202 Oryx Oryx 100% Fund The following grants have been made from the Oryx 100% Fund: £500 to the Durham University Himalayan Expedition to complete a study of the Himalayan tahr in Langtang National Park; £500 to the University of East Anglia Nepal Expedition for surveys of the pygmy hog and hispid hare; £500 to Professor Daniel Torres-Navarro, University of Chile, for studies of the fur seal on Juan Fernandez; £300 to Katherine Homewood and Margaret Renshaw to study infant development and socialisation in the Tana mangabey, part of a con- tinuing study of this endangered monkey; £300 to Godofredo Stutzin for camera equipment and binoculars for the use of guards protecting the Chilean huemul; £250 to Dr E. O. Moll, East Illinois University, for development of a management programme for Malaysian sea and river turtles; £250 to Sompoad Srikosarmatara, Mahidol University, Bangkok, for a study of the pileated gibbon in the Khao Sqi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary; £250 to the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka to offset costs of conservation leaflets for tourists {Oryx, Dec. 1977, p.l 17); £20 to J. A. Fowler of Leicester Polytechnic for ecological studies in the maritime approaches to the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal, Shetland. Legacies and Gifts FPS is most grateful for the following gifts of £20 and over, totalling £9794, and for other smaller gifts received between October 1977 and March 1978: Legacies L. Sheriff £6300 Mrs G.H. Soward £25 Gifts Anonymous £2000 Dr A.A. Spriggs £50 Mrs V.H. Williams £25 Oryx 100% Fund St Katharine's Fund (including £450 earmarked for the East African Wild Life Society) £750 F. Hammer (earmarked for whales) £500 K. Richards £50 C.A. Winnington Ingram £30 S. Rostron £24 Miss M.R. Silverman £20 Mrs. J.M. Watt £20 Grevy's Zebra and Mountain Gorilla Appeals Early this year FPS launched appeals for two endangered species: Grevy's zebra in Kenya and the mountain gorillas on the Rwanda-Zaire border, both under attack from poachers. By March 31 nearly £500 had been received for the zebra and nearly £4000 for the gorillas. A report on these appeals will appear in the next issue. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 14:41:40, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300015453.
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