Editorial :

Obituary- Dato Sir Mahmud bin Mat, Dato Setia Wangsa of Pahang, K.B.E. by P.R. Wycherley

 

Article :

1. Preliminary Observation on Nesting Returns of the Leathery Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea Linn.) in Central Trengganu by E. Balasingam & Tho Yow Pong
2. Observations on the Biology of the Termite Dicuspidetermes nemorosus (Haviland) by Tho Yow Pong
3. More Notes on Butterfly Collecting on Langkawi Island by D. Pasteur
4. Ridley and Batu Caves by Paul R. Wycherley

 

Notes

• Charaxes harmodius a Rare Species of Butterfly in Malaya by Michael K.P. Yeh 
• A Rare Species of Chilasa from the Highlands of Malaya by D. Pasteur
• Durio malaccensis Planch. with pink-tinged Flowers by E.A. Heaslett
• An Unusual Papaya from Kampong Kerinchi, Kuala Lumpur by N. Prakash

 

Letters to the Editor

• Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing in Trengganu by T.C. Whitmore
• A Leathery Turtle Caught in Cornish Water by G.A. Watson

 

Reports

• Bird Report 1969 compiled by D.R. Wells
• Report on the Results of Essay Competition on Flood, Causes and Prevention by F.C. Vohra & V.M. Pa/aniappan
• Report of the 23rd. Annual General Meeting 1969-70.

 

School Section

• Flood, Causes and Prevention by Yap Chee Keng
• Banjir, Sebab dan Penchegahan by Faizah bt. Zainuddin

Editorial:

Botany

• Some Common Large Fungi in Malaysia and Singapore by G. Lim
• Natural History of the Kinabalu Buttercup by J.M.B. Smith
• Cycad Seeds as Food in Malaya by Hsuan Keng

 

Hydrology

Interception Loss in the Humid Forested Areas (with special re­ference to Sungai Lui Catchment, W. Malaysia) by Low Kwai Sim

 

Zoology

• A Brief Report on Copulatory and Perinatal Behaviour of the Lesser Malayan Mouse Deer (Tragulus javanicus) by Francis C. Cadigan, Jr.
• Notes on the Babblers of South Johore by Jan Teesdale
• Frogs of Tasek Bera by Kiew Bong Heang
• The Natural History of West Malaysian Mangrove Faunas by A.J. Berry

 

Notes

• New Record of Butterflies from Perak by Michael K.P. Yeh
• Additions to the Malayan Flora, III by Benjamin C. Stone
• Fruits, Seeds and Seedlings of Frangipani (Plumeria) by M. Ratnasabapathy
• The Status of Hume’s Tree Babblers in the Malay Peninsula by Jan Teesdale
• Trogonoptera Brookiana Albescens Rothschild 1895 – a new variety of butterfly by H.S. Barlow

 

Letters to the Editor

• Catapaecilma subochrea evansi by W.A. Fleming
• Nest of the Giant Swiftlet by F.G.H. Allen
• Thecla absolon (Pendlebury) by Michael K.P. Yeh

 

Book Reviews

• A guide to Batu Caves
• FLENLEY, J.R. (Editor). The Water Relations of Malesian Forests by T.C. Whitmore
• Revised Flora of Malaya, III. Grasses. by E. Soepadmo
• WHITMORE, T.C. (Editor). Tree Flora of Malaya by E. Soepadmo

Editorial

Introduction by E. Soepadmo

Invertebrates

• Invertebrate Animals (other than insects) by A.I. Berry
• Terrestrial Arthropods by J.A. Bullock
• Lepidoptera by H. Barlow

 

Vertebrates

• Amphibians, Reptiles and Fishes by P.Y. Berry
• Birds in the Malayan Nature Journal; an Annotated Bibliography for .the Years 1940-1972 by D.R. Wells
• Mammals of Malaysia: An Annotated Bibliography of vol. 1-24 of the Malayan Nature Journal by Francis C. Cadigan, Jr.

 

Plants
Malayan Botany and the Malayan Nature Journal Vols. 1-24 and A Short Note on Amorphophallus cf. prainii Hook f. by E. Soepadmo

 

Caves
Cave Biology in Malaysia by I.A. Bullock

 

Conservation

Conservation and the Malayan Nature Journal by Mohd. Khan b. Momin Khan & I.A. Bullock

 

Geology 

Geology and the Malayan Nature Society by Peter H. Stauffer