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From the NS archive: The homing of sea-swallows

28 August 1915: The success of the homing depends partly on the vigour of the birds, and partly on the smiles of fortune, as expressed, for…

By J Arthur Thomson

From the NS archive: The homing of sea-swallows

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From the NS archive: The harvest of the sea

2 September 1922: "Fishes are merely links in an endless nutritive chain."

By J Arthur Thomson

From the NS archive: Right whales

12 January 1918: An appreciation of the evolutionary wonder of the right whale, a long-lived, dumb, peace-loving creature – too gentle to survive…

By J Arthur Thomson

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