors, and he stated to a party, of which I was one, that quite recently a jaw a human being had been found, and that this was the possession of a local collector. A human tooth has also been found. It seems highly desirable that the aw should be examined by a competent authority.

III.—Invertebrate Palæontology in some Continental Museums

Naturalists who refer to their “Baedeker” for information respecting the Continental Natural History Museums are too often disappointed by finding that if the author does happen to have mentioned them, either that he has confined his attention to the exterior of the building or has summarily dismissed the collection as “unimportant.” Hence geologists are dependent upon such, papers as those in which M. Cotteau has recapitulated the principal contents of several French and Swiss Museums, or that in which Mr. Smith Woodward has enumerated the most interesting specimens of many German and Austrian collections. The last paper, as is indicated by its title, “Vertebrate Paleontology in Continental Museums,” is restricted solely to the Vertebrata. But as the value of a Museum, as far as the Invertebrates are concerned, is dependent more on the possession of collections than of single famous specimens, the student of this group is more in need of such information than is the Vertebrate palæontologist; every one knows where he must go to see an Archæopteryx, a mounted Iguanodon, or a Neanderthal skull, but the last resting-place of a local collector's hoard is, as a rule, less known to fame. Hence the following notes may be of some service as a supplement to Mr. S. Woodward's paper.

On the Occurrence of Greenockite at a New Locality

More than a year ago I obtained a number of minerals in Boylestone quarry, which lies about a quarter of a mile north-west of Barrhead, near Glasgow.Upon breaking up at home the very unwieldly druses which alone seem to occur at this locality, I found one which contained Greenockite.A single bright yellow crystal only occurs, and it lies so deep in the specimen, between two mammillations of prehnite, that its form cannot be deciphered.I was induced by the urgent solicitations of a local collector, to whom I mentioned the find, to refrain for a time from announcing it. His argument was that the mineral collectors of the neighbourhood should have the earliest chance of being supplied.As I have myself fruitlessly visited the quarry since, and as even the occurrence of the ordinary zeolites is only very occasional therein, I conclude that time must elapse before more crystals are turned out.