Bedřich Štěpánek (1884-1943) byl významnou osobností domácího protihabsburského odboje za první světové války a prvním československým vyslancem ve Spojených státech amerických. V důsledku rozporů s úředníky vyslanectví a intrik musel v roce 1923 svou funkci opustit a odešel i ze služeb ministerstva zahraničí, poté žil jako soukromník ve Spojených státech, kde zemřel za nevyjasněných okolností. Edice dosud nepublikované korespondence mezi Bedřichem Štěpánkem a kancléřem prezidenta republiky Přemyslem Šámalem (1867-1941) podle recenzenta nejen poodkrývá vyslancovy životní osudy, ale také poskytuje jedinečný vhled do zákulisí formující se československé diplomatické služby, meziválečného politického vývoje ve Spojených státech i tehdejší dramatické mezinárodní situace., Bedřich Štěpánek (1884-1943) was an important figure in the Czech anti-Habsburg resistance at home during the First World War and he was the first Czechoslovak envoy to the United States after the founding of Czechoslovakia in October 1918. Following disagreements with embassy officials as well as intrigues, he had to quit his post, in 1923, and leave the ministry of foreign affairs. He then lived, self-employed, in the United States, where he died in unexplained circumstances. According to the reviewer, this volume of never-before published correspondence between Bedřich Štěpánek and Přemysl Šámal (1867-1941), the chief of staff of the Czechoslovak president, not only partly reveals aspects of Štěpánek life, but also provides a unique look behind the scenes of the Czechoslovak diplomatic service in its early years, as well as interwar political developments in the United States and the dramatic international situation at that time., [autor recenze] Jan Koura., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The life cycle of the swim bladder nematode Huffmanela huffmani Moravec, 1987 (Trichinelloidea: Trichosomoididae), an endemic parasite of centrarchid fishes in the upper spring run of the San Marcos River in Hays County, Texas, USA, was experimentally completed. The amphipods Hyalella cf. azteca (Saussure), Hyalella sp. and Gammarus sp. were successfully infected with larvated eggs of Huffmanela huffmani. After ingestion of eggs of H. huffmani by experimental amphipods, the first-stage larvae hatch from their eggshells and penetrate through the digestive tract to the hemocoel of the amphipod. Within about 5 days in the hemocoel of the experimental amphipods at 22 °C, the larvae presumably attained the second larval stage and were infective for the experimental centrarchid definitive hosts, Lepomis spp. The minimum incubation period before adult nematodes began laying eggs in the swim bladders of the definitive hosts was found to be about 7.5 months at 22 °C. This is the first experimentally completed life cycle within the Huffmanelinae., McLean L. D. Worsham, David G. Huffman, František Moravec, J. Randy Gibson., and Obsahuje bibliografii