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Evidence for Subshell atN=152

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Small-Angle Neutron-Proton Scattering at 90 Mev

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Grundtvig og den danske rimkrønike

Grundtvig og den danske rimkrønike

Evidence of a Subsurface Chamber Under the Brown Mound at Spiro

My notes on the Brown mound (Br. 3) of the Spiro site filed at the University of Oklahoma were misplaced and therefore not available to Kenneth Orr at the time he prepared his preliminary Spiro report. (American Antiquity, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1946.) The following data are from a personal copy of the original notes.When I visited the Spiro site in August 1935, members of the Pocola Mining Company were “exploring“ the Brown mound. Using a team and slip, they had put one trench about 20 feet wide almost completely through the mound from the north side and a side trench from the west to the center of the mound. The clay subsoil was exposed in both trenches, less than a foot of it having been removed from the north-south trench. These trenches, with the spreading of the fill around the north, south, and west sides of the mound, had all but obliterated its original shape and size.

More on Monroy

could be reserved only for the exceptional, even when the combination is of two strong vowels: crueldad, saltëamL·ntos. In cases two and three, a two-syllable use being the normal, a ligature could indicate synaeresis, preferably of the type: había, leal. If it is placed under the word, it will not interfere with the acute accent mark used to indicate the stressed weak vowel. In cases four and five, a diéresis could be used to indicate a two-syllable use of the vowel combination, weak-stressed strong and weak-weak (the writer believes that diéresis almost never occurs in the combination, stressed strong-weak). There is a considerable group of words of the criar and huir types, in which the combination is almost invariably of two syllables, but the total number of appearances of this type of word is considerably less than of those in which the respective combinations are of one syllable. As a result words similar to the following would appear with diéresis: cruel, criar, graduar, huir. There still remain two minor problems. One is the use of diéresis in such words as averigüe, in which it indicates only that the u is pronounced and not that it forms another syllable. But it is believed that such words are few and the use of diéresis in them would not be confused with that which indicates another syllable. The second one is the intervocalic h. In the autographs of Lope, for example, there appear -aho-rcado and a-hcrcaban, tra-hen, and tr-ahe-n. It is suggested that the h be considered as normally dividing the vowels into two syllables and where it does not, that a ligature be employed: ahorcado, traben. The suggestions1 offered probably do not cover all the problems, indeed they may raise new ones, but they are presented as a possible start. Certainly no usage should be accepted until all possibilities and difficulties have been discussed and a solution or method acceptable to most editors agreed upon. 1 Although hiatus and synaloepha have not been discussed in these notes it might be suggested, since they are a related problem, that inasmuch as synaloepha between a final vowel and an initial one is : much more frequent than is hiatus, synaloepha be assumed and hiatus be indicated by a diagonal: te I hace, la I higa. More on Monroy My short study of Monroy y Silva in the Bulletin for Spring, 1953 offered a list of the location of his plays in several of the world's libraries. This list, admittedly incomplete , needs supplementing by interested students of Monroy. Since its appearance, Professor Charles P. Wagner has kindly supplied the titles of a number of uncatalogued sueltas in the University of Michigan library: La batalla de Pavía (Sanz, 1731), El encanto por los celos (Sevilla, Vazquez), Lo que puede el desengaño (Sevilla, Padrino), Las mocedades del duque de Osuna (Sevilla, Vallestilla . Also another edition, Valencia, Orga, 1762), El ofensor de sí mismo (Sevilla, Padrino), Los tres soles de Madrid (Valencia, Orga, 1761), two copies of Los zelos de San Joseph (Barcelona, Centené-Serra). Professor Wagner has a personal copy of "an old suelta, imperfect, probably 17th century, of Embidias vencen fortunas, n.p.n.d." I should like also to express my gratitude to Professor William A. McKnight of the University of North Carolina; it was his generous examining of the uncatalogued titles of plays in that University's library that made possible their appearance in my original article .—Gerald E. Wade. The Comediantes luncheon will take place at Foley's Steak House, 61 East Adams, Chicago , one block from the Palmer House at 12:30 P.M. on Tuesday, December 29. Reservations should be sent at once to Prof. Gerald E. Wade, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Comediantes Meeting: Tuesday, December 29, 1953 in conjunction with the MLA convention in Chicago. There will also be a luncheon at noon, the details of which will be sent you later. 32 ...

The Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia

i ET me describe for reader a dinner of Philadelphia S Shakspere Society. I should really prefer to have him beside me as my guest, for eating, drinking, and talking by proxy is an unsatisfactory business. But time and distance, those archenemies of Epicurean philosophy of Here and Now forbid, and force me to become vox et praeterita nihil. At 6:30 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in mid-October we enter old Philadelphia Club at I3th and Walnut Streets. Ascending by ancient elevator to Library on second floor, we find a group of some ten or twelve gentlemen of differing ages enjoying a pre-prandial cocktail. The group has split up into twos and threes, and conversation, whatever subjects, is spontaneous and animated. Introductions over, and one notes that they are complete, each and every member of group expressing his pleasure that a newcomer has honoured by his presence this little familia of Will Shakspere, late arrivals are given quelque chose a boire, for here's yet some liquor left. Soon it is whispered about that the Dean thinks it time for us to go in to dinner. At dinner, one finds that places at head and foot of table are occupied by two of more mature members of group, and that guest is placed at right of him who occupies head but that there are no placecards so that rest of members sit as they please. Dinner is partaken in leisurely fashion, though there are no long waits between courses. Soup, terrapin, salad and cheese, an ice, or meringue, appear in due course, only to disappear. At last with demitasse and cigars, he who occupies head of table bids one of members bring books, and as table is cleared Society gets down to business. During dinner one has had time to get his bearings. He has learned that gentleman at his left is Dean, and that Dean's vis-a-vis at end of table is Vice-Dean; that attendance on this night is large, ten being usual number, though it has fallen to six. Meanwhile, a copy of Furness Variorum is laid before Dean, and near it Sir Charles Onions' Shakespeare Glossary (which has superseded Schmidt of our earlier years). Copies of those gemini of modern Shaksperian criticism, Kittredge and Dover Wilson, lie within decanal reach, as does also a quarto facsimile of play to be read. The members help themselves to copies that are laid out on table, unless they have brought their own personal copies. One can readily see that our comment on text will be eclectic, for some are armed with Aldis Wright's Cambridge text, others with

The Isotope Effect in the Decomposition of Oxalic Acid

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THE METABOLISM OF AMERICIUM IN THE RAT

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The Accessibility of Discoveries

WE are indebted to NATURE (136, p. 606) for an admirably sharp picture from Dr. Royds setting out his discovery (by its emission spectrum, which is in excess of its absorption as an atmosphere) of a layer of oxygen about a thousand miles deep at the base of the solar chromosphere. As he hints, his graph of intensities gives data for the law of distribution of oxygen-density with height: and he refers to a forthcoming Kodaikanal Bulletin for a discussion of this fundamental problem. But where is one to find it? When I was a member of the Indian Observatories Committee, the Bulletin came to me regularly, and was often of intense observational interest, which I sometimes exploited: but about twenty years ago my place on the Committee was vacated, and I have never seen a Bulletin since, nor do I know how to find one. Yet I am still favoured with personal copies of American and French astronomical reports. I am, moreover, by way of contrast, often overloaded with astronomical theory coming from the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, in the main too complicated analytically for my slow rate of appreciation, as an amateur no longer young. The brief accounts in Science Abstracts come therefore as a relief.