White King Research Articles

The Genesis of Economic Attitudes in the Rio De La Plata

REPORTS OF A fabulous Silver Mountain and a White King somewhere in the interior of the continent fascinated and attracted the conquistadores of southern South America. After years of hardships, intrigues, and delays, the weary followers of Domingo Martinez de Irala finally reached Upper Peru, only to learn that three years earlier-in 1545-Spaniards from the north had discovered the mountain of Potosi. With dreams of wealth shattered, the disheartened conquistadores of the south returned to their home base of Asuncion to take up the more prosaic task of agriculture and to cope with the problem of Paraguay's isolation. As they reoccupied the southern Plata, the settlers of Paraguay once more dreamed of acquiring the wealth of the interior. They refounded Buenos Aires in 1580, and shortly thereafter an extensive contraband traffic developed at the back door to Peru. Paraguayans soon learned, however, that Potosi's treasures had again escaped them. Unable to control the illegal trade at the port, these frustrated colonists became bitter and hostile toward outsiders who usurped the traffic and took unfair advantage of them. This study will analyze the anti-contrabaild sentiments of Platine cattlemen in three periods of the seveinteenth ceiltury in order to account for Spailn's strenlgth in that area and the fierce resistance of her colonials to Portuguese aspirations in the Rlo de la Plata.

Vitamin Supplements and Squab Production

INTRODUCTIONTHE ration used almost exclusively in the commercial squab industry consists of whole grains and peas plus a grit and mineral mixture. Although such rations allow fairly good reproduction, they are not well supplied with certain vitamins that are known to be important for reproduction in the fowl. Many ingredients have been added to the grit and mineral mixture, most of which are of dubious value as indicated by the limited experiment of Platt (1951). However, no reports on the value in squab production of nutrients commonly considered important for other types of poultry have appeared in the literature. EXPERIMENTALThree strains of commercial White King pigeons differing in age and production characteristics were used. Strain A consisted of old birds producing large squabs at a relatively low rate. Strain B consisted of young birds which had come into production two months prior to the start of the feeding …

Hepatic Trichomoniasis in Esophagotomized Pigeons

The protozoan parasite, Trichomonas gallinae (Rivolta, 1878) Stabler, 1938, has been isolated from the liver of pigeons by a number of workers. The manner in which it reaches this organ, however, has not been adequately explained. Infection of the upper digestive tract is established by ingestion of the parasite by susceptible birds. It is possible, therefore, that the organisms might migrate to the duodenum, and thence through the bile ducts to the liver. This appears unlikely, however, in view of Cauthen’s (1936) findings, that T. gallinae was found in the alimentary tract posterior to the proventriculus only in exceptional cases. The experiment reported here was carried out to determine whether T. gallinae reaches the liver via the digestive tract.Eighteen White King pigeons, free of T. gallinae, from 1½ to 12 months of age were divided into two groups. An esophagotomy was performed upon the preingluvial portion of the esophagus .

Lactogenic Hormone Content of the AP of the Pigeon.

SummaryThe lactogen content of the anterior pituitary of two types of pigeons, the common and the White King, were compared in both sexes. As in mammals, the pituitaries of the male pigeons contained only 1/2 to 1/3 as much lactogen as the female by all methods of comparison even though the male pigeon aids in the incubation of the eggs and in feeding the squabs.The common female pigeon, although considerably lighter in body weight than the White King, contains as much or more lactogen per pituitary. Per 100 g body weight, the pituitary of the White King contains only 1/2 to 2/3 as much lactogen as the common pigeon.

Progeny-Testing in the Breeding of Pigeons

A PREVIOUS report by the author (1937) indicated that pairs of White King pigeons showed a wide variation in their ability to produce squabs for market, and noted a close similarity between the production and variability of pairs of pigeons in the ounces of market squabs produced annually and the production and variability of chickens in their pullet year egg production. In view of the fact that the egg production of chickens had been increased by methods of breeding, and particularly by progeny-testing, the question of the possibility of increasing squab production by the same method arose. As no reports were available in the literature of any work on this problem, the details and technic for handling the matings had to be developed as the work progressed.The first phase of the problem was to isolate pairs from which pedigreed youngsters were to be reared. At first the need of .

Studies of Prolactin in the Fowl Pituitary. II. Effects of Genetic Constitution With Respect to Broodiness on Prolactin Content

Broodiness was induced in laying fowls of broody races by the injection of prolactin, by Riddle, Bates, and Lahr.1 After prolactin injections laying fowl of non-broody races and males of a broody race became only partially broody, usually clucking without nesting. Burrows and Byerly2 showed that pituitaries from broody fowl have a much greater prolactin content than those from laying fowl and from males, as judged by local pigeon crop-gland response to pituitary implantation.The present work was undertaken to determine the relative potency of fowl pituitaries with respect to genetic constitution of the fowls. White King pigeons of 8-10 weeks conception age were used as recipients for the fowl pituitaries. The local implantation technique of Lyons as described by McQueen-Williams3 was used. The crop-gland responses were recorded as “plus” when any visible stimulation was obtained, “2 plus” when the stimulation was roughly twice the minimal visible response, and so on.Crossbred females were used in their se...

LII. The Contemporary Significance of Middleton's Game at Chesse

Thomas Middleton's Game at Chesse (1624), expressing the national hatred of Spaniard and Jesuit alike, was played nine days straight before houses packed to suffocation for the first consecutive long run in English theatrical history. With England aroused over the religious wars of the Continent and the return of Prince Charles from his unsuccessful visit to Madrid in quest of the Spanish Princess, the play appeared as a satirical allegory in the form of a game of chess, in which the English have the White and the Spaniards and Jesuits the Black men. Black secures the treacherous Fat Bishop and the White King's Pawn. Overthrow of the English Church and State seems imminent. The White Knight and the White Duke visit the Black House (Madrid), where their capture is attempted; but they checkmate the Black King and overthrow the Black forces. Its most recent editor has said that “more is known about A Game at Chesse than about any other pre-Restoration play.” Even so, some promising approaches to a fuller understanding have been overlooked.

Tayyibāt, the Odes of Shaikh Muslihu-'d-din Sa‘dī Shirāzī. Translated by the late SirLucas White King, Kt., C.S.I., LL.D., with an Introduction by Reynold A. Nicholson. London: Luzac & Co., 1926.

Tayyibāt, the Odes of Shaikh Muslihu-'d-din Sa‘dī Shirāzī. Translated by the late SirLucas White King, Kt., C.S.I., LL.D., with an Introduction by Reynold A. Nicholson. London: Luzac & Co., 1926. - Volume 4 Issue 3

Sir Lucas White King, LL.D., C.S.I., F.S.A.

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Boats That Fly

You all know those jolly words from “ Alice's Adventures through the Looking Glass,” and in a measure we are about to push our way through the melting mirror of hearsay to the strange world of wonderful facts, where boats fly, and men think nothing of the sort of ascent that blew the breath out of the poor White King when he received his first dusting in the air. We will talk, you and I, of shoes for aircraft—ships that fly and sealing wax that guards the secrets that have made the British seaplane the greatest example of its kind in all the wide world.First of all you would like to find out, I know, how aircraft manage to fly at all.You can find that out easily. Take a large box lid or other flat surface, hold it up vertically before you and run across the room with it.“ The time has come, ” the Walrus said,“ To talk of many things ;Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,Of cabbages and kings. ”Lewis Carroll

XV.—The Coinage of the Sultans of Madura

This fact that in the fourteenth century of our era the Pāṇḍya country with its capital Madura was ruled over by Musalmān princes, is known from the Travels of Ibn Batūta. The Madras Journal of Literature and Science for 1888–9 contained an article by Mrs. L. Fletcher on “Ibn Batūtah in Southern India”, to which Mr. L. White King and Captain R. H. C. Tufnell appended a “Note on the Coins of the Muhammadan Viceroys in Southern India” (p. 55 ff.).

Art. VI.—Notes on Indian Coins and Seals. Part IV. Indian Seals and Clay Impressions

Clay impressions bearing the well-known Buddhist formula, Ye dharmā hetuprabhavā, etc., are well known and have often been published. The specimens to be described in the present article seem to be partly non-religious—simply the signets of individuals—and partly Hindu (Vaiṣṇava or Śaiva). The last-named class, represented here chiefly by a number of specimens belonging to Mr. L. White King, seems hitherto to have attracted little or no notice.

Art. XXVIII.—Addenda to the Series of Pathán Coins. II

Since writing my last paper on the coins of the Pathán Sultáns of Dehli I have had the opportunity of examining with some minuteness the rich collections of the British Museum and Dr. L. White King, C.S.I. In the former are to be found the choicest specimens of General Cunningham's Muhammadan coins, of which many have already been brought to notice by Mr. Gibbs and Mr. C. J. Rodgers, but others are now, through the courtesy of the Museum authorities, described for the first time.

The four White Kings

The four White Kings

Prophecy of the white king, charles I

Prophecy of the white king, charles I