Notes

01 May 1957
Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...
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Reviews

01 May 1957
Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...
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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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