The Roman emperor Caligula issued the same type of quadrans throughout his reign, where the obverse depicted a pileus, a type of cap given to former slaves upon their manumission, and the reverse the letters RCC. Eckhel suggested that the obverse referred to the restora...

Three areas in mainland and Aegean Greece are known to have been important sources of silver during antiquity: Laurion in south-east Attica, the Thraco-Macedonian region of northern Greece, and the Cycladic island of Siphnos. The mines of Siphnos are thought to have bee...

Peter Unger's ‘problem of the many’ has elicited many responses over the past quarter of a century. Here I present a new problem of the many. This new problem, I claim, is resistant to the solutions currently on offer for Unger's problem.

This paper presents fresh interpretations of 160 lead isotope analyses of Archaic Greek coins on the OXALID database based on new data for ore sources in Spain, Sardinia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Turkey and Iran. It demonstrates that the earliest minters used far more...

The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of the events and processes which have taken place over the last twenty five years which have led to the emergence of a new biological discipline - namely that of chemical communication in vertebrates.

![][1] Lydia Monin, Andrew Gallimore Pimlico, £12.50, pp 234 ISBN 0 7126 6859 4 Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] Doctors have international obligations in a contracting world; and many doctors today travel or work in one of the 28 or more countries wher...

The Australian Museum holds over 1,000 cultural objects from New Caledonia. A quarter of the collection was obtained by a Museum zoologist, Charles Hedley, who visited La Grande Terre on his holidays late in 1897. He collected ethnographic and zoological specimens and o...

In his chapter, John McCafferty turns to the dissolution of religious houses during the period of the reformations. Franciscan Observant houses in Oldenburg Denmark–Norway and Tudor–Stuart Britain and Ireland were early and particular targets of dissolution. His chapter...

These new principles of the New Direction gave us the oppor- tunity to move forward, to develop a more truthful picture of the pre-history of the October Revolution and, in general, to move towards a more profound, rounded understanding of the history of the development...