Four new species of Trigonalyidae are described and illustrated from Qinling Mts (Shaanxi, NW China): Bareogonalos xibeidai Tan & van Achterberg, sp. n., Jezonogonalos mandibularissp. n., J. shaanxiensissp. n., and Taeniogonalos paraclypeatasp. n.Orthogonalys hirasana Teranishi, 1929, is re-instated and reported from China. The female of Taeniogonalos alticola (Tsuneki, 1991) is described for t...

The relationship between mind and body, in particular the autonomic nervous system (ANS), has been explored for many years. Cannon’s paper (1914) “The interrelations of emotions as suggested by recent physiological researches”, reviewed the literature on the physiology of emotions from 1892-1914. In the 1920’s, Cannon further elucidated the relative contribution of the sympathetic nervous syste...

The genus Papuanella (type species Geotrochus ogeramuensis Kobelt, 1914, by original designation) was established by Clench and Turner (1959: 5) for two species of land snails inhabiting the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Papuanella is currently recognized as a valid genus within the subfamily Papuininae of the family Camaenidae (Schileyko 2003). Distant (1914: 352) established Papuanel...

The first contingent of New Zealand Army Nursing Service sisters, with their Matron-in-Chief Hester Maclean (seated centre, left of the captain), en route to the war, on the Rotorua, in May 1915. Hester Maclean I n 1914, Hester Maclean was a highly influential New Zealand nursing leader – assistant inspector general of hospitals, matron-in-chief of a proposed army nursing service, and owner and...

In July 1914 Dr John Brownlee was appointed head of the Statistical Department of the newly established Medical Research Committee. He had qualified in mathematics, natural philosophy and medicine at the University of Glasgow, and by 1914 had established a reputation as a public health officer, an expert in infectious diseases, and as a proponent of the Pearsonian school of the application of s...

Dr. Askins was born in Clonmore, County Carlcw, Ireland, in 1880. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated M.B., Ch.B., B.A.O., at Dublin University in 1907 (First Class Honourman and First Place Final Medical Examination). Later he gained the Cambridge Diploma in Public Health and the degrees of M.A. and M.D. at Dublin University. He was also a barrister-at-l...