News and comments

01 May 1955
Comments News and comment Prize-winning films.--The B.B.C. and the Council for Nature recently announced the results of their jointly sponsored natural history film competition for amateurs. The joint winners of the £700 prize in the main class for a film suitable for televi...
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Reviews

01 May 1955
Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...
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Notes

01 May 1955
Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...
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