Panic ye not

01 September 1999
Comments Main paper Remember those speeded-up films of agar-filled petri dishes with colonies of bacteria and fungi expanding and competing, rather like ripples on a pond if a handful of stones is thrown in all at once? If you are a gardener, have you noticed that there i...
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What, no running water?

01 August 1999
Comments Main paper I am standing on a minor road in the middle of farmland typical of central England. Along one side of the road there is a bit of a ditch, with some scattered remains of a hedgerow, a tree here and there, and a barbed-wire fence, but mostly an open boun...
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Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1987
Comments Main paper We have to say it again—this year, the standard of entries was even higher. It is both a very great pleasure and a privilege to be able to admire so many bird-photographs of such high quality. This year, a total of 120 transparencies was submitted. A...
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Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939
Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...
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