News and comment

01 April 1995
Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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News and comment

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Although the Chinese say they acquired it from Eastern Europe, it appears that a particularly virulent virus that affects Old World Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus spread into Europe from China in about 1984. Within ten years it had probably killed over ...
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Short Reviews

01 June 1986
Comments Reviews The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History. Edited by Michael Allaby. (OUP, 1985. £20.00) Despite three years at university studying botany, two studying zoology, and a further three researching in ecology, 90% of the words in this dictionary are still ...
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