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Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae, and Kraemeriidae of the Western Indian Ocean

- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Gobiidae -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14975 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018774 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 13
  • Description: Much said in the introduction to the Eleotridae (Bulletin No. 11 of this series, July 1958) applies with equal force to this large and closely related family, the overwhelming majority of whose members are small to minute fishes of shallow water, embracing some of the smallest vertebrates in existence. Most are found in coastal areas, some in freshwater, others have penetrated to fairly deep water. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Harpephyllum caffrum - Kaffir Plum

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ionospheric studies of the solar eclipse 25 December, 1954

- McElhinny, M W

  • Authors: McElhinny, M W
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Ionosphere -- Research , Solar eclipses
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5531 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012869
  • Description: Since the Kennelly- Heaviside hypothesis in 1902 of the existence of a partially conducting layer in the upper atmosphere was proved to be true by the experiments of APPLETON and BARNETT (1925) and BREIT and TUVE (1926), this region has become known as the ionosphere. The ionosphere was soon discovered to consist of, not one but several layers (Fig. 1) (i) A layer at a height of just over 100 km. called the E layer. (ii) A layer at a height of approximately 300km. called the F₂ layer. (iii) A layer at a height of approximately 200 km. called the F₁ layer; this layer differs from the other two in that it is only present during the day time in Summer. (iv) Occasional intense reflections from a height of about 100 km. are found - these cannot be attributed to the normal E layer and have received the name "Sporadic E". The presence of two E layers (E₁ and E₂) has been suggested by HALLIDAY (1936) and BEST and RATCLIFFE (l978) but until recently most workers still seem to attribute these reflections to Sporadic E. Recent measurement by rockets of the electron density at E layer heights still do not confirm whether such bifurcation exists in the E region. The diurnal and seasonal variations of the first three layers indicate that the sun is the chief agent in their production. It is generally agreed that these layers consist of ionised molecules or atoms and free electrons produced by radiation from the sun. The origin of Sporadic E ionisation is still obscure, but it is thought that these sudden increases in ionisation which occur in E layer heights are due to passing meteors. Recently it has also been suggested by SEDDON, PICKAR and JACKSON (1954) from rocket measurements that Sporadic E might be due to a steep electron density gradient above the B layer.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ironwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

King Kong: gala preview in aid of the African Music and Drama Trust

- Goldreich, Arhtur

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Letter from C.J. Skead to Mr. F.C. Metrowich

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History , Trees -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , correspondence
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65926 , vital:28861
  • Description: Letter written by C.J Skead to Mr. F.C. Metrowich, authot of "The valiant but once". In the letter Skead submits a request for references indicating where the inforamtion was obtained as to the tree where Lieut. Col. Graham and Capt. Stockenstrom decided to establish the town of Grahamstown.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Linkage in extra-sensory perception

- Marsh, Maurice Clement

  • Authors: Marsh, Maurice Clement
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Telepathy , Extrasensory perception
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3215 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012840
  • Description: The aims of this investigation were firstly to find whether 371 subjects, mainly students at Rhodes University, would be able to reproduce target drawings made 470 miles away by an agent in Cape Town, by means of General Extra-Sensory Perception; secondly, to find whether any association existed between any such hit scoring ability shown and personality ratings derived from a battery of personality test material; and thirdly, to find whether providing the subjects with material designed to link them more closely with the agent would increase their scoring rate. The 17,440 drawings returned by the subjects were randomised, and scored against a randomised set of 100 drawings consisting of 50 which had actually been used as targets, intermixed with 50 that were equal in difficulty but which had not been used as targets, and which were inserted merely as controls. Three independent judges assessed the subjects' drawings, and awarded hits in terms of title, shape and association. In the crucial title hits highly significant deviations in favour of the experimental target drawings were found, the control series of drawings showing no such effects. It was found that the subjects' hits were distributed evenly throughout the whole 25 day period of the experiment for each target, and showed no tendency to occur more frequently in the week a particular drawing was being used as a target than in the other weeks when it was not. When the subjects were divided into a high scoring and low-scoring group in terms of their E.S. P. abiility, the high- scoring group proved to be significantly more extraverted (as measured by the Bernreuter B3I scale) than the low- scoring group, confirming a relationship previously reported by Humphrey. In addition the data showed several other relationships, predicted by the work of previous experimenters, although these did not reach the .01 level of statistical significance. To assess the effect of the Linkage Material the subjects were divided into an experimental and a control group. The Experimental Group was supplied with correct Linkage Material, the Control Group with incorrect Linkage Material, which they were led to believe was correct . The two sets of Linkage Material were equated in all other respects. The Experimental Group showed significant improvements in scoring rate when supplied with a photograph and description of the agent, and a probably significant improvement when supplied with squares of handkerchief which had previously belonged to him. When supplied with squares of colour, also appearing on the agent's target sheets, no significant increase in scoring rate took place on the target drawings, but a significant decrease occurred in hits scored on the control targets. By contrast no consistent significant fluctuations were shown by Control Group Subjects, leading to the conclusion that the correctness of the Linkage Material was a factor contributing to its effectiveness. A qualitative examination of the hits scored by the subjects revealed that they tended to reproduce the concepts depicted by the target drawings, rather than the actual shapes drawn by the agent, suggesting that the hits were being produced by a telepathic process rather than a clairvoyant one. The results of the experiment suggest that the subjects were assisted by the Linkage Material to gain access to the agent's mind as a whole, and not to particular items in it. This throws doubt on the correctness of Whately Carington's Association Theory of Telepathy, which the experiment was designed to test.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Macleantown: a study of a small South African community

- Irving, James

  • Authors: Irving, James
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Macleantown (South Africa) -- Social conditions Village communities -- South Africa South Africa -- Rural conditions South Africa -- Social conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2590 , vital:20306
  • Description: For some years the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University has been engaged in an intensive study of the area of the Eastern Province of the Union of South Africa known to South Africans as the Border Region. By a singular chance an invitation from the East London Divisional Council to investigate the condition of a Border village arose when, in the course of a visit from its Secretary, sufficient data was shown concerning the conditions of village life in the region, to suggest that a special study should be made of rural problems on an intensive basis. In the first instance the enquiry directed to the Institute was administrative in the sense that difficulties were arising in the villages to warrant the establishment of sufficient authentic facts to point the way to methods of solving the immediate difficulties of the Council. While this object has not been overlooked, and it would have been less than courteous to have overlooked the demand that brought-the research into being, it has been thought necessary to widen the scope of the investigation to include materials that go beyond the administrative needs of the Council. The scope of the investigation has been widened to include an analysis of the village community as well as a co-ordinated body of brute fact. While "irreducible fact" is the basis on which the investigation rests, the attempt has been made to isolate meaning and significance of the data; it is in the latter field that deeper aspects of administrative decisions lie more often than in mountains of fact no matter how reliable. A community is an organised unit; there is no simple explanation of the way in which human social institutions work except by analysing the behaviour of people in their everyday activity. The manner in which the organisation works and be more or less efficient and there was prima facie evidence that the community of Macleantown was not organised to yield maximal efficiency. The causative factors involved in this drop in efficiency thus becomes one of the basic tasks , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Old saw-pit, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Olea capensis - Black Ironwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Palms on Yellow-wood River

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Palms -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75584 , vital:30438
  • Description: Caption: "Palms. On Yellow-wood River, at crossing to Hanover. King Williams Town district. 1959."
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Phoenix reclinata - Palm

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Protea multibracteata - King William's Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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