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...
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Letters

01 March 1968
Comments Letters The*wing-tip patterns of gulls Sirs,--Some years ago I saw a young Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalusflyby in Pagham Harbour, Sussex. The view was brief, but I had been watching the species in Italy not long before, and recognised the wing-pattern: t...
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