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Visions and Re-Visions of Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard is most widely known for a single work-his poignant flowmap depiction ofthe fate ofNapoleon's GrandArmy in the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. In fact, Minard was a true pioneer in thematic cartography and in statistical graphics; he developed many novel graphic forms to depict data, always with the goal to let the data "speak to the eyes." This article reviews Minard...

Malcolm Bennett

Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...

Gerald Grace

The death of Mr. Gerald Grace took place in South Africa as the result of a singularly tragic incident on Sept. 17th. For some time the Witwatersrand had been terrorised by a band of desperadoes. Mr. Grace was travelling on the Witwatersrand reef in a motor-car resembling that in which the gang was believed to be escaping. The police challenged the car, but, according to the account in the Rand...

Sympathetic science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the passions of Victorian naturalists.

This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy was as important for Victorian naturalists as it was for Victorian husbands. Sympathy was a scientific skill that Victorian naturalists regarded as n...