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334/365: inks, droppers and a broken arm by Fille.de.Lumière

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5 year old Emma arrived in the Atelier with "a broken arm". She had administered first aid on herself using paper to create an arm cast. Then she set to work with her ink experimentation, using the dropper to carefully compose her colours. She chose "purple - as it's a magical colour" and "green for emeralds" . Somehow, "the broken arm" enabled her to focus even more as she cautiously applied the ink to the fabric.

~ absorption ~ by Jane

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Yesterday I was lucky enough to have free tickets to the Braque expo at the Grand Palais. I didn't know this artist before and was very happy to discover his work which has a very wide variety of styles. If you have the opportunity, go discover!

Having just done the series of 6 photos where there was indifference also, it was interesting to see yesterday that everyone was absorbed! I've decided to do this series in black and white to focus on the people rather than the art. However, I'd definitely recommend this artist to you :)

Hier j’ai eu la chance de pouvoir aller gratuitement à l’expo Braque au Grand Palais. Je connus pas cet artiste et fut heureuse de découvrir son travail qui a changé en plusieurs styles très différents tout au longue de sa vie. Si vous avez l’occasion, découvrez-le ! (Demain c’est le dernier jour au Grand Palais.)

Puisque j’ai fait très récemment cette petite série « immersion et indifférence » j’étais très sensible aux autres visiteurs … et cette fois-ci tout le monde était immergé ! J’ai décidé de montrer ces photos en noir et blanc car j’ai voulu mettre en valeur les personnes et non pas l’art. Mais je vous recommande vivement cet artiste :)

If you recognise yourself in these photos and prefer they are not here, just let me know (or if you would like a copy of the photo).

Si vous vous reconnaissez dans cette photo et préfériez que la photo ne soit pas publiée, dites le moi (ou bien si vous aimeriez en avoir une copie).

www.grandpalais.fr/en/article/georges-braque-teaser

check out the real situation by matt "smooth tooth" knoth

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off scenic CA Hwy 58

The City by Daan L / 陸達恩

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Leiden

March 2012

The Netherlands

Urban life in the Netherlands

Ricoh GRD IV

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The City by Daan L / 陸達恩

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The Hague

June 2012

The Netherlands

A typical Dutch day in Spring

Urban life in the Netherlands

Ricoh GRD IV

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A long route by Stephen Dowle

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I reached for my copy of Ray Stenning's excellent A National Bus Company Album (Viewfinder, Wiveliscombe, 1979), which includes a useful "flow chart" illustrating the various absorptions of small operators by their larger neighbours that took place under NBC auspices. Rhondda Transport was merged with Western Welsh in 1971, I discovered. Of course, I soon started leafing through the book and had soon most agreeably "wasted" three-quarters of an hour. But hang on ...what was that? On page 104 was a photograph of a vehicle that appeared to be identical to the one in my own photo. It was even operating "the hour and a half long 332 route from Maerdy via Porth and Pontypridd".

The caption vouchsafed further information. In deference to local loyalties, Western Welsh reintroduced the Rhondda fleetname on buses operating from Porth (roll that r and say "Pworrrth"), which had been the old company's base. Disappointingly then, the fleetname we see is a deliberate reinstatement rather than a natural survival. I doubt whether it lasted much longer anyway. Western Welsh soon merged with Red & White, forming a new company in which both identities were lost. The bus was a 1965 AEC Renown 3B3RA with Northern Counties body. The photograph was taken at Cardiff on Wednesday 23rd March 1977.

MCT OilInstant Fuel MCT (medium chain triglyceride) oil improves the body's absorption and use of Vitamin E, calcium and magnesium. It also may assist you in maintaining a healthy weight. How so? MCTs are a special class of healthy fats that act like a c by Antono Arnold

EP20-062 dual-system electric passenger locomotive built by NEVZ in 2018 y by Cetus13

The EP20 (ЭП20) is a type of 6 axle Bo'Bo'Bo' dual-system electric passenger locomotive being built from 2011 y for Russian Railways by the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (as a part of the Transmashholding), the main electric locomotive developer and producer in Soviet Union and Russia. EP20 was designed to replace of failed EP10 project by TRTrans, a joint venture between Transmashholding and Alstom by French, Belgian, and Russia based engineers to 2008 y. It is able to haul 24 coaches at 160 km/h or 17 coaches at 200 km/h and operate both on the DC and AC electrified tracks (3kV DC or 25 kV 50 Hz AC). Possibly for a first time for Russian locomotives, the cab design includes special progressive deformation steel cage for impact absorption.

Some specifications:

Loco weight -135 t

Power output: continuous - 6600 kW /hourly - 7200 kW,

Tractive effort: 350 kN (0-74 km/h) 115 kN at 200 km/h

Motors: Bogie suspended six pole 1.2 MW (1,600 hp) asynchronous DTA-1200A with six IGBT traction converters

Transmission: Bogie mounted traction motors, via gear to hollow shaft drive, with flexible couplings

Loco brake:Rheostatic 4500 kW (DC)/ 3200 kW (AC), regenerative 6000 kW, electropneumatic wheel disc.

(information from Wiki)

EP20 is equipped by the 3 power bogies produced by the NEVZ itself and presumably developed on the base of the FLEXX Power 140 RU locomotive bogie designed by Bombardie. The bogie suspension system is consisted of coil primary suspension with a one-sided, wear-free wheelset guidance, and flexicoil secondary suspension (the support of the carbody on the bogie) realised by wear free secondary coil springs equipeed with anti-hunting and anti-rocking dampers; according to flexicoil principle the bogie on the coils can be freely deflected into vertical and horizontal directions. Tractive forces from bogie to locomotive are transferred via traction rods connected to a low lying connection at the bogie pivot centre. Mechanical braking is realized by the wheel mounted disc brakes. Electric braking is either up to 4.5MW rheostatic braking via roof mounted resistors, or up to 7.2MW regenerative braking.

Patlabor +++ 1:60 Shinohara Industries AV-98 "Ingram" Police Patrol Labor; vehicle #2 with bullet-proof vest (Bandai kit & diorama) by Dizzyfugu

New pictures from an old piece of work (late 90ies, I'd say) that still has its charm and is kept on display.

This 8x8" base with a street scene was inspired by the Patlabor 2 movie. It shows/presents Ohta's Ingram #2 on patrol in the Tokyo suburbs, after public terror warning has been given.

A military armored patrol car supports the police team in the background - and two officers with gas masks are dealing with the traffic.

The Ingram was built mostly OOB; kit improvements include added hydraulic rams under the head, but that's all.

The pose I chose for the Imgram is supposed to express: "Oh, it is snowing..." ^^

The armored vehicle to the right is actually a converted ESCI 1:72 Humber Mk.II kit.

Changes include different wheels ans suspension (bigger and broader, actually from an old Takara Dougram kit) and external details like the IR camera pod on the turret. Its paint scheme is standard JGSDF scheme (bronze green and dark earth), plus a coat of snow (see below), which crumpled down very naturally, giving the small tank a realistic appearance.

I also had the typical 1:60 Patlabor police buggy in store, but that was used in the Tokyo street base for Ingram #1. It's just a prop for the background, but I took some detail shots of it.

The figures with gas masks in fronmt are also from ESCI and actually 1:72 - but due to their size, they match well with 1:60 scale Japanese people... They come from a ground crew kit from an airplane model.

After consulting some reference pictures, the traffic lights were built from scratch, as well as the power pole and the rad barriers. The barbed wire is just thin, painted wire. The wood fence to the left is made from balsa wood, painted with a water-based dye.

The billboard is a scan from a movie ad from a Japanese magazine (it looks SO trashy!).

The tree is also self-made, from a real piece of wood and some islandic moss, plus snow on top to cover it up.

All the snow on diorama and kits was made with sieved white joint filling, some water and a hard brush. It is, up to date, the best stuff I found in order to simulate clumpy snow in scales around 1:35-72. And it is also stable in color, it does not turn yellow over time and with humidity absorption like plaster.

Ptolomey Cluster. Messier 7. by JOHAN MOOLMAN

M7: Open cluster, flanked by dark absorption nebulae, against the backdrop of the Milky Way. Canon 5diii, cooled. TeleVue 127is refractor telescope, Celestron CGEMDx mount, autoguided. PP in Pacasa and Paint.NET.

absorption by Travis D.

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Minolta X-700, 28mm

Maco Eagle film, f2.8 1/30, circular polarizer

Lith printed on Seagull Select VC fiber paper

Absorption by Guido Squeglia

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divider panel by jason soon

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Accessories acrylic

Bamboo board backdrop backwall background backlit bedhead bedroom build building built basket bark bar

Brochure

Carve carved cut cutout cut-out ceiling coco cocohusk coconut cocoshell capiz cnc comtemporary cork cast coat

Coating create creative creation counter casino cupboard closet console credenza category catalogue classical

Class classic circle cozy commercial common

Design detail decoration deco décor decorative divider diffuse diffused diffusion density dura durable display

Department departmental dining dine dim door dot dots dimension durapalm

Enclosure emboss embossed engrave engraving entertainment eco ecology environment environmental exhibits

Exhibition exhibiting element effect engineered elegant

Feature fixture foam form faux focus fusion fair frame fiber fiberboard fibre fibreboard future futuristic furniture

Furnish furnishing flat featurewall

Gouge gouged grille geometry geometric glass grass green gallery galleries graffiti gloss

handicraft handcraft handcrafted handmade hospitality hotel hotels headboard home house hinge hang hung HDF

high-density-fiberboard highdensityfiberboard honeycomb husk houz

interior interiordesign icon iconic inter internal industry industrial image imaging imagine imagination inspire inspired install installation installing indoor instill interlam

jigsaw

kireiboard

light lighting layer layered leather lami laminate laminates living laser lasercut library

mosaic modular material mediumdensityfiberboard mediumdensityfibreboard medium-density-fiberboard

medium-density-fibreboard MDF modern modern-tropical moulded mould mold molded manual marquet marquetry

marotte mother of pearl motherof pearl mother-of-pearl matt mural mesh mount mounted mounting

natural nature niche natural-plant-fiber

ornament ornamental ornate organic oldship office offices omarno

product products paint painted painting paintings PU PVC photo pearl plastic proof pangu panel panelite panelkam panelmax paper pulp precast palm polyresin polycarbonate pattern patterns plant partition project palette pieces

penshell

quilt quilted

resin rivershell resort reclaimed route routed routing repeat random retardant ripple resident residence residential

restaurant restaurants retail relief relieve room reference round

screen seashell shell semi sculpture sculptural surfaces source sources store stores stage slide sliding surface

sculptured system systems sustain sustainability show sound special shop shopfront shoplot suspend suspended

swivel substrate shape shapes shade shades sand sandstone sanded sanding spiral suspension strip stripe strips

substance

texture textured translucent tree transmaterial tile tropical trade TV textile trend treatment timber

veneer variety versatile varnish varnishing

wave wavy wood weave woven wall wallcover wallcovering wallcoverings white wardrobe wovin warm

wainscot wooden woodenwave

3d 3-d 3dimension 3-dimension 3form

Post-sunset sky with prism spectroscope by Bob Fosbury

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I managed to capture this spectrum of the partially clear sky above the Sun direction about 12min after it set on 8 December in Bath UK. I used my old Beck Wavelength Prism Spectroscope on a stand and held a phone camera up to the eyepiece.

The photograph is straddled by my two drawings of a prism spectrum which show the telluric features marked: red/brown for oxygen and blue for water bands on the top.

I post it here since it shows rather clearly the structure in the yellow part of the spectrum with the clear, visually prominent, unabsorbed yellow band between 580 and 590nm.

At this time, the air was clear and dry and so the water bands are relatively weak. The tetra-oxygen features at 577 and 630nm are strong however, especially the one in the yellow/green which dominates the the visual appearance of the spectrum. Having said that the water absorption bands are relatively weak, it seems as if the band around 500nm could be visible as a slight but noticeable shading in the prism spectrum. It is in the right place and is marked on the Ångström maps.

Although the photograph does not show the far red bands because of the detector filtration, I can see beyond the Fraunhofer A-band to about 800nm when looking at the setting sun with a small diffraction-grating spectroscope. [Don't look directly at the sun, even with a spectroscope, when it is bright and higher in the sky — unless you know what you are doing!]

However, my ageing eyes no longer allow me to see clearly the Fraunhofer H & K lines between 395 and 400nm.

absorption by Anna Creedon

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This is a composite image created from one of the iris images. I made a copy of it, flipped it horizontally then merged the two together using a multiply blend and adjusted the hues.

11B41 by Bob J B

Greater Manchester Transport 1324 (BNE767N). a Bristol LH/ECW that had been ordered by Wigan before absorption, seen in Wigan in August 1978

k3839-3 by U.S. Department of Agriculture

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The fiber in complex carbohydrates-grain, fruit, and vegetables can reduce the body's absorption of fructose, even from fruit which is naturally high in the sugar. USDA photo by Keith Weller.

The City (Taiwan) by Daan L / 陸達恩

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NTHU

Hsinchu/Xinzhu

Taiwan

2013

My wife's campus resembles the set of a Star Wars movie!

Urban Life in Taiwan

Ricoh GR Digital IV

Hoi!

If you are looking for an all-weather streetwise documentary photographer and journalist look no further; I am your man! Hit me up for publications, prints, assignments or collaborations: Check out www.daanloeff.nl or www.instagram.com/daanloeff (Based in The Netherlands)

South Padre Island sand castle by ellen jo roberts

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South Padre supposedly has THE best sand for sand castle building. "Professional sand sculptors" rate it the highest based on many factors-- moisture absorption, grit, fineness of grain.

Nombril by Caroline Lévy

self-absorption

Immune booster. by heller_dk

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Black pepper is added to the ginger turmeric energy shot for greater absorption of turmeric.

This image is taken from United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 9, Nos. 1-4, 1915 by Medical Heritage Library, Inc.

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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 9, Nos. 1-4, 1915

Creator: U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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Date: 1915

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE v

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Shock, anoci-association and anesthesia.

By Surg. A. M. Fauntleroy 1

The proposed personnel, organization, and equipment of a hospital ship

By Surg. E. M. Blackwell and Chief Pharm. O. G. Ruge 28

The application of Wassermann's reaction to the SOLUTION OF THE

ETIOLOGY OF TROPICAL ULCERATIONS.

By Surg. C. S. Butler 51

Some theories as to the origin of Jackson's veil.

By Asst. Surg. J. M. Lynch, M. R. C 62

A RESUME OF ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS CONCERNED IN YELLOW FEVER.

By Passed Asst. Surg. C. B. Camerer 65

Some observations on the examination of recruits.

By Passed Asst. Surg. J. J. S. McMullin 70

Experience of a surgeon during the occupation of Vera Cruz.

By Asst. Surg. G. T. Vaughan, M. R. C 75

Experiences with marine expeditionary force in Mexico.

By Asst. Surg. R. M. Little, M. R. C 76

Treatment of chronic posterior urethritis.

By Medical Inspector G. T. Smith 80

A NEW METHOD OF EXAMINING STOOLS FOR EGGS.

By Passed Asst. Surg. C. M. Fauntleroy, Public Health Service, and Passed

Asst. Surg. R. Hayden 81

An account of the yellow fever which prevailed on board the United

States Ship Jamestown in 1866-67 at Panama.

By Passed Asst. Surg. W. M. Kerr 82

UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL SCHOOL LABORATORIES:

Additions to the pathological collection 111

Additions to the helmintholoqical collection 111

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

A card index of specific cases.

By Passed Asst. Surg. R. B. Henry 113

The otoscope as an anterior urethroscope.

By Passed Asst. Surg. W. G. Steadman, jr 114

CLINICAL NOTES:

Advance report concerning heliotherapy and ionic medication as employed

at Las Animas, Colo.

By Passed Asst. Surg. C. J. Holeman 119

Compound comminuted fracture of skull.

By Passed Asst. Surg. T. W. Raison 120

A case of reamputation of the leg.

By Surg. R. Spear 122

Tenoplasty for contracture of hamstring tendons.

By Surg. R. R. Richardson 123

Neosalvarsan and mercury in unilateral luetic palsy of abducens.

By Asst. Surg. S. Walker, M. R. C 124

EDITORIAL COMMENT:

Southern Medical Association 127

The William A. Herndon Scholarships, University of Virginia 127

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General medicine. —-The diagnosis and treatment of cholecystitis. The duration

of infection in scarlet fevor. By L. W. Johnson. Diphtheria mortality with and

without the use of antitoxin. By W. E. Eaton.

Observations on the Wassermann reaction. By R. Sheehan 129

Mental and nervous diseases. —The role of hypnotics in mental disease

with indications for their selection and employment. Hereditary ataxia. Psychic

disturbances of dengue. By R. Sheehan 133

Surgery.— Medical arrangements of the British Expeditionary Force. The

home hospitals and the war. The wounded in the war; some surgical lessons. By

L. W. Johnson. The significance of the Jackson veil.

The fate of transplanted bone and the regenerative power of its various

constituents. A plea for the immediate operation of fractures. By A. M.

Fauntleroy and E. II. H. Old 140

Hygiene and sanitation. —Study of a swimming pool with a return purification

system. The period of incubation of diphtheria cultures. Subsistence on board

battleships. The chemical disinfection of water.

Sterilization of water supplies for troops on active service. The

Lettsomian lectures on dysentery. Antimosquito work at Panama. By C. N. Fiske

and R. C. Ransdell 147

Tropical medicine. —Malaria and the transmission of diseases. Prevention

of malaria in the troops of our Indian empire. Researches in sprue. By E. R.

Stitt 152

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —Is pellagra due to

an intestinal parasite? By C. N. Fiske. Laboratory studies on tetanus. The

cultivation of the tubercle bacillus. The bacteriology of pyorrhea alveolaris.

Experimental production of purpura in animals. By A. B. Clifford and G. F.

Clark 156

Chemistry and pharmacy.—On the influence of atmosphere, temperature, and

humidity on animal metabolism. The influence of moisture in the air on

metabolism in the body. Biochemical studies of expired air in relation to

ventilation. The absorption of protein and fat after resection of one-half of

the small intestine. By E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge. . . 158

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Relation of arterial hypertension to subconjunctival

hemorrhage. Ocular manifestations of arteriosclerosis and their diagnostic and

prognostic significance. Salvarsan treatment and optic neuritis. Eye in

locomotor ataxia. The direct method of the intralaryngeal operation.

Inflammation of the accessary sinuses. Normal horse serum in hemorrhage from

nose and throat operations. Tonsillectomy, its indications and choice of

operation. The correction of nasal deformities by mechanical replacement and

the transplantation of bone. By E. J. Grow and G. B. Trible 162

REPORTS:

Points of interest about the Mexican constitutionalist wounded at

Mazatlan.— By Surg. P. S. Rossiter 167

Sanitary report of marine brigade. —By Surg. D. N. Carpenter 173

Report of work at the field hospital of the marine brigade, Vera Cruz,

Mexico. —By Surg. D. N. Carpenter 177

Number 2

PREFACE vii

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

The operative treatment of chronic intestinal stasis.

By Asst. Surg. W. S. Bainbridge, M. R. 0 179

Symposium on intelligence tests.

Service use of intelligence tests.

By Passed Asst. Surg. R. Sheehan 194

The value of the mental test and its relation to the service.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. E. Thomas 200

Mental defectives at Naval Disciplinary Barracks, Port Royal, S. C.

By Passed Asst. Surg. H. E. Jenkins 211

Review and possibilities of mental tests in the examination of applicants

for enlistment.

By Acting Asst. Surg. A. R. Schier 222

Observations on deep diving.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. R. W. French 227

Tuberculosis.

By Surg. E. Thompson 253

Observations on seven cases of cerebrospinal fever.

By Passed Asst. Surg. D. C. Cather 259

The posterior urethra and bladder in a hundred cases of chronic gonorrhea.

By Passed Asst. Surg. A. L. Clifton 265

UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL SCHOOL LABORATORIES:

Additions to the pathological collection 271

Additions to the helminthological collection 271

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

Apparatus for securing traction of lower extremities.

By Surg. H. A. Dunn 278

CLINICAL NOTES:

Leukopenia of a marked degree in a fatal case of pneumonia.

By Medical Director E. R. Stitt 275

GASTRIC CHANGES FOLLOWING GASTROENTEROSTOMY.

By Passed Asst. Surgs. H. F. Hull and O. J. Mink 275

TWO CASES OF MALARIA TREATED WITH SALVARSAN.

By Passed Asst. Surg. E. U. Reed 278

PSEUDOLEUKEMIC ANEMIA OF INFANCY OCCURRING IN TWINS.

By Asst. Surg. S. Walker, M. R. C 280,

EDITORIAL COMMENT:

George Perley Bradley, medical director, United States Navy. . . 283

A new quarterly naval medical journal 285

The Harrison law 285

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General medicine. —Differentiation of the diseases included under chronic

arthritis. By L. W. Johnson. The war and typhoid fever. By G. F. Clark. Use of

the Schick test in the suppression of a diphtheria outbreak. By R. Sheehan. The

present status of the treatment of advanced cardiac decompensation. The

influence of diet upon necrosis caused by hepatic and renal poisons. Syphilitic

nephritis. Is emetin sufficient to bring about a radical cure in amebiasis? A case of a

large aneurism of the arch of the aorta with use of bronchoscopy. By E. Thompson

and E. L. Woods 287

Mental and nervous diseases.—The importance of the bony sinuses accessory

to the nose in the explanation of pains in the head, face, and neck. Spinal

decompression in meningomyelitis. Fleeting attacks of manic depressive

psychosis. Epilepsy and cerebral tumor. The ductless glands and mental disease.

Acute paraplegia. By R. Sheehan 295

Surgery. —The Freiburg method of Dammerschlaf or twilight sleep. By W.

G. Steadman. Observations on the seminal vesicles. By H. W. Cole. Rubber

gloves; a technique of mending. A note upon the wounds of the present campaign.

By L. W. Johnson. The silence of renal tuberculosis. Acute hemorrhagic

pancreatitis. Preservation of the iliohypogastric nerve in operation for cure

of inguinal hernia. Aperiosteal amputation through the femur. A modified

incision for approaching the gall bladder. The occurrence of acute

emphysematous gangrene (malignant edema) in wounds received in the war. Note on

the wounds observed during three weeks' fighting in Flanders. The naval action

off Helgoland. By A. M. Fauntleroy and E. H. H. Old 299

Hygiene and sanitation. —Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health;

report of question meeting. The disinfecting properties of gaslight on air of

room. Sewage disinfection for vessels and railway coaches. The prophylaxis of

malaria with special reference to the military service. By C. N. Fiske and R.

C. Ransdell 313

Tropical medicine. —Benzol in bilharzia. By E. L. Woods. Kala-azar and

allied infections. Observations on the eggs of ascaris lumbricoides. By E. R.

Stitt 319

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —The occurrence of

certain structures in the erythrocytes of guinea pigs and their relationship to

the so-called parasite of yellow fever. Observations on myeloid sarcoma with an

analysis of fifty cases. By G. F. Clark. A new and rapid method for the

isolation and cultivation of tubercle bacilli directly from the sputum and

feces. Appendicitis treated with

anticolon bacillus serum and vaccine. The retention of iron in the organs

in hemolytic anemia. By C. S. Butler and A. B. Clifford 321

Chemistry and pharmacy. —The analysis of emulsions. Notes on the estimation

of morphin and Lloyd's reagent. By P. J. Waldner. Merck's annual report of

recent advances in pharmaceutical chemistry and

therapeutics. By E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge 326

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —The tonsils as a habitat of oral

entamebas. By O N. Fiske. Enucleation of the eye under local anasthesia. On a

modification of Siegrist's method of local anesthesia in enucleation of

the eyeball. The use of pituitary extract as a coagulant in the surgery

of the nose and throat. Value of roentgenography in diagnosis of diseases of

the larynx and trachea. The difficulties and dangers of exploratory puncture of

the antrum of Highmore. By E. J. Grow and G. B.Trible 331

REPORTS:

Extracts from annual sanitary reports. —Notes on marine recruiting. By

F. H. Brooks. Notes on recruiting. By J. B. Bostick. Economy in use of hospital

supplies. By A. R. Wentworth. Venereal prophylaxis. Examination of civil

employees. By C. N. Fiske. Industrial notes from Boston yard. By N. J.

Blackwood. Notes on tropical hygiene. By A. Stuart. Battleship ventilation. Use

of barracks during . overhaul period. By T. W. Richards. Sanitary notes from

the U. S. S. Ozark. Malarial prophylaxis. By R. W. McDowell. Sanitary notes from

the U. S. S. Virginia. By G. L. Angeny 335

The Schick Test and the use of diphtheria antitoxin.

By Passed Asst. Surg. J. J. A. McMullin 362

Number 3

PREFACE vii

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

The normal heart in the Navy.

By Surg. G. F. Freeman 363

Surgical diagnosis and technic involving the appendix.

By Surg. A. M. Fauntleroy 381

Functional testing of the ear.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. B. Trible 400

A few points in diagnosis of gastric and duodenal ulcer by means of the

X-ray.

By Passed Asst. Surg. A. L. Clifton 410

The damage of syphilis to the Navy.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. F. Cottle 414

Recent conceptions of bronchial asthma.

By Asst. Surg. M. H. Sirard, M. R. C 419

UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL SCHOOL LABORATORIES:

Additions to the pathological collection 423

Additions to the helmintholooical collection 423

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

A venereal head.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. F. Cottle 425

A NEW MESSING SYSTEM FOR NAVAL HOSPITALS.

By Hosp. Steward F. E. Simmons 426

Messing arrangements in the U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.

By Surg. H. A. Dunn and Chief Pharm. P. J. Waldner 428

Castor oil. An aseptic dressing on the field of battle.

By Asst. Surg. A. E. Gallant, M.R.C 430

CLINICAL NOTES:

A case of fracture-dislocation of spine. Laminectomy.

By Surg. R. E. Ledbetter and Asst. Surg. H. Priest 433

A CASE OF ANEURYSM OF THE LEFT POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY.

By Passed Asst. Surg. E. L. Woods 434

A CASE OF MALIGNANT ENDOCARDITIS. By Passed Asst. Surg. M E. Higgins

436

A POSSIBLE NEW X-RAY SIGN OF TUBERCULOSIS.

By Surg. E. Thompson and Hosp. Steward H. L. Gall 436

A CASE OF PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA (?) WITH MARKED LEUKOPENIA. By Passed

Asst. Surg. W. L. Mann, jr 438

Report of twenty-eight cases of pyorrhea alveolaris treated with emetin

hydrochlorid.

By Passed Asst. Surg. A. H. Allen 440

Intravenous injection of neosalvarsan in concentrated solution.

By Passed Asst. Surg. C. B. Camerer 441

TRANSLATIONS:

Catheterization of the ejaculatory canals.

By Surg. R. A. Bachmann 443

Hospital ships.

By Pharm. S. Wierzbicki 452

First-aid stations and transportation of the wounded in naval battle.

By Med. Inspect. S. G. Evans 454

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General medicine. —The value of typhoid vaccines in the treatment of typhoid

fever. By L. W. Johnson. The intravenous and intramuscular administration of

diphtheria antitoxin. The noninfective causes of so-called rheumatism. Not very

well known causes of hematuria. Prodromal symptoms of gallstones. Observations

on renal functions in acute experimental unilateral nephritis. By E. Thompson

and E. L.

Woods 469

Mental and nervous diseases. —A critical study of Lange'a gold reaction

in cerebrospinal fluid. Post-operative nervous and mental disturbances. The

significance of the unconscious in psychopathology. By R. Sheehan 475

Surgery. —The role of gastroenterostomy in the treatment of ulcers. Ether-oil

colonic anesthesia. By H. W. Smith. Ununited fractures treated by long-axial

drilling of the fractured bone-ends. By E. Thompson. War surgery. The

osteogenic power of periosteum; with a note on bone transplantation. The

technic of cholecystectomy. The German use of asphyxiating gases. Transfusion

by the syringe method. The North Sea action of January 24. The best method of

treating wounds sustained in action, especially during the early period after

their infliction. By A. M. Fauntleroy and E. H. H. Old 479

Hygiene and sanitation. —The possibility of conveying typhoid fever by

clothing, contaminated food, and soiled fingers. The microbic content of indoor

and outdoor air. By E. W. Brown. Some results of the

first year's work of the New York State Commission on Ventilation. By

C. N. Eiske and E. W. Brown. Tincture of iodin and the prevention of venereal

disease. Ability of colon bacilli to survive pasteurization.

The specific gravity of the human body. Lead poisoning in the manufacture

of storage batteries. By C. N. Fiskc and R. C. Ransdell 495

Tropical medicine.—Pathology of verruga peruviana. The importance of

tertiary yaws. By C. S. Butler. The treatment of ancylostomiasis. By A. B.

Clifford. Studies in malaria. New theories and investigations

concerning pellagra. Immediate relapse in tertian malaria after energetic

salvarsan treatment. By E. R. Stitt 502

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —A study of the endamebas

of man in the Panama Canal Zone. Lipoids in immunity. The mechanism of antibody

action. The diagnosis and treatment of

parenchymatous syphilis. The bacteriology of appendicitis and its production

by intravenous injection of streptococci and colon bacilli. By G. F. Clark. On

the filterability and biology of spirochetes. A differential study of

coccidiodal granuloma and blastomycosis. Notes on the diagnosis of Asiatic

cholera at autopsy. The morphology of the adults of the filarise found in the

Philippine Islands. By C. S. Butler and A. B. Clifford 508

Chemistry and pharmacy.—Coloring of bichlorid of mercury solutions. By

L. Zembsch. An experimental study of lavage in acute carbolic acid poisoning.

By A. B. Clifford. Notes on a new alkaloid found in

nux vomica. Preliminary note on a new pharmacodynamic assay method. By

P. J. Waldnar. Estimation of urea. Estimation of urea and indirectly of

allantoin in urine by means of urease. Urea; its distribution in and

elimination from the body. Results of the hypochlorite disinfection of water

supplies. A further study of the chemical composition and nutritive value of

fish subjected to prolonged period of cold storage. By E. W. Brown and O. G.

Ruge 515

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Treatment of trachoma with carbonic acid snow.

Samoan conjunctivitis Is there a natural or acquired immunity to trachoma?

Clinical and anatomical study of a case of isolated

reflex immobility of the pupil, paralysis, tabes, and cerebrospinal syphilis

being excluded. Protection against injury of the hearing.Chronic local

infection of the nose, throat, and ear as a cause of general infection. The

sympathetic syndrome (undescribed) of sphenopalatine or nasal ganglion

neurosis. Shell explosions and the special senses. By E. J. Grow and G. B.

Trible 521

REPORTS:

Extracts from annual sanitary reports. —A review of the treatment and

results at the U. S. Naval Sanatorium for Tuberculosis at Las Animas, Colo. By

G. H. Barber. Battleship ventilation. ( Permanent detail of stretchermen. By J.

S. Taylor. Genito-urinary disease at Chelsea. By G. B. Wilson. Malarial prophylaxis. By H.

L. Smith. Sanitary notes from the U. S. S. Washington. By H. A. May. Sanitary

notes

from the U. S. S. Michigan. By J. A. Murphy. Sanitary notes from the U.

S. S. Palos. By D. C. Post. Camp sanitation. By R. I. Longabaugh 527

Lymphatic leukemia complicated by priapism. By Passed Asst. Surg. J. J.

A. McMullin 542

The seventy-first annual meeting of the American Medico-Psychological

Association. By Passed Asst. Surg. R. Sheehan 544

Number 4

PREFACE vii

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Observations upon the epidemiology of an outbreak of measles at the

Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va.

By Surg. C. E. Riggs 647

The present status of the Hospital Corps. By Passed Asst. Surg. W. E.

Eaton , 556

The use of hospital ships in time of war.

By Passed Asst. Surg. R J. Straeten 565

Venereal disease aboard ship.

By Passed Asst. Surg. G. F. Cottle 571

Some dangers in passing the ureteral catheter to the kidney.

By Asst. Surg. B. C. Willis, M. R. C 577

Shanghai and Yangtze River hospitals.

By Passed Asst. Surg. R. H. Laning 679

Some medical aspects of the upper Yangtze River country.

By Asst. Surg. D. C. Post 620

Some medical conditions in China.

By Passed Asst. Surg. R. G. Davis 630

UNITED STATES NAVAL MEDICAL SCHOOL LABORATORIES:

Additions to the pathological collection 635

Additions to the helminthological collection 635

SUGGESTED DEVICES:

An ambulance motor boat for hospital ships.

By Surg. E. M. Blackwell 637

CLINICAL NOTES:

Unusual type of typhus on U. S. S. Monocacy. Report of case. By Asst.

Surg. W. B. Hetfield 641

Injury by dynamite explosion. By Passed Asst. Surgs. G. C. Thomas and

L. W. Johnson 643

A case of hemorrhagic pancreatitis.

By Passed Asst. Surgs. G. C. Thomas and L. W. Johnson 644

Salvarsan in the treatment of schistosomiasis. Report of case.

By Asst. Surg. D. C. Post '645

An usually severe case of urticaria.

By Passed Asst. Surg. W. E. Eaton 650

Early reinfection with syphilis.

By Surg. T. W. Richards 651

A fatal cask of cecal ulceration with extensive complications.

Bv Passed Asst. Surg. W. L. Mann, jr 653

EDITORIAL COMMENT:

Scarcity and cost of medical supplies due to disturbance of European

markets 655

Bind your Bulletins 655

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES:

General medicine. —The recent epidemic of smallpox in New South Wales.

By L. W. Johnson. The causes of indigestion. A study of 1,000 cases. By E. H.

H. Old. Certain physical signs referable to the diaphragm and their importance

to diagnosis. An epidemic of influenza in the Island of St. Kilda. Pollen

therapy in hay fever. Studies in bronchial glands. Mode of action and use of

emetin in endamebiasis. The treatment of eczema with special reference to the

use of vaccine and the part played by bacteria in its etiology. Report of 50

cases. Study of diseases of stomach and duodenum by X-ray. Cure and recurrence of

syphilis. By E. Thompson and E. L. Woods 667

Mental and nervous diseases.—Differential diagnosis of general paresis.

What is paranoia? The cerebrospinal fluid in diagnosis and treatment. Raynaud's

syndrome. Raynaud's disease. What tests in childhood are best calculated to

throw light upon the capacities of mental defectives for future work. The

Binet-Simon method and the intelligence of adult prisoners. By R. Sheehan 669

Surgery.— Medical narrative of the arrangements of the first division

at the Battle of the Aisne. The medical aspects of modern warfare, with special

reference to the use of hospital ships. By T. W. Richards. Injuries to the bowel from shell and

bullet wounds. By L. W. Johnson. Account of six specimens of great bowel

removed by operation; observations on motor mechanism of colon. Symptomless

renal hematuria arising from tumors,

aneurysms in the renal pelvis, and early tuberculosis. The treatment of

urethral stricture by excision. Some observations on bone transplantation.

Blood transfusion by the citrate method. Disinfection of the hands and

abdominal skin before operation. Partial regeneration of bone. By H. W.Smith.

Epididymotomy for acute epididymitis as an out-patient procedure. By W. E.

Eaton. Occlusion of the pylorus. Prevalent fallacies concerning subacromial

bursitis. Its pathogenoesis

and rational operative treatment. Autogenous bone grafts versus Lane's

plates. A new procedure for the cure of chronic synovitis. Report on the

wounded in the action between the Sydney and the Emden.

By E. H. H. Old 672

Hygiene and sanitation. —Paint poisoning. By T. W. Richards. Sterilization

of water by chlorin. The prevalence of occupational factors in disease and

suggestions for their elimination. Bismuth-paste

poisoning —report of a fatal case. The making of a milk commission. Present

practice relating to city waste collection and disposal. A statistical study of

personal association as a factor in the etiology of pellagra. The influence of

age of the grandparent at the birth of the parent on the number of the children

born and their sex. By C. N. Fiske and R. O. Ransdell 694

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —Simple and efficient

contrast stain for B. diphtheriae. By C. N. Fiske. The heart muscle in

pneumonia. The sterilization of vaccines and the influence of the various

methods employed on their antigenic properties. The Wassermann and luetin

reactions in leprosy. By C. S. Butler and A. B. Clifford 700

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Relation of general arteriosclerosis to certain

ocular conditions. Eyestrain and ocular discomfort from faulty illumination. Hemorrhage

from the nose and throat. Diagnosis and conservative treatment of inflammation

of the accessory sinuses of the nose. Primary carcinoma of the tonsils. Nasal

polypi. By E. J. Grow and G. B. Trible 703

REPORTS. —Topographical extracts from annual sanitary reports:

Yangtze River ports. By Passed Asst. Surg. C. L. Beeching 707

Cape Haitien, Haiti. By Asst. Surg. C. P. Lynch 710

Santo Domingo and Haiti. By Passed Asst. Surg. E. A. Vickery 714

Vera Cruz, Santo Domingo, and Haiti. By Surg. R. W. Plummer 715

Santo Domingo. By Asst. Surg. J. B. Helm 716

Bluefields, Nicaragua. By Asst. Surg. C. P. Lynch 719

Alaskan ports. By Surg. W. S. Pugh, jr 723

INDEX 727

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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Building by Emilio Guerra

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

The Central Building of the Brooklyn Public Library is located on one of Brooklyn's most prominent sites, facing Grand Army Plaza at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway. Initially proposed in 1888 when Brooklyn was still an independent city, the municipally-financed central library took nearly six decades to build. Of the several cultural institutions in the vicinity of Prospect Park, it was the last to open to the public in 1941. Ground was broken in 1911 for architect Raymond F. Almiralls Beaux-Arts scheme.

However, by 1929 the project stood only one-third complete, a victim of both city politics and finances. In 1935 the architects Alfred Morton Githens and Francis Keally were commissioned to redesign the building, while retaining the existing foundations and steel skeleton. Their monumental design is a limestone-clad Modern Classical structure with impressive Art Deco detailing by the sculptors Thomas Hudson Jones and C. Paul Jennewein. The most striking feature is its fifty-foot high entry portico, set into the concave facade which reflects the elliptical configuration of Grand Army Plaza.

An expression of both civic pride and public embrace, the design was widely praised for being both impressive and practical. Its plan is shaped like an open book, and the inscriptions and sculpture that decorate the spare exteriors express the educational purpose of the library. Passed by thousands of pedestrians and motorists each day, the Central Building of the Brooklyn Public Library is one of the borough's best known and most heavily used public buildings.

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

Libraries in Brooklyn

During the mid-nineteenth century several private libraries were established in Brooklyn, primarily in Brooklyn Heights. Although some were associated with existing institutions, several developed enough support to construct their own buildings, including the Brooklyn Apprentices Library (1825) at Henry and Cranberry Streets, the Brooklyn Atheneum and Reading Room (Field & Corregio, 1853) at Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street, and the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn (P. B. Wight, 1869) on Montague Street. At these subscription libraries, readers paid an annual fee to use the facilities and borrow books.

Following the Civil War, the city of Brooklyn grew rapidly, expanding its borders and accommodating thousands of new immigrants. During the late 1870s and 1880s interest grew in creating a free library system, one that would serve all Brooklyn residents and neighborhoods. Brooklyn's earliest free library was privately funded and was located in the main building of the Pratt Institute, a private school in Clinton Hill founded by Brooklyn oil tycoon Charles Pratt in 1887. Within a few years, he established a second facility, the Astral Branch in Greenpoint, not far from the site of Pratt's kerosene refinery. These libraries were immensely popular, and in 1896 the original Pratt facility moved to new and larger quarters on Hall Street, designed by the Brooklyn architect William B. Tubby.2

Brooklyn's Public Library

The Brooklyn Public Library was created on May 3, 1892, by an act of the New York State legislature. Five years later, in December 1897, the first branch opened in Bedford Stuyvesant. Located in Public School No. 3, the municipally-financed facility featured separate reading rooms for men and women and open stacks for browsing, a new innovation.

On January 1, 1898, the city of Brooklyn was consolidated into Greater New York. Despite considerable interest in pursuing a similar merger of the new city's various independent library systems — especially, with the announcement in 1901 that industrialist Andrew Carnegie would donate $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branches — such an alliance failed to occur.3

The New York Public Library, established in 1895, was privately funded and conceived as a centrally located reference collection, formed by the merger of the Astor Library, the Lenox Library, and the Tilden Trust. The Brooklyn Public Library, on the other hand, was founded as a decentralized system, created to serve a broad range of constituencies and communities. Unlike the New York Public Library, Brooklyn's board of trustees consisted of a number of elected officials, including the New York City Mayor, comptroller, and the Brooklyn Borough President, who opposed the merger in order to retain influence over future plans and construction. Furthermore, many influential Brooklynites feared its absorption into a larger system, arguing that the borough and its citizens would be best served by its own independent library. Carnegie, who initially favored a merger, acceded to their wishes, and in 1901, the Brooklyn Public Library received $1.6 million to construct twenty branch libraries.4

The Site

Brooklyn's Central Library is situated on a triangular lot at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue. It was originally part of the so-called "east-side lands" which were acquired by the City of Brooklyn for the construction of Prospect Park. These lands, which extended as far east as Washington Avenue, included the Mount Pleasant reservoir (today the site of Mount Prospect Park) that officials hoped would be integrated into the park's design. The park's designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, however, convinced them to abandon this scheme and acquire land to the west instead. Not only were the dimensions too small, but they believed that Flatbush Avenue, a major thoroughfare, should not bisect the future park. In their 1866 report, they speculated on the site's use, writing that "the lots on this part of Flatbush Avenue, will probably, in course of time, be occupied by handsome buildings, the objects of which will in some way be connected with the education system of the city."

The city-owned property remained undeveloped for twenty years. In 1888, a special committee of the board of park commissioners composed of the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, General John B. Woodward, and Daniel M. Somers suggested how the vacant site might be used: "When a large public library is established free to all comers, no place could be more fitting for it than on the large triangle facing the Plaza and in front of the reservoir grounds, accessible from different quarters and passed already by thousands of people everyday."6

Beginning in 1889 a number of improvements were made to the area near Prospect Park. Most of these civic projects on and facing Grand Army Plaza had a strong classical character. These included the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch (John H. Duncan, 1889-92; alterations, 1894-1901, McKim, Mead & White) and four fifty-foot tall Doric columns topped by bronze eagles and two tempietti (McKim, Mead & White, 1894-1901). In 1889, the property east of the reservoir was given to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. In 1893 McKim, Mead & White designed what would have been the world's largest museum building, and construction began four years later. At this time the area, from Prospect Park Plaza (Grand Army Plaza) to Washington Avenue, became known as Institute Park.

In 1895 the site of the future library became a park, lined with benches and planted with bushes and trees. In 1903, a bronze tablet mounted on a granite boulder was installed on the lawn near the reservoir. Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the circular medallion featured a relief portrait bust of Henry W. Maxwell (1850-1902), a banker and Park Slope resident.7

In 1902, the Brooklyn Public Library merged with the Brooklyn Library (formerly the Mercantile Library), a private subscription library with a limited endowment and a significant reference collection. Such growth, as well as a persistent rivalry with the New York Public Library (its main building was then under construction), inspired the trustees to rethink the library's mission and purpose. In February 1904, former Brooklyn Mayor and library president David A. Boody (1837-1930) and the board of directors announced its intent to build a "great library building for Brooklyn."8 Many sites for the proposed central library were considered, including properties owned by the city on the north side of Eastern Parkway, on Plaza Street between the Parkway and Butler Place, as well as near the Brooklyn Academy of Music (then under construction), and on Joralemon Street near Brooklyn Borough Hall.

In April 1905 the plaza site was selected. Civic groups and public figures attacked the site for its modest size, odd shape, and proximity to the reservoir. Elijah R. Kennedy, former Park Commissioner, warned that such irregular shaped lots lead to the construction of "monstrosities."9 The Brooklyn Daily Times editorialized that such a costly central building should not be constructed until after the branch system was complete.

In response to these objections, Mayor George B. McClellan invited the architects of the New York Public Library, John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings, to evaluate the location. In their report of November 1905, they concluded that the plaza site was a "fine setting" and that "there is no reason why it should not be selected."11 After considering their recommendations, a formal resolution, signed in December 1905 by both Mayor McClellan and Brooklyn Borough President Martin W. Littleton, designated the property as the future site of the Brooklyn Public Library.12

The Library's First Architect

Raymond F. Almirall (1869-1939) was chosen as the library's architect in July 1906.13 Born and raised in Brooklyn, Almirall studied at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Cornell University, and for four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Some of his surviving works include: the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank (1908-12, a designated exterior and interior landmark), 51 Chambers Street, Manhattan; the Brooklyn Public Baths No. 7 (1906-10, a designated landmark) at Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street; and St. Michael's Church, School and Rectory (1905) at 4200 Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park. A consulting architect on the committee for the construction of the Carnegie Gift Libraries, he worked closely with the library's administration and had already designed several brick and masonry branches in Brooklyn, including the Bushwick Branch (1904-08) at 340 Bushwick Avenue, the Pacific Branch (1902-03) at 25 Fourth Avenue; and the Prospect Branch, now Park Slope Branch (1906) at 431 Sixth Avenue.

Almirall, A. D. F. Hamlin, consulting architect and Columbia University Professor; and Frank P. Hill, the chief librarian, were sent to study contemporary library design in Europe. In October 1906, after visiting twenty-four examples in nineteen cities, Hill summarized their findings in a forty-six page report which described various models for adaptation to the triangular site.15

In November 1907, Almirall presented his ambitious scheme to the public which incorporated a central library building as well as "the larger problem of the appropriate architectural treatment of the whole Plaza."16 His grandly scaled Beaux-Arts design was quickly approved, by both the board of trustees and the Municipal Art Commission of the City of New York (predecessor of the Art Commission).17

Construction began in 1911, and in June 1912 the cornerstone was laid by Mayor William J. Gaynor. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that the library would be built and paid for in stages and completed no earlier than 1917. With the election of each new mayor came new debates regarding the library's worth and value to the city. For instance, in spring 1914, Mayor John Purroy Mitchel refused to support further appropriations. The New York American supported the mayor's change in priorities and suggested that public funds could be better spent on parks, bath houses, schools, and playgrounds.18

Between 1915 and 1927 construction slowed even more.19 Nevertheless, the library's board remained committed to Almirall and his design. Although there had been occasional suggestions to abandon the plan as early as 1925,20 only with the death of David A. Boody, the library's president for thirty-three years, and the retirement of Frank P. Hill, who had been chief librarian since 1901, was an alternative design seriously considered.

In October 1930, the trustees chose Milton James Ferguson (1879-1954), the former chief librarian of California, as Hill's successor. At the time of his appointment the library stood only one-third complete. Thousands of pigeons had made the shell of the unfinished Flatbush wing their home. The New York Post called it a "Roman ruin" and The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a "hideous old wreck."21 Despite Borough President Henry Hesterberg's attempts to secure $9.2 million in public funds to complete the library, neither the Board of Estimate in 1931, nor the Public Works Administration in 1933, chose to support it.

A New Design and Its Architects

Chief librarian Ferguson recognized that if Brooklyn was to finally obtain its central library, a new strategy was required. He found a supportive ally in Raymond V. Ingersoll, who was elected Brooklyn Borough President in November 1933. With finances a serious concern, they boldly advocated a new, modern design which would cost less and be more appropriate for contemporary library needs.22 The library looked east to the Brooklyn Museum which was being transformed into a modern institution.23

The museum's new Director, Philip Youtz, was an innovative administrator and trained architect who believed that architecture must "keep pace with social growth."24 During his six years at the museum, from 1933 to 1938, he instituted many innovative (and now controversial) changes, particularly the creation of a new ground level entry and circulation hall. After 1934 Youtz, Ingersoll, and Ferguson communicated almost weekly. In his

self-described "informal relations as advisor," Youtz helped choose the library's new architects.

Alfred Morton Githens (1876-1973) and Francis Keally (1889-1978) were selected by Youtz from a list provided by Ferguson in February 1935. Youtz forwarded a letter and photographs of their work to Ingersoll, describing Keally as a "young architect of good reputation" and Githens as "the best single architect in the library field. "25 Although the two architects had not worked together before, their interests and expertise complemented each other. Of the two, Githens was better known and had a proven track record as an architect who had designed numerous public buildings in the neo-classical style including churches, post offices, and libraries. After attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1903 to 1905, he studied at the American Academy in Rome.

He received his early professional training with the architects Cope & Stewardson in Philadelphia, as well as with Cass Gilbert and McKim, Mead & White in New York. His works include the Currier Gallery of Art (with Edward Tilton, 1927) and the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland (1933) that Youtz called "the outstanding large library recently constructed."26 Githens later co-authored (with Joseph L. Wheeler) The American Public Library Building: Its Planning and Design with Special Reference to its Administration and Service (1941).

Keally, the younger man, was much more responsive to modern materials and ideas than his partner. He had built few buildings at the time of the library commission and was principally known as an educator and journalist. He had traveled extensively in Europe and during the 1920s taught at several architectural schools in New York, including Columbia and New York Universities. In articles published in such magazines as American Architecture and Country Life, he promoted a modern architecture tempered by tradition. For the New York World's Fair of 1939, Keally designed the Communications Building with architect Leonard Dean. Like the Brooklyn library, it featured a monumental curved entry facade.

In September 1937 a plaster model of Githens and Keally's new library design was unveiled at the 0WPA Federal Art Gallery. Composed of three stories, rather than the four in AlmiralFs plan, the new structure would be clad with large, unornamented limestone slabs arranged horizontally. Set back behind a small plaza, the new library would feature two nearly identical elevations with simple piers and recessed windows joined at the western end by a monumental entry facade decorated with reliefs and sculpture.

Praised for its modern character, the design, nonetheless, owed a great deal to Almirall. To keep expenses to a minimum, Githens and Keally re-used as much of the existing structure as possible. They retained the original foundations and structural piers wh ile removing nearly all of the masonry and classical detail and one story of the steel framing for the original fourth floor, giving the library's interior layout and public spaces a strong, though abstracted, classical character.

The New York Times praised the new design, writing: "as it turns out, the delay has not been totally unfortunate. . . the architects who have revised the plan have saved money and added to the general utility of the library plant by getting rid of most the Graeco-Roman ornaments. . . The new library might be called a walk-in, inviting patrons to enter without making them climb unnecessary steps."28 Githens and Keally designed a gently terraced plaza, featuring broad shallow steps. Furthermore, the curved entry facade extends, rather than competes with, Grand Army Plaza's elliptical configuration.

In November 1938, the Board of Estimate approved plans for a $1.88 million structure.29 Construction began in February 1939, and in November 1939 the library's administration began to relocate its offices to the nearly completed facility. On February 1, 1941 — after almost thirty years of construction — the Children's Room and the Central Circulation Room were opened briefly for public inspection. More than twenty-five hundred people visited and two days later, the library began service.

The Brooklyn Public Library was formally dedicated on March 29, 1941, with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Borough President John Cashmore in attendance. And on September 17, 1941, a memorial inscription dedicated to Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll was unveiled in the plaza on the granite capstones that flank the central stairs. (Ingersoll, who did much to secure funds to complete the library, did not live to see its completion, dying in 1940 during his second term.)

The library's design was praised by architectural critic Lewis Mum ford, who wrote that when compared to other libraries, including the New York Public Library as well as buildings at Harvard and Yale Universities: "Brooklyn's new one is tops." He particularly admired its "bowed-in front" which he said "create[s] a sense of happy expectation."31 Other contemporary writers admired its spacious interior, especially its open plan and lofty light-filled circulation hall.32

Architectural Decoration

The library's ornament was chosen to express the building's function as an institution for knowledge and learning. Above the triple doors is a forty-foot bronze screen decorated with fifteen squares, each containing a relief character from American literature, including Tom Sawyer, the Raven, and Moby Dick, as well as a portrait of Walt Whitman. Above the grid are two gold owls, wings spread, standing on small globes. The screen was designed by the sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones (1892-?) who studied at the American Academy in Rome and is best known for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Jones was also responsible for two reliefs, each depicting a squirrel, on the entrance gates to the Children's Library.

The fifty-foot pylons which flank the entry are decorated with a series of gilded curved bas-reliefs by the German-American sculptor C. Paul Jennewein (1890-1978).33 These images depict the evolution of science (at the north) and art (at the south). He was also responsible for the decoration above the doors on the British Empire Building in Rockefeller Center (620 Fifth Avenue, designated New York City Landmark, 1932) as well as the entrance enframement to 19 East 72nd Street, an apartment building designed by Rosario Candela in 1936. He also contributed the figures on the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. (c. 1922).

Instructional inscriptions are found in three locations: on the capstones dedicated to Raymond V. Ingersoll, on the walls near the steps flanking the main entry, and on the green Virginia albarene stone spandrels set above the first floor windows on the Flatbush and Eastern Parkway wings. The quotes on the concave main facade were composed by Roscoe C. E. Brown, a library trustee since 1908 and its president from 1940 to 1942. On the Eastern Parkway wing the spandrel quotes are taken from Roscoe C. E. Brown, Thoreau, Horace, Thomas a Kempis, and Shakespeare. On the Flatbush Avenue wing they are from Thomas Carlyle, Francis Bacon, Joseph Conrad, Alexander Smith, Goethe, and Shakespeare.

Description

The Central Building of the Brooklyn Public Library, occupying a triangular site at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue, is set back on a terraced plaza. Three stories high, it is faced in limestone. The building's most dramatic feature is its smooth concave entrance facade. Where it nears the pavement, it curves slightly to meet the gray granite base on which it sits. On either side of the entrance are deeply recessed windows which are arranged vertically with spandrels made from green Virginia albarene stone. On the second and third floors are single pane windows; below they are divided into four fixed vertical panes.

The terraced plaza is reached by three sets of broad shallow granite stairs with non-historic wrought-iron railings, flanked by waist-high granite blocks, rising from the curve of Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway, and Flatbush Avenue. At the two corners are small landscaped areas separated from the sidewalk by a metal fence. A white flagpole and metal Brooklyn Public Library sign are located at the north side of the plaza.35 At either side of the wide central stairs, which rise in four shallow stages, are two of the plaza's six bronze lighting fixtures (each with three globes) and chest-high granite capstones inscribed and dedicated to Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll. Facing the library, the right blocks are inscribed in three sections, facing west, north, and east:

IN MEMORIAL/TO COMMEMORATE THE DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE OF/RAYMOND VAIL INGERSOLL 1875-1940

A PHILOSOPHER WHO/STROVE UNCEASINGLY/TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC/SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY INGERSOLL MEMORIAL/RAYMOND VAIL INGERSOLL SERVED/HIS CITY AS BOROUGH PRESIDENT 1934-40/AND COMMISSIONER OF PARKS 1914-1918

The left blocks are inscribed, facing west, south, and east:

INGERSOLL MEMORIAL/RAYMOND VAIL INGERSOLL SERVED/HIS CITY AS BOROUGH PRESIDENT 1934-40/AND COMMISSIONER OF PARKS 1914-1918

AN INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATOR OF ABIDING JUSTICE/RARE WISDOM AND/UNFLINCHING COURAGE

IN MEMORIAL/TO COMMEMORATE THE DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE OF/RAYMOND VAIL INGERSOLL 1875-1940

The central portion of the main entrance facade rises above the three-story level of the Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue wings. On the roof, set back from the main elevation, are two cubic stair towers. These symmetrical limestone towers, which are barely visible from the terraced plaza, are clearly seen from a distance.

Directly above the main entrance is carved: Brooklyn Public Library. At either side, steps with bronze railings lead past a set of inscriptions carved into the facade to a semi-circular landing and three sets of bronze doors. Above, from left to right, are cast in raised relief the following inscriptions:

FARTHER THAN ARROW, HIGHER/THAN WINGS FLY POET'S/ SONG AND PROPHET'S WORD

WHILE MEN HAVE WIT TO READ/AND WILL TO KNOW THE DOOR TO/LEARNING IS THE OPEN BOOK

THE WORLD FOR MEN WITH ALL/IT MAY CONTAIN IS ONLY WHAT/IS COMPASSED IN THE MIND

These, as well as the inscriptions beside the stairs, were composed by library's president Roscoe C. E. Brown. On the stairs, the first two lines of each inscription are framed by a pair of rectangles that suggest open books. At left:

THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY/THROUGH THE JOINING OF MUNICIPAL/ENTERPRISE AND PRIVATE GENEROSITY OFFERS TO ALL/PEOPLE PERPETUAL AND FREE ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE AND THE/THOUGHT OF THE AGES.

At right:

HERE ARE ENSHRINED/ THE LONGING OF GREAT HEARTS/AND NOBLE THINGS THAT TOWER ABOVE THE TIDE/THE MAGIC WORD THAT WINGED WONDER STARTS/THE GARNERED WISDOM THAT HAS NEVER DIED

Directly above the doors, set in the ceiling of the recessed entry, are three recessed lighting fixtures. Like a star, each is surrounded by rays of light cut deeply into the limestone. The forty-foot tall bronze screen is divided into fifteen squares, each containing a relief set in a small square framed by fountain-like decorations and abstracted rosettes. Behind all but the top row of squares, is bronze-tinted clear glass installed in 1997. Outside the Trustees Room, above the grille, at the level of the third floor, are two owls that stand on globes. These globes sit on square bronze bases decorated with rosettes. Each base extends out over an engaged fluted column that rises from the entrance pavement. The doors are then framed by two fifty-foot tall columnar pylons, each decorated with gilded bas-reliefs. (See Architectural Decoration above.) Just to either side of the entrance are non-historic freestanding book return containers.

The library is built on a gentle slope which rises toward the east. Consequently, close to the plaza its base is quite high, and near the east end it disappears almost entirely. On the Flatbush Avenue wing, where it joins the main facade, is the building's cornerstone. Here "1938" is carved into the granite base. To the right is a set of stairs that lead to a basement service entrance with two metal doors, marked with small raised bronze letters: SERVICE. A yellow "Fall-out" sign is also attached above. Between the cornerstone and the service entrance is a freestanding air-conditioning unit. On Eastern Parkway, a ramp descends to a pair of similar bronze doors marked STAFF.

On both wings the architects have employed large windows, most of which appear to be original to the building. There are eleven sets of windows on Eastern Parkway and thirteen facing Flatbush Avenue. While on the second and third floors, the central panes are fixed, on the first floor most are divided into four horizontal panels. The muntins extend without break from the first to third floors. The side panels on each level are divided into four parts; the lower pair of windows swing out, and the upper pair swing up. Between each floor are dark green stone spandrels. These panels are etched with quotes, star-shaped motifs set in checkerboard-like borders, and classical ornament.

At the rear of the Flatbush Avenue wing is a small three-story extension. The window-less limestone portion on the first floor was built in 1940 as the Branch Distribution Room and curves northeast toward the parking lot. The upper two stories, however, have a completely different character, consisting of cast concrete blocks with incised lines and spare rectangular single pane windows. This wing, added in the early 1990s by the New York City Department of General Services, features abstract classical ornament and details that imitate the book-like forms employed in some of the adjacent spandrels. Beyond this structure is the library's present service entrance, providing access to the garage and loading docks. From Flatbush Avenue, this elevation is not easily visible to the general public.

Both of the library's two wings are set back from the sidewalk by a lawn planted with trees and bushes. On Eastern Parkway, a number of on-grade vents interrupt the plantings. Adjacent to the stairs that rise to Mount Prospect Park is the library's second public entrance. Set at ground level, it also provides access for users with disabilities through two gates that are painted black, each decorated with a relief depicting a squirrel. The side gates have vertical bars over a concrete base, and the ironwork on the moveable doors is arranged in a crisscross pattern. Across the top of the fence are ten raised stars. There are also letters cut into the metal that once could have been illuminated. They read: CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.

Inside the gate, there is modest garden (designed 1993) which leads at right to an entrance above which is again etched in the dark green stone: CHILDREN'S LIBRARY. The door and three sets of windows above face east and are arranged as they are on the library's three other facades: in a single recessed vertical strip punctuated by green spandrels.

Through a second set of iron gates, the library's various post-1941 additions are visible, including the book-loading area, the curved garage and parking lot, as well as the high retaining wall with classical ornament and iron fence that separates the library property from Mount Prospect Park.

Two air-conditioners have been installed in the library's windows. Both serve a mezzanine in the children's library. They are located between the first and second floors in the easternmost window of the Eastern Parkway elevation and above the entrance to the children's library.

Subsequent History

Few changes have been made to the main facade of the building. As the number of branch libraries in the Brooklyn grew, the system became increasingly centralized. These developments put great pressure on the libraiy's administration and the central building where it was located.

During the early 1950s the second floor reading rooms were finally completed. Soon after, in 1960, the Chief Librarian, Francis R. St. John (1908-71), asked Keally to prepare additional plans to expand the library based on his original drawings. This included the construction of a new garage in the rear and the creation of new and larger reading rooms by extending the central portion of the first and second floors into what was once was the library's courtyard and garden. Completed around 1964, these changes mask the original rear facade.

During the early 1990s a two-floor addition was built on top of the curving, window-less extension that housed the library's original Branch Distribution Room and loading docks. In 1993 the bronze screen above the main entry was cleaned and re-gilded and a small garden was planted outside the entrance to the children's library on Eastern Parkway. A project for the restoration of the roof parapet is underway.

- From the 1997 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

Technicians at work in the Atomic Absorption Mono-calibration department, Varian Techtron, 679 Springvale Road, Mulgrave, 1968 by Monash Public Library Service

Title: Technicians at work in the Atomic Absorption Mono-calibration department, Varian Techtron, 679 Springvale Road, Mulgrave

Author / Creator: Sievers, Wolfgang, 1913-2007 photographer.

Date: 1968.

Varian Techtron was the result of a merger between the Australian company Techtron and the American firm Varian Associates in 1967. The Springvale Road site (then in Springvale North, but now in Mulgrave) was established by Techtron and is still in use, but now as Agilent Technologies (which acquired Varian in 2009). Techtron Appliances was established in 1938 and it and its successor companies have produced a variety of electronic and analytic equipment for industry and scientific research, notably including Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers (AAS) to CSIRO specifications.

See locale on Google Maps.

Subjects:

Varian Techtron Employees.

Atomic absorption spectroscopy Calibration.

Laboratory technicians.

Laboratories Victoria Mulgrave.

Gelatin silver prints.

Index terms:

Australia; Victoria; Wolfgang Sievers; atomic absorption spectroscopy; laboratory technicians; Mulgrave; Varian Techtron; laboratories

Notes: Job number inscribed in pencil on reverse of image: 4014 BB

Vintage print with the photographer's studio stamp on reverse.

Title taken from information supplied by Varian Australia, courtesy of the photographer.

Printed by Wolfgang Sievers at an unknown date from his negative made in 1968.

Conditions of use: Copyright restrictions apply.

For Copyright queries, please contact the National Library of Australia.

Source: SLV

Identifier(s): Accession no: H2000.195/234

Source / Donor: Purchased 2000.

Series / Collection: Wolfgang Sievers collection.

Link to online item:

handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/308796

Link to this record:

search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1fe7t3h/SLV_ROSETTAIE18...

search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1fe7t3h/SLV_VOYAGER1757384

Sonata Vario Acoustic Absorbers by Sound Reduction Systems Ltd

Sonata Vario Acoustic Absorbers installed to the ceiling within the hall at Stanley Road Primary school in Worcester. The Sonata Vario panels solved the reverberation problem within the hall at lunchtimes and during PE.

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Sleeping... Beauty? (Beijing/The City) by Daan L / 陸達恩

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Tiananmen , Beijing, July 2012

China

The man has stones, walking let alone sleeping on the grass in public parks in Beijing is usually strictly forbidden

Canon 550D

Please do not reproduce or use this picture without my explicit permission.

If you ask nicely I will probably say yes, just ask me first!

If you happen to be in one of my frames and have any objections to this.

Please contact me!

Please no glossy awards, scripted comments and big thumbnails back to your own work.

I will remove them..

Sound Absorption Panel by tokajilover

Thanx to: youtu.be/pABvTWSxOes

Absorption (Study of Light) by thedot_ru

Laser pointer hits a camera body.

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~ absorption and indifference ~ immersion et indifférence ~ by Jane

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A short series of 6 photographs taken at the Centre Pompidou.

Une petite série de 6 photos prises au Centre Pompidou.

Artist : Simon Hantaï

If you recognise yourself in these photos and prefer they are not here, just let me know (or if you would like a copy of the photo).

Si vous vous reconnaissez dans cette photo et préfériez que la photo ne soit pas publiée, dites le moi (ou bien si vous aimeriez en avoir une copie).

Flow by Steve Jurvetson

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the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity.

Seen here with the Ugandan AIDS orphan dance troupe...

"How to live life as a work of art, rather than as a chaotic response to external events"

(by TED speaker Prof. "Chicks send me high")

13 Patella depressa. Length 32mm. S.Devon. September 1997. Leg. J.Light. by Morddyn

Vertex patch excavated through white amphora patch; frequent occurrence in P. depressa shells that suggests re-absorption of shell-material.

SPECIES DESCRIPTION part A 1Pd flic.kr/p/BaSA3C

SPECIES DESCRIPTION part B 2Pd flic.kr/p/AfbFkR

Key id. features 3Pd flic.kr/p/Ay7bhf

OTHER SPECIES ALBUMS

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Saturn - nIR False Color - August 31 2017 by Kevin Gill

Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (MT2, CB2) filtered images taken by Cassini on August 31 2017.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

The absorption by Ekaterina Uspenskaya

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multiple photon absorption by { tcb }

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Making of video

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"Absorption" project - Dreamcatcher by Mad Orange

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In "Absorption" project the ideas of holiness and darkness merged together.

Project inspired by the movies about exorcism and gothic modern trends.

It makes us think about the fact that everything has its double side and question reality.

More pictures from the project

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No_64 by David Hanes

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“Marsyas” by Balthasar Permoser by Natasha Marco

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

by navema

www.navemastudios.com

Marble, ebony socle inlaid with marble .

Permoser's grimacing and contorted stone figures on the Zwinger Palace in Dresden embody the German Baroque in sculpture. This agonizingly expressive bust of Marsyas, carved in Italy early in his career, reveals his absorption of the style of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and forecasts the distinctive manner Permoser would develop in his native country. The tortured expression of the screaming satyr Marsyas, flayed alive after losing a musical contest with the god Apollo, responds especially to Bernini's Damned Soul of 1619. The savage face riven by clenched brows and eyes squinting in pain, however, is distinctly the sculptor's own creation. Deliberately rough, flamelike hair contrasts excruciatingly precise details like the torn tongue. The bust's unfinished back and emplacement for a bracket suggest that it was originally intended for a niche, perhaps in a palace courtyard.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Balthasar Permoser (born in Kammer bei Waging, Salzburg; today a part of the bavarian town Traunstein, on 13 August 1651–died in Dresden on 18 February 1732) was among the leading sculptors of his generation, whose evolving working styles spanned the late Baroque and early Rococo.

Permoser was trained first in Salzburg, in the workshop of Wolf Weißenkirchner the Younger and in Vienna, where he learned the art of ivory carving, before he left in 1675 on a trip to Florence to work for Giovanni Battista Foggini, in whose studio he remained fourteen years, maturing his style. Called to Dresden in 1689 by Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, he executed two monumental garden sculptures of Hercules. In 1697, on the way to Italy once more, he remained almost a year in his old haunts during which he sculpted the atlantes for the west doorway of the Hofstallung in Salzburg. In the years 1704–1710 he worked at the Schloß Charlottenburg near Berlin.

Then he returned to Dresden to collaborate with the architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann on the Zwinger palace, built 1710–28 for Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, where he provided full-blown Roman Baroque sculptural details; for the Wallpavillon he provided six of the twelve festive, flexing, grimacing atlantes for which he is most remembered. For the Zwinger he also provided the sculptures for the Nymphenbad fountain.

His most famous independent, free-standing sculpture is an over-lifesize marble Apotheosis of Prince Eugene (1718–21; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna), where the main figure, depicted with the attributes of Hercules, and secondary figures of Fame and a fallen Turk are linked in a tour-de-force of complicated Berninian diagonals that did not satisfy Prince Eugene of Savoy's classicizing taste. His two polychromed wood figures of St Augustine and St Ambrose, made for the high altar of the Dresden Hofkirche (1725), are in the Stadtmuseum, Bautzen, while the sculptural pulpit he carved for the chapel of Augustus was relocated in the Hofkirche, begun in 1738. He also provided sculpture for the wall-tomb of Sophie of Saxony and Wilhelmine Ernestine of the Palatine, in the Freiberg Cathedral.

Permoser collaborated as a modeller in the Dresden workshops of Johann Melchior Dinglinger, court jeweller to Augustus; notable examplers of this kind of collaboration are the two sculptures of Moors by Permoser, encrusted with jewelled decor by Dinglinger, in the Neues Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden. Permoser provided models to be executed in polished red stoneware at Augustus' manufactory at Meissen, notably a series of commedia dell'arte figures, ca 1710–12, that are the precursors of the porcelain figurines made first at Meissen and copied by manufactories all over Europe.

His private works extended to portrait busts, Rococo collector's sculptures of polychromed wood or ivory, reliquaries that combined sculpture and architecture, and sentimental works for personal devotion. Permoser's pupil Paul Egell and Egell's pupil Johann Joachim Kändler carried Permoser's style forward into the mid-eighteenth century.

Day 306 - Mini Exploration (Microwave in Trolley on Footbridge) by leftyguk

I felt today also warranted being off, as mentally I’m not convinced I’m completely over the last of our joyous child inherited illnesses, even if physically I think I’m back there. Possibly decreased absorption of compounds is the primary cause of this today. Anyway, I made myself available to people to run through things with me before planned meetings and, following a lengthy call, decided to head into town to try and clear my head, mirrorless and two lenses in tow.

I’ve not really used the zoom lens that came with my M100 very much, possibly because I’ve favoured the pancake lens as primes are generally better. However, kit lenses are clearly much improved over the days of my old school 18-55mm that came with the 400D. Apparently I can correct the barrel distortion and vignetting, but these are features I like, so I shall not.

The trip left me with a new book from the library (the next from Andy Weir) as well as many shots that I liked and so have the trauma of choosing which to have as ‘the’ photo for the day. It is for this reason that I think I will do a Project 52 next year, but along the lines of that from 2016 when I had a self imposed 3 photos a week allowance for it, the rationale being that it gave me scope for themes and to explore those within just a few frames.

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