Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

INTRODUCTION. IN March, 1959, the Belfast Hospitals Management Committee appointed a fulltime research mycologist, and subsequently a routine mycological diagnostic service was established at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Since then a series of annual reports in this journal (Mackenzie and McArdle, 1960; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Bell, 1961; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Rusk, 1962, 1963) have described f...

James D. Nichols, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 11510 American Holly Drive, Laurel, MD 20708–4017, U.S.A. E–mail: [email protected] Darryl I. MacKenzie, Proteus Research & Consulting Ltd., PO Box 5193, Dunedin, New Zealand. E– mail: [email protected] Nichols, J. D. & MacKenzie, D. I., 2004. Abundance estimation and Conservation Biology. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 27.1...