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ETHOLOGY NEWSLETTER Continue to Give Us the Benefit of Their Experience BONDINGz A UNITARY PROCESS? To those whose term on the Executive Board ended with this issue, 1. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, William McGrew, William Charlesworth, and Cheryl Travis, I am certain that the entire membership is grateful for the vital roles you have played in the founding of ISHE! It is with equivalent enthusiasm that we welcome our new Board members: Michael McGuire, Esther Ian Uine, and Ronald Weigel. They will serve for two years, overlapping in 1982 with Robert Adams, Gordon Burghardt, En Fa.ce Mut..uat Gaze Wade Mackey, and Gai 1 Zivin. Committee aSSignments will be especially easy this time since most of our Board members are already serving in some capaCity. It seems fitting that we ask Michael McGuire to chair the committee for term requesting simultaneously that Bill Charlesworth and I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt ETHOLOGY NEWSLETTER continue to give us the benefit of their experience. Gail Zivin and Ron Weigel have their work cut out for them with .IClfVi 8. LllCKMD.. EDl TCft VOLUME 3 l.HlVER8IlY Of VASHIHGTOH the upcoming international meeting in Atlanta. Bob Adams Rfif(Qt, 1562 ISSUE 5 6EATTLE, WAOOIHGTDi 98195 will continue to handle our recent literature section, Wade Mackey our human ethology abstracts, and Gordon Burghardt our membership. If Esther Thelen would take over the nominations committee and if Ian Uine, with Bill McGrew's 18. .E..!::..a§. EQB. SPRIHG I continued help, would be willing to spearhead the European theater of our book review committee, then all immediate tasks would be covered. The masthead of this issue is flying the topiC for our next I have asked Nick Blurton-Jones to coordinate the responses. An elaboration of the question is given in the section SPRING rORUM. Please your set. If you can read the. small print with relative ease, we have just saved a third of the production and mailing costs of our newsletter. A long term solution' is not as simple. We will grapple with this issue I would like to take this opportunity to thank four at our Annual Meeting but do react now if this test is not individuals whose help and donated time in the production of to your liking. Your encouragement and comments since the the newsletter have been invaluable: editorial assistant, last issue have been greatly appreciated and the suggested Laurie Peterson; scientific programmer, Douglas Kalk; and solutions do leave us alternatives: artists Jocelyn Penner and James Congdon. "I am of the opinion that dues be doubled (to S1B.B0) The past 12 months have seen a momentum to our Society that and if pOSSible, have the newsletter prepared by the editor is truly exciting. The anxieties of a new science have and sent off to a publisher for printing and mailing. Not given way to the challenge of the task ahead, with a feeling because it would look better (that 'handmade touch' has of comradery impossible in larger organizations. I wish to always been a hit with me) but because it will give the extend my appreciation to all those members whose editor time to betwf>en issues." -- Brian Gladue contributions to the newsletter and active participation in 1981 allowed this prognosis. 1 2 HUMAN ETHOLOGY March. 1982 "1) I think the newsletter is Ifancyl or Iprofessional l newsletter so that printing and mailing costs would be enough as you produce it. 2) I don·t think that dues should reduced. You might impose a 16-page limit on the present be raised. Rather we should begin to be selective and format. We could also impose an increase in foreign perhaps shorten treatment of some topiCS to keep costs membership fees to cover the extra postage for airmail within bUdget. 3) Anything for a particular researcher costs ... if people donlt want airmail, they could just wait (such as an enclosed questionnaire) should always be paid for regUlar surface mail and get their newsletter later, We for (postage. printing. etc.) by that researcher. 4) I could also plan to increase the dues to about 57.0e for recommend that we !UU. start publishing manuscripts." -- 1983." -- Cheryl Travis. Je anne Altmann "Regarding the question of publishing. if it is simply a matter of fOrmat (and of $$)1 then the present style is Iill §Y..!g QE. ALTRUISM I perfectly adequate. If it involves excessive burden on the editor. then you have a very good reason for seeking an outside publisher." -- Ron Dare Since the last newsletter, several members have given gift subscriptions of the Human Ethology Newsletter to their "Regarding the newsletter: Either option is fine. Do university library or to their friends. This is a neat way Whatever is easiest for you as editor." Bill McGrew to expand interest in our Society and increase memberShip. To help in this mutually beneficial please forward "Regarding Newsletter Bluesl maybe it is time to have a the attached Library Recommendation rorm to your more professional final prOduct. Outside publishing might Institution's library. a good idea. I'm willing to pay more. HEN is currently one of my best buys." -- Gary Mitchell "To answer briefly the question of dues and publishing: [HaIR rEATHERS EbQQK TOGETHER r rrom the beginning of the newsletterl I had the feeling that the 55.09 covered just the stamps. Also I think that the foreign members should have to pay more than the American. Wolfgang M. Schleidt sent the following remarks in reference I like the typewritten version of the newsletter very to A EENCHMARK?, a discussion in the December, 1981 HEN on much... I prefer a semi- confidential edition to a printed incremental changes and/or giant steps. one. But you have the work and you have to say what is easiest for you." -- Etienne Colomb "George Oster of Berkeley may be offbase in his example that feathers require the process of evagination. "I suspect we would have to raise the fee considerably while hair requires invagination.' I amI by training, a more if the newsletter were printed 'professionally'. It comparative morphologist, and at that time was taught that Would probably be less expensive to just raise the feel feathers are homologous to scales, and hair grows between maybe to S7.Se-S1B.BBI and let you keep doing it. How much sc a I es I and is a new structure. A great (gr and?) unc 1e of is it currently costing to prepare an issue?" William minel Josef Schleidt, published some studies at the turn of Bailey the century. and I assume these still hold. If you know George Oster you may tell him to find out about this. He "Sorry about the financial difficulties for the may look for a better example (if there is one). I assume newsletter. I noted that postage was charged IFirst Class.' he means mammalian hair. Birds Imake' hair from feathers; Not only would ·Printed Matter l save, you may look int-o so, 'hair' of birds and 'hair l of mammals is an analogous non-profit organization mailing rates." WOlfgang M. structure I not homologous. Schleidt By the way, the same argument was made years ago "I'm sorry to hear about the financial difficulties of against the theory that middle ear bones are homologous to the newsletter... One option would be to mail the fish jaW-joint. Relatively recently some f05Sii evidence newsletter at a bulk rate .•• Some issues might necessarily was presented of some beasts which had a dual linkagel one have to go first class, like the ballot, for example. behind the other,"a kind of Imissing link·," Another possibility is to shorten the length of the 3 4 HUMAN ETHOLOGY 1982 J. Uber Fruhstadien der Entwicklung von Schuppe physiological changes akin to depression. und [On early stages in the development of scale and feather.] Archiu fur Mikroskopische Anatomie, How. in 2S words or less: (1) What is (2) Is it Uol. Abt. I (fur vergleichende und experimentelle similar for all age/sex classifications? (3) What are its Histologie una Entwicklungsgeschichte), pp. 118-129, proximal mechanisms? and (4) Is separation an antithetical 1913. process'? Ainsworth, M.D.S., S.H. Attachment, exploration and separation: Illustrated by the behavior of lE..Q.B!!!! REACT ION I one-year-olds in a strange situation. Child Dev., 49-67. Ainsworth, M.D.S .• Bell, S.M" and Slayton. D.J. In M.P.N. "I truly appreciated the Kortlandt definition of human Richards (Ed.) The Integration Child into Social ethology <HEN 3(4): 8, 1981), I agree that the emphasis is World. Hew York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. not so much on methodology as on less on how you are doing research than on why you are. The biggest BOWlby. J. Nature of a child's tie to his mother. Int. problem I have with my associates in psychology is not what Psychoanal., 35B-373. they know about ethology but what they know. One "behavioral biologist" on my thesis committee couldn't Bowlby, J. Attachment and Loss, Uol. 1. New Yorl<: Basic understand how I could use a standardized setting to do an 1969. ethological stUdy. He seemed even less enthused about the theoretical basis of the study. Most people here, while not Kennell, J.H., Trause, M.A" and KI au s, M.H• In concerned with phyletic history of the behaviors Parent-Infant Interaction, eiba Foundation Symposium interested in, for the most part will concede that the big 33. Amsterd am: £: I seu i er, 1975. hurdle is function. You can imagine the reaction to my suggestion that if I take some time to do a field stUdy of Klaus, M.H.
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