Alice Lady Avebury

Brodifacoum Residue Analysis in Water, Soil, Invertebrates, and Birds after Rat Eradication on Lady Alice Island

Cereal-based pellets containing 20 ppm brodifacoum (Talon® 20P) (ICI Crop Care, Richmond) were aerially applied by helicopter over Lady Alice Island at a rate of 12 kg ha on 27 October 1994. Water samples (100 mL) were randomly taken from streams before and 2, 12, and 34 days after the poison operation. Soil samples were taken from random sites on the island before and 2, 12, 34, and 210 days a...

Alice Sullivan

Biographical note: Alice Sullivan is a Research Officer at the Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education, University of London. Current projects include a study of co-educational and single-sex schooling. Acknowledgements: Many thanks to John Bynner, Anthony Heath, Geoffrey Walford and two referees. This work was funded by an ESRC studentship.

The Lady Almoner

j'HOUSANDS of patients pass through the doors of a great hospital every year, and not all are ln-patients. Many receive advice and treatment ^hich can be carried out at home, and in every hospital the out-patient department is very important. Long hours are devoted by skilled physicians and surgeons to the treatment of out-patients, but having given their help, what is impossible to the medical...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

One Old Lady

Paul Bailey's first novel, 'At the Jerusalem', led to wide acclaim from the critics of a new writer of major importance. Dr. Ralph Emery, a psychiatrist, at Brookwood Hospital, Woking, who specialises in the problems of the elderly, reviews this story of This is not an entertaining book. It is not meant to be. Any pleasure in reading it is entirely derived from its literary merit and masterly u...