ORX Volume 10 Issue 4 Cover and Front Matter

Journal of the Fauna Preservation Society May 1970

Oil and Wildlife in Alaska IUCN at New Delhi Ghana's Forest Wildlife Elephants or Fire? Manatees and Crocodiles Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 02 Oct 2021 at 06:15:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300008395 The Fauna Preservation Society

Patron HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

President The Marquess of Willingdon

Vice-Presidents Syed W. Ameer All, CIE, ICS (Retd.) Professor J. G. Baer (Switzerland) Colonel Mervyn Cowie, CBE, ED The Lord Hurcomb, GCB, KBE Sir Julian Huxley, FRS HH The Maharajah of Mysore, GCB, GCSI (India) Captain C. R. S. Pitman, CBE, DSO, MC Sir Landsborough Thomson, CB, DSc Professor Sir Solly Zuckerman, OM, KCB, DSc, FRS

Hon Treasurer Ian D. Malcolmson, TD

Hon Secretary Richard Fitter

Council Peter Scott, CBE, DSC Chairman Sir Terence Morrison-Scott, DSC, DSc Vice-Chairman

Sir Henry Abel Smith, KCMG Ian Macphail KCVO, DSO Lady Medway Lt. Col. C. L. Boyle, OBE The Hon Ivor Montagu G. T. Corley Smith, CMG Guy Mountfort Lord Craigton, CBE Major W. N. Scott The Earl of Cranbrook, CBE Anthony Smith Tarn Dalyell, MP Mrs Diana Spearman F. Fraser Darling, DSc, FRSE G. K.Whitehead Sir Berkeley Gage, KCMG Dr E. B. Worthington Marcus Kimball, MP

Editor of Oryx Mrs Maisie Fitter

Administrative Miss Elizabeth Giles Secretary

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Address c/o Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 Tel: 01-586 0872

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Members' Page 206 Notes and News 207 Oryx Tours to India and Zambia 215

Fairfield Osborn, A Tribute by Frank Fraser Darling 216 Was Strasbourg Worthwhile? by Bruce Campbell 217 FPS 1970 Uganda/Ethiopia Tour by Sir Hugh Elliott 218

Oil and Wildlife in Alaska by Peter Scott 220 IUCN Assembly in New Delhi 227 Manatees and Crocodiles by J. Charnock-Wilson 236 News in Brief 239

Ghana's Forest Wildlife in Danger by Sonia M. Jeffrey 240 Elephants or Fire—Which to Blame? by R. M. Lawton and Mary Gough 244 A Future for Crocodiles by H. Robert Bustard 249

Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda 256 Book Reviews 258 Reports and Journals 266 Annual General Meeting 267 Annual Reports and Accounts 268