10 JULY 1947, Page 16

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SIR,—Not wishing to take undeserved credit for artificial spontaneity, may I assure your radio critic that my sudden arrival from Lapland in the middle of a Nature Parliament broadcast in The Children's Hour on June 29th was quite distressingly genuine and was occasioned by a headwind over the North Sea.—Yours faithfully, PETER SCOTT. The Severn Wildfowl Trust, The New Grounds, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.