Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1990 Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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Fifty years ago

01 December 1981 Comments Other 'In your issue fo rMarch, 1931 (Vol. XXIV, p. 302), you allowed rne to give the results of some experiments with Potter traps and to announce that these traps could be obtained from Messrs. Ciceri & Co. Ltd., 39-43 Wharfdale Road, King's Cross, Lon...
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