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Local Lists of Animals

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MAY I make a mild protest against the rather derogatory remarks about local lists of animals in the notice of Bolam's “Birds of Northumberland” in NATURE of December 3 (p. 841)? Natural history studies have made great progress in recent years by the methods practised by Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Elton and others, which find expression in the excellent new Journal of Animal Ecology. But because the new is very good, it does not follow that the old is bad: the two are surely complementary.

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BOYCOTT, A. Local Lists of Animals. Nature 131, 94–95 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131094c0

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