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Nearly 5,000 miles from familiar forests, the traveling New Zealand naturalists were delighted to find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
...higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone. Plants and insects capable of crossing moderate water gaps could have used Antarctica as a bridge between New Zealand and Australia on one side and South America on the other. Some of the flora and fauna may even have evolved in pleasant Antarctic valleys that are now covered by two miles...
IVAN A. MITCHELL Dunedin, New Zealand...
Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...
...Decided to name liberal Democrat Anthony Akers, 46, a three-time loser of fights for the congressional seat in Manhattan's silk-stocking 17th District (incumbent: Republican John Lindsay), as Ambassador to New Zealand...