Ranikothalia in East and West Indies

1949 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Davies
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
The West ◽  
East Indies ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractThe author emphasizes the distinction of the marine Paleocene fauna of India from that of Europe, and its resemblance to that of the West Indies (Antilles). He suggests a marine connection between West and East Indies across North Africa, south of the Mediterranean region, in basal Tertiary times, before the Americas had drifted far from Europe and Africa.

scholarly journals VI.—Recent and Fossil Hippopotami

1886 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
West Indies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The West ◽  
Aquatic Animals ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
East And West ◽  
Geological Magazine

In September last, I drew the attention of the readers of the Geological Magazine (Decade III. Vol. II. pp. 412–425) to a singular group of vegetable-feeding aquatic animals, the Sirenia, represented at the present day by two genera, Manatus and Halicore, and by at most six species, three or four of which are probably only varieties. A peculiarity of this group of animals is that whereas the two living genera are distributed in the subtropical regions East and West of the African continent, and to its rivers and opposite coasts, the ancestors of the Halicore and Manatee (the Halitherium, Felsinotherium, and some ten other fossil genera of Sirenians) probably intermingled and extended 30° further north than at present from the West Indies and Carolina through England, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and North Africa, whilst Rhytina, the largest of them all, only became extinct 100 years ago on the shores of Behring's Island, Kamtchatka. The evidence which the fossil remains of Sirenia afford of a more northerly geographical extension of subtropical mammalia in Tertiary times, is abundantly confirmed by other genera, to one of which only, the Hippopotamus, I will here refer.

The Islamia  spp. from Greece (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) with the description of two new species

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Peter Glöer ◽  
Robert Reuselaars
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
The West ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Mediterranean

The hydrobiid genus Islamia Radoman, 1973 (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) comprises 47 species known from the Mediterranean region of which most are distributed in the west and central part, whereas 11 species are known from the Balkans. In this article we described two new Islamia species from Greece. The type localities of four Islamia species hitherto known from Greece are presented on a map.

scholarly journals EMPIRE AND TRANS-IMPERIAL SUBJECTS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 958-979
Author(s):  
GAVIN MURRAY-MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Transfers

AbstractDuring the nineteenth century, the Muslim Mediterranean became a locus of competing imperial projects led by the Ottomans and European powers. This article examines how the migration of people and ideas across North Africa and Asia complicated processes of imperial consolidation and exposed the ways in which North Africa, Europe, and Asia were connected through trans-imperial influences that often undermined the jurisdictional sovereignty of imperial states. It demonstrates that cross-border migrations and cultural transfers both frustrated and abetted imperial projects while allowing for the imagining of new types of solidarities that transcended national and imperial categorizations. In analysing these factors, this article argues for a rethinking of the metropole–periphery relationship by highlighting the important role print and trans-imperial networks played in shaping the Mediterranean region.

Tectonique comparee des nappes de glissement dans le Jura bressan et diverses regions mediterraneennes

1953 ◽  
Vol S6-III (7-8) ◽  
pp. 697-702
Author(s):  
Louis Glangeaud
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Jura Mountains ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract Compares the overthrust structure in the border zone of the Jura mountains in the Bresse region, France, with nappe structures in the Mediterranean region (nappes of the Riff and Tell regions of north Africa and of Tuscany, Italy). There are numerous similarities in style and age, but the mechanism was not exactly the same in all cases.

Revision of the West Palaearctic species of the genus Pales Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 885 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
The West ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time

A taxonomic revision of the West Palaearctic species of the genus Pales Robineau-Desvoidy is presented and the identity of the genus is defined and discussed. Pales abdita sp. nov. from some localities in the Mediterranean region and Pales marae sp. nov. from Sardinia are described, illustrated and compared with similar species. A key to the ten known West Palaearctic species of Pales is presented. The rare genus Schembria Rondani is suggested as the possible sister-group of Pales and the male genitalia of the only known species, S. meridionalis Rondani, are figured for the first time.

Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Kurchin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
North Africa ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

In situations of displacement, disruption, and difference, humans adapt by actively creating, re-creating, and adjusting their identities using the material world. This book employs the discipline of historical archaeology to study this process as it occurs in new and challenging environments. The case studies furnish varied instances of people wresting control from others who wish to define them and of adaptive transformation by people who find themselves in new and strange worlds. The authors consider multiple aspects of identity, such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity, and look for ways to understand its fluid and intersecting nature. The book seeks to make the study of the past relevant to our globalized, postcolonized, and capitalized world. Questions of identity formation are critical in understanding the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu. This book tackles these questions not only in multiple dimensions of earthly space but also in a panorama of historical time. Moving from the ancient past to the unknowable future and through numerous temporal stops in between, the reader travels from New York to the Great Lakes, Britain to North Africa, and the North Atlantic to the West Indies.

Commerce and the Ottoman Conquest of Kandiye

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Molly Greene
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
New World ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Mediterranean

The Ottoman-Venetian war for the island of Crete in the middle of the 17th century (1645-1669) was in some ways an anachronistic struggle. The era of imperial struggle in the Mediterranean had come to a close in 1578 when the Portuguese army, assisted by Spain, was defeated at Alcazar in Morocco by the army of the Ottoman protégé, Abd al-Malik. The Ottoman victory was followed by a Spanish-Ottoman truce signed in 1580 which, though it seemed tentative at the time, ushered in a long period of peace in the Mediterranean region. The Spanish acquiesced to Ottoman control of North Africa and turned their attention to their acquisitions in the new world. The Ottomans, for their part, occupied themselves with military conquests in the East and no new campaigns were launched in the Mediterranean.

scholarly journals Morphology and phenology of sexuals and new distribution data on the blind Mediterranean ant Hypoponera abeillei (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Sociobiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. e7261
Author(s):  
Enrico Schifani ◽  
Antonio Scupola ◽  
Mattia Menchetti ◽  
Erika Bazzato ◽  
Xavier Espadaler
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
The Other ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
The West ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
New Distribution

Hypoponera abeillei is the sole member of the otherwise exclusively Afrotropical abeillei group to occur in the West-Palearctic and since its first description on the basis of two Corsican workers in 1881, it remained little-known. Workers of this species are thought to entirely lack eyes, a rare trait among ants of the region, yet their lifestyle remains undocumented. On the other hand, the male caste has been described from 4 Tunisian specimens in 1921, and queens remained so far undescribed. We present an updated description of the male caste based on 45 specimens and a first description of the queen caste based on 14 specimens. The H. abeillei material we examined comes from Italy, Spain and Malta (mostly originating from coastal localities), and comprises 11 inedit distribution records, including the first findings in the islands of Mallorca, Malta and Sardinia. Moreover, we provide a first phenological overview of the species’ nuptial flights. Our data show that H. abeillei sexuals flight during the summer, mostly in August, and demonstrate that they can easily be distinguished from all the other Hypoponera species inhabiting the Mediterranean region based on their morphology. The remarkable diversity of Mediterranean Hypoponera males and queens suggest that sexuals may have a role in future attempts to understand relationships within this genus, yet the number of species in which sexual castes are documented is still extremely reduced.

RESPONSE TO JENNER'S EPOCHAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF 1798

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-923
Author(s):  
John A Washington
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Measles Vaccine ◽  
The West ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poliomyelitis Vaccine ◽  
The World ◽  
Resident Surgeon ◽  
Tropical Climates

To Pediatricians long in practice the administration of Salk and Sabin poliomyelitis vaccines and the use of measles vaccine have been exciting and gratifying experiences. That the advent of the new vaccination against smallpox was similarly stirring to alert physicians of 1800 is evidenced by the following excerpts from Samuel Scofield's Treatise on Vaccina or Cowpock published in 1810.1 The prospect of controlling this scourge stimulated a widespread demand somewhat comparable to that for poliomyelitis vaccine. Facilities for communication, supply, and transport were so vastly inferior that the extensiveness of its use in a few years time is surprising. Eleven years have now elapsed since the world was put into possession of this inestimable blessing by the accurate and indefatigable Jenner. . . . The Cowpock Inoculation has been practiced in every quarter of the Globe. . . . In the West-Indies I have witnessed the most salutory effects from it in preserving the Blacks from smallpox, which so frequently commits the most terrible ravages in tropical climates. It has received the patronage of every government under whose cognizance it has come and in many countries, as America, Great Britain, France, Italy. . . . institutions have been established for the gratuitous inoculation of the poor. In January, 1802, an institution was established in this city (New York) for the purpose of vaccinating the poor gratis. . . . To this establishment the author of the present treatise was appointed Resident Surgeon. . . . From late accounts we are informed that the Cowpock has been received in the East-Indies with the greatest enthusiasm and many millions have already been vaccinated.

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