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Spring 1985, Vol. 4, No. 1 The ISC Newsletter NEW NEPAL BEAR NOW IN DOUBT

The S p r i n g , 1 9 8 4 , i s s u e o f the New s l e t t er rep o r t ed o n t he f i n d i n g s o f a t e a m f r o m the Wo o d l an d s I n s t i t u t e i n Wes t V i r g i n i a c o n c e r n i n g the i r f i e l d w o rk i n Nep a l whi ch i n d i c a t ed

The first meg amouth shark was a c c i d en t a l ly c a u gh t o ff Haw a i i i n a p ara chu te anchor l o wered by a U.S. N avy re s e arch vessel in N ovemb er of 1 9 7 6 . The o nly s p e c i m en kno w n , i t w a s re c e n t l y

PROPORTIONS An art i c le by Di ana ben-Aaron i n the A p r i l , 1 9 8 4 , i s s u e o f Technoloiy Review revea led t he new s tha t S ov i e t s c i en t i s t s h a d s u c c eeded i n p ro d u c i n g - o r

CRYPTOZOOLOGY A g ro up o f p er s o ns i n t ere s ted i n c ryp t o z o o l o gy at N o rth Id ah o Co l le g e, i n Coeur d 'A l ene , have f o rmed the N o rth Id aho Co l l e g e

J ohn T. R o b in s o n , a m em b er o f t he Edit o rial Bo ard o f t he S o c ie ty's j o u rn a l Cryptozooloiy, has s te p p e d down b e c a u s e of ill h e a l t h. A t t h e s a m e t im e ,

F i n a l p l an s have b een m a d e for t he c ryp t o z o o l o gy symp o s i u m b e i n g he l d i n Bri gh t o n , En g l an d o n Ju ly 7 , 1 9 8 5 , a s p art o f t he III In t ern a t i o n a l C o n gre s s o f Sys tematic and Evolution ary Bio

The C o n g re s s , he l d every five years i n a d i ffere n t c o u n t ry, i s b e i n g s p o n s o re d t h i s y e a r b y s ev e r a l p re s t i g i o u s B r i t i s h g ro up s , i n c l u d i n g the Roy a l S o c i e t y. It ru n s f r o m J u ly 4 t o

To the Edi tor : I wa s s ad t o l e arn abou t Pro f e s s o r S imp s on's dem i s e - and o f h i s c r i t i c a l p ap e r on c ryp t o z oo l o gy. He was a g ood f r i end o f many memb e r s of my

The l a r g e s t l i v i n g l i z a r d i s the Komodo m on i t or or Ora (Vara n u s ko m o d o ) , a d r a g o n-like rep t i l e f o u n d on t he I n d o n e s i a n i s l an d s o f K o m o d o , R i n tj a, Pa d ar , and F l o re s .

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The Winter, 1984, Newsletter (Vol. 3, No. 4), discussed alle gations in th e September, 1984, issu e of D is c o v e r magazine claiming that the famous 1972 Nessie flipper photo had b e en

The Board of Directors of the Society met on May 24, 1985, the day before the Annual Membership Me eting (se e s eparate artie 1 e, this issue) to discuss past and anticipat e d progr e s s of th e

The Society's third Member ship Me eting was held in San Diego, California, on Saturday, May 2 5, and was att e n d e d by about 60 members from the South ern California area.

To the Editor: The stir over Sasquatch in California and Skamania County , Washington (see Newsletter , Sum mer , 1984) , and involving Jon B e ckj ord , c e rtainly revived

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The I n t erna t i onal Society of Cry p t oz oology sponsored a one day symposium ent i t led: t o z oo logy : T h e S e a r c h for

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The Onza, a supposed puma like felid of Northwest Mexico, has been receiving renewed attention. It was noted as dis tinct from the puma in Spanish colonial and missionary chroni

The Society acknowledges the support of 80 Sustaining Members who assisted with contributions above the required $25 fee dur ing the 1985 membership period.

formally described, which may Groves will

RAN C H ERS I N SINAL OA. A T EAH IS G OING T O MEXI C O T O EXAMIN E AN D DISSECT THE ANIMAL. DETAILS TO APPEAR IN THE SPRING 1986 ISSUE. Members: Andre Capart (Belgium); Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (South Africa); David James (United

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In November of 1981, news bulletins reported on the claimed rediscovery of the sup posedly long-extinct yellow fronted gardener bowerbird (Amb1 yornis f1 a vifrons) in New

FOUND ALIVE IN CUBA The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) has been the subject of heated debate since World War II among ornithologists, conservation

The Society's 1986 Membership Meeting was held on June 14, 1986, in the Dora DeLee Audi torium of the University o f Chicago Medical Center.

The Board of Directors of the Society met on June 13, 1986 (one day prior to the 1986 Mem bership Meeting), in the Depart ment of Biology, The University of Chicago. Leigh Van Valen, a

At its annual meeting on June 13 in Chicago, the Society's establishment of the Crypto zoology Operations Foundation Group (COFG), an entity which

January, 1986 "I would have loved to have been on that flight and taken that risk with them. In truth, everything in life that's worth

Eugen ie Clark and David Heppe1 1, who have been serving on the Editorial Board of tozoology since the Society's found ing in 1982, have been elected by the Board of Direct

One of the interesting dis coveries that were made in Loch Ness during the Academy of Applied Science (AAS) work there in the 197 0 's was the sonar detection of a crashed aircraft.

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In August, 1985, both AP and U P I w i r e d d i s patches from Beijing, People's Republic of China, reporting the discovery of enormous, red fish in a remote l ake in the Xin j i ang

Most persons interested in Sasquatch will have heard of--or even seen- -the f amed 1 96 7 Patterson-Gimlin film footage, labeled a hoax by debunkers and the best evidence on record by

The Sixth Annual Membership Meeting of the Society has been scheduled for Saturday and Sun day, July 25-26, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This unprecedented 2day event--the Society's second

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Dmitri Bayanov Darwin Muaeum Moec:ow, U.S.S.R. Drawing by the witness, Mrs. B. Clark, of an animal she saw in Lake Okanagan in

Dep.rt;u.nt ofBiology New York Univwsity New York, New York, U.S.A. David Heppell MoDuca Section

Tbe Univwsity of Chic:aao Cbicqo, Illinoia, U.S.A. BeijiJic Natural Hiatory Muaeum

An American physical anthro pologist specializing in primate and human evolution has given a formal name to t he reported Sasquatch (Bigfoot) of the Paci

The first inkling that some thing was afoot came from a brief article in London's Daily Mail o n May 3, 1986. Britons," the Mail stated, ''will

at the State University of New York, St ony B r ook, in 19 78, after which he conducted post doctoral research at the Center for Marine Studies at the Uni versity of Ca 1 ifornia at Santa

It is with deep regret that the Society announces the death of Da vid James, one of its Hon orary Members, at his Torosay Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotlan The following obituary was writ

It hardly seems possible, but 5 years have passed since Rich ard Greenwell and I sat down with a group of scientists at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institu

The program for the Society's 1987 Membership Meeting in Edin burgh has been finalized. stated in previous newsletters,

IN THE 1980s Afternoon Session Morning Session

Morning Session

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THE EVIDENCE, AND WHAT HE PLANS TO DO ABOUT IT The so -ca l Zed "cri pp l e -fo o t" Sasquatch e v e n ts of 1969-70 a t

The University of Cbicqo Chicqo, Illinoia, U.S.A. J. Richard Greenwell, Secrwt4ry International Society of Cryptozoology

The monster of Lake Memphre magog, in Quebec, Canada, ha s joined the ranks of the crypto zoological elite. As a result of recent sightings, and the fact that the 3 2-mile-long lake

American members of the Soci ety wi 1 1 no doubt ha ve not i ced the sensational headlines of the weekly tabloid newspapers on sale at the checkout counters o f supermarkets, whi ch o ften dis

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The Society's 1 988 Membership M e e t i ng h a s b e e n s c h e d uled f or - - " T e c hn i que s

Mang iacopra --" Searching for Crypt ic Deep

I n 1 ate Septe rober, 1987 , UP I carried a report from the Soviet meters, and its weight is up to spread far and wide, as well as

The S o c i e ty i s p a r t i c ularly

including Loch

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The venerable Loch Ness Mon ster--better known in the Scot tis h Highlands as ''Nessie"--was the subject of another intensive search in October, 198 7, w hen a fleet of boats conducted a sonar

It is with great sadness that e m ust announce the death of our good friend Tim insdale. As most readers ill kn, Dinsdale as the princip al in vestigator of the Loch Ness Monster, having

CRYPTOZOOLOGY E. J. Brill, the major Dutch scientific publisher, has become interested enough in cryptozool ogy to invest in the publishing

SECRETARIAT Members in Europe are remind e d of the e x i s te n ce of the Society's European Secretariat, located near Geneva, Switzer land. The European Secretariat

d i s c u s sed

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In the mid-19th century, startling discovery was made in

RECEIVE GIFT For the first time,

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The Association

As announced previously, Soviet Association of Crypto

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and news broadcasts nationwide.

The year was 1948. In Clear

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est sharks in the world, as most shark species do not exceed 6 or In August of 1988, Tim Berra,

rella have joined the

The Secretariat is pleased to

THE COELACANTH 50 YEARS LATER

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TON AND GILLS FISH DESCR IBED. " He then wrote her a letter ex pressing the potential im por tance of the find, but hesitant t o s a y t o o m u c h , le s t h e b e

Hendri k Goosen was the trawl er captain whose nets brought up t he firs t coe lacanth in Dece mber Now retired and s t i ll li v i ng i n Eas t L o n do n , S ou t h

BIBLIOGRAPHY Ma n y p ub li c a t i o ns o n t h e coelacanth have appeared since its discovery 5 0 years ago. The following bibliography, arranged in chronological order, includes

In 193 1, a young naturalist named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer became the first curator of the fledging East Londo n Museum, located on the south Cape Coast

The J.L.B. Smith Institute of I chthyology is located in the pict ures que c o mmunity of Grahamstown, about a two-ho ur drive inland from the south Cape

OF OLD FISHES In t h e m i d - 19 6 0 ' s , w h e n University o f Washington bio c h e m i s t G e o rg e W . B r ow n w a s working on fro zen coelacanth liver, he and his wife Susan

CONSERVATION The Coelacanth Conservation Council ( CC C ) was founded in 19 87 b y a group of ichthyolo gists concerned that the coela

DOES THE SASQUATCH EXIST AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT? IN A WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW, JOHN GREEN ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM

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a.m.rdHeuwlman., c.... forCeyptozoolocy 9 Aile ct. .Ac.Kiaa I.e VWaet 71110, France RoyP. Mackal, Viu

80AilD OFDIRECI'ORS Dmitri ...,_. .IWict Hominoid Raeardl Seminar Duwin Mulewn Moecow, U.S.S.R.

This story has a very mundane beginning - like events in the history of natural history. It begins in 1985, when

We are pleased to announce that 128 members availed them selves of the opportunity to become Sustaining Members for 1989 by contributing amounts higher than the required $30 (or

cryptozoological investigators province of British Columbia

The Editor regrets to an nounce the death of renowned artist and ornithologist Sir

CONFERENCE: FINAL REMINDER Members are reminded that the

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Dmitri Bayanov Relict Hominoid Research Seminar Darwin Muleum Moecow, U.S.S.R. Eric Buffetau t Laboratory of Vertebrate and

The Secretariat has only recently learned of the death, about two years ago, of Benefactor Joe Wolfskill, who had had a long-time interest in crypto zoology and had been a collaborator of ISC President Bernard Heuvelmans. Our

We regret to announce the death of Harold "Doc" Edgerton, inventor of the strobe flash and long-time participant in Loch Ness research. He died of a heart attack at age 86 on January 4, 1990. Edgerton was an MIT engineering pro

It is with deep regret that we must announce that retired fishing trawler skipper Captain Hendrik Goosen, of East London, South Africa, died at age 85 on January 5, 1990.

MEDICAL ADVISOR The Board of Directors has moved to appoint a Field Medical Advisor within the Society. The volunteer post will be taken up by Michael J. Manyak, M.D., of the George Washington University

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Dmitri Bayanov Relict Hominoid Research Seminar Darwin Museum Moscow, U.S.S.R. Eric Buffetaut Laboratoty of Vertebrate and

British members may now pay for sterling not just to the ISC Secretariat for Europe, in Switzerland, but also to the main Secretariat in Arizona. More liberal banking restrictions now allow

It finally happened. Vol. 1 of Cr_mto zoology, published when the Society was first founded in 1982, is out of stock. The numbers have been dWindling for some time, and the Board of Directors has been agonizing over what to do

Did you know that an African zoologist claims to have seen Mokele Mbembe, the supposed sauropod dino saur of the Congo? Did you know that an oceanographer has been able to calculate the sizes of the objects

JOURNAL EDITOR Troy Best, a member of the Editorial Board of Cr_mtozoology, has been appointed editor of the Journal of Mammalqgy, published by the American

Society members J. Richard Green well and Frank E. Poirier visited China in October/November, 1989, to evaluate the evidence for the Chinese Wildman. Greenwell, who serves as ISC Secretary, and Poirier, who serves on the Editorial

ISC member--"approaches each of his subjects with an impressionist's brush, attempting to capture the essence of the creatures. His pieces are neither frivo lous nor ponderous, but are serious, optimistic musings from the perspective

SUBJECT OF JOINT CONFERENCE should be addressed to ISC, P. 0. Box 43070, Tucson, AZ 85733, USA; Tel. (602) 884-8369. News media services may quote up to 250 words from this

around the traditional and colorful use disappearance occurred while on a of hobby horses which accompany This Autumn, 1990, newsletter will be family vacation near Cedar Key, on the dancing teams in the English Morris

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obtained, six of which became residents of the Zurich Zoo in an attempt to establish a breeding colony. The new monitor lizard discovered in Yemen· (Newsletter. Winter 1989) has

MYSTERIOUS MUSTELID In late 1988, Canadian park and wildlife officials began an intensive investigation of reported sightings of black-footed ferrets, Mustela niiUipes. in the Waterton Lakes National Park,

The Secretariat is seeking members with a working knowledge of French or German who have the time and interest to do translation work. There is occasional need of English trans

The Society's Tenth Annual Member ship Meeting has- been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 1991, at Texas A. & M. University at Galveston, hosted by Bernd Wursig, in the Department of Marine Biology. Dr. Wursig, a member

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A comprehensive bibliography listing books, articles, news clippings, and miscellaneous documents about the search for the Loch Ness Monster--and the controversy over its existence--has been compiled by ISC member Henry

and so forth--one employs the software SUPERFILE, or later version FYI3000 available for both DOS and CP/M systems, from Software Marketing Associates (Austin, TX 787746, U.SA., tel. 512/327-3091). Dr. Bauer recom

After six years of operation, the Society's European Secretariat has been closed. The Secretariat has been operated out of Prangins, Switzerland, by Ned Winn, who is soon to retire to North America. The Secretariat has

Canada Post Corp., the Canadian postal agency, released a set of four new stamps on October 1, 1990, three of which feature cryptozoological animals: the Sasquatch (Bigfoot), Ogopogo (the Lake Okanagan monster), and the

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that 186 members added donations to their 1990 membership payments, thus becoming Sustaining Members for the year, and setting a new record--surpassing the previous

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ALIVE AND STUDIED Bernard HeuvelmaDs, Plwitklrt

Dmitri Bayanov Relict Hominoid Resarch Seminllr Darwin Museum Moscow, U.S.S.R. Eric Buffetaut Laboratory of Vertebrate and

al's return to the U.S., Mr. Kosi--who had stayed on--claimed a sighting from a distance of about 1,000 feet. He described the animal as a giant glider, black with white markings.

TO BE HELD AT BROWN UNIVERSITY The Society's 11th Annual Member ship Meeting will be held on Saturday, May 16, 1992, at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island. The meet ing, which will celebrate the lOth

As the Society approaches its lOth anniversary, membership still hovers at about 800. This is about 300 fewer than needed to cover all annual expen ditures--resulting in the Society having to beg, borrow, and steal every year to

The Secretariat regrets to announce the death of ISC Honorary Member lngo Krumbiegel, considered by many to be Gennan y'most renowned m amm alogist. He was elected an Honorary Member at the Society's founding in 1982 because

AND SUBSPECIES 1928: Minute foraminifere of the Baltic Sea, Shepheardella encommatophila (Protozoa, Foraminifera).

A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SASQUATCH J. Richard Greenwell The ISC Newsletter is an ofliciaJ publication of the

A previous newsletter (Spring, 1988) in snout-vent length (SVL) than the 91). Fortunately, the Newsletter used

donating an extra amount to the Society, however small it may The previous newsletter outlined

They're at it again. The weekly supermarket tabloid papers, that is. I have received a number of calls and letters in recent months inquiring about the supPosed sensational crypto zoological discoveries reported by such

We regret to announce the death on April 24, 1991, of JSC Honorary MemberAndre Capart, Belgium •s most distinguished oceanographer. President Bernard Heuvelmans had

A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SASQUATCH addraled to ISC Seaaariat, P. 0. Box 43070, 'l'lcloD, AZ IS733, USA; Tel. (602) 114-1369. The ISC Newsletter is DOt ilsued for pei1IIDCIIt sciadific

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In late 1989, when I was in China investigating the Wildman situation with Frank Poirier, an interesting report of another kind came my way. Our interpreter, Zheng Xu, told me about an incident which had occurred

We are pleased to announce that Volume 1 of the Society's journal, and all outstanding orders have been Those who were willing to pre-pay

In the last 1990 newsletter, it was noted that a record 1 86 members had ------------

The ISC Newslener is an official publication of the Inter INDICATE SEPARATE SPECIES national Society of Cryptozoology (ISC), and is published for

Aaru M. Ballel' Department ofBiology Villanova University Villanova. Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Peter A. Jaszi Washington College of Law The American University Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Forrest G. Wood, one of the Societys founding directors and a well-known marine biologist, died on May 17, 1992. The following obituary was written by his friend (and Newsletter Editor) J. Ri chard Greenwell.

We're back. After a long delay, Th e ISC Newsletter is back. And, soon, our schol arly journal Cryptozoology will also be That let-down had a sort of cascading

Five individuals, Aaron M. Bauer, C.K. Dr. Bauer served as a lecturer at the Uni Brain, Angelo P. Capparella, Christine

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ISC Membership Survey CI996 International Society of Cryptozoology

When returning their survey forms to the Secretariat, many members wrote com ments and opinions concerning the So ciety and its publications.Most of these were positive.While space does not per mit publication of all the letters and

"We were drifting easily along on the Now, as many ISC members will know, $1,000 reward to anyone who could pro

The Editor welcomes letters from read ers on any topic related to crypto zoology, but reserves the right to shorten them or make slight changes to improve clarity or style, but not meaning.

J. Richard Greenwell The /SC Newsletter is an official publication of the lnterna tional Society of Cryptozoology (ISC), and is published quar terly for ISC members and institutional subscribersMembership/

A Panel Discussion to Celebrate the Society's 1Oth Anniversary Cl996lnternational Society ofCryptozoology

Three ISC members have joined the journal Cryptozoology. They are John Colarusso, a linguist, Leigh M. Van Valen, an evolutionist, and Michael P. Walters, an ornithologist.

The article appeared in Vol. 7, No. 2 ( 1988) of the Newsletter, but on p. 9 "back with the corset adds," as Richard Nixon used to say. It was about the re discovery ofNigerian gorillas I never thought it would attract much

A Vietnamese zoologist has publicly supported the proposition that large and unknown bipedal primates "wildmen"-inhabit the forests of Viet Dao Van Tien, of the Department of

REPORTED BY THREE WITNESSES subscribers.Membership/subscription inquiries and corre spondence should be addressed to the ISC Secretariat, P.O. Box 43070, Tucson, Arizona (AZ) 85733, U.S.A. Tel/Fax: 520/884-8369.

This newsletter features a remarkable I don't raise these questions merely as In this respect, I recall a physical an

PROPOSED ANEW bers h i p and subscription inquiries and correspondence should be addres$ed to the ISC SecJ:etarjat, P.O. 'BQx 43070, Tucson. Arizona {AZ) 85733, U.S.A. Tel/Fax: 520/884-8369.

Over the years, the Secretariat has been the recipient of many communica tions from young people. Generally, these may be divided into three categories. The first category has encompassed letters

As explained previously (Newsletter, Vol. 11, No.4), a new publishing schedule has been adopted so as to get caught up with publications. Thus, Vol. 12 of both the journal and newsletter covers the years 1993-1996. This consolidation was made

In December of 1938, a young natu ralist named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer retrieved a strange-looking blue fish from a trawler in East London, South Africa. The fish turned out to be a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a form known

Two Russian scholars, Boris V . Sapunov, of the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), and Valentin B. Sapunov, of the Depart ment of Control of Medical and Biologi cal Systems at St. Petersburg (formerly

The ISC Newsletter sian over the next centuries, and Sapunov and Sapunov have no doubt concerning the correct identification of the Pskov

The Society regrets t o announce the death of charter member V ladimir Mar katie, an archaeologist at The Univer sity of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. The following obituary was written by his

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We regret to announce the death of Bob Titmus, one of the very early Sas quatch/Bigfoot investigators and an Honorary Member of the Society. The fol lowing obituary was written by his long time friend and associate John Green.

Bluff Creek. The name resonates throughout the Bigfoot literature, and for the cognoscenti it has a particular rel evance. It was there, on a small stretch of that Northern California creek, that, on Oc tober 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob

The news never made it into the U.S. press. It wasn't even a front page story in most Canadian newspapers. However, a remarkable event occurred in the east ern Canadian province of New Brunswick

What was it? (From a Correspondent) Loch Ness has for gen

Kr an t z and Dianne traveled to the Peo ple ' s Republic of China in June and met with Zhou Guo at the Beijing Natural

Dear Editor : "Olentangy Monster" ( The

ANNOUNCEMENT " But Bear Lake I Utah I is

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Eric Buffetaut Laboratory of Vrtbrat and Human Palrontolol(y Unlrslly of Parts VI Parts. F'rantt Joseph F. Gennaro

Dear Editor: This concerns your ar incident (Newsletter, Spring,

81Gf00T JUST DOESN'T FlT lNTO y Of OUR EVOLUTION ARY FRAMEWORS !'

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Beresford, Quentin, and Garry Bailey

Abell, George 0., and Barry Singer (eds.) 1981 Science and the Paranor New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 414

TO MOKELE MBEMBE A LEADING CRYPTOZOOLOGIST DISCUSSES HIS THOUGHTS AND

way of look i n g at t hi n gs . " ci den t ally ,

(602) 884-8369. foi i f. :f b Congolese Biologist Observes Mokele- Mbernbe

Followers of "lake monster" lore in North America will be well acquainted with Ogopogo,

Location of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia (see arrow), supposed home of Ogopogo (map not necessarily authoritative).

Cryptozoology, the Society's interdisciplinary, nal, was recently reviewed in Nature, a British weekly science

Volume 2 of Cryptozoology was recently by Press, and was mailed to all members and institutional sub

1 984 Membership Meetinz of the Society will be held on 1 984, at the University

After a slow start, reports of Champ sightings were made at an unprecedented rate in Joseph Zarzynski, in his annual

ANIMAL FACTS

FORWA R D I N G A N D RETURN POSTAG E GUARANTEED

PROPOSED SASQUATCH HUNT STIRS NEW CONTROVERSIES

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The Board of Directors of the Society met on June 8 , University of Paris VI,

Following a not-too-compli mentary review of Cry p t o z oolo g y i n Nat u re by Princeton ecologist Robert May (see Spring, Newsle t t er ) ,

Members wishing t o order back issues of the Newsl e t t e r and journal may first request free t ables of contents list ing the titles of all pub

"The large s t living chelonian leat herback cor i a ce a

THE FATHER OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY GIVES HIS VIEWS ON MANY MATTERS

had to work in an independent capacity, separate from estab lished research institutions or universities. His first book on

HUNT UNSUCCESSFUL As reported in the Summer, Mark Keller, 1984, Newsletter, an ex-Army ranger from Califor nia, announced plans to track

MEETING SCHEDULED The 19 85 Membership Meeting of the Society will be held in San Diego, California, on Satur day, May 2 5, at the Hubbs-Sea world Research Institute, the

Members are reminded that the 1985 membership period begins on March 1, or upon receipt of the

Because of steadily increas ing membership in several Euro pean countries, the Society is establishing a Secretariat for Europe, based in Switzerland, near Geneva .

This issue contains the long awaited Society Policy State The Statement,

The main purpose for which the International Cryptozoology was formed is as stated in its Constitution: promote scientific inquiry, education, and communication" among

the scene of the Third Interna tional Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology

PHOTO CLAIMED-DENIED 'e,nl<'lter i' an official puhli<'ation of the Intt•rnational Society of Cn ptomolo).(y. and is puhlishcd for

(f>02) l!/l4-ll3(;fl. ;;; : "'::rJi"hc dd: 1':t•w, media 'ier\ices may quote up to 2.')0 word' from this publication, provided that tlw \OIIrt'<' is given.

TO ALLEGATIONS PUBLISHED BY DISCOVER MAGAZINE In an article appearing in

"The Surgeon's Monster is the title of an article which appeared in the April 20, 1984, issue of The British Journal of Photograph y.

Robert H . Rines Harold E . Edgerton Charles W. Wyckoff Martin Klein Robert Needleman Howard S . Curtis

Final plans have been made for the 1985 Membership Meeting in San Diego, to be held on

TO BE ADDRESSED session on "Fantastic Zoology, " European ISC members may

The 1985 Annual Congress of the German Zoological Society, to be held in Vienna, May 27-June 2, will include a

CRITICIZES CRYPTOZOOLOGY early 1984, the Proceed

Gaylord Simpson, noted paleontologist and evolu