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THE sacond number (1947) of the Magazine of the Blundell‘s School Science Society is, like the first, worthy of special note since it has carefully avoided the usual mistake of becoming a rather extravagant, even useless, potpourri of miscellaneous information and has again developed a theme-that of ecology. In fact, it is a good though elementary collection of articles mainly of ecological interest. In an article on "Butterflies of the Tiverton Area", M. A. Lyne describes twenty-seven species found within a ten-mile radius of Blundell‘s School. P. R. Freeth‘s interest lies mainly in bird watching and bird ringing, and records that the British Birds Marking Scheme was revived at the School in 1947 after a lapse of eight years. Thirty-nine birds were ringed. O. H. D. Portsmouth describes the flora of a local marsh meadow. The marsh is divided into a wet area dominated by Carex panicea and a drier area dominated by Juncus communis. This article gives the floral ecology in detail and reveals an extraordinarily sound grasp of the principles of ecological study by such a young author.
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School Ecological Studies : Blundell‘s Scientific Publication. Nature 161, 271–272 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161271d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161271d0