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Belonging : Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home

07/31/2024
Sadie Davenport
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Title: Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home. 

Author: Amanda Thompson. 

Publication info: Edinburgh : Canongate Books. 2022. eBook.

Location: Academic eBook Collection. 

Description: Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest. Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves. Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are.

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Andres Manuel Del Rio
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Happy birthday, Andres Manuel Del Rio! 

Del Rio (Nov 10, 1764 - Mar 23, 1849) was a chemist who conducted research in Spain, France, and Mexico. He was born in Spain and attended the Royal Academy of Mines there, studying chemistry. In Paris, he worked alongside Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of chemistry, and Rene Just Hauy, the founder of crystallography (the study of the structure and bonds within crystals). Del Rio fled Paris during the French Revolution in 1794, after his colleague Lavoisier was arrested and executed by guillotine. Del Rio arrived in Mexico, where he was offered the position Chair of the College of Mines (Real Seminario de Mineria), and he spent the next several years studying and teaching courses on minerals and mining methods.

Del Rio is remembered for discovering the element vanadium in 1801. He had originally named it erythronium, meaning "red" in Greek, because the element turned red when heated. To confirm his discovery, he sent samples of the element to famed biologist Alexander von Humboldt. Upon analysis, it was incorrectly found that his sample only contained chromium. Del Rio believed he been mistaken, and that he hadn't discovered a new element. Twenty-seven years later, erythronium was rediscovered by Swedish scientist Nils Gabriel Sefstrom and renamed vanadium, after the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis. A German chemist Friedrich Wohler compared Sefstrom's and Del Rio's samples and found they had the same contents. Vanadium and erythronium were one and the same. 

Del Rio greatly contributed to the mining industry in Mexico: he helped identify and describe different minerals within Mexico, like copper and zinc, and invented new methods of extracting these minerals. He was also invested Mexico's hard-fought independence from Spain. For his contributions to chemistry, the Chemical Society of Mexico awarded Del Rio the National Chemistry Prize in 1964. 

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