By the early 1900's, several large carnivores had been extirpated from Nebraska as a result of unrestricted hunting and trapping by early European settlers. Recently, there have been several confirmed records of carnivores that were once extirpated from Nebraska. In our study, we present new data for five species that recently were documented in Nebraska: Lynx canadensis, Ursus americanus, Cani...

Numerous investigators have worked on the problem of determining the effect of small quantities of visible radiant energy on seedlings and other plants with stored foods. The literature is extensive and goes back over one hundred years. MAcDOUTGAL (6) has thoroughly reviewed the work before 1900 while TRUMPF (9) and BURKHOLDER (1) have reviewed this and much of the later work. The work before 1...

[Benjamin Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He specializes in late imperial Chinese intellectual history and in the history of science and education. His recent book is entitled On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Harvard University Press, 2005). Previously he has published A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, ...

The world we live in has never been very predictable, and randomness has always been part of our lives. There is ample evidence that our ancestors did enjoy playing games of chance, and the early development of probability theory had to do with these games. The study of probability has always been motivated by potential applications. Besides gambling, the stimulus has come from life insurance, ...