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James Mortimer Southwick
James Mortimer Southwick (July 10, 1846 - June 3, 1904) was an American naturalist and educator who lived in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. He established a natural history store and founded the periodical ''Random Notes on Natural History'' (1884–86). After selling off his natural history store in 1896 he served as a curator of the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Roger Williams Park Museum and served as a State Entomology, Entomologist. He was the first to note the differences between the willet populations in North America, leading to the description of the subspecies ''inornata'' by William Brewster (ornithologist), William Brewster. Southwick was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Newburyport to James M. Southwick and Sarah Martin and went to study at local public schools before moving to Providence at the age of sixteen. Southwick helped run a dry goods store that his uncle Jacob H. Martin had established but he kept a small stock o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J M Southwick
J, or j, is the tenth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''jay'' (pronounced ), with a now-uncommon variant ''jy'' ."J", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989) When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the palatal approximant, ''y'' sound, it may be called ''yod'' or ''jod'' (pronounced or ). History The letter ''J'' used to be used as the swash (typography), swash letter ''I'', used for the letter I at the end of Roman numerals when following another I, as in XXIIJ or xxiij instead of XXIII or xxiii for the Roman numeral twenty-three. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his ''Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuω ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
