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Liberia's Archival Collection
Authors: Foley David M. 
Published: July 2016

Students interested in the history of Liberia have been hampered by the dearth of serious studies on Africa's first republic. With few noteworthy exceptions, published works on Liberia can be grouped into two rather broad categories. The first consists of works which tend to be too journalistic in concept and execution to satisfy the demands of serious scholarship. The second includes a variety of memoir-like collections of reminiscences and observations recorded by individuals stationed at one time or another in Liberia while engaged in educational, missionary, or developmental programs. Much of the published material in both categories is useful, and indeed quite valuable, for it provides a good deal of information not readily found elsewhere. Yet, while informative, these books do not constitute a body of scholarly work which the serious student of West Africa would wish to have available.
One work which must have a place on the relatively brief list of trust-worthy books of reference relating to Liberia is the exhaustive compilation of basic documents prepared by the distinguished international jurist, C. H. Huberich. Paradoxically, it appears that it was this important work which discouraged many historians from searching further for basic source materials, for Huberich noted that most official Liberian documents were destroyed during a violent storm in Monrovia. Writers on Liberian affairs who accepted Huberich's statement as the final word on the subject seem not to have attempted to utilize unpublished Liberian government papers in their research. Even those researchers who have, in recent years, had sufficient interest to probe into this alleged disappearance of the Liberian archives, or who were desirous of determining the extent of archival materials which might have survived the disaster, were undoubtedly discouraged by ambiguous replies from Monrovia in response to their inquiries.
The Research Climate in Francophone West Africa and Liberia (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association in June-July, 1967)
Authors: Kopytoff Igor 
Published: July 2016

The mission was designed in part as a follow-up and in part as a complement to Professor Philip D. Curtin's research liaison visit to western Africa in 1965 on behalf of the Association. Senegal, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Tchad, and Cameroun were revisited. The previously unvisited Central African Republic, Dahomey, Niger, and Upper Volta were added to the itinerary. Difficulties in flight scheduling and unexpected delays during the trip ruled out the planned visits to Gabon and Togo.
The goals of the mission were as follows: (1) to establish or renew contacts with universities, research institutes, appropriate government authorities, African and expatriate researchers, and American scholars currently engaged in research in Africa; (2) to make known the existence of the Research Liaison Committee (and sometimes, as it turned out, of the ASA as well) as a two-way clearing house for Africanist research information; (3) to establish more regular means of exchanging information with institutions in Africa on current and planned research, so as to make possible some informal coordination of research plans among scholars; (4) to determine the existing formal procedures (if any) for researchers from abroad; and (5) to convey back to the Africanist community in the United States some of the feelings, attitudes, and suggestions from these countries.
The Research Liaison Committee: A New Service to the Africanist Community
Authors: Fischer Miss Shirley K. 
Published: July 2016

The Research Liaison Committee was established under the auspices of the African Studies Association. It is supported by a Ford Foundation grant following the Ford-sponsored ASA exploratory mission to Africa. This mission examined opportunities for new ways in which to increase cooperation between U.S. scholars concerned with Africa and individuals and academic institutions based in Africa.
Scholars from the United States constitute the largest single national group engaged in African research. In the past the responsibility for establishing friendly relations with our colleagues in Africa has been assumed by the individual scholar. However, it becomes increasingly apparent that cooperation with Africanists in Africa itself will be of the greatest importance to future research, and that the Association can play a useful liaison role in establishing this cooperation.
To facilitate communication, the Research Liaison Committee is collecting information and identifying sources of information for scholars and students proposing research in African Studies. The Committee has established an office in New York at the same address as the Association's offices and under the direction of William O. Brown, with Shirley K. Fischer as Administrative Secretary. Its objectives are first, to develop and strengthen relations among scholars concerned with Africa; and second, to maintain liaison with research institutions in Africa through visits to Africa by members of the Committee.
African Urban Research Conference
Authors: Jenkins George 
Published: July 2016

The conference, sponsored by the African Research Committee and the African Studies Group of the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, was held June 2-4, 1966, at the Kenwood Conference Center, Milwaukee. Conferees were as follows: D. W. Griffin (University of California, Los Angeles); Peter C. W. Gutkind (McGill University): Ruth Simms Hamilton (Iowa State University); George Jenkins (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee); G. Wesley Johnson (Stanford University); John Paden (Northwestern University); Michael Safier (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee); Henry J. Schmandt (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee); W. M. Swanson (Yale University); and Alvin Wolfe (Washington University).
African urban studies are on the verge of escape from scarcity into bulky unintelligibility. At least sixteen books are being prepared by Americans for publication; most of them are single-instance studies by junior scholars, although six of them will present comparable materials gathered according to the “Bohannan plan.” (See African Urban Notes, I [April 1966], 1). In addition, some thirty Americans and Africans are presently in Africa or writing dissertations based on field research, and at least twenty more Americans are planning field research. Furthermore, the ARC conferences on unemployment, the West Indian Ocean area, geography, and migration have recommended still more urban research. Although this does not mean that a surfeit is threatened in any sector of urban studies, African urban research will probably be marked for some time by increasing descriptive affluence and continuing theoretical poverty. The essential need in this area of African studies is to provide for more meaningful development of a sizable movement whose momentum seems assured for the immediate future.
The Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union: A Bibliographic Essay
Authors: DeLancey Mark W. 
Published: July 2016

The appointment in March 1966 of Kwame Nkrumah as honorary president of Guinea was ostensibly made on the basis of an agreement signed by Nkrumah and Sékou Touré in 1958 which founded the Union of Independent African States (UIAS, Ghana-Guinea, 1958-1960). The UIAS, subsequently the Union of African States (UAS, Ghana-Guinea-Mali, 1960-1963), has not been of great importance in the development of Pan-Africanism. Nkrumah's recent appointment probably caused more publicity for the UIAS-UAS than any other event in its history, with the exception of its founding in 1958. Because of the quiet functioning of this organization, declared as no longer in existence by Touré in 1963, very little has been written about it. Thus a student of Africa is reduced to dependence upon short newspaper accounts of the various meetings of the leaders of the states involved, to brief references in more general works on African unity, and to conjecture.Yet there are several bibliographic sources which are useful. Among these is Peter Duignan, “Pan-Africanism: A Bibliographic Essay,”African Forum, I, No. 1 (Summer 1965), 105-107, a brief survey of the most important works on Pan-Africanism. The subject is divided into three phases--the American reaction to racism, the drive for African independence, and the dream of continental unity. For materials concerning Ghana, the best reference is Albert F. Johnson,A Bibliography of Ghana, 1930-1961(Evanston, Ill., Published for the Ghana Library Board by the Northwestern University Press, 1964). Of a more general nature are W. J. Hanna and J. L. Hanna,Politics in Black Africa(East Lansing, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1964); the annualUnited States and Canadian Publications on Africa, for years from 1960 (Washington, Library of Congress, 1962; Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution, 1963-), an excellent source for references to periodical materials; and International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation,The International Bibliography of Political Science(Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1952-).
I Major Centers
Authors: Brokensha David W. 
Published: July 2016

Inquiries to: Dr. Darrell Randall, Chairman, African Area Studies Program, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. 20016.

Faculty: Frank Lorimer, demography; Emmet V. Mittlebeeler, political science; Harvey C. Moore, anthropology; Matthew F. Norton, geography; Oliver A. Peterson, economics; Darrell Randall, political science; Absolom L. Vilakazi, anthropology.

Courses: Undergraduate courses; graduate degree in African area studies or in one of the following disciplines: anthropology, economics, sociology, history, government and public administration, philosophy and religion, international relations and organization, languages.

Main subjects: Political science, anthropology, history, geography, economics.

Main features: African studies may be taken at the School of International Service of the American University in cooperation with other departments and schools of the University and with other universities in the Joint Graduate Consortium of Washington, D.C. This means that a graduate student can work for a degree in African studies at the American University and take approved courses in any of the following universities: Howard University, Catholic University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University.
Cooperative study with other area programs: Unusual opportunities exist at the School of International Service, American University, for relating African interests to other area studies programs, such as the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Communist areas of the world.
Windfall for African Studies: Some Forthcoming Reprints
Authors: Willis John Ralph 
Published: July 2016

The rising demand for out-of-print Africana, and indeed all rare and scholarly books, is stimulating unprecedented interest and reprinting activity among publishers. With programs and courses springing up all over the United States, Africa, and other parts of the world, librarians and scholars have found themselves in fierce competition for scarce materials on African subjects. Simultaneously, booksellers, at pains to meet this tremendous increase in demand, have found the supply of Africana dwindling and near depletion. However, because of the proliferation of publishing houses specializing in scholarly reprints, the solution to this problem seems to be close at hand.
If one may judge by the number of works which have already appeared and by those known to be in the planning stages, it would not seem very long before nearly all the most important works are republished. The following does not purport to be an exhaustive listing, but will serve to indicate the very large number of reprints recently published or forthcoming.
Mechanisms of basin contraction and reactivation in the basement-involved Malargüe fold-and-thrust belt, Central Andes (34–36°S)
Authors: BRANELLEC M. , NIVIÈRE B. , CALLOT J.-P. , RINGENBACH J.-C. 
Published: July 2016

AbstractWe have conducted a structural study of both the basement-involved Malargüe fold-and-thrust belt (MFTB) and the active San Rafael Block (SRB), which are located in the Central Andes at latitude 34–36°S. Based on several field examples located both in the inner and frontal part of belt and from the distal foreland zone, we focus on the relationships between basement and cover deformation with respect to the known palaeogeography and structural inheritance. In several zones, we point out similarities in the structural and sedimentary responses to Andean shortening. The recent morphologic response has also been investigated through the analysis of active deformation along the eastern border of the SRB. We show that these structural and sedimentary processes are continuous in time and space since they can be applied in the various parts of the fold belt and also at different stages of fold-and-thrust-belt building as well. Finally, we propose the illustration of those mechanisms by complete cross-section along the Rio Grande valley and a possible kinematic scenario of deformation propagation.
Seeking exposure: conversions of scientific knowledge in an African city
Authors: Aellah Gemma , Geissler P. Wenzel 
Published: July 2016

ABSTRACTTransnational medical research has become a common feature in many parts of Africa. This paper explores the contribution such activity makes to the social and economic lives of those involved, including both trial subjects and local staff. By considering the value of the ‘exposure’ that involvement brings to staff and research participants, we reflect on the conversion of scientific knowledge into practical knowledge and its value to sustaining precarious livelihoods in an economically fragile city. We consider the interplay between science and sociality and argue for a need to take seriously the circulation of scientific knowledge beyond the confines of expert spaces.
‘A More Unobserved and Convenient Location’: A Derbyshire School Reopened
Authors: Turner Richard H. 
Published: July 2016

Of the forty-two clandestine Catholic schools Beales lists as documented in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, none has been more graphically described or frequently recalled than the Jesuit school at Stanley Grange near West Hallam in south-east Derbyshire. Unmasked by Government in 1625, it survived there for a further decade before its abrupt suppression in 1635.A few deliberately but tantalizingly vague references show that the school continued to operate on a small scale elsewhere in Derbyshire, under the aegis of the fledgling Jesuit College of the Immaculate Conception (CIC). From that time, and particularly since the foundation of Mount St. Mary’s College at Spinkhill by the CIC in 1842, there has been speculation as to whither this precursor school moved and how it fared after Stanley Grange. The most recent contribution is a significant reassessment by Hendrik Dijkgraaf in 2003 of the anonymous but painstaking editorial article in the Mount St. Mary’s magazine The Mountaineer for 1912, written in rebuttal of a suggestion that the school had remained at Stanley Grange into the mid-1640s.
Loca Secretiorain 1581
Authors: Hodgetts Michael 
Published: July 2016

In Richard Simpson's biography of Edmund Campion (1867) there is an account of conditions in England in 1580-1 which includes the following sentence:The hiding-holes had become known, by means of searchers and false brethren, by the middle of 1581, so that even thus early the Catholics were compelled, when there was a night alarm, to betake themselves to woods and thickets, to ditches and holes.
Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, Part I: Goddard Tyrwhitt, Martyr, 1580
Authors: Martin Patrick , Finnis John 
Published: July 2016

Nor must we think them only to achieve this triumph, who by apparent violence, by wounds or effusion of blood conclude their life: but all they, though never so unknown, whose days by imprisonment, banishment or any other oppression are abridged in defence of the Catholic FaithAmong the most prominent Lincolnshire families in Tudor and Jacobean times were the Tyrwhitts of Kettleby and Twigmore. Other Lincolnshire branches of the family were seated at Scotter, Cammeringham and Stainfield. TheVictoria County History of Lincolnshiresays, ‘To follow various members of the Tyrwhitt family, whose names re-appear from first to last in connexion with Romanist sympathy, is to trace the history of recusancy in the county.’ But some important parts of the history of the Kettleby Tyrwhitts have been confused or overlooked by historians, and the record should be corrected. Here we shall focus on one of the sons of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, a son who died in prison in 1580. In a further article we will identify a grandson of Sir Robert who gave John Gerard SJ much financial support from about 1598 until Gerard left England in 1606.
VI.—Generating Functions of Certain Continuous Orthogonal Systems
Authors: Erdélyi A. 
Published: July 2016

Summary10. Generating functions and bilinear generating functions (of the type of Mehler's celebrated formula) are known to be of great importance in the formal theory of orthogonal sequences. The present paper contains analogous formulae for a number of continuous orthogonal systems as well as “mixed” systems (which have a point spectrum as well as a continuous one). Four systems of the hypergeometric type have been selected as examples which are thought to be of some importance because of their presenting themselves in certain problems of Mathematical Physics.My thanks are due to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for grants towards the printing of this paper and my paper in Proceedings, vol. lx, no. 26, 1940.
VII.—The Clear-Day Barometric Curve at Ben Nevis
Authors: Tannahill T. R. 
Published: July 2016

SummaryAn examination of the Ben Nevis barometric records shows that, when the non-periodic convex variation is eliminated, the clear-day barometric curve differs but little from the normal curve obtained from all days. The results prove that the clear-day excess found by Buchan and Omond is mainly (though not entirely) due to bias in the selection of data.
XXVII.—Expansions of Lamé Functions into Series of Legendre Functions
Authors: Erdélyi A. 
Published: July 2016

Summary28. This paper contains the investigation of certain properties of periodic solutions of Lamé's differential equation by means of representation of these solutions by (in general infinite) series of associated Legendre functions. Terminating series of associated Legendre functions representing Lamé polynomials have been used by E. Heine and G. H. Darwin. The latter used them also for numerical computation of Lamé polynomials. It appears that infinite series of Legendre functions representing transcendental Lamé functions have not been discussed previously. In two respects these series seem to be superior to the generally used power-series and Fourier-Jacobi series, (i) They are convergent in some parts of the complex plane of the variable where both power-series and Fourier-Jacobi series diverge, (ii) They permit by simply replacing Legendre functions of first kind by those of second kind, to deal with Lamé functions of second kind as well as Lamé functions of first kind (§ 15).In §§ 2 and 8 of the present paper the series are heuristically deduced from the integral equations satisfied by periodic Lamé functions. Inserting the series found heuristically, with unknown coefficients, into Lamé's differential equation, recurrence relations for the coefficients are obtained (§§ 9–12). These recurrence relations yield the (in general transcendental) equations in form of (in general infinite) continued fractions for the determination of the characteristic numbers. The convergence of the series can be discussed completely.There are altogether forty-eight different series. Every one of the eight types of Lamé polynomials is represented by six different series (see table in § 13). There are interesting relations (§ 14) between series representing the same function.Next infinite series representing transcendental Lamé functions are discussed. It is seen that transcendental Lamé functions are only simply-periodic (§§ 18, 19). Lamé functions of real (§§ 20–22) and imaginary (§§ 23-24) period are represented by series of Legendre functions the variables of which are different in both cases.The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the most important limiting cases, and a short mention of other types of series of Legendre functions representing Lamé functions.
XXXVI.—Graphite Crystals and Crystallites. II. Energies of Mobile Electrons in Crystallites Infinite in One Direction
Authors: Coulson C. A. , Rushbrooke G. S. 
Published: July 2016

SummaryThe shapes of the energy bands have been determined for the mobile electrons in graphitic strips of infinite length but finite width, using as a basis the approximation of tight binding discussed for finite crystal layers in the previous paper. It appears that the effect of including overlap between the orbitals of adjacent atoms, whose incorporation in this type of calculation has hitherto been neglected, is to widen the top half of the band by a factor of the order of 2 or 3, the lower half of the band not being greatly affected. Some of these strips may be classed as conductors, the others as insulators; but the distinction between the two may not be made on the basis of any simple chemical bond diagrams.
XV.—Theorems on the Convergence and Asymptotic Validity of Abel's Series
Authors: Macintyre A. J. , Macintyre Sheila Scott 
Published: July 2016

SynopsisIn this paper we discuss the Abel series for a function F(z) which is regular in an angle | arg z | ≤ α and at the origin. We investigate conditions under which the series converges and conditions under which its sum is asymptotically equivalent to the function F(z) in the half-plane R(z) > 0.
XXVI.—The Normal Penetration of a Thin Elastic-Plastic Plate by a Right Circular Cone
Authors: Craggs J. W. 
Published: July 2016

SynopsisA study is made of the propagation of elastic and plastic deformation in a thin plate, initially unstressed, and of infinite extent, when it is penetrated normally by a cone moving with uniform velocity. The work is an extension of unpublished researches by Sir G. I. Taylor on the corresponding problem for a thin wire, and a summary of his results is included.
XXIX.—The First Chemical Society, the First Chemical Journal, and the Chemical Revolution (Part II)
Authors: Kendall James 
Published: July 2016

Since the delivery of my presidential address (1) in July I have assembled an amount of supplementary information regarding “the Chemical Society instituted in the beginning of the Year 1785”. This, together with a brief description of some other chemical societies of the revolutionary period, forms the basis of the present paper.First of all, it will be expedient to furnish a complete list of the dissertations read before the Society during 1785–86 and included in the first volume of its Proceedings, appending short comments with respect to the communicators or their topics when anything of special interest arises.
III.—The Problem of Two Bodies in Whitehead's Theory
Authors: Clark G. L. 
Published: July 2016

SynopsisIn a recent paper J. L. Synge (1952) has shown that the theories of Einstein and Whitehead predict practically the same phenomena in the solar field. He finds that the rotation of perihelion, the deflexion of light rays and the red-shift in the sun's spectrum are the same in both theories. In this paper the motion of the centre of mass of a double star is investigated. It is found that Whitehead's theory predicts a secular acceleration in the direction of the major axis of the orbit towards periastron of the larger mass. The possibility of a binary star having such an acceleration has already been considered by Levi-Civita (1937), and he has given an example in which it may become detectable in less than a century. On the other hand, it has been shown by Eddington and Clark (1938) that there is no secular acceleration according to Einstein's theory.