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The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King William's Town

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962
Subjects: King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Vandalism -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60500 , vital:27787 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King Wms Town [King William's Town]. 1962. The Church had been so well balanced by the two huge palm trees. Now it is all odd. The first English Starling in K.W.T. were seen in the right-hand palm."
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Date Issued: 1962

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The moray eels of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date: 1962
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14991 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019663 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 23
Description: The reefs of the Western Indian Ocean hold a dense population of marine eels of all kinds, and the morays are well represented. On some reefs in the more remote parts not often visited by humans we found a swarming population of morays, at low tide great numbers were moving freely all over the reef. In more inhabited areas there are fewer as the natives kill all they can, fearing them as much as snakes. Some species attain a large size, in East African coral reefs we have seen some with bodies the thickness of a man’s thigh. Native divers have told us that they fear these eels more than any other marine creature, as they have been known to seize a diver under the water, and so held he is powerless and drowns in a short time as there is no escaping from their powerful grip. While in some parts morays are eaten, they are apparently nowhere valued as food. In East Africa only certain natives eat them, but a number are dried for sending inland. In some parts the flesh of the moray produces an intoxication that may prove fatal (Ichthyosarcotoxism) and for which no antidote is known. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Date Issued: 1962

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The organ of the Trinity Church

Authors: Hepburn & Jeanes
Date: 1962
Subjects: Trinity Presbyterian Church (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- History -- Photographs , Church buildings -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History -- Photographs , Organ (Music instrument) -- Trinity Church (Grahamstown, South Africa)
Type: still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/42958 , vital:25253 , PIC/M 7307 , BRN 152925 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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Date Issued: 1962

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The oxalate complexes of thorium

Authors: Phillpotts, Charles Adrian Richard
Date: 1962
Subjects: Oxalates , Thorium , Complex compounds
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:4488 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013029
Description: (1) The ammonium, potassium and sodium salts of three complex thorium oxalates were prepared and studied. (2) Their solubilities and conditions of stability were studied. (3) The reaction between thorium and excess oxalate, and vice versa, was studied by means of conductivity and high frequency conductivity measurements. (4) The formation constant of Th(C₂O₄)₄⁴⁻ and Th(C₂O₄)₃²⁻, and the solubility product of (NH₄)₂Th₂(C₂O₄)₅, were determined by a solubility method.
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Date Issued: 1962

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The rare "Furred-Tongue" Uraspis uraspis (Gunther) from South Africa, and other new records from there

Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date: 1962
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:15001 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019711 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 26
Description: During the past century at odd mostly long intervals there have appeared records and descriptions of certain rather small Carangid fishes, characterised by edentate white furred tongue and inside of mouth, and sometimes by the unusual armature of the straight part of the lateral line. These have almost always been single specimens, most rather small. Until recently records have been from the western north Atlantic (5), Red Sea (1), Persian Gulf (1), Western Pacific (5), Hawaii (3), Australia (2). In 1961 Williams reported 3 small specimens from equatorial East Africa, the first from the western Indian Ocean. Recently a specimen has been found at Algoa Bay, the first from South Africa, fortunately still alive, and of particular interest as being the smallest ever described. These fishes fall in the genus Uraspis Bleeker, 1855. , ABBYY FineReader 12 , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Date Issued: 1962

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The spectrographic determination of trace elements in citrus leaves

Authors: Brandt, Peter Jürgen
Date: 1962
Subjects: Citrus , Trace elements in plant nutrition
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:4516 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013552
Description: From Introduction: With the rapidly growing knowledge on trace elements and their influence on plant nutrition the need for accurate and rapid methods for their determination arose. The essential plant nutrients are usually divided into two groups. The major or macronutrient elements, necessary in comparatively large amounts, and the trace or micro-nutrient elements. In the case of plants, the first group includes Sulphur, Phosphorus, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium and Nitrogen. The essential trace elements are Iron, manganese, Boron, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum and Chlorine. Cobalt is essential for animal nutrition as a constituent of Vitamin B₁₂, but its essentiality for plants has not yet been proved. The latter group consists of metals which are catalysts in enzyme reactions and whose presence in the plant in minute amount determines whether the plant will be able to complete the vegetative or reproductive stage of its life cycle. Molybdenum may be quoted as an example of an essential trace element. It is generally recognised to be the catalyst responsible for the fixation of Nitrogen.
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Date Issued: 1962

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