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News and comments

01 March 1968 Comments News and comment Maritime oil pollution.--The Field Studies Council has announced two three-year research programmes on the biology of oil pollution, including the associated use of detergents and emulsifiers. One project will be concerned with intertidal fauna; the other... Read More

Reviews

01 March 1968 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Europe. By Harry Garms. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Edited by A. Melderis (plants) and Joyce Pope (animals). Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. i x + 3 5 8 pages with 900 illustrations. 35s. This bulky book--11 by 7J inches in size, i f... Read More

Recent reports

01 March 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the month of January 1968, but also includes some relevant records for December 1967 and February 1968.The influx of Long-tailed Ducks Clangula byemalis... Read More

Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66

01 March 1968 Comments Main paper That another eruption of Waxwings Bombjcilla garrulus from FennoScandia into western Europe was imminent was forecast during the breeding season of 1965 by Dr. Kai Curry-Lindahl. In his vast experience of northern Sweden, and especially of Swedish Lapland... Read More