Letters

01 January 1985 Comments Letters How many bird species in the world? In a recent book review (Brit. Birds 77: 280) mention is made of the '8,500-odd species' of birds in the world. A similar figure is quoted by the late Leslie Brown in his foreword to A Complete Checklist of the ...
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Letters

01 July 1955 Comments Letters N E W S P E C I E S O F F U N G U S F O U N D IN PUFFINS' BURROWS S I R S , -- I have recently discovered a new and very unusual species of fungus, which will shortly be described in the mycological press under the name of Echinotrema clanculare. This was...
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