Reviews

01 September 1952
Comments Reviews The Sea Around Us. By Rachel L. Carson (Staples, 1951). 12s. 6d. I t is a remarkable indication of t h e growth of interest in the oceans t h a t this scientific account of them should have run through three impressions within the month of publication. It...
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Notes

01 September 1952
Comments Notes Some notes on the behaviour of House-Sparrows.--These notes (which are additional to those already published, antea, vol. xliv, pp. 18-19 > 369-372) summarize intermittent observations on HouseSparrows (Passer domesticus) in Britain (work in progress) an...
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Patterns of spring migration

01 September 1952
Comments Main paper IN 1950 and again in 1951 the British Bird Observatories have exchanged information about the occurrences of selected species of birds. A study of this collated information appears to throw some light on the pattern of migration to and through the British...
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Letters

01 September 1952
Comments Letters ---A sub-committee of t h e Natural History Section of the Wilts Archaelogical and Natural History Society has been formed to prepare a Check-List of Wiltshire Birds. I t would be grateful for any information your readers may have about collections of stu...
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