Letters

01 November 1956
Comments Letters T H E R E A C T I O N S O F MAN A N D B I R D T O A S C O R P I O N S I R S , -- I n his letter on " T h e effects of model scorpion and lizard on a bird t a b l e " (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 556-557), Col. R. Meinertzhagen suggested that the fear-reaction...
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Reviews

01 November 1956
Comments Reviews By DAVID LACK (Methuen, London, 1956). 239 p a g e s ; 10 half-tone plates; 24 text illustrations. 21s. N O T the least striking feature of that astonishing building, the University Museum of Science at Oxford, is the tower; for behind the ventilator sha...
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Notes

01 January 1952
Comments Notes Effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds.--With reference to the article on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 57-59), Mr. C. E. BruceGardyne reports that in April, 1949, he had under observation nests of a Blackbird (Turdus merula) and a Song-Thrush (T...
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Notes

01 December 1933
Comments Notes I T is with the greatest regret t h a t we have to announce the death at Berlin, on the 10th of November, after an illness of only three days, of Dr. Ernst Hartert. Dr. Hartert was renowned as an ornithologist all over the world, but in no country was he...
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