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Judaism sees itself as a religion of laws. As such the legal framework of Judaism was meant to structure and direct one's life experiences and perceptions of the world giving them meaning, spirituality, and sanctity.
Against that background, it is interesting to note how pervasive environmental legislation is in Jewish law with the consequence that one who follows halacha to the fullest, would, if only from repeated exposure, develop a highly refined environmental consciousness.
Any discussion of Jewish law and the environment must begin with the following classical biblical selection:
When you shall besiege a city a long time, and wage war to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against fruit trees... Only the trees which you know are not trees for food, you may destroy and cut them down to build siege machinery against the city waging war with you (Deut. 20:19-20).
Ancient wars were fought using different raw materials than those we use today. For us rubber, plastic, and various metals are the crucial elements. In ancient times it was wood. Fuel, siege engines, arrows and spears, all needed this critical element to function. While not all types of wood were good for all purposes, all wood could be helpful to the war effort in some ways. War is, undeniably, a time of great need, and great danger. Nonetheless, biblical law prohibits use of wood from fruit trees even under battlefield conditions.
Maimonides includes a large number of destructive activities under this prohibitive rubric.
This prohibition does not apply to trees only. Rather, anyone who breaks utensils, tears garments, destroys buildings, stops up a stream, or ruins food with destructive intent transgresses the command "Do not destroy" (Laws of Kings 6:10).
Maimonides goes even further in the continuation of this section. Not only are direct acts of wanton destruction prohibited, but even indirect acts such as cutting off water sources necessary for the trees to grow are also precluded. Similarly, when normal human activity does require some destruction of natural resources, decisions must be made in favor of methods that involve less rather than greater destruction (i.e., destroy the tree that does not bear fruit before the one that does bear fruit).
Noise Pollution
Over time this prohibition (now colloquially known as "Bal Tashchit" from the Aramaic translation of the command "You shall not destroy"), came to refer to any wasteful or destructive act. All things, even inanimate objects, must be treated with respect and not abused or wasted. Certainly all living things must receive at least that much respect as well.
Alongside the negative -- you shall not destroy -- is the positive -- you shall maintain, leading to an entire series of laws that are designed to maintain and improve the general environmental quality of life.
Many of the relevant sources appear in the Talmudic Tractate Baba Batra. This deals, generally, with civil law and monetary matters. Maintaining an environmentally sound quality of life is an imperative, and damaging that quality of life is treated in Jewish law as a tort -- a physical injury against one's neighbor.
The Talmud states:
If someone desires to open a shop in a courtyard, his neighbor may prevent him on the grounds that he will not be able to sleep through the noise of people coming and going (Baba Batra 20b).
While accommodation must be made, even in residential areas, to allow people to make a living -- there are limits. Some manufacturing may be allowed, but the noise pollution of crowds and customers cannot be permitted to disturb the peace. Noise, which can penetrate walls and doors, is both an act of pollution and an invasion of privacy.
Certain professions, by the very nature of their functioning, create noise and need to be controlled. By the same token these and other professions may negatively impact the environment in other ways, such as damaging surrounding trees and fields. This too, is reason enough to set limits on their functioning.
A pigeon cote must be kept 50 cubits from a town. One may not erect a pigeon cote on his own estate unless there is a clear space of 50 cubits all round (Baba Batra 23a).
The reason for the distance requirement is generally understood to be the need to prevent the birds from damaging neighboring crops, though separation from noise may also be a factor. Optimum distance would prevent all damage. A grandfather clause was allowed, however, in pre-existing situations. Even here enough distance must be maintained so that damage will be small and rare.
The Talmud continues:
A threshing-floor must be kept 50 cubits from a town. A man should not fix a threshing-floor on his own estate unless there is a clear space all round of 50 cubits. He must keep it away from the plantation of his neighbor and his plowed fallow field a sufficient distance to prevent damage being caused (Baba Batra 23a).
The Talmud explains that a threshing-floor by its nature produces chaff, a potentially airborne dust particle and pollutant. The threshing-floor must be kept away from the fields, because the dust goes and penetrates into them and dries them up.
Jewish law, long before the collective raising of our contemporary consciousness to the importance of these issues, understood the potential harmful effects of industrial air pollution and acted to mitigate those effects.
To summarize to this point, Jewish law out of ecological concerns insisted that
- one not open a shop in a courtyard if the noise pollution of customers will disturb his neighbor's sleep
- one must put a pigeon cote at least 50 cubits from town so that the scavenging birds not damage the town's vegetable gardens
- threshing floors must also be kept at this distance to prevent the chaff from creating an air pollution problem for the city
Finally, Jewish law understood that, while industry is given some room to function, it must be located where it will be the least damaging to the environment. For this reason, carrion, graves and tanneries also have the 50-cubit distance requirement because of the odors they produce. In the latter case there may also be a requirement that the tannery be placed on the side of the city away from or directly opposite the direction of the prevailing winds in that region.
Easing of Rights
Environmental nuisances find their way into another important discussion in Jewish law. Most nuisances, if implemented for someone's benefit and tolerated at that time by his neighbors, cannot subsequently be removed because of the latter's complaints. For example, in many American jurisdictions if I have walked across my neighbors lawn for more than a year to get to work, that passage can no longer be prevented by my neighbor. This is called an easement in American law. A similar concept exists in Jewish law. However, this is not true in all cases. Maimonides' concludes:
With respect to any of the prescribed distances mentioned in the preceding chapters, if one does not keep the proper distance and the other sees it and is silent, the latter thereby waives his right to challenge the first and cannot thereafter change his mind and compel him to withdraw to the proper distance.
This applies if it is apparent that he has waived his right, as when he sees the other doing it alongside his property without leaving the required distance and is silent and does not resent it.
Again we see the association between privacy and environmental regulation. Further, smoke, the odor of a privy, dust and vibration are assumed to be such "great" intrusions into a human being's personal ecology that no one can ever be assumed to have truly and completely accepted their presence. Therefore, if one engages in work that produces such pollution, he can protect himself only by purchasing rights to produce these nuisances from those affected. This, too, serves to limit and control the production of such pollutants and is conceptually similar to an American plan (that was never implemented) to regulate the environment through a system of violation points and corresponding taxation.
Public Parks
Even simple environmental amenities that improve the quality of life are subject to halachic concern. In Torah law, cities in Israel are to be surrounded by a migrash, an area of approximately 2,000 feet left for public enjoyment in to which nothing may intrude. These domains were park-like areas kept free of cultivation so that inhabitants could enjoy visiting these places.
These park areas must be kept free of cultivation.
Also, trees were to be kept 50-100 feet away from the city wall (depending on the species of tree and the amount of leaves) so that people would get the full benefit of these areas. In this way, cool breezes that might head in the direction of the city would be allowed to reach the city streets and amenity areas and not be stopped by the trees.
Further, according to the Sages, this migrash may not be turned into a field, as it destroys the beauty of the city. To maintain balance, a field may not be made into a migrash as it will diminish the crops. So, too, a migrash cannot be made into a city because that too will destroy the city's beauty, while making a migrash out of the city is prohibited as it destroys the place where people live. Again a balance is struck between environmental and other needs. In our day, national and public parks and wilderness areas serve similar needs.
Keeping the Capital Clean
An interesting law promoting positive development of the environment in the Land of Israel comes from the case of a farmer whose olive trees are swept away and are then found rooted in another farmer's field.
Though the Talmudic discussion begins with the question of who owns what with regard to the trees and the fruit that they bear in their new location, it ends with the conclusion that the trees are not to be returned to their original location. This decision emerges from a concern that Israel be well cultivated and settled. Presumably the new owner will farm his serendipitously acquired trees while the original farmer will in all likelihood, replace his loss. In this way two sets of trees will grow in the land where only one set had existed before.
Other special laws apply to preserve the unique environment of Jerusalem, Judaism's spiritual center.
No dunghills should be made there... no kilns should be kept there (Baba Kama 82b).
Accumulated garbage had to be dealt with and removed from Jerusalem on the day that it was created. The famous Dung Gate in the Old City walls of Jerusalem in near proximity to the Temple Mount is architectural testimony to Jewish compliance with this ordinance.
Kilns produce two things: pottery and smoke. In Jerusalem, the former is not worth the price of the latter. This concern is so deep-seated that leniency in some kashrut laws is permitted within a 15-mile radius of Jerusalem to help preserve its environment. (Talmud - Chagiga 25b)
Even contemporary rituals are impacted by concerns such as these. Traditionally one says, "may it wear out and you acquire another one" to someone wearing a new garment. This is, however, not said for leather shoes as an animal must be killed for the wish to come true. So, too, one who slaughters for the first time, unlike one who performs other ritually significant acts for the initial time, does not say "She'hecheyanu" (the blessing recited when one reaches or achieves an important milestone in one's life), since an animal must be killed in the process.
It is this type of spiritual and environmental sensitivity that one can and should develop through living a halachic lifestyle. If one's professional, ritual and military lives are ecologically controlled, if one's city is environmentally planned, if one is precluded from engaging in wanton destruction, if one is asked to develop an environmental sense of privacy, if one, in the course of study frequently encounters ecological themes, then some environmental consciousness must develop. This should then influence all of one's activities.


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Growing up in England I danced around a maypole with my Brownie troupe so I showed my children some youtube videos of Maypole dancing, as it wasn't something they had ever heard about. Of course, they immediately wanted to erect a 12 ft pole in our garden and dance around with friends and yards of brightly colored ribbons. Whilst I haven't completely said no to their idea (I quite like the idea of resurrecting some of my childhood Brownie skills), in the short term I managed to curb their enthusiasm in the direction of a Maypole cake!
I used some Fiskars flower shape punches and some pins to decorate the outside of cake (make sure to remove these before eating!) but the thing that really grabbed my kids' attention was the Maypole. I used a wooden skewer and taped lengths of colored ribbon to the top. The top of the Maypole is adorned with a felt flower and a few leaves. I tucked the loose ends of the ribbons under the cake plate and glued them in place. The kids really admired the creation…for a few seconds…before we dismantled it and demolished the cake.
Talking about writing this article to my mum, she reminded me that her mother (my grandmother) was crowned May Queen (quite an honor for a little girl in years gone by) and she showed me this photo which was taken in 1926 in London. My grandmother (aged 9) is sitting on the center throne with her little courtiers and loyal subjects surrounding her.
Though the photo is 86 years old and fading, you can clearly see my grandmother wearing an elaborate May Crown of flowers on her head. My children were pretty fascinated with this old photo of the great-grandmother they never knew and my daughter wanted a May Crown too, so I decided to make her a felt version. Though a crown of real flowers would be beautiful, it would not last long in this house!
I used some scraps of wool felt in appropriately Spring-y colors and made an assortment of flowers and leaves. I used buttons for some of the flower centers and sewed them all on to a length of ribbon that I can tie around my daughter's forehead. Dressing up is one of my daughter's favorite things to do, and it warms my heart to think that she'll spend some time dressing up as the May Queen, just like her great-grandmother.
I really enjoyed doing some of my own research into May Day and involving the children in the process. I wasn't expecting to find ways to genuinely make the holiday our own, but I think that from now on, May Day in this house, will be celebrated with making surprise gifts, an abundance of flowers, memories of loved ones no longer with us and of course, cake. Yes, I think that the 1926 May Queen of Hilda Road School, East London, would have given her seal of approval on the cake.
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These three beautiful climbers feature a profusion of tulip-shaped buds that open out into magnificent, bell-shaped flowers as the flowers mature. Grow Clematis 'Royal Ladies Collection' against walls, fences, trellis, or in large containers on the patio and enjoy a long season of interest. These Clematis plants are particularly easy to maintain as they can be cut back to almost ground level each year. Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 1.5m (5') Pruning group: 3.
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Clematis forrestii, Old Man's BeardOriginating from Nepal and parts of China, this rare and unusual clematis has a fascinating growth habit. Clematis napaulensis is cloaked in lush green foliage from autumn to early summer, before shedding its leaves in summer when most plants are in full growth. It's bell-shaped, winter blooms release a delicate perfume that hangs on the cool December air,that form interesting seed heads as spring approaches. This extraordinary, low maintenance Clematis needs little pruning, making it ideal for brightening the dull winter months. Grow it in a sheltered position through another deciduous climber to hide its bare stems in summer. Height: 3m (9') or more, depending on growing conditions and maturity. Spread: 1.5m (5'). Pruning group: 1. Supplied in 7cm pots.
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Sweet Pea 'Fragrantissima' embraces the full colour spectrum from white, through all the pink shades, reds, blues, purples, bicolours, and stripes. This large flowered mix has been carefully blended to ensure an even balance of colour and fragrance. Enjoy them in the garden, grown against walls and fences, or cut some of the sturdy, straight stems for a vase indoors. Height: 200cm (79"). Spread: 30cm (12").
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Clematis montana 'Continuity' - Clematis montana is well known for its vigorous growth and abundant spring flowers, but this variety goes the extra mile. Clematis montana 'Continuity' is repeat flowering so you can enjoy masses of satiny pink blooms from May right through to August. Give it plenty of space to roam and it will repay you with waves of colour that will cover walls and fences with ease. Height: 6m (19'). Spread: 3m (10'). Pruning group: 1.
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There were top ten times in Saturday's qualifying for the Japanese GP for Nico Hulkenberg, who finished P7, and Jenson Button, who was P10...
Nico Hulkenberg: "We knew we could fight for the top ten today, but P7 is a nice surprise. It was very tight, everything had to fall into place and I think we managed to do that. Compared to yesterday, the wind changed so we had a tail wind on the straights and this makes you really quick. That means we have a head wind in sector one, which gives you a lot of grip. It was so much fun to put a really good lap together in Q3. I am very happy. Clearly tomorrow we'll be aiming for points."
Esteban Gutierrez: "We are not as competitive as on previous tracks. I was just two tenths slower than Nico in Q2. This is the first time for me driving on this track and I pushed right to the limit. Regarding the fire, I just saw it and jumped out. The guys had everything under control and I was relieved that I was able to continue my qualifying. We put a good lap together and now I have to stay optimistic for tomorrow, as I think we have a good pace in the long runs. Points are not easy, but we will do our best."
Jenson Button: "In Q3 at Suzuka you want to go out and have fun - which is exactly what I did. I couldn't have gone any quicker. I did three laps in Q2 and Q3 that were almost identical, so I think P10 was as good as our car could get here today. There wasn't any more time left out on the track, but it was fun trying to find it! Looking forward to tomorrow's grand prix, I think it's going to be a different sort of race to those we've experienced recently, because the tyre degradation is more reasonable here than it's been in previous races. Actually, I think both compounds are working well here. I'm really looking forward to the race, and hopefully we'll be able to make progress and bag a decent haul of points. It's going to be tough out there though - but that's why we enjoy this sport."
Sergio Perez: "It was frustrating to miss out on Q3 by the smallest of margins. It was extremely close: my first set of tyres in Q2 were the Options I'd run during Q1 when we'd aborted because of the red flag. That meant my reference for my second Q2 run wasn't ideal as I didn't really know where the track was going. Obviously, yesterday we missed out on some useful track time owing to the accident, so this morning was spent trying to recover that time, changing set-up and learning about the track. To miss out by just over tenth wasn't ideal but, on the other hand, I think we're in a good position to score points tomorrow."
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Paul di Resta: "Given where we started yesterday, I think we should be pretty happy with P12. Slowly but surely we've made the car more drivable and in qualifying it felt quite good. The overnight efforts of everyone at the track and back at the factory have helped dial the car into the circuit. Compared with yesterday the car feels much more stable and predictable, and that's allowed us to get within a tenth of making Q3. I'm feeling upbeat about the race because the long runs have looked consistent and we are well placed to fight for points with a free choice on tyre strategy."
Adrian Sutil: "It's not been an easy day. I made a mistake this morning, damaged the car and we had to change the gearbox. I have to say a big 'thank you' to the team for getting the car ready in time for qualifying because they had a lot of work to do during the lunch break. In Q1 the car was quite difficult to drive, I didn't feel comfortable and was missing the grip to be competitive. All I can do now is look forward to the race and hope we have a better day. With the grid penalty [for the gearbox change] I will be starting near the back so I need to try and deliver consistent race pace and hopefully move towards the points."
Valtteri Bottas: "We were fighting for positions higher than we expected today after a very close qualifying session. It was a welcome surprise and we can be happy with P13 today. For the race tomorrow we are hoping to be able to challenge the cars around us and fight for the top ten."
Pastor Maldonado: "We managed to get 100% out of the car today and are just about where we expected. We didn't get a lot of running yesterday after the problem with the wheel and the accident in the afternoon. Overall it wasn't a bad today so we'll now see what we can do tomorrow in the race."
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So I managed to watch Vishwaroopam. For those who are unaware of the "controversy", there is really none. But basically? A bunch of Islamic and Muslim organisations demanded that the movie be banned or heavily censored because of it's alleged portrayal of Islam. Since the material involved a Jihadi plot out of Afghanistan, it kind of discussed islamic terrorism and the jihadi lifestyle.
There are however idiots. The kind of idiots who ban freedom of speech, the kind of people who threaten Taslima Nasrin and Rushdie. Shame on India for actually censoring it.
I kind of agree with Taslima. The idiots who wanted to ban this boiled down to "Stop Portraying the Taliban and Jihadis as Militant Fundies Who Believe in Islam. People will think Islamic fundamentalists are all wankers."
Stuff that was censored? Killings of american hostages, prayers recited, prayers recited during executions, whippings. You know… these are things that have happened in real life. It's funny that a guy getting blown in half and his head and torso landing in a bloody heap is shown in bloody and loving detail but not events that have actually happened. I wrote about a woman executed due to a faulty legal system created by fundie Islam. Hanging people from Cranes was done in Iran. Beating (even killing) people who danced and sang has occurred in real life. There have been child soldiers thrown to the teeth of the American Warmachine ™ with nothing more than a Soviet Era AK 47, inferior ammunition and promises of paradise. Fundamentalist Islam is the absolute fucking nadir of humanity. It is anathema to humanity and pointing out the vicious nature of such a faith is not wrong. Particularly when pointing out that there are muslims who think as we do. That the fundies are the nadir of humanity and that they are poison to Islam.
And it shows. The people who censored this rather silly movie. There is a random Samurai Sword Fight and a ludicrous wire fight scene… This is Die Hardesque (Maybe Die Hardersque) not Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy…
It's actually amusing. The idiots who whined about it have done more to harm to Islam than the atheist who made the movie because they indulged in the very behaviour that the Director (and Hero) were trying to portray as bad. The "Fundie" Side of Islam. Because no matter the attempt to portray the Jihadi in a sympathetic light, it fails miserably because of the idiots trying to censor the message.
Bad Points? When Will Indian Cinema learn that you do not need a love interest to make the movie work. Particularly a "floppy useless one". His wife felt like she was cellotaped into the plot. Stop It. It's stupid, it actually makes the movie feel stupid. It's a stupid trope in western cinema, it's an even stupider trope when done in a medium that doesn't portray women well.
Want to know something funny? Katherine Bigelow's Hurt Locker was released here without ANY cuts and that's portrayal of Islam was far worse.
The weirdest thing is? The cuts they made to the Tamil (native) version actually made the movie "better" particularly if you know why they made them.
There was a scene where they hanged an innocent man (the Hero's spy gear got this man in trouble). The original had them recite the Koran (it's clear what he is reciting since the reciter is a freaking priest!) while the man about to be hung incorrectly begged for his life. Now the imam in the scene speaks the verses silently while the prisoner begs audibly. It's a surprisingly artistic scene despite the relatively non-subtle tone of the movie. But I realised it was actually the censorship in action…
Knowing that did more damage to Islam and did more to cement the image of Islam as the knee jerk religion of fundamentalists than the actual movie itself. It turned a scene about what he has had to do in the name of being a spy (a surprisingly subtle thing in an indian mainstream movie) and gave it more power and made it about the cultural insanity that is Fundie Islam. Knowing why the Imam has no voice does more damage to the image of Islam than any other part of the movie.
Because to the fundamentalist Muslim the words of a terrified man about to die in a brutal manner is not as insulting to them as the portrayal of themselves.
Go Watch It. It's not thought provoking, it's just a Tamil blockbuster. What's thought provoking are the changes to it.


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ARLINGTON, Va.- After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut last year, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell put together a task force to look for ways to improve school safety in the Commonwealth
Now, the initial recommendations of the Task Force on School and Campus Safety are in.
The recommendations, delivered to the governor Thursday, include requiring lock-down drills at schools and training for school resource officers, as well as expanding access to mental health services.
The task force also is interested in creating new criminal offenses for entering a school while armed with a weapon or explosive device with the intent to commit a violent felony.
Read the entire list of initial recommendations .
The task force will make more recommendations over the coming months, and deliver a final report by June 30.
"After (the shootings at) Virginia Tech, we pumped in a tremendous amount of money into our mental health program, but with the great recession that we've now come out of, we're basically back at a place to where we were before Virginia Tech, and so we've cut a lot of things," said Delegate Patrick Hope of Arlington, a member of the task force.
"We anticipate there'll be some initial recommendations that will go to the legislature is this session. This is our 45 day session, and we're going to be in Richmond until late February. And so there's some time to do some things and there happens to be a terrific amount of money - probably about $30 million - that the governor has set aside for things like this," Hope added.
Wednesday, Hope hosted a town hall meeting about school safety at Wakefield High School in Arlington.
Cpl. Kyle Anderson is the school resource officer, or SRO at Wakefield. He's an armed police officer who comes to the school every day, where he has his own office.
Arlington County Public Schools also trained civilians known as school security officers that help with school safety and security.
Anderson says kids feel comfortable with him.
"They don't view me as a cop anymore...I normally have a vest on when I'm walking around, they obviously know that I'm a police officer, but they deal with me totally different than they deal with the cop on the street, and that's the main role of what we're here for is that we're the connection.
"They come talk to me about stuff that has nothing to do with police work. I spend most of my time forging relationships with the kids, they'll come talk to me," said Anderson.
Anderson says school doors are kept locked, and visitors have to be buzzed in.
"Is it a foolproof system? No. But is a foolproof system putting me out there with a rifle? If someone's going to want to get the element of surprise they're going to be able to get that drop on me as well," said Anderson.
One man at the meeting said he thinks school resource officers should be placed in every school.
"I cannot imagine what they would do all day at the elementary school level. I can't imagine that's a worthwhile use of funding," said Beth Dowd, PTA president at Long Branch Elementary.
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One audience member suggested if teachers with proper training were allowed to keep properly secured weapons at school, it might make a potential killer think twice.
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August 2014
"Our Cats" by Harrison Weir [1889]
We recently participated in #MuseumCats Day on Twitter and this involved a quick search through our holdings for some interesting pictures of cats to Tweet and what a gem we have found! Please enjoy this selection of wonderful and [in some cases] bizarre illustrations of cats from the book "Our Cats and all about them" written and illustrated by Harrison Weir in 1889.
My personal favourites are the surreal disembodied heads [see above], "Sylvie" [she of the magnificent moustaches] and the Russian cat who [in my opinion] has a most unsettling human expression.
Weir was a very interesting character; he was born in 1824 on May 5th [d.1906], and is known as "The Father of the Cat Fancy". He organizied the first ever cat show in England, at The Crystal Palace, London in July 1871 where he and his brother served as judges. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first President and Show Manager until his resignation in 1890. Our Cats was the first published pedigree cat book.
Weir was employed, for many years, as a draughtsman and engraver for the Illustrated London News as well as many other publications and in his lifetime he both wrote and illustrated other books such as The Poetry of Nature (1867), Every Day in the Country (1883) and Animal Studies, Old and New (1885). In 1845 he exhibited his first painting at the British Institution and during his career he was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy.
He was a keen animal fancier, an experienced breeder of cats, carrier pigeons, and poultry and for thirty years often acted as a judge at the principal pigeon and poultry shows. In 1903 he wrote and illustrated the exhaustive book Our Poultry and All About Them.
More information on Harrison Weir via the following links:
This book was bequeathed to the Library back in May 1916 along with around 500 other books by the Welsh artist, champion of Wales' cultural heritage and one of the founding fathers of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Thomas Henry Thomas.
Along with the books, Thomas also bequeathed his entire catalogue of prints, drawings and watercolours to the Museum.
More information on Thomas Henry Thomas here:
The illustration above appeares in the Chapter "Performing cats". Other chapters include, "Cats as tormentors", "Dead cats", "Fishing cats" and "Lovers of cats" [would you believe... Cardinal Richelieu?].
This book is available to view electronically via the following Project Gutenberg link:
Biographical information on Harrison Weir taken from Wikipedia.
All photographs in this post taken by the author.
Fifty years of a golden reign: a souvenir of the Queen's Jubilee [1887]
Well now, here's a pretty thing…
A souvenir booklet celebrating the fifty year reign of Queen Victoria. It was published in 1887 by Eyre & Spottiswoode, who were the official printers to Her Majesty at that time.
Our volunteer [Alison] has been working her way through old pamphlet boxes and all manner of forgotten things and very kindly passes to me items that are interesting, unusual or just lovely to see, and this one falls into that last category.
It measures 11 x 13.5 cm, has 16 pages and, our accessions register states that it was donated to us in May 1935 by a Mr Charles Barnwell Esq.
The book also contains a poem written by Lord Tennyson especially for the occasion. Tennyson had been Poet Laureate since 1850 [after William Wordsworth's death] and held the position until his own death in 1892.
Interestingly, Eyre & Spottiswoode [established in 1845], went on to merge with Methuen Publishing in the 1970s.
All photographs in this post taken by the author.
May 2014
Aurelian Society
The following photographs are from the book, Twelve new designs of English butterflies, by Benjamin Wilkes [published in 1742]. This rare work consists solely of twelve engraved plates each depicting geometric arrangements of both butterflies and moths. Wilkes produced this profoundly beautiful work as member of the Aurelian Society. Aurelian is an archaic word for lepidopterist [one who is interested in butterflies]; the term is derived from aurelia, meaning chrysalis, and relates to the golden colour it may attain just before the butterfly emerges.
The Society of Aurelians [London], one of the oldest organized bodies of specialists in any branch of zoology. The group collected and documented insects from the 1690s but came to an abrupt end in March 1748. While members of the society were in a meeting in the Swan Tavern, a great fire broke out in Cornhill and enveloped them. All the members escaped, but their entire collection, library, and records were destroyed. This event was documented by Moses Harris in The Aurelian; or, Natural History of English Insects (1765). The loss disheartened the group so much that they never managed to regroup again…Aurelian societies were formed several times in Britain [most notable 1762 and 1801], but each time they collapsed.
…Benjamin Wilkes was an 18th-century artist and naturalist whose profession was 'painting of History Pieces and Portraits in Oil'. When a friend invited him to a meeting of the Aurelian Society, where he first saw specimens of butterflies and moths, he became convinced that nature would be his 'best instructor' as to colour and form in art. He began to study entomology spending his leisure time collecting, studying and drawing the images larvae, pupae and parasitic flies of Lepidoptera, assisted by the collector Mr Joseph Dandridge. Wilkes' own collection was kept 'against the Horn Tavern in Fleet Street' London 'Where any gentleman or lady' could see his collection of insects [Wikipedia].
Our holdings of other Aurelian books include:
The English Lepidoptera: or, the Aurelian's pocket companion: containing a catalogue of upward of four hundred moths and butterflies ... / Moses Harris [1775]
The aurelian. a natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Also .../ Moses Harris [1766]
English moths and butterflies… Benjamin Wilkes [1749] This work ran to three editions of which the last, incorporating Linnaean nomenclature, was published in 1824
The British Aurelian: twelve new designs of British Butterflies and Directions for making a collection, with an essay by R.S. Wilkinson / Benjamin Wilkes, R.S. Wilkinson [1982]
All photographs in this post taken by the author
March 2014
'A day in the life' - a post for the Twitter event 'Museum Week UK'
I begin my day by checking our general library inbox for any inquiries that we might have received over the weekend. This morning [as usual] there were quite a few but they were mercifully straight forward so didn't take too long to answer. Next, I spent a very enjoyable hour squirreling away through our old photograph drawers for some interesting images to share with everyone during this Museum Week UK on Twitter and what treasures I have found [but more of that to come via Tweets from @amgueddfa_lib during the week]!
Vintage albums and photographs
Main Library photograph drawers
I also took some photographs of the pages of a giant old scrap book full of museum ephemera; it contains tickets, pamphlets, public announcement posters, order of services, lists of lectures and just about anything else you can stick down with heavy duty glue and sellotape…
However, my day begins in earnest with the post – as Assistant Librarian one of my main priorities is to manage the journal subscriptions. We maintain around 700 titles, a combination of paid subscriptions, exchanges and gifts. Therefore, after our Administration Assistant has opened and checked it, I weed out all the journals and record them onto our database. By doing this I am alerted to previous issues not received and will then chase them up with relevant suppliers. This time, there are no missing issues to chase but we have received a few duplicates, and [as always] these are from suppliers who categorically promised that no further duplicates would be sent out! Next, I count and measure the post so that at the end of the year I am able to supply our Principle Librarian with the total number of actual issues received and the meterage of space they will have covered. For instance, our statistics for 2013 were 1972 issues received that covered just over 11 metres of shelf space.
Next, I date stamp and separate them into departments. Our subscriptions naturally correspond with the curatorial departments, so we receive journals on the following disciplines: Art, Archaeology, Zoology, Botany, Geology and Industry and we also subscribe to more general subjects kept here in the Main Library. Once all this is done, it's time to go and shelve them in the departmental libraries. These are dotted all around the museum so I wait until I have a little pile, normally a few days' worth, before I go on my shelving travels.
My next task is to work through any invoices received in the post and this morning there quite a few. The way I process these has changed recently and whereas it has taken a little time to get used to the new system, it is much more straightforward and done in no time at all.
Walking into town for lunch, looking back over my shoulder...
After lunch, it's all about the special collections! I begin by photographing books for a new post on the Museum Blog; I have been posting articles for some time now and really enjoy it. This next post I'm working on concerns books with "marginalia" and we have some excellent examples so here is a little sneak peak…
Cambria Depicta: a tour of North Wales by Edward Pugh [1816]
Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and butterflies by William Curtis [1771]
The last few hours of the afternoon are spent working on a talk I will be giving in April as part of the Museum's Behind the scenes series where the curatorial departments allow groups of visitors in to show them what goes on behind the scenes. My working title is "Curios" and the talk will be based on a small selection of our more unique items, such as fore-edge books, annotated books, and books made from unusual materials and bindings!
On my way out I leave via the art galleries, it does take a little longer to get out going this way but it gives me the chance to browse and see what's on display and today there were two things in particular I wished to see. First, the new exhibition Wales Visitation: Poetry, Romance and Myth in Art which includes works by David Jones, Graham Sutherland and Richard Long. And also the new Constable painting [currently on loan from the Tate]; Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows is a stunning work and I particularly like the dark storm clouds brooding behind the rainbow.
A selection of books on WWI all ready for the 1914-2014 Centenary
This post has been produced as part of the Twitter event #Museum Week UK [24-30 March 2014]
All photographs in this post taken by the author
October 2013
Roots of power and herbs of healing... "remedies for weak men and nervous women"
There is an odd story attached to this little booklet. Some time ago, I received a telephone call from a lady offering to donate a catalogue from an old Cardiff herbalist. It sounded intriguing and something that would fit in perfectly at the library over at our sister museum St Fagans: Museum of National History, so we gratefully accepted the offer. A few days later, the Librarian and I were weeding through a pile of old booklets and we noticed an old Cardiff herbalist catalogue [date written in red ink - 29/11/29] and I remember saying how bizarre it would be if this was the same catalogue as the one that was on its way to us. Yes, you guessed it, it turned out to be exactly the same one! We ended up keeping both copies, placing one at the St Fagans library and keeping one here at National Museum Cardiff.
What exactly went into the herbal remedies is one mystery now most likely beyond solving [many of the ingredients are listed but not all] but it is the naive and whimsical wording of the ailments themselves that are so interesting to us now [Remedies for weak men and nervous women, Poverty of nerve force and That don't care sort of feeling spring to mind] and this naivity is illustrated further with the Disney-like wizard and his bubbling cauldron on the cover.
I have done a little research but, apart from a few scanned newspaper advertisements, have found no other information on Trimnell except for one of his old medicine bottles that sold recently on Ebay for £1.99 [see photograph below].
Glamorgan Archives hold some limited information on Trimnell but no actual documentation.
All photographs [except the Ebay one above] in this post taken by the author.
The Fern Paradise
A lovely pressed fern found between the pages of The Fern Paradise [1876] by Francis George Heath. I'm always a little disappointed that we don't find more pressed flowers in our old botany books so this really made my day.
How long has it been lying quietly cocooned between these dry secure pages? Who picked a live and vibrant frond one summers day and slipped it away never thinking it would stay hidden for decades? Did the sun shine that afternooon? What news was ringing around the world? So many questions...
All photographs in this post taken by the author
August 2013
Kunstformen der Natur
Step into a wonderland of colour, a celebration of the natural world in all its artistic and symmetrical glory...
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was an eminent German zoologist who specialized in invertebrate anatomy. He named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many now ubiquitous terms in biology. A popularizer of Charles Darwin, Haeckel embraced evolution not only as a scientific theory, but as a worldview. He outlined a new religion or philosophy called monism, which cast evolution as a cosmic force, a manifestation of the creative energy of nature.
Haeckel's chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including the development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur - Art Forms of Nature, a collection of 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations (lithographic and autotype) of animals and sea creatures prints. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904, and as a complete volume in 1904.
The overriding themes of the Kunstformenplates are symmetry and organization, central aspects of Haeckel's monism. The subjects were selected to embody organization, from the scale patterns of boxfishes to the spirals of ammonites to the perfect symmetries of jellies and microorganisms, while images composing each plate are arranged for maximum visual impact.
Kunstformen der Natur played a role in the development of early twentieth century art, architecture, and design, bridging the gap between science and art. In particular, many artists associated with the Art Nouveau movement were influenced by Haeckel's images, including René Binet, Karl Blossfeldt, Hans Christiansen, and Émile Gallé.
Our copy of Kunstformen der Natur [photographed here] is a complete bound volume of all ten fascicules and sits in our folio section. It was donated to us in 1919 by the first Director of the National Museum of Wales [from 1909 to 1924], William Evans Hoyle. Hoyle's trained as a medical anatomist and developed a life long interest in 'cephalopods'. Our BioSyB Department now holds Hoyle's cephalopod collection [over 400 of them] along with many other specimens and publications.
Haeckel biographical information:
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All photographs in this post taken by the author.
July 2013
Theatre of insects
Thomas Moffet [Moufet, Muffet] (1553-1604), was a physician and naturalist. After graduating from Cambridge, he travelled abroad, gained the degree of MD in 1579 from Basel University and eventually established a successful medical practice in Frankfurt. In 1580 he visited Italy, where he studied the culture of the silkworm and developed an absorbing interest in entomology. By 1588 he had returned to England and secured a good practice, first in Ipswich and afterwards in London. On 22 December of that year he was admitted as a candidate of the College of Physicians, then became a fellow and eventually censor. In 1589 he was appointed to a committee responsible for compiling the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1618) for the College of Physicians.
Moffet combined real literary aptitude with his interests in natural philosophy, publishing the lengthy poem, The Silkworms and their Flies, in 1599.
Theatre of Insects was published posthumously. In 1590 he had completed a compendious work on the natural history of insects, partly compiled from the unpublished writings of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Moffet's friend [and fellow physician] Thomas Penny. After Moffet's death, this still unpublished manuscript (BL, Sloane MS 4014) came into the hands of his apothecary [Darnell], who sold it to Sir Theodore Mayerne, who published it in 1634 as Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum. It was translated into English by J. Rowland as The Theatre of Insects, or Lesser Living Creatures and appended to Edward Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658).
We hold copies of both the 1634 and 1658 editions; the copy photographed here is one of the earlier editions.
These books, along with many other early natural history works, were bequeathed to the Library by Willoughby Gardner in 1953 [for more details visit our website or see The Willoughby Gardner Library: a collection of early printed books on natural history, by John R. Kenyon, published by Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru / National Museum Wales, 1982]
It has been supposed, on the basis of Moffet's interest in spiders that his daughter Patience was the 'little Miss Muffet' of the nursery rhyme; although some sources state this unlikely as the rhyme did not appear in print until 1805.
Biographical information taken from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
June 2013
A 13th Century guide to the heavens
Ioannis de Sacro Bosco [c. 1195 –c. 1256] was a scholar, monk and astronomer [probably English] who taught at the University in Paris. In around 1230 he wrote this authoritative medieval astronomy text Tractatus de Sphaera [On the Sphere of the World]. It gives a readable account of the Ptolemaic universe[the universe according to the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus in the 2ndcentury AD] that went on to become required reading by students in all Western European universities for the next four centuries. Though principally about the heavens it contains a clear description of the earth as a sphere and its popularity shows the nineteenth-century opinion that medieval scholars after this date thought the Earth was flat as a fabrication [Wikipedia].
This copy [photographed here] is dated 1577 and forms part of our Vaynor Collection; this consists of a number of 16th and 17th century astronomical works, including several of the writings of Galileo. The collection was formed and donated by John Herbert James of Vaynor [which is just north of Merthyr Tydfil].
The condition of this book is excellent; the paper is bright and unmarked, robust to the touch and all the little volvelles [rotating paper wheel charts] still work perfectly.
It is bound in pure white vellum [calf skin] as are the majority of the Vaynor astronomical books which I always think gives them a very "celestial" look.
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