Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843–1880, by Paul C. Appleton and edited by William Barr
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In mid-August of 1875, Dr. Edward Lawton Moss, accompanying Captain George Nares and other members of the British Arctic Expedition, climbed to the top of the southern why they are the crème de la crème.Chapters 7a and 7b picture and describe some of these items.Chapter 7c, entitled "Gems Showcase," is a visual feast.No fewer than 43 pages are devoted to images, almost all in colour, of polar material such as notices of various kinds, postcards, covers, and letters.This section alone is worth the price of the book.The ultimate goal of many philatelists is to exhibit their collections and, they hope, to earn a commensurate award.Chapter eight outlines the differences between showing one's collection and exhibiting it.Although many of the processes involved in showing a polar exhibit are the same as those of exhibiting a general postal history collection, the author explains the differences in some detail.If an exhibit is to do well in competition, planning, deciding what to include, and preparing the exhibit are of paramount importance.The author spends considerable space discussing these aspects.It is an area well worth studying in detail, as it will repay prospective exhibitors in spades.The concluding chapter is packed with useful information from a different perspective.In the first eight chapters, the author looks at the collectibles side of the hobby, whereas the last chapter is devoted to the collector.He asks (p.134), "What constitutes the polar philatelic person?"Readers learn that a great commitment to the hobby is a prerequisite.The author then lists five additional characteristics of such collectors: knowledge of existing material; knowledge of polar history; knowledge of current polar affairs; and knowledge that they have pursued polar philately to their personal utmost.Obviously, the common thread is knowledge and this comprehensive, professionally written publication goes a long way in imparting a considerable amount of polar-related philatelic knowledge to readers.Essence of Polar Philately is a scholarly publication that deserves a place on the bookshelves of philatelic libraries.The work is highly recommended for all lovers of postal history, but it will be of particular interest to collectors with an affinity for airmail and ship mail with a polar connection.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".