Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Changes in Rarities Committee membership On 25 th March 1972 P. A. D. Hollom retired from the Rarities Committee. He had given it 13 years' unstinting service and had been chairman ever since it was set up in 1959; he was also the last of the founder memb...
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Letters

01 May 2000
Comments Letters The dramatic decline in the numbers of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in the centre of London over the past 20 or so years is well documented and generally accepted (Summers-Smith 1999). Indeed, the matter of the decrease has already been raised twic...
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