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Letsema la a phota (The group is threshing corn)

- Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school, Hugh Tracey

Ke tla tshwarwa (I shall be arrested)

- Boys and girls of Molepolole, Hugh Tracey

Ndiribe m'mbale (I have no neighbour)

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Maboko a Dikgomo (Praises for cattle)

- Brown Medufe, Hugh Tracey

The photo-fluorescence properties of some organic materials

- Cameron, Antony John Wesley

  • Authors: Cameron, Antony John Wesley
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5514 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010041 , Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
  • Description: In this thesis I have given an account of the experimental work carried out by me at Rhodes University from the beginning of 1954 to the end of 1955, and the analysis of the results which was completed during the following two years, 1956 and 1957. The dissertation is divided into two sections; Part I deals with the photo fluorescence spectra of a large group of organic compounds, and Part 2 describes an investigation of the photo-fluorescence properties of and energy transfer in liquid organic solutions.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)

- Chief Bathoen II C.B.E. and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

Ndoto (I am full)

- Chintuta Banda and group of Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey

Chilungulungu madje (The water snake)

- Chintuta Banda and group of Ngoni men and women, Hugh Tracey

Nkosi wotolera (The false chief)

- Chiwandira Mvula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chiwandira Mvula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154938 , vital:39795 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-15
  • Description: Some words are in Ngoni and some in the local Chewa. The apparent meaning of the words refers to some old dispute about a chieftsmanship, the false chief having died and the rightful chief re-instated. The player was very old and it seems his song refers to some event in past history of his early days or even before. Ngoma dance with Kalimba Mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

The solubility of mercurous chloride in water at 25°C

- Clur, Dennis Alwin

  • Authors: Clur, Dennis Alwin
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Mercury compounds -- Solubility , Mercuric chloride
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4522 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014705
  • Description: [From Introduction]. In 1955, Dry and Gledhill, both formerly of this Department, published their paper on the Solubility of Mercurous Chloride in Water at 25°0, and it was originally intended that this thesis should be an extension of the study to cover the temperature range from 5 t o 55°0. A preliminary investigation at 25°0, however, failed to yield results which were consistent with their findings, even though their apparatus and experimental technique were used. In an effort to resolve these difficulties their method of saturating the calomel in the conductance cell was thoroughly investigated, and as this procedure was found to be responsible, it was necessary to evolve an entirely new approach. The technique finally adopted was to saturate the mercurous chloride solutions by mechanical stirring in siliconed vessels and to carry out the conductance, pH, and total mercury concentration measurements on the filter ed solution. This method gave good results, and was free from the many extrapolations prevalent in the original procedure.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

A quantitative investigation of the absorption of certain cations by whole plants and plant tissues

- Cresswell, Christopher Frederick

  • Authors: Cresswell, Christopher Frederick
  • Date: 1959 , 2014-07-24
  • Subjects: Cations -- Absorption and adsorption , Plant tissues
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4262 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013335
  • Description: Introduction: Part 1. Greenhouse studies were conducted to investigate the absorption of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium by lemon seedlings. The plants were grown in controlled nutrient solutions and analysis of the plant material was made to determine the relationship between the four cations in the different plant organs. Results of the experiment may be summarized as follows:- The occurrence of leaf burn appeared to be associated with a low calcium content, together with a high sodium, potassium or sodium + potassium content. The development of the seedlings was shown to be markedly influenced by the level of calcium supply and to a much lesser degree by the level of potassium supplied. The concentration of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium in the stem and leaf varied with position of the tissues on the main axis. The level of sodium was found to influence the distribution of sodium in the leaves, and the sodium content of the leaf, stem and root tissues gave a good reflection of the level of sodium supplied. The effect of the sodium treatment on the uptake of potassium appeared to be dependent on the calcium content of the tissues. Sodium treatment was found not to affect the leaf calcium content. In the stem and root tissues the calcium content was reduced when the calcium level in the nutrient medium was low, and increased the calcium content of these two tissues at the higher level of calcium supply. The sodium supply was shown to reduce the leaf magnesium only slightly, and its affect on the magnesium content of the stem and root tissues was shown to be dependent on the level of calcium supplied. The potassium content of the leaves, stems and roots increased when the supply of potassium was raised. Increasing the potassium level in the nutrient supply was found to cause a very slight reduction in the sodium content of the leaf, but did not affect the sodium content of the stem and root. Potassium did not affect the calcium content of the leaves and increased the stem calcium when sodium was not present in the nutrient media in high concentrations. In the roots potassium only increase the calcium content at the upper level of calcium supply. The magnesium content of the leaf and stem tissues was reduced as the potassium supply was increased. In the roots the general trend was for the magnesium content to increase when the level of potassium treatment was raised. The calcium content of all the plant parts increased with a rise in the calcium supply, the stem and root tissues having a greater percentage increase than the leaves. The sodium content of the plant tissue was reduced as the level of calcium supply was raised. The leaf potassium content decreased with a higher calcium level of supply. In the stem and roots the potassium content was increased by doubling the calcium supply. The calcium treatment had no influence on the magnesium content of the foliage, but in the stem and root tissues a decrease in magnesium content resulted from an increase in the calcium supply. Part II Potato tuber tissue and carrot root tissue were used as experimental material in the investigation of sodium9 potassium9 and calcium uptake by storage tissue. It was shown that when the tissue disks are transferred from distilled water to a solution of salts there is a rapid initial uptake of cation which is neither particularly selective, nor related to metabolism, but dependent on the external concentration. On the other hand, the prolonged active accumulation of cation exhibits selectivity. Potassium absorption by potato tuber tissue was shown to be stimulated by sodium9 whereas the potassium and calcium absorption by carrot root tissue was shown to be reduced by sodium. Similarly the sodium absorption by the carrot root tissue was reduced by potassium, thus suggesting that the cations compete with one another for the same absorption mechanism.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Hololo we Bahurutshe Matebeyane (When we saw the Hurutshe approaching, we thought they were Ndebele)

- Daniel Ramokgadi and Sei Lobega, Hugh Tracey

A study of the biology of the Jameson reservoir near Grahamstown, Cape Province

- Darbyshire, John Frederick

  • Authors: Darbyshire, John Frederick
  • Date: 1959
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6784 , vital:21179
  • Description: 1. This thesis is an ecological study of a South African water storage reservoir and it’s tributary streams. 2. A brief description of the reservoir, the surrounding vegetation, superficial geological strata, soils and early history of the reservoir is given in Chapter I. 3. The surrounding vegetation is discussed in some detail in Chapter II. The zonation of the plants and the influence of water upon it are discussed. 4. The results of the regular investigations of the physicochemical environment are presented in Appendix 1 and the salient points noted in Chapter III. 5. The species of algae collected are listed in Appendix 2 and in Chapter IV are discussed in relation to habitat and abundance. 6. The animals are dealt with in a similar manner in Chapter V. Under 'Discussion and Conclusions' in Chapter VI an attempt is made to review the findings and discuss their significance.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

A study of the relationship between the poetry and criticism of Ezra Pound 1908-1920

- De Villiers, André Rex Wepener

  • Authors: De Villiers, André Rex Wepener
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2317 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013320
  • Description: From the preface: The purpose of this thesis is exposition rather than criticism. Pound's position in the hierarchy of the 'New Criticism' would provide an extremely interesting subject; but I have rather tried to outline; the standards which he has laid down as being central in the technics of good poetry and to show how closely he has adhered to them in his own verse. I have limited the period to be discussed because all of the essential principles which he employs in his writing after 1920 are discernible in the body of his work published before that date.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mamarutla

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
  • Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Natal koa Boroa Tshukudu

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165688 , vital:41272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-08
  • Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Maipetleko

- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165683 , vital:41271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-07
  • Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgosi boa-a Kegakilwe bakgosi boa (Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

Ishetlhana e Tswerwe ke seokamo

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
  • Language: Tswana/Rolong
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162367 , vital:40924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-01
  • Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. "The brown cow is held, caught and held prisoner and stands there all day. The other cows are also held fast in the same way. The brown yearling, our father's cow, ruled over nations while held flat." The words are allusive and symbolic. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo khaka tshotsome (We have encircled the guinea-fowl)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

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