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IT is gratifying to find that zoological analysis, having for long been largely confined to the laboratory, is being pushed with vigour into the open country, the obvious place for testing and resolving some of the big problems of animal life. So insistent has been the demand for space to publish the results of observations upon animal populations, their distribution, fluctuations in numbers, migrations and the like, and to concentrate observations of the kind for the convenience of field-workers and zoologists in general, that the British Ecological Society has decided to issue, twice a year, a Journal of Animal Ecology, under the editorship of Charles Elton, assisted by A. D. Middleton. The first number, which appeared in May from the Cambridge University Press, is an attractive volume, in appearance as well as in matter. It contains many-sided contributions, from studies of the fluctuations of insect populations in wheat and of bird numbers on an Oxfordshire farm, to a rookery census, an analysis of the ranging habits of wood-ants, and an account of the biology of the fruit-bats of Australia. There are many illustrations, and a useful reference list contains summaries of papers dealing with animal ecology. Members of the British Ecological Society (Secretary, Dr. H. Godwin, Botany School, Cambridge) obtain the Journal for their subscription of 25s., to non-members the price is 30s. The magazine promises to make a niche of its own in British zoological literature, and the interest of its outlook ought to draw many supporters. We understand that so far as suitable material is concerned its success is assured.
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A New Journal of Animal Ecology. Nature 130, 504 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130504b0
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