Edited by Bruce Campbell and Maxwell Knight
BIRDS: Bruce Campbell reviews the nesting season, with particular reference to experiments with nest boxes in the Forest of Dean
The B.O.U. Centenary Expedition to Ascension Island is still studying the breeding behaviour of terns, gannets. and boobies: the first recorded report has been received from Bernard Stonehouse , leader of the expedition
PLANTS: David McClintock , who has recently revisited the Channel Islands, comments on some of the plants there
SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES have been reintroduced to Wicken Fen in an effort to check the decline of this species: Brian Gardiner describes the experiment and reports on its progress
Produced by Winwood Reade