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Catching Flies: March 2015
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. When Orientalism met Taxonomy. Ust as good people today end up aiding and abetting the destruction of the planet there were enlightened people working for imperialist forces in the past. Working in the British East India Company, were a number of men (yes, I am not aware of women employees), many influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment. Part of an examination paper for EIC applicants. Dublin Medical Press, 4 August 1858. Linnaeus con...
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Spider and the damselfly – Karthik's Journal
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Flowering Trees – I. Flowering Trees – II. Spider and the damselfly. January 3, 2008. October 20, 2015. Nature always has surprises in store. It was a nice bright morning and there was a pleasant breeze blowing, sending a shiver down my spine once in a while. All the plants were swaying in this breeze. And a spider web caught the morning light and looked like silver strands amid greenery. Orchard Spider or Decorative Leucauge. Comments powered by Disqus. Parental care in potter wasps.
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Catching Flies: October 2013
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Wednesday, October 2, 2013. I was looking for some Wikipedia articles tagged under the umbrella of WikiProject India. I was looking for poor quality articles to use in a little training exercise and of course there was no shortage there. Since the article list was alphabetically sorted, I espied the entry for Anaconda. Now why should that be related to India when the snake does not even occur outside of South America? Was derived from the Tamil roots anai.
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Catching Flies: An exotic London feast and its effects
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Saturday, May 23, 2015. An exotic London feast and its effects. N January 21, 1859 a bunch of subscribers to the journal The Field. Met at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate. At the head of the table was Richard Owen. Of Iguanodon fame and there was David W. Mitchell. Artist and secretary of the Zoological Society of London and Francis "Frank" Buckland. Luton Times and Advertiser - 29 January 1859. A stream in Mukurthi National Park. By 1869 he becomes such an ex...
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Catching Flies: May 2015
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Saturday, May 23, 2015. An exotic London feast and its effects. N January 21, 1859 a bunch of subscribers to the journal The Field. Met at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate. At the head of the table was Richard Owen. Of Iguanodon fame and there was David W. Mitchell. Artist and secretary of the Zoological Society of London and Francis "Frank" Buckland. Luton Times and Advertiser - 29 January 1859. A stream in Mukurthi National Park. By 1869 he becomes such an ex...
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Catching Flies: March 2014
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Monday, March 10, 2014. In the last week, I have been trying to examine some evidence on the history of the vegetation atop Nandi Hills, a popular birding location close to Bangalore. But trying to examine it forced me to research some persons associated with the evidence. The key person involved was Colin Mackenzie. Who had a strange interest in the history of mathematics, who in his youth worked on a biography of John Napier. The metalled road that leads up...
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Catching Flies: November 2014
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Bird protection in India - some historical bits. Observations on the decline of birds in India go back quite a bit. Given that most of us seem to see a decline in our own short spans, it seems like bird numbers and diversity were a lot higher in the past. Here are some bits and pieces from old sources on the motivations for bird protection. What a falling off is there! Echo then may well answer—who? Hume adds an editorial footnote h...
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Catching Flies: June 2014
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Linnaeus apparently trumps internet popularity. Measures. I needed some easy visual depictions of bird taxonomy and suddenly found that things I had known to work no longer did. ManyEyes. Told me that my browser had an outdated Java VM. Updating it led to an error claiming that my security settings were too stringent (the dataset. Exists). Then I found Tableau Public. An interactive version (updated 9 July 2014). If species distributi...
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Catching Flies: February 2015
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Occasional rambles from everyday exploration. Monday, February 23, 2015. The use and abuse of birds in India. One of the earliest illustrations of hunting in India is from around 1596 in a book edited by A. Philippo Gallaeo with art by Jan Van der Straet [=Joannes Stradanus] (1596) Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. A copy of this treatise on hunting can be found on the wonderful French digital library. Clap nets and nooses. Stalking with cattle as cover. Ipse cucurbita habet tectum caput illecebris.
