Tim MUSEUM in the little town of Arendal in southern Norway possesses a fine English medicine chestwhich belonged to Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark. On 8 November 1766 this posthumous daughter of George II's eldest son, Frederick, married King Christian VII of Denmark and Norway. Caroline Mathilde was fifteen years old, and Christian VII two years her senior. He had succeeded to the Danish ...

Understanding which parties regulate reproduction is fundamental to understanding conflict resolution in animal societies. In social insects, workers can influence male production and sex ratio. Surprisingly, few studies have investigated worker influence over which queen(s) reproduce(s) in multiple queen (MQ) colonies (skew), despite skew determining worker-brood relatedness and so worker fitn...

A chance meeting at the Harvard Business School Agribusiness Seminar the consumer is prepared to pay higher prices for pig meat (or any other product) with value added that may not be immediately evident. In the in 1976 is the backdrop for this case on the alliance of two agro-enterprises. The first, Agroceres, was a Brazilian producer of genetically improved United States, pig producers have l...

'TAHE first of the two annual conversaziones which A are given by the Royal Society in its rooms at Burlington House, took place on Wednesday evening, May 16. There was a large attendance, and throughout the evening interested groups were gathered round the exhibits which were shown in the Officers' Room, the Council Room, the Old Council Room, the Principal Library, the Committee Room, and the...

O n April 7, 1853, Queen Victoria of England gave birth to the eighth of her nine childl'en. From the beginning the infant Leopold was sickly; his baptism was postponed for almost three months. It may be that the trauma of birth had resulted in hemor­ rhages. In any event it soon became evident that he had an unusual tendency to bleed even from trivial injuries; Prince Leopold suffered from hem...

IN this fiftieth anniversary of the death of Carl Theodore, duke in Bavaria and accomplished eye-surgeon, it is perhaps fitting to recall this gentle and distinguished colleague, who, in the days when social lustre was so artlessly admired, added such panache to the world of ophthalmologists. Carl Theodore was born in 1839, the second son of Duke Maximilian and of the Duchess Ludovica, who was ...

Identifying the factors that control population dynamics in migratory animals has been constrained by our inability to track individuals throughout the annual cycle. Using stable carbon isotopes, we show that the reproductive success of a long-distance migratory bird is influenced by the quality of habitat located thousands of kilometres away on tropical wintering grounds. For male American red...