Marques, Beira and Nacala. This last is a "new" port for us, as no adopted ship of St. Peter's has called there before. It is a fine natural harbour, sheltered from all winds, five miles long, a mile and a half wide, with a narrow entrance between reefs. There is a large cement works, but as yet no wharf and ships load at anchor. Here the "Clan Stewart" loaded cotton seed oil. At Mtwara timber was loaded, at Dar-es-Salaam sisal, cotton seed, hides, beeswax and ore, at Tanga sisal, and at Mombasa all these, together with coffee and eight large turtles for storage in the domestic refrigerator. Oil bunkers were taken on at Aden. At Port Sudan coffee was discharged and 1,500 tons of cotton seed embarked, and then the "Clan Stewart made a good passage to Newcastle, except for some delay in the Channel because of fog. In all Voyage 17 involved calling at 18 ports and lasted from Christmas, which was spent in Hamburg, until 16th March, when the ship arrived at Newcastle. Voyage 18 was again to South Africa and Mozambique, but this time the return passage from Beira was via the South African ports and Dakar, not via Suez. It is hoped to include an account of this voyage in the next issue of The Peterite, and it will be the last from the "Clan Stewart" as she is being transferred to a South African company and renamed "South African Sculptor". Capt. Graham is leaving this command, but we remain with him and so are looking forward to a new adopted ship when he is appointed to a new command in due course. We have been with the "Clan Stewart" for six years, a longer period than with any of our previous adopted ships, "Grangepark" and "Holmpark" before the war, "Mountpark", "Clan Allen" and "Clan Brodie" since 1947.
THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Most of the Society's activities occur in the Summer Term, but before Easter some of the juniors had mapped out the badger runs at Moorlands, and a party went to Spurn Point in March where they were fortunate to see (and smell I) a lesser roqual whale washed up on the beach. At the A.G.M. in May the following officers were elected : — Chairman—P. Stuttard. Secretary—J. H. Ormiston. Treasurer—P. J. Gibson. 5th Form representative—I. L. Holmes. 4th Form representative—M. C. M. Anyan. Shell representative—M. J. R. Hyde. Early meetings were devoted to the problem of identifying specimens and the use of keys. The seniors who had been working on ecological problems at Malham Tarn Field Centre gave short accounts of their work, and A. B. Skiera showed a film taken there. Mr. D. H. Adams of St. John's College gave a profusely illustrated talk on "Aquatic Plants", and seemed to fill the lecture theatre with specimens. The Natural History Competition of collecting certain specimens in a given time was held on Clifton Ings and won by D. L. Marshall and M. C. M. Anyan. Towards the end of term two Russian films were shown; one, "Life in the Arctic", was very good; and one Sunday a party visited Robin 28
