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Fortean Times #35 (Summer 1981)

• Cover price: £1.00 $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by Andrzej Klimowski

Blazing Bodies + Rocky Runes + Darwin Dumped

Articles

• 02-05 The Myth of Darwinism by John Michell
• 06-09 The Grace Pett SHC: A Re-examination by Peter Christie
• 14-18 The Runamo Runes by Sven Rosen & Bob Rickard - republished in Fortean Times 177
• 30-32 Tales from Malaysia by Ahmad Jamaludin

Notes

• 10-12 Fires - SHC by RJMR
  • Credits: GW Butcher, D Colley, AR Cook, Jenny Dawson, Chris Hall, Shanla Lawford, Kenneth Mays, S Maxted, Andy Townsend, Mike Tuppen
• 13 Antiquities - Dug-up Data by SM
  • Credits: Chris Hall, Mark A Hall, Tuuri Heporauta, Valerie Martin, Paul Screeton, PR Thomas, Howard Wolinsky, Joe Zarzynski
• 32 Curiosa - photo of twisted chimney - David MacAdams
• 38 Plants - Strange Trees by PRAdeGS
  • The Crying Pecan
  • The Walking Mango Tree
  • The Miraculous Christmas Tree
  • The Smoking Tree
  • Credits: Chris Hall, Steve Hicks, Chris J Holtzhauzen, Sam, Paul Thomas
• 39-40 Alchemy - Magic Fuels by PRAdeGS
  • Credits: Al & Phyllis, Don Boates, Philip Hope Evans, Chris Hall, Sam, Ion Will
• 40-41 Heavens Above - Stars and Stuff by SM
  • Yesterday's News Today!
  • In A Spin
  • Hey, Pluto! (Arf, Arf!)
  • Solar Spasms
  • Stellar Stones
  • Credits: Jim Chambers, Peter Christie, Chris Hall, Mark A Hall, Valerie Martin, Nigel Pennick, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend
• 41-43 Falls - Frogs + Stones by RJMR
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Chris Holtzhausen, Vida McWilliam, Paul Screeton, PR Thomas
• 44 Science Curiosities - Bizarre Bacteria by RJMR
  • Single-Minded
  • Magnets and Squares
  • Credits: Dwight Whalen, Joe Zarzynski
• 44 Out of Place - Mystery Big Cats by RJMR
  • Welsh Puma Returns
  • And Now... The Dartmoor Panther...
  • And the Luton Lion!
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Peter Christie, Paul Devereux, Peter Smith, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend

Columns

• 19-21 America Mystica by Michael A Hoffman
• 22-23 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
• 24-27 Words from the Wizard by Doc Shiels
• 33-35 Notes from the Trashkashic Record by Bob Tarte
• 36-37 Tales From the Yellow Emporium by Steve Moore
  • Doomsday Book
  • Distressed Rock
  • Devil's Triangle
  • Angry God
  • Oldest Mummy (lady of Loulan, photo)
  • The 'Tooth' About Ants
  • Trepaned Mice
  • Snap Dragons
  • Hey, You Up There!
  • Hot and Naked
  • Tail Pieces
  • Credits: Peter Christie, Loren Coleman, Mark A Hall, Valerie Martin, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will, Steve Wrathall

Comix

• 28-29 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson

Usual Stuff

• 01, 35 Editorial
  • Apologia - lateness of issue
  • Crossword - missing clue
  • Advance Renewal
• 49 News
  • Meetings, etc
  • Book Service
  • Grants, etc
  • Organizations
• 54-55 Classified Exchange
• 55 Help!
• 56 Errata
  • FT027:42 Doc Shiels calls shenanigans
  • FT028:50f Mystery kangaroo east of Waukesha, not west
  • FT031:02 Yuan Zhenxin without the second z
  • FT031:27 Loren Coleman's column lacks copyright line
  • FT032:24f undated Glasgow Herald clipping was 9 Feb 1980
  • FT032:22 Loren Coleman's column lacks copyright line
• 56 Small Ads
• 56 Truss Fund (donations) - Rob Bishop, James Chambers, Richard Cotton, Michael Ferrier, Steve Hicks, Paul Hindley, JT Kirkwood, Martin Kottmeyer, Al Lopez, Mrs Tojo Melville, Stephen Mooser, SN Morgan, Steve Ogden, Mike Rowe, Mark Ryder, Ion Will
• 56 Next Issue: Anomalistics, Toad-in-the-hole cases, cattle mutilations in New Mexico
• 57 Subscription info, Back Issues

Letters

• 46 Ancient Mariner Again? - Una Woodruff, Warminster, Wilts
• 46 Kangaroo Corrections - Dr Alyson Lander, Tullamore, New South Wales
• 46-47 Kangaroo Corrections - JT Kirkwood, Camberwell, London
• 47 Winged Cats - Sid Birchby, Editor, News-Letter
• 47 Horror-Scope - Tony Roberts, 'Gondolin, Somerset, with editorial response and correction
• 47 Huh? - Chuck Eastwood, Astoria, Oregon
• 47-48 Wit and Wisdom - Hilary Evans, London, with authors reply
• 48 A Busy Life - Steve Ogden, Ashland, Kentucky
• 48 A Teleported Tank? - Mike Collier, Newhaven, Sussex, with editorial response
• 48 Marble Madonna - Roger Lowless, Wareham, Dorset, with photos

Reviews

• 50-53 Books
  • A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies compiled by George M Eberhart - RJMR
  • Incredible Life: A Handbook of Biological Mysteries compiled by William R Corliss - RJMR
  • Excalibur Briefing by Thomas E Bearden - Derek C Banks
  • Are We Being Watched? by Janet & Colin Bord - RJMR
  • Fenris-Wolf and Institute of Geomantic Research publications by Nigel Penneck
  • Paperbacks of Interest
  • Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
  • The Quest for Gaia by Kit Pedlar
  • By Lust Possessed edited by Eric Lombard
  • Extraterrestrial Encounter by Chris Boyce
  • The Dark Side of History by Michael Edwardes
  • My Search for the Ghost of Flight 401 by Elizabeth Fuller
  • Tarotmania by Jan Woudhuysen
  • The Paranormal by Stan Gooch
  • UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors by Raymond Fowler
  • War on the Mind by Peter Watson

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore and Paul Sieveking
• Contributing Editor - David Fideler
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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