A history of Whitman College's copy of the first edition of Charles Dawrin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Originally published in 50-Year-Plus News 30:1 (2009): 1, 12.

A profile of the Whitman College Penrose Library.

This article combines history, biography, and the translation of a nineteenth-century primary source to consider the role of Manuel Payno, a Mexican government official and noted writer, in establishing his country's national library. Profiles of Mexican library history and of Manuel Payno provide context for the appended English translation of Payno's 1869 article, "Las bibliotecas de Mexico: La gran biblioteca y la pequen biblioteca de Mexico," in which he requests continued government funding to complete the Biblioteca Nacional.

A description of the Allen Room Challenge Book, in which are recorded the names and comments of those who win the studying marathon in Penrose Library's main reading room. Originally published in 50-Year-Plus News 31:1 (2010): 1, 8-9.

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Preprint (13 p.) This is a preprint of an article later published in The American Journal of Physics. The preprint may differ from the final published version.

Preprint (16 p.) This is a preprint of an article later published in The American Journal of Physics. The preprint may differ from the final published version.

Humans have constructed dams for a variety of reasons: water storage, flood prevention, electricity generation, irrigation, navigation, and recreation (Francisco 2004). Dams have long been thought of as a “green” source of energy because of the way they produce power from water without the use of fossil fuels. However, there is a huge downside to dams that many people fail to consider, and that is the negative impacts these dams can have on local ecosystems. In this case study, we are focusing on the impacts dams have on local fish populations, mainly migratory fish within St.

Contemporary bioarchaeology in a Maya context has converted the ancient Maya from a distant, temple-building abstraction to a relatable aggregate of individuals with understandable concerns, hopes, and interests. For the most part this relatability is a construct of a contemporary archaeological paradigm. In other words, bioarchaeology is not a static procedure but rather a practice highly dependent on the social norms of the time.

A description of five nineteenth-century books from the special collections of the Whitman College Penrose Library that reveal the importance of books in the history of the Pacific Northwest.