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Vernal/Summer 1998 Glaucus 2 colour heavy duty gloss cover. 48 A4 magazine-size pages. 33,000 + words. 2 large monochrome photographs, 6 scanned smaller prints. 52 line drawings/maps.

Some events are grouped under the organiser and this messes up the strict chronological order.
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Helford VMCA Diary 1998

Field Trips on:

26 July "Helford River Wildlife"
 9 August "Secrets of the Shore"  at Gillan Harbour.

Ring Pamela Tompsett  Tel:  01269 842316  or  01872 273939 for more details.
Pamela Tompsett   EMail petomp@cornwt.demon.co.uk

(BMLSS file:  Black 67)  

22 August. (Saturday). Foreness and Botany Bay, Margate.  Meet east end of Palm Bay Avenue.
 6.00 pm.  Rock pools and wave-cut chalk platform.

8 November (Sunday).  Seasalter. Meet at Blue Anchor Corner TR 082 650.
 8.30 AM.  Mud flats and clay shore, tiles and mussel beds.

All enthusiasts welcome.

Contact:  Ian Tittley  EMail

(BMLSS file:  Black 67) 

Wembury Bay  Rockpool Rambles
Contact  Wembury Marine Centre  Tel:  01752 862538
 
Leaflet from Devon Wildlife Trust  Tel:  01392 279244.
 

23 July - 7 August
Society of Wildlife Artists
35th Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries
The Mall, London SW1 (near Admiralty Arch)
10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Admission £2 (OAPs, students £1).

  Mineral & Fossil Fair
          Dorset Geologists' Association Group
          Allendale Centre, Wimborne, Dorset.

          Adults £1  Children free.

Dr Martin Angel, the Buckland Professor for 1998, will give public lectures on the topic of

“The Deep-Ocean: Use and Misuse”

on Monday, 7 September at 19.30 h within the programme of Oceanography 98 at
Southampton Oceanography Centre

on Wednesday, 9 September at 16.50 h within the programme of the
1998 BAAS meeting in Cardiff

and on Thursday, 29 October at 15.30 h at the University of Stirling

Each of these sessions is open to any member of the public without charge.

For more details of the three lectures please contact John Ramster, the Clerk to the Buckland Foundation via jramster@lineone.net or phone/fax UK: 01505  615402
or by post at 3 Woodside Avenue, Bridge of Weir.  PA11 3PQ.

 UK OCEANOGRAPHY 98

 7-11 September 1998
 Southampton Oceanography Centre

 EMail: ukoc98@soc.soton.ac.uk
 EMail for the Challenger Society  jxj@soc.soton.ac.uk

 UK Oceanography Web Site
 

MARINE WILDLIFE NEWS 

• 1 August 1998
• Continual poor weather, with rain reported in most days of July, and small tornados reported near the end of the month with thunderstorms. Marine wildlife reports were predictably poor.

• 28 July 1998
• Vernal/Summer 1998 issue of Glaucus now published and sent to members.

• 26 July 1998
• The pod of at least 6 Killer Whales, Orcinus orca, seen yesterday spent most of the day around the coast of Fladdabister in the Shetland Isles, before heading back north in the evening to Gulberwick and around into Briewick Bay again.

25 July 1998
A pod of at least 6 Killer Whales including a large male and a very young individual, spent the evening in Briewick Bay, Lerwick, before moving slowly south at around
8.00 p.m.

• 22 July 1998
• A formation of 4 Little Egrets, Egretta egretta, spotted flying over Brighton, Sussex. These birds are an unusual occurrence on the northern English Channel coast (Sussex) but reports seem to becoming commoner. From Ian Lawes (Compuserve Forum).
• This bird is not included in some general books of British Birds; it should be!

• 14 July 1998

A pod of 12 Sperm Whales, Physeter macrocephalus ,were seen about 14 miles off Sumburgh Head, between the Shetland Isles and Fair Isle, (the small island midway between the Shetland Isles and the Orkneys), during the late morning, heading south-west. They were photographed from a helicopter and also from the Fair Isle ferry which was about 100 metres away from them.

• 12 July 1998.
• Gales and driving rain reported from all over Britain and News and Rockpooling Reports are expected to be few because of the awful weather.
•  
• Early July 1998
• Sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, reported from Kinlochbervie, Western Highlands, Scotland.  The fish weighed 27 kg (60 lb) and was taken at sea near Sule Rock, between Cape Wrath and the Orkneys. Kinlochbervie is a fishing port just south of Cape Wrath, the most northerly point of the western part of the peninsula of mainland Scotland (John o' Groats is on the east).

•  3 July 1998. Bournemouth Oceanarium opened to the public.
• The centrepiece display is a re-creation of the Great Barrier Reef, but there are displays from seas all around the world, including the British Isles and an Antarctic Ice Shelf display.

 Contact:  Nikki Hasell  Tel: 01202 311993
A list of Public Aquaria in the U.K. can be found at: pan2.htm 

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Correction in previous Torpedo (News):

19 April.  The first Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae,  sighting of the year for the Shetland Isles is reported off Sumburgh Head with 6 White-sided Dolphins, Lagenorhynchus acutus.
 

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

 

• Marine Nature Conservation News
• May 1998  Last Issue published by:
• Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Tel:  01733 562626 (Switchboard)

• Summer 1998
• Marine Conservation Society journal
• Basking Shark fully protected in British seas

Marine Reserves needed by Callum Roberts
 
•  National Biodiversity Network
• Working Through Local Record Centres
• Seminar Report
• 19 March 1998
• Contact:  Rachel Hackett, Wildlife Trusts, Tel:  01522 544400
• EMail: nbn@wildlife-trusts.cix.co.uk

NBN  http://www.nbn.org.uk

NEW BOOKS 

It is published by :
KOM Forlag as
Vågeveien 10
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Norway
Phone: +47 71 67 83 00
Fax: +47 71 67 83 60

The address of the bookshop is:
Olaf Norlis Bokhandel as
Export Dept.
Universitetsgt. 20-24
N-0162 Oslo
Norway
Phone: +47 22 00 43 00
Fax: +47 22 33 29 65 

The full leaflet is available to members or from  Academic Press, Tel:  +44 (0) 171 424 4521
EMail
 

Seahorses

Conservation and Care

t.f.h./Kingdom 1997 £7.95

Available from:

TFH/KINGDOM BOOKS
10 THE SPINNEY
PARKLANDS
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Tel:  01705 268122

Please mention the British Marine Life Study Society with your order.

COMING SOON

MARINE LIFE OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
by Sue Daley

TFH/KINGDOM BOOKS

Order now, this book is in this country, and will be ready for distribution by the time you read this.

   Click on this for the web site for sample pictures and information.

BOOK REVIEWS 

The book is divided into the following chapters:

Introduction
Seals & Sea Lions
Food and Feeding
Life in the Water
The Breeding Cycle
Man, Seals & Sea Lions
Enjoying Seals & Sea Lions
Seal & Seal Lion Facts
Index

It is worth having a close look at this book in a bookshop and reading some of the informative text. Page 35 is a good page to start where the explanation of the seals utilisation of oxygen when diving is clear. There are no caption boxes with extra information as it is all included in the main body of text. This can make it quite a hard read as there is so much information that the reader cannot take it in at once. There are no wasted words. Occasionally, the explanations require a large vocabulary, which will be OK for BMLSS members but may be too difficult for children.
 

Conclusion:  a very good book for the general wildlife enthusiast.
 
 
 
 

FEATURED SPECIES

A New Series as part of the TORPEDO initiative is planned for 1998. This will feature a selected species of fish, crab, molluscs, sea anemone or some other invertebrate every month. If you wish to receive this service please indicate.

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