I HAVE just obtained from the Chatham Islands a nearly perfect sub-fossil skull of an extinct Ocydromine rail, closely resembling the Mauritian Aphanapteryx, five and quarter inches long, beak arched, slender, very pointed, for which I propose the specific name Hawkinsi...

Tuai of Ngare Raumati was probably the most written-about Māori in the first quarter of the 19th century. He was a man who lived in unstable times, who moved flexibly within European and Māori society, and who engaged with almost everyone he met, according to a French o...

The north eastern part of the Northern Territory (NT) is East Arnhem Land. This expanse of Australia is the homeland of the Indigenous Yolngu clans whose forbears occupied the land some 50,000 years ago. These people survived in a nomadic lifestyle of hunter gatherers o...

The systematic archaeological excavation of domestic areas in the major urban centres of classical, late antique or Early Islamic date in the Levant has not been a priority of most research programs, with only a few notable exceptions. In part to redress this imbalance,...

My focus of attention is a collection of photographs taken in the last quarter of the 19th century for Dr Barnardo, founder of the well-known British institutions for orphans and street children. In particular I examine, as political texts, the individual portraits of t...

In this study we report the underlying reasons to why bacteria are present on banknotes and coins. Despite the use of credit cards, mobile phone apps, near-field-communication systems, and cryptocurrencies such as bitcoins which are replacing the use of hard currencies,...

Similarities and differences in aspects of the culture of the Aboriginal people of the Wellesley Islands, has been noted by European writers. This remote island group is situated in the southern region of the Gulf of Carpentaria, northwest Queensland. Observed differenc...

Abstract This article relates the campaigns of Lavinia Seabrooke, the first headmistress of the girls' department of Grote Street Model Schools in South Australia, and her women colleagues, to a broader discussion of the impact of gender on state formation in the last q...

Diversos documentos conservados en la Real Academia de la Historia y en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando han permitido reconstruir las circunstancias del hallazgo del conocido tesoro de Quintana Redonda, formado por más de mil denarios de bolśkan, un cas...

The first issue of Injury Prevention appeared in March 1995. Its birth followed a tough gestation, but with the support of Alex Williamson and the blessings of Richard Smith, the BMJ Publishing group brought it to life. With much pride, we now celebrate the Journal’s 25...