User:Sjgardner/Projects posted to PG

One early attempt was a very absorbing exercise for the student, but I was glad for others to be able to complete it: Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885.

Then came...

1. Gambia by Frederick J. Melville, 1909. An early philatelic history of Gambia. This was a pre-guiguts attempt by me to take on too many illustrations, before I'd really grasped the basics. I am very grateful to Sankar Viswanathan who took it on to completion.
2. Common Science by Carleton W. Washburne, 1921. A school science text from the 1920s, with an interesting approach, based on the curriculum on questions children ask. This was an Epic Project with a large number of photos of scared children doing dangerous things! I just had to include a disclaimer in case anyone was daft enough to try this stuff at home! Eternally grateful to Brownfox (dpuser: Brownfox) for PPVing and finishing off when RL was overwhelming me...
3. The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing (1919 edition) by Sanders Spenser. This was another long-term commitment, with the final missing plate being supplied with the assistance of Miranda (dpuser: highcockm) and her son studying at Oxford, who fetched the book out of the archive in a distant saltmine in the North of England. Lord Emsworth would've been proud!
4. A Taxonomic Study of the Middle American Snake, Pituophis deppei by William E. Duellman. I started on a run of shorter zoology projects from the University of Kansas. This provided a good platform for using guiguts which I had just installed. I have been grateful for support and encouragement from PM Chris (dpuser: Mebyon), surely the busiest and most amiable Cornishman in Iberia!
5. Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico More critters... And three cheers for zoology-friendly Frank (dpuser: fvandrog) for encouraging feedback from PPV-land, evidently a Dutch enclave of Switzerland.
6. Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado And yet more...
7. A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha Bugs Bunnies! This was an interesting challenge in preparation and presentation of scale drawings.
8. Ducks and Geese by Harry M. Lamon. How to noodle a goose. Do not try this at home!
9. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic by Stephen Leatherwood and David Caldwell and Howard Winn. This was a Leviathan of a project with hundreds of photos and some challenging tables. I loved it! A brilliant bonus when it became the project that secured me DU.
10. Bill the Minder by W. Heath Robinson, 1912. A collection of quite surreal children's tales with some wonderful illustrations by a master of the absurd. Enjoy those drawings!
11. A Field Study of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog by Henry S. Fitch. One more of the long series of zoology texts from the University of Kansas.
12. The Postage Stamp in War by Fred J. Melville, 1915. An early attempt where I nearly gave up, despite the best encouragement and PPV feedback from the Most Patient Janet (dpuser: tenaj). Completely reworked the HTML using guiguts, and regenerated the hundreds of illustrations. By now I'm very fond of this snippet of philatelic history, published when the Great War was only one year old.
13. The Development of Rates of Postage by A. D. Smith, 1917. This was an Epic project that I nearly gave up on: first I climbed the foothills of 762 footnotes without the aid of guiguts, and then later scaled the mountains of over one hundred tables and a huge number of language switches to apply the Accessibility Recipes. Features extensive quotations in French and German as well as a lot of archaic English with obscure abbreviations.
14. Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard by Laurence M. Hardy.
15. Butterflies and Moths (British) by W. Furneaux, 1894. Very enjoyable to work on. Hundreds of illustrations: several coloured plates and many beautiful woodcuts. A particular challenge for PPing this project was to retain the relative scaling of a large number of illustrations, and consistent setting of some long lists.
16. Domestic animals: history and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, and farm dogs by R. L. Allen, 1865. Neigh, eeyore, moo, baa, oink, cluck and woof. What's not to like? Some challenging tables & the longest subtitle I've ever seen!
17. The nature of animal light by E. Newton Harvey. Another neglected project nearly two years on the PP queue. Lots of technical vocabulary, chemical formulae and challenging tables. An extraordinary subject!
18. The Romance of War Inventions by Thomas Corbin. Boy's Own stuff from 1918. Selected from the Juvenile genre for the November 2010 PP Challenge.
19. Wayside and Woodland Trees by Edward Step. Copiously illustrated and interesting articles on the appearance and history of trees.
20. Lachesis lapponica Vol. 1 by James Edward Smith, an account of Carl von Linné's tour of Lapland. I really enjoyed my brush with these two volume during the proofing stages. Learned more than was entirely necessary about castrating reindeer...
21. Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea by Robert G Webb, another short zoology monograph from the University of Kansas. Grabbed for the "Long and the Short of it" theme for the PP Challenge, January 2011.
22. Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann. All aspects of technique, training and culture of rowing at the leading universities and clubs throughout the world. Evokes the great Corinthian spirit of late Victorian sporting life. Plenty of illustrations; some tables. Completed for the "Long and the Short of it" theme for the PP Challenge, January 2011.
23. The simple cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward, a remarkable and sometimes quite mad polemic from 1647. This was a first fascinating challenge into very archaic English. Claimed for the "religious" theme for the December 2010 theme of the PP Challenge.
24. Lachesis lapponica Vol. 2 by James Edward Smith, an account of Carl von Linné's tour of Lapland. Further adventures of this astonishing naturalist.
25. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol I (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.) This project was mostly completed by Simple Simon. It's a privilege to be able to spend time with this work and to be part of making it more widely available: it continues to be a wonderful resource and inspiration for folksingers in the English and Scots traditions. Challenges include: provision of links and anchors for copious line notes, in addition to regular footnotes; a first major adventure into PP-ing poetry.
26. Canada its postage stamps and stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes. More postal history. Lots of pictures to prettify. Also features a lot of block quoted material with embedded tables etc.
27. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol II (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
28. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol III (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
29. Annals of the Bodleian library, Oxford, 1598-1867 by William Dunn Macray. A trip into the musty vaults around and under Oxford! This book traces the history of the development of this extraordinary institution and lists the provenance of many of its early acquisitions, together with the characters who both donated and curated them. Even some of the footnotes have footnotes!
30. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol IV (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
31. Electric Bells and All About Them. A Practical Book for Practical Men. by Selimo Romeo Bottone. Cutting edge technology from the 1880s!
32. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol V (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.). Everything you ever wanted to know about Robin Hood...
33. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol VI (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
34. Early Illustrated Books, 2d ed. by Alfred W. Pollard. Another wonderful project from PM Mebyon! Books about books have a particular fascination, and together with lots of pictures this promises to be very enjoyable. I hope I have done it justice in the HTML.
35. A Short History of English Music (1912) by Ernest Ford.
36. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol VII (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
37. English and Scottish Ballads. Vol VIII (of 8) by Francis James Child (ed.).
38. Scientific Studies: or Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits by Henry Dircks. (Two lectures: the first on Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester whom Dircks champions as the true inventor of the steam engine; the second on pseudo-science in the forms of astrology, alchemy, "squaring the circle" and perpetual motion machines.)
39. Catalogue of books on philately in the Public Library of the City of Boston.
40. English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1 of 5 by Professor Francis James Child. This is the first of five volumes of the collection of ballads that were the pinnacle of Child's life work.
41. Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers by W. H. St. John Hope. It was a pleasure to work with the huge number of beautiful illustrations.
42. English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 2 of 5 by Professor Francis James Child.
43. A Chapter of Autobiography (1868) by William E. Gladstone.
44. Opuscula: Essays Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by Robert Gordon Latham.
45. Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury.