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Starting with Volume 30, 1965, Structure Reports is produced in a new format by photo-offset printing from typed manuscript with unjustified lines. At the time when the decision for this change was taken, the cost of setting the manuscript in type was becoming so high as to render the cost of individual subscription pro­ hibitive. At that time automatic typing methods giving justified lines, etc. for photo-offset reproduction did not offer any...

From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent phenomenon - only during World War One did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War Two did more blacks reside in cities than in the countryside. By the early 1970s, blacks had not only made the tran...

From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent phenomenon - only during World War One did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War Two did more blacks reside in cities than in the countryside. By the early 1970s, blacks had not only made the tran...

Excerpt from The Niger Sources: And the Borders of the New Sierra Leone Protectorate British possessions to the mother country. As regards time, it is true, these settlements are farther from our shores than British North America, for hitherto English people have discovered few good reasons for visiting West Africa, and some very cogent ones for keep ing away from it. Liverpool alone has under taken the conquest Of the land, and through Liver...

Excerpt from Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie To all who have personally aided in any way with materials for the work now completed, I beg to offer my sincere thanks. There is one kind friend, however, to whom such thanks are especially due for services which no words of mine can adequately express. To the zealous co-operation of Dr. Alexander Grant this book is indebted for most of those personal details which serve to fill up and enliven th...

Excerpt from The Bayard of India: A Life of General Sir James Outram by Captain LionelIN all those qualities which mark the born leader of men, James Outram had very few rivals among the best and greatest of the soldier statesmen who rose to fame in the service of the old East India Company. From the day when the little general speared his first boar in the jungles of Western India, to the last hours of hard office work as a leading member of ...

Excerpt from Rulers of India: Warren Hastings, and the Founding of the British Administration Warren hastings, the first governor-general of British India, was born at Churchill in Oxfordshire on the oth December, 1732. A few miles off, across the Worcestershire border, lay the manor of Dayles ford, which had belonged to Warren's forefathers from the days of Henry II down to the first years of George II. One conspicuous member of the family w...

Excerpt from Warren Hastings: A Biography Fall of Rajah Ramnarain - Mir Kasim's Efforts to strengthen himself - Insolence of the English - Hastings acts as Peacemaker - New Causes of Quarrel, English Exactions - Excesses of the Company's Servants - Vansittart's Attempt to check them - The Nawab retaliates - His angry Letter to the Council - The final Collision - The Patna Massacre - Mir Kasim's Defeat and Flight - Reinstatement of Mir Jafar -...

Excerpt from A Leader of Light Horse: Life of Hodson of Hodson's Horse Among the men who fought and bled in their country's service during the flood-tide of the Indian Mutiny, few names shone with a steadier and more inspiring lustre than that of William S. R. Hodson, the prince of scouting officers, the bold and skilful leader of Hodson's Horse. From the middle of May to the close of September 1857 the fame of his achievements rang daily lou...

Excerpt from The Life of John Nicholson, Soldier and Administrator: Based on Private and Hitherto Unpublished Documents F orty years ago brigadier-general John Nicholson vanished like a meteor from the scene of his gloriously brief career. Since then his heroic figure has marched across many a page of commemorative print, from the careful narratives of cave-browne and Kaye down to the most brilliant of Mrs. Steele's romances. The heroic Nicho...

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Excerpt from History of India: From the Earliest Times to the Present DayIn tracing, however rapidly, the history of so many centuries, the Author has availed himself of all the latest sources of information, many of which are pointed out in the footnotes. In no part of the book has he been content to follow slavishly in the wake of former historians and essayists. His treatment of Warren Hastings, for example.About the PublisherForgotten Book...

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In the past the aim of Structure Reports has been to present critical reports on all work of crystallographic structural interest, whether it is derived directly from X-ray, electron, or neutron diffraction, or even indirectly from other experiments. The reports were in­ tended to be critical and not mere abstracts, except in some cases when a brief indication of the content of a paper of related interest was included in the form of an abstrac...

The present volurne continues the aim of Structure Reports to present critical accounts of all crystallographic structure detenninations. Details of the arrangement in the volumes, symbols used etc. are given in previous volumes (e.g. 41B or 42A, pages vi-viii). University of British Columbia J. TROTTER Vancouver, Canada 30 June 1981 [VI] STRUCTURE REPORTS SECTION I METALS Edited by L. D. Calvert (National Research Council of Canada) with the ...

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