LI.—On two new Carnivora from North-east Africa

A New Disease from East Africa

It might naturally be supposed, says a Bombay contemporary, that at the present moment, Bombay was slightly crowded with diseases, and that there was barely room for a new intruder. But_ such is not the case, says a local paper, for, while we are paying the closest attention to plague, relapsing fever, measles, and a few other epidemics, we have found an opportunity of introducing a novelty pos...

Middle East North Africa Sustainable Electricity Trajectories

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Mapping of C4 plant input from North West Africa into North East Atlantic sediments

Mapping the abundance of C in leaf-wax components in surface sediments recovered from the seafloor off northwest Africa (0–35°N) reveals a clear pattern of dC distribution, indicating systematic changes in the proportions of terrestrial C3 and C4 plant input. At 20°N latitude, we find that isotopically enriched products characteristic of C4 plants account for more than 50% of the terrigenous in...

Two new frog species (Microhylidae: Cophixalus) from boulder habitats on Cape York Peninsula, north-east Australia

Australia has a highly localised but diverse radiation of microhylid frogs. 18 species are described from north-east Queensland (14 Cophixalus and 4 Austrochaperina), most with highly localised montane distributions. While most species are small (10-25 mm) rainforest species, two differ dramatically in ecology and morphology. Cophixalus saxatilis and C. zweifeli inhabit isolated areas of jumble...