News and comment

01 March 1965
Comments News and comment Controlled shooting at Caerlaverock.--In April 1957 the Nature Conservancy made a National Nature Reserve of Caerlaverock Merses and the adjacent tidal sand-banks, a total of some 13,500 acres in Dumfriesshire, Because this area on the north shore of the ...
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Letters

01 March 1965
Comments Letters T h e absurdity of t h e t e r m 'soft parts' Sirs,--In spite of the fact that we recently published a paper entitled 'Diseases of the skin and soft parts of wild birds' (Brit. Birds, 57: 175179), we should like to suggest that the use of the term 'soft p...
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