Chinese narcissus (Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis) was introduced to China 1300–1400 years ago, and has grown naturally in southeastern China. It is a popular traditional potted flower well-known flowering bulb cultivated worldwide with only two white-tepal triploid cultivars, ‘Jinzhan Yintai’ ‘Yulinglong’. Recently, mutant yellow tepals observed promptly became popular. To clarify the key pi...

The fifty-second annual meeting of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Koad, corresponded with " Daffodil Day," which no doubt accounted for the profusion of those cheerful and effective blooms that decorated every ward table in the hospital on March 14 and brightened the large entrance hall, where tea lay in readiness for guests attending the meeting. The chair was taken by Lord Ki...

Humankind’s venerable obsession with the mirror, traceable to the ancient myths of Medusa and Narcissus, is copiously attested in Western art, which historically relied on the mirror as both practical tool and polysemous trope. While the mirror’s reflective capacities encouraged its identification with the vaunted mimetic function of literature and film, its refractive quality enabled artists t...

Two experimental studies were undertaken to investigate the processes of reincorporation and redistribution of trace evidence on garments when worn by a suspect or a victim (reincorporation) or after the garments have been seized and packaged for subsequent forensic analysis (redistribution). The first experiment utilised UV powder, an established proxy for geoforensic trace particulates and th...