- Email: [email protected]
Institute of African research and studies, Cairo University
Heinsohn: Dugongs in Northern Queensland, Australia References BERTRAM,C. K. RICARDO• BERTRAM,G. C. L. (1968a). The Sirenia as aquatic meat-producing herbivores. Syrup. Zool. Soc. Lond., No. 21, pp. 385-91. BERTRAM,G. C. L. & BERTRAM,C. K. RICARDO(1968b). Bionomicsof dugongs and manatees. Nature (London), 218(5140), pp. 423-6. FISHER, JAMES, SIMON, NOEL & VINCENT, JACK (1969).
213
The Red Book. Wildlife in Danger. Collins, St James Place, London: 368 pp., illustr. HEINSOHN, GEORGEE. 8~; BIRCH,W. R. (in press). Foods and feeding habits of the Dugong, Dugong dugong (Erxleben), in northern Queensland, Australia. Mammalia. HUGHES, GEORGE R. & OXLEY-OXLAND, R. (1971). A survey of Dugong (Dugong dugong) in and around Antonio Enes, Northern Mo9ambique. Biol. Conserv., 3(4), pp. 299-301, illustr.
Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University
Courses were started, in October 1971, for the students in the new Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University. This Institute was first established in 1950 as a postgraduate Institute of Sudanese Studies which comprised only two departments, those of Geography and of History. The growing interest in African affairs during the 'sixties caused these two departments to widen their area of activities to include the whole of the African Continent until the Cairo University Board approved, in June 1971, the decree creating a well-balanced and all-embracing Institute of African Research and Studies as part of Cairo University. The new Institute includes six departments: Geography, History, Political and Economic Systems, Languages and Dialects, Anthropology, and Natural Resources. The Department of Natural Resources accepts students who have graduated from science-based Faculties, e.g. Science, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering. Students are registered for three years for the Master's degree. They attend courses during the first two years and then prepare a thesis in the third year. After obtaining the Master's degree, the student can apply to register for the Ph.D. degree, which is based totally on research work lasting, in all, at least three years. The aims of the Institute are to train specialists for working in the various fields related to Africa, to hold conferences and meetings on African affairs, and to create a documentation centre for research and studies dealing with Africa. Professor Mohamed E1-Sayed Ghallab, who has wide experience of various aspects of African geography, was appointed Dean of the Institute. He was previously Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and is Secretary-General of the Egyptian Geographical Society. He has written several textbooks on human geography, anthropology, and urbanization. The institute has accepted 154 students for the Academic Year 1971-72, among whom 28 are registered
in the Department of Natural Resources. The Institute welcomes students from outside Egypt, especially from other African countries. The courses in the Department of Natural Resources are, in the First Year for two hours weekly each: Geology of the African Continent, Climatology and Meteorology, Hydrology of African Rivers, The Vegetative Cover in the African Continent, Animal Life in the African Continent, Soil Types in the African Continent, Diseases of Warm Lands, and General Geography of Africa. In the Second Year the courses are: Mineral Resources in the African Continent, Schemes for the Control of African Rivers, Land Use in Africa: (a) Main Agricultural Crops, (b) Animal Resources and Pastures, (c) Conservation of Natural Resources, (d) Dry Farming in Northern and Southern Africa, (e) Utilization of Ground-water Basins, Hydrobiology in the African Continent, and Seminars (6 hours). It may be noted that this is a multidisciplinary set of courses of training given as formal postgraduate teaching. The course on Conservation (ll 3(c)) is noteworthy because, whereas the other courses are given in some form or other within the traditional Faculties, the course on Conservation is a completely new concept introduced for the first time in Egyptian Universities. SAMIR I. GHABBOUR, Zoology Department, Faculty of Seience, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
213
The Red Book. Wildlife in Danger. Collins, St James Place, London: 368 pp., illustr. HEINSOHN, GEORGEE. 8~; BIRCH,W. R. (in press). Foods and feeding habits of the Dugong, Dugong dugong (Erxleben), in northern Queensland, Australia. Mammalia. HUGHES, GEORGE R. & OXLEY-OXLAND, R. (1971). A survey of Dugong (Dugong dugong) in and around Antonio Enes, Northern Mo9ambique. Biol. Conserv., 3(4), pp. 299-301, illustr.
Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University
Courses were started, in October 1971, for the students in the new Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University. This Institute was first established in 1950 as a postgraduate Institute of Sudanese Studies which comprised only two departments, those of Geography and of History. The growing interest in African affairs during the 'sixties caused these two departments to widen their area of activities to include the whole of the African Continent until the Cairo University Board approved, in June 1971, the decree creating a well-balanced and all-embracing Institute of African Research and Studies as part of Cairo University. The new Institute includes six departments: Geography, History, Political and Economic Systems, Languages and Dialects, Anthropology, and Natural Resources. The Department of Natural Resources accepts students who have graduated from science-based Faculties, e.g. Science, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering. Students are registered for three years for the Master's degree. They attend courses during the first two years and then prepare a thesis in the third year. After obtaining the Master's degree, the student can apply to register for the Ph.D. degree, which is based totally on research work lasting, in all, at least three years. The aims of the Institute are to train specialists for working in the various fields related to Africa, to hold conferences and meetings on African affairs, and to create a documentation centre for research and studies dealing with Africa. Professor Mohamed E1-Sayed Ghallab, who has wide experience of various aspects of African geography, was appointed Dean of the Institute. He was previously Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and is Secretary-General of the Egyptian Geographical Society. He has written several textbooks on human geography, anthropology, and urbanization. The institute has accepted 154 students for the Academic Year 1971-72, among whom 28 are registered
in the Department of Natural Resources. The Institute welcomes students from outside Egypt, especially from other African countries. The courses in the Department of Natural Resources are, in the First Year for two hours weekly each: Geology of the African Continent, Climatology and Meteorology, Hydrology of African Rivers, The Vegetative Cover in the African Continent, Animal Life in the African Continent, Soil Types in the African Continent, Diseases of Warm Lands, and General Geography of Africa. In the Second Year the courses are: Mineral Resources in the African Continent, Schemes for the Control of African Rivers, Land Use in Africa: (a) Main Agricultural Crops, (b) Animal Resources and Pastures, (c) Conservation of Natural Resources, (d) Dry Farming in Northern and Southern Africa, (e) Utilization of Ground-water Basins, Hydrobiology in the African Continent, and Seminars (6 hours). It may be noted that this is a multidisciplinary set of courses of training given as formal postgraduate teaching. The course on Conservation (ll 3(c)) is noteworthy because, whereas the other courses are given in some form or other within the traditional Faculties, the course on Conservation is a completely new concept introduced for the first time in Egyptian Universities. SAMIR I. GHABBOUR, Zoology Department, Faculty of Seience, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.