WINTERBOTTOM, Anna, DICKENSON, Victoria, CARTWRIGHT, Ben and WILLIAMS, Lauren (editors). <i>Women, environment, and networks of Empire. Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras.</i> McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal: 2023. 392 pp.; illustrated. Price £50 (hardback). ISBN 9780228018865.
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Abstract
book with an intriguing history was further surrounded in mystery when in 2021 plates from a previously unknown, uncoloured copy were discovered on an auction website and are now under intense scrutiny for their provenance and origins.Johannes Muller's chapter considers the most famous of all ichthyology books, Marcus Bloch's (1723-1799) Natural history of fishes (1785-1797).It seems Bloch never travelled, certainly not outside of Europe, and so, while his descriptions and the details about fish close to home were pinpoint accurate, many in the later section of his book were only researched through the works of others, and so accumulated many inaccuracies, particularly with regard geographical distribution of various species.This last section concludes with two chapters on ichthyology from East Asia.Ching-Ling Wang's chapter on Chinese ichthyology describes how artists here tended to illustrate fish in a living context -'swimming, darting'in contrast to typical European portrayals, but it appears that some of their best work was inspired by, and produced for, a western market, much like their porcelain from the same era.Martien van Oijen has a fascinating chapter on how the Dutch, who were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan in the 1700s, first began to record Japanese fish and fishing.This culminated in Philipp Siebold's (1796-1866) huge and wonderful volume on fish, Fauna Japonica (1849), illustrated by local artist Keiga.The many other chapters in this book are also excellent and broad ranging in topic and style.Together they complement one another extremely well and give any reader who missed the conference that inspired this work a fabulous insight into the thinking and research directions of the best current historians of ichthyology.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.126 | 0.113 |
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".