We compared the genetic diversity and distance among six German draught horse breeds to wild (Przewalski's Horse), primitive (Icelandic Horse, Sorraia Horse, Exmoor Pony) or riding horse breeds (Hanoverian Warmblood, Arabian) by means of genotypic information from 30 microsatellite loci. The draught horse breeds included the South German Coldblood, Rhenish German Draught Horse, Mecklenburg Cold...

Book review:
 Stampfl, Tanja. A Century of Encounters: Writing the Other in Arab North Africa. New York: Routledge, 2019. 197 pages. ISBN 9781138363106. Pbk. $155.

There are five extant English law codes from the sixth to ninth century but, despite Mercia's having been an independent polity in period, none Mercian. Three seventh Kentish royal survive a single twelfth manuscript and two West-Saxon elsewhere. The early legal record is, therefore, thin there no major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, or Mercia. As such, this article discusses...

Sir,-?I desire to draw the attention of your readers to the subject set for this prize for the current year, viz., " A Maternity Home and Infant Welfare Centre." In the cause of social progress, these institutions are bound to have an importance in the future which is as yet little realised. Although a comparatively small number of specially designed buildings have been erected (and these are, ...