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W.F.Perrin, B. Wursig and J. G. M., Thewissen, eds. Academic Press, 2002. xxxviii + 1414 pp. In, Marine Mammal Science, vol.19, (3), 599-606 259*. R.M.LAWS, BRYDEN, M M and BAIRD, A. 2003c. The breeding season and embryonic diapause in crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophagus). Reproduction, 126, 365-370. 417
Short curriculum vitae of Richard M. Laws Dr Richard Maitland LAWS; CBE (1983); s of Percy Malcolm Laws (d 1962), and Florence May Laws, MBE, née Heslop (d 1983); b 23 April 1926; Educ Dame Allan's Sch Newcastle upon Tyne, St Catharine's Coll Cambridge (open scholarship, res scholarship, MA, PhD, ScD); m Maureen Isobel Winifred, da of late George Leonard Holmes; 3 s (Richard Anthony, Christopher Peter, Andrew David); Career biologist Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1947-53, biologist and whaling inspr on factory ship Balaena in Antarctic 1953-54, PSO Nat Inst of Oceanography 1954-61; director of Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology Uganda and Univ of Cambridge 1961-67, Tsavo Res Project Kenya 1967-68; Smuts Meml fellowship Univ of Cambridge 1968-69, Leverhulme fellowship 1969, head Life Sciences Div Br Antarctic Survey 1969-73; director of Br Antarctic Survey 1973-87, NERC Sea Mammal Res Unit 1977- 87; Univ of Cambridge: master St Edmund's Coll 1985-96, memb Financial Bd 1988-91, memb Cncl of Senate 1989-92, chm Local Examinations Syndicate 1990-94; SCAR: UK memb working Gp on Biology 1972-90 (chm 1980-86), memb Gp of Specialists on Seals 1972-98 (convenor 1972-88), memb working Gp on Logistics 1974-80, memb BIOMASS Exec 1976-91, president of SCAR 1990-94 (memb SCAR Exec 1990-98), hon memb 1996; Food and Agric Orgn UN: memb Working Pty on Marine Mammals 1974-77 (chm 1976-77), chm Scientific Consultation on Conservation and Mgmt of Marine Mammals and their Environment 1976; hon lectr Makerere Univ Uganda 1962-66, hon memb Soc for Marine Mammalogy 1994, hon warden Uganda Nat Parks 1996; Bruce Meml medal for Antarctic work RSE 1954, scientific medal Zoological Soc of London 1966, Polar medal (1976, second clasp 2001); foreign memb Norwegian Acad of Science and Letters 1998; hon fell: St Catharine's Coll Cambridge 1982, St Edmund's Coll Cambridge 1996; Hon DSc Univ of Bath 1991; FZS 1960 (memb Cncl 1982-84, vice-pres 1983, sec 1984-88), FIBiol 1973 (vice-pres 1983), FRS 1980 (chm Interdisciplinary Scientific Ctee on Antarctic Res 1988-93); author of numerous res pubns in scientific journals, books and reviews; Books Elephants and their Habitats (with I S C Parker and R C B Johnstone, 1975), Scientific Research in Antarctica (jt ed with V E Fuchs, 1977), Antarctic Ecology (ed 1984), Antarctic Nutrient Cycles and Food Webs (jt ed with W R Siegfried and P R Condy, 1985), Antarctica - The Last Frontier (1989), Life at Low Temperatures (jt ed with F Franks, 1990), Antarctica and Environmental Change (jt ed with D J Drewry and J A Pyle, 1992), Antarctic Seals: Research Methods and Techniques (ed, 1993), Elephant Seals: Population Ecology, Behaviour, and Physiology (jt ed with B J Le Boeuf, 1994). 418
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LARGE ANIMALS AND WIDE HORIZONS: AD
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Chapter 1 Return to Antarctic work:
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confirmed as permanent and pensiona
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Raymond Priestley, (renowned as a h
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especially albatrosses and large nu
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soon as possible. But first I had t
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Chapter 2 Antarctic Journey: l970 -
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island. The tussock was very rough
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getting off again through the surf.
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year, but the fog brought duskiness
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and be exposed to their raucous sho
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were impressive with misty greys, s
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A very fine day followed with Coron
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fish traps and later as boatman to
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one hand and raise my legs to let i
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While Jerry did some more diving, A
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was used on a 350 m nylon rope, run
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Signy and work on the island before
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waves washing over the lower areas.
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I then wrote up the day's results.
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were very few suitable haul-out are
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on specific research areas was set
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studies of the seven Antarctic seal
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England), "Za CCCR" (to the USSR) a
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in 1973 the total staff was some 35
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Surprisingly there was opposition w
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accommodation between for my multip
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in Stanley Harbour that evening. Ne
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I went ashore on a fine clear morni
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were swimming around the gemini. At
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Diaz. I was particularly interested
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use Grant's cooling Units and colle
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food store hut and a small general
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Back to the ship at 2.15 pm through
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about 11.30 am I went ashore - or r
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and some emperors out on the pack.
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the Pole if we had wanted and the o
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were quite different in this respec
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Chapter 6 Continuing Antarctic Jour
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destination, and the sledge parties
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Sound. The melt pools were still fr
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We held a long discussion before an
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the rainbow - a ‘Brocken spectre
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hundreds of tons detached and fell
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we had Mateus Rosé with our dinner
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iology and answering questions unti
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continued spectacular as we approac
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about a mile offshore, where we wer
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swans that flew off. Later seven of
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with the Hopsons and subsequently t
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Chapter 7 Antarctic Journeys: 1975-
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fort, through an entrance gate and
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We called in at the construction of
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more talks with people and then din
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ight sunshine, ploughing through th
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with a dusty band of Fids - they ha
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and spent some time on the bridge.
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people were having to camp on the w
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ship at N9 on Friday, when it saile
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decided not to fly a planned VLF (p
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another geophysics team. They also
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and we had tea and biscuits with th
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U. geomorphologists BAS was support
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interest of science exclam" After d
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passed a passenger ship Apollon II.
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also some black-browed albatrosses,
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ack along the shore. Back at the ho
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Hilton near the airport. Next day w
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the region: the marine otter was st
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decided that the BAS flight uplifti
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Later another male hauled out near
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(Nevertheless I think the crabeater
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and 30 females from mated pairs. Th
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elephant seals after so long, parti
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sound, the pulses quite distinct an
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overcast with a slight to moderate
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moved up the centre of the strait.
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weaned Weddell pups. The adult Wedd
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nevadas - were orange and gold with
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and Bahia Blanca, arriving at BA ab
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the community was clearly a happy o
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at the base with Clive Johnson (GA)
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upper storey to give a view, to mov
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my own hair; this has saved me both
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species; gentoos were disporting in
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New Year's Eve. We were due to arri
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dependence experiment (Bill Doidge
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new Convention on Antarctic Marine
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15. A case could be made for a surf
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Serolis went on around the coast, p
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trail in the sea, the planets Jupit
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phone call to Harold Bennett (Coron
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small restaurant - bifé de lomo of
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Probably the wind was crossing Sign
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Argentine establishment: rows of re
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after dinner watched a film "Loopho
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quality and well-maintained. This t
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I went ashore next morning to visit
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Chapter 8 South Georgia and the Fal
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Harbour. The Caiman was flying the
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drinks and lunch in his small cabin
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then received and relayed to the sh
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which was probably the ship departi
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British Territory. There was much s
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of at least one frigate. Two other
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Before he left the base, he transmi
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The first real worry came at 21.00
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Next day, while the British Fleet s
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forces came over the top to GH. The
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4. The Military Governor guarantees
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was to join forces with the RFA Tid
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y helicopter at Hestesletten and th
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Chapter 9 After the war, BAS expans
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this time Kenneth Baker, the Cabine
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Chapter 10 Antarctic Journey: l983
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move to UK, but Crown Agents would
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conditions improved, but still with
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ship in the scow, climbing aboard a
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the shelf and the ship would have t
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they had to be manouevred into posi
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among large floes with very little
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The light was good and it was calm.
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splashing as they porpoised showing
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were beautiful and the inshore wate
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Force Officer would collect us at 9
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Chapter 11 Great waters: The Southe
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South America it even flows markedl
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that there has probably been no sig
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T he unique physics and chemistry o
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day. This overall pattern is compli
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vertical water-filled channels and
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Half the zooplankton biomass in the
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some of its predators. As described
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million tons. Although little confi
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Chapter 12 Last Antarctic Journey a
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helicopters could not be used or th
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their creamy feathers accentuated b
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Oxen, and Jonathan Shanklin's first
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one skua were the only other birds
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papers and Nelson was transmitting
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totally enclosed - no open bridge w
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hypothesis. It was film night: Jame
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e made. There could be no guarantee
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completed (for that visit). Martin
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‘Sierra’ (tip of the peninsula)
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winter with everyone pulling their
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We sailed next morning. I slept, th
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involved in solving his problems. "
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Chapter 13 Scientist among Diplomat
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Consultative Meeting a Recommendati
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CRAMRA applies to the area south of
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oth within the system and to the ou
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Conservation of Antarctic Seals (CC
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species are killed outside the Anta
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Comprising about a tenth of the wor
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much of the arguments relating to t
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Chapter 14 SCAR: Four Decades of Ac
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Antarctic which was agreed at the S
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Advisers; R Fraser and E Herbays we
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national representatives". A Quater
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practice this was unworkable becaus
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Chapter 15 Master of Saint Edmund's
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forty countries, giving the College
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clearly separated; that will make p
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that all in all this would give me
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students and staff - to do somethin
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ut a basic practical requirement. H
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professional performer." "There are
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claimed, as Bursar, full delegated
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the Articles (of Associaition) l8 a
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traumatic arguments of the last few
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national legislation had superior w
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ealised that Glazebrook had been th
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I acknowledged his letter briefly,
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whether the Master had any authorit
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On 16 December the Visitor's Solici
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treatment for a nervous breakdown.
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September, without saying why. Seco
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could issue letters of the sort and
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Committee". The Committee reported
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Page 401 and 402: for Life. Filmed by C.D.B.Thomas. 1
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Page 413 and 414: 190. R.M. LAWS 1989e. A dangerous c
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