Eidophasia tauricella Staudinger, 1880 is redescribed with a photo of the type specimen. The female genitalia are described for the first time.

For many years American science in the late 19th century was regarded as an intellectual backwater. This view derived from the assumption that the health of American science at the time was equivalent to the condition of pure science, especially pure physics. However, a closer look reveals that there was considerable vitality in American scientific research, especially in the earth and life sci...

The aim of this Department has always been to secure a basis of scientific principle for the sanitary practice of the country; to found recommendations for the maintenance of health in the community upon the teachings of physiology and medicine; and to conduct investigations into disease and its causes by the light of the best contemporary knowledge of pathology. By firm adherence to this metho...

This paper models partisanship and nonpartisanship as alternative norms or conventions of behavior. Evolutionary game theoretic techniques are used to analyze the selection of partisanship or nonpartisanship by a population interacting over time. Equilibrium selection in the model is driven by the varying observability of partisan behavior introduced by electoral institutions, coupled with the ...